hi all,

looking at my credits for crunching here, it very much looks like creditscrew is aktive here.

time to leave.

Hi frankhagen! Could you tell what exactly happened with credits?

to me and a lot of others out here boincs "new" credit system is nothing more than a random number generator.

sometimes Credits/hour drop down to miserable numbers.

i suggest you switch to fixed or precalculated credit system.

for reference: https://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php?2415-BOINC-DA-admits-CreditNew-is-really-a-random-number-generator

I noticed the credits for each task going up and down. I guess this gets worst with more CPU threads. Tasks have different runtimes, mostly between 30 to 60 minutes.

Just imagine what happens on CPU with 128 threads. All 128 tasks start at the same time with same FLOPS and same estimated runtime, then the fastest 10 task completed first. This can make the credit system think the computer is turbo fast and make the credits per hour for next few tasks go very high points per hour. Then the last few slowest task eventually complete, which then makes the credits per hour or task go very low, thinking the computer is now very slow.

This credits going up and down somewhat happens with my 16 thread Ryzen 2700x if I start all task at the same time.

I guess one way this problem could be reduced, is to pre-calculate or estimate each task to be high FLOPS on long tasks, low FLOPS on short tasks. I like to see estimated remaining time to be a little different for each task not yet started.

I have noticed that the RxDock work units get about 3 x the credits that CurieMarieDock work units get for the same runtime.

If a RxDock WU runs for 2,500 odd seconds it gets about 45 points for me.
If a CurieMarieDock WU runs for 2,500 seconds it gets about 17 points for me.

This happens on all work units, the RxDock always seem to get 3 times the credit that CurieMarieDock work units get.

Do they do something completely different so the credit scores are that far apart.

My computer is not hidden so you can what I am talking about.

It would be nice if the CurieMarieDock work units got at least the same credits as the RxDock work units.

Thanks
Conan

Hi folks! At start of usage CmDock application I saw a situation like this on my hosts. But after computing a some time, credits balanced.

Surely people should be here for the science.

It's not as if you can cash in the credits for something