Hi there, another coronavirus recruit (though I'm quite sure I was running F@H for a while back in 2003ish).
A couple of hours ago, my ancient desktop with an R9 290x got assigned a WU for 11737, which seems to be a benchmark; is it useful to run this? (Does it for e.g. produce any valuable performance metric?)
I've also got a newish laptop with an RTX2060 that seems to actually be getting normal/coronavirus-related WUs (albeit both ul & dl seem very slow atm), and I started assuming that the desktop/290x was simply too slow for anything important at the moment.
(I do realize that the more capable systems should be prioritized for important work, especially when there's actually a sudden influx of systems and consequently a lack of actual work to be done, so I'm not complaining, though if the benchmark does not produce anything valuable I'd rather not waste energy either )
11737 - benchmark? usefulness?
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Re: 11737 - benchmark? usefulness?
Hi @alxbelu
I've also recently joined, but have been through some Work Units (WU) already, and also had the project you mention once. After a ton of reading I learned that FAH has been around for 20 years, and that the scientists as a group determine the priority for projects based on usefulness. It's quite interesting, and you can see some responses in this thread with more details viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32364. The project description is not extremely obvious on that particular project, but I'm sure that it's useful if it's prioritized.
Cheers,
I've also recently joined, but have been through some Work Units (WU) already, and also had the project you mention once. After a ton of reading I learned that FAH has been around for 20 years, and that the scientists as a group determine the priority for projects based on usefulness. It's quite interesting, and you can see some responses in this thread with more details viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32364. The project description is not extremely obvious on that particular project, but I'm sure that it's useful if it's prioritized.
Cheers,
Re: 11737 - benchmark? usefulness?
A google search shows that there were $100 prizes for staff that do that WU, seems a bit strange to me haha
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Re: 11737 - benchmark? usefulness?
And where exactly did you read that? I have not come across any such reward.JamieF wrote:A google search shows that there were $100 prizes for staff that do that WU, seems a bit strange to me haha
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