1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC_5.5.0_SSE2 (Message 6963) Posted 14 Dec 2006 by seafsee Post: Thank You all for replying qickly. As I suspected when this was first brought to my attention and from what I understand about various clients and Work Units, the only way cheating could be accomplished would be via some kind of multiplier in regards to points earned. I am curious though as to my perceived impression that the Work Unit in progress during my experiment finished quicker. If there is no basis for this helping the science, I can really care less about the points. I was running the beta QMC, and work was taking almost twice what the deadline reported. This was the only project to suffer from this, BTW. It did finish quicker it seemed and suffered none of the broken Work Unit syndrome as reported by some other users. Though I care more for the science, doesn't mean I want to loose the credit I have earned, so I will revert back to the normal setup. Thanks again, seafsee

2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC_5.5.0_SSE2 (Message 6960) Posted 14 Dec 2006 by seafsee Post: Hello all. First post in this forum - long time BOINC user. I came across some threads and information relating to BOINC optimized clients and how they increased the BOINC client benchmarking results. It seemed harmless enough so I decided to give it a try to see for myself. Sure enough, my scores more than doubled. My client was not doing round=robin work at the time, though I was set to 10 days and only had four work units currently in queue. I am attached to QMC, SETI and BBC Climate Change. The QMC was the earliest deadline date, but the work seemed to take twice as long as the expiration date indicated. After the optimized client was "installed", the work seemed to continue more quickly. Though some problems were reported with this client as to corrupting Work Units, this particular QMC one finished successfully. BOINC_5.5.0_SSE2 is the client I have been using for the last day. Someone pointed out to me that this may be an "illegal" optimization, so I am posting here for an official word on the matter and not some hearsay or belly-aching from another team about points. I have found no links either where I found the optimized client or on the pages of WCG where the cheating remarks are said to originate from. If I am told here that this is in some way cheating, I will revert back to the official release and apologize to any and all. Thank You, Charles

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