Posts by nbucko

1) Message boards : Projects : Projects, Performance, and hardware (Message 30653)
Posted 24 Jan 2010 by nbucko
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I've done some more looking and have another question. On the BOINC stats page you can look at the Host CPU breakdown for each project. Which column is the most important when determining how well those CPU's perform with that project?

Would I look at Average credit per CPU? This doesn't necessarily make sense because I could have one CPU that I have had running that project for a year and it has 10k points and another that has been running the same project for a month but only has 2k points. The one with 2k points has a lower average but will actually produce more than twice the results.

Or should I be looking at the average credit per CPU second column? This to me shows how much work you are actually getting done per second with the CPU and would mean that the CPU with the highest number here is producing the greatest results.

2) Message boards : Projects : Projects, Performance, and hardware (Message 30645)
Posted 24 Jan 2010 by nbucko
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You'll have to excuse me as I'm relatively new to BOINC. Am I correct in my understanding that there is no way to acurately say which CPU/GPU is better for BOINC like with F@H due to the way that each different project uses the hardware? So without knowing which projects someone runs you won't be able to really say this is better than that etc.

I've been a long time folder and recently found BOINC. I had been working on a dedicated F@H computer and have decided I would rather put that towards several projects with BOINC. I had a CPU/GPU's in mind for when it was going to be dedicated to F@H but now I'm kind of at a loss as I haven't really been able to find anyplace that outlines how different CPU's and GPU's will perform with BOINC like they have with F@H.

Any help is appreciated.



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