Alex_Atkin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:55 pmI think its fair to consider PPD a measure of performance, as why else does it exist if its not weighted against which projects are more urgent or more complex?
That's the problem. Today you might get x PPD, tomorrow you get 1.2x PPD. Did your computer speed up, or were the projects more urgent, or were they more suited to your particular card? And since a task takes a number of hours, you might have 6 finishing today and 7 tomorrow, it doesn't mean you did more.
Alex_Atkin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:55 pmThe points system exists entirely to give an element of competitiveness to contributing our energy, so there has to be a logic to how they are dishing out those points.
Over a long period, it means how much good you've done. But as above, you can't use it short term.
Alex_Atkin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:55 pmBut that's the thing, were effectively contributing money here, so I'm not going to spend as much on a CPU job as a GPU job, if its less useful. If they are of equal importance then the points should reflect that, as its the only measure we have.
I assume they all need to be done, and some cannot be done on GPU. So if everyone said we'll do GPU only because they're faster, some things would never be completed.
Alex_Atkin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:55 pmI get that CPU jobs are still important (as in if nobody ran them it would be a huge detriment to certain kinds of research), but is it important enough to slow down the GPU jobs to do them, given the much higher cost per WU in real-cash money.
Mine don't slow the GPU down, not sure why yours do. The GPU task only needs 1 core free to keep it running full speed. A program running on a different core shouldn't cause problems unless there's something up with your system. I use Windows 11 on a variety of old and new hardware and never see this problem. The only exception is some RAM intensive tasks (Climate Prediction) on a PC without dual channel RAM, the RAM gets bogged down and everything goes slower.
Alex_Atkin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:55 pmI don't have money to burn, I only fold when it contributes to heating the house
If electricity is too expensive, consider solar power. You can make your own power 10 times cheaper than buying it from the grid. You're not giving them a profit or paying for the power losses and maintainance of miles of wires. But don't sell excess to the grid, here anyway they pay you a tenth of what they sell it back to you for! Get some LiFePO4 batteries and store it.
muziqaz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:26 pmSo if you leave 1c or 2 threads to a GPU, you should not see any increased TPF most of the time
What is TPF?
