WU point values
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:19 am
Where would I be able to look up the point values for various WUs?
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here is the link for currently running WUs:alpha754293 wrote:Where would I be able to look up the point values for various WUs?
So, am I to interpret this that all WUs within a given project get the same point value regardless of their RCG? (Just (double-)checking.)rpmouton wrote:here is the link for currently running WUs:alpha754293 wrote:Where would I be able to look up the point values for various WUs?
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
regards,
Yea, I'm crunching the numbers now for the two "-smp 4" clients right now. There's a slight variation between WUs of the same project, but it isn't by much. So far, it averages out to around 10 minutes on a 14.7 hour run.7im wrote:Yes, all WUs from the same project get the same total points.
However, in rare cases, some projects are known to have variable length work units, and so the total points may vary.
Also, not all projects will earn a consistent PPD. The WUs from some projects will get faster as the generations progress. Some slow as the generations progress. Pande Group typically sets the original benchmark to account for this... i.e. setting the original PPD higher so the final work units will still score at or close to the benchmark.
That's about 1%. The general rule-of-thumb quoted around here is that you can expect variations up to 5% before anybody really starts worrying about anything. (Plus there's almost always variations in what else your computer might have been doing during that 14.7 hours.)alpha754293 wrote:There's a slight variation between WUs of the same project, but it isn't by much. So far, it averages out to around 10 minutes on a 14.7 hour run.
Yea, I wasn't sure how much variation to expect, but I've noticed that there's some, but I don't think that it is anything to worry about. Even an oh-so-dramatic 10-20% variation is acceptable by my standards because the configuration (of the run) can change, or there's something inherently more complicated that it is working on.bruce wrote:That's about 1%. The general rule-of-thumb quoted around here is that you can expect variations up to 5% before anybody really starts worrying about anything. (Plus there's almost always variations in what else your computer might have been doing during that 14.7 hours.)alpha754293 wrote:There's a slight variation between WUs of the same project, but it isn't by much. So far, it averages out to around 10 minutes on a 14.7 hour run.
(internal joke) ha ha...I almost seem like I actually have a clue as to what I'm talking about.7im wrote:As long as were on the topic, there are also things called folding events that can affect the PPD of a particular workunit, and not all work units.
See also: http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Folding/Aggregation_Event