Points & work units

[Davison]

I have FAH running on 5 computers, 4 of which have 2 dual core opterons & one has 2 quad core opterons. One of the dual core units also has a higher end video card & runs gpu also. Looking at the advanced control the computers do about 18,000 points a day + whatever the gpu does as it shows no statistics. I am concerned whether the work units are being returned to your server as the total score you show only increases maybe 5000 points a day.

[P5-133XL]

Not all servers supply the client with the data needed to make PPD estimates so the fact that the GPU shows no statistics is not be too bothersome. I

Next, do you have a passkey configured for your clients? The client assumes that you are getting a quick return bonus (QRB) and that bonus can be many times the base point value of a WU. To get the QRB, you need a passkey and to qualify that passkey by doing 10 QRB WU's and then you must also maintain at least an 80% successful return rate. No passkey generally means a much lower PPD...

[Davison]

Thank you for the reply. I must be going blind in my old age. I read the instructions 3 times & never did see that info. I thought the passkey was just a security thing which I really didn't worry about. At least you apparently did get the results which is the main thing. I am still not sure if I should use the same passkey on all the computers or why the score is different in the team stats & individual stats or why it hasn't changed in the last day even though 4 projects completed in that time. .

[Zagen30]

Use the same passkey on all of them. You need to complete 10 bonus-eligible WUs per passkey (i.e. not the GPU WUs currently in public release, which don't have bonuses) to start earning bonuses, so it'll be much quicker to have all of them contributing to one passkey rather than having 5 different ones. You'd actually need 5 different email addresses to get 5 passkeys for the same user name; the passkey is generated from the name and email address, so entering the same name and address will just re-send the same passkey.

[P5-133XL]

A passkey won't produce additional QRB points till you have successfully completed 10 QRB eligible WU's. Yes, use the same passkey on all your computers and the 10 WU's will get completed that much quicker. 4 is a start, but you have 6 more to go...

As far as team vs individual stats being different or why it hasn't changed. I need more information like team and user names and if you are getting the info using the official stats or a 3rd party stat site. If you supply the specific Project (run, gen, clone) numbers I can tell you exactly how many points were given for each WU.

[Davison]

Donor - Davison, Team - 36684 (Nile12), Stats from Folding@home site. Work server 128.143.231.202, Collection server 128.143.199.97 Current project on this computer 8584 Other 4 computers are 2 miles away. The most computers I have running FAH is 5 but stats show 7

[P5-133XL]

The number of computers/CPU's listed in the stats is only a rough estimate that is not particularly accurate. It doesn't count computers as much as clients/slots and a re-install/update can easily change that number without the number of computers actually changing.

I looked at your team and individual stats and they do differ by a small amount (11 WU's and 7,846 points). I don't know why but most likely is is just a timing difference between when the two pages were last updated.

[Davison]

Checking the other computers today there have been at least 4 work units returned in the last 36 hours, none of which show in the stats. This is qhay originally concerned me as I have no way of knowing if your server is actually receiving the work units.

[P5-133XL]

If you supply Project (run, gen, clone) numbers from the logs then I can manually check what happened.

[Davison]

I obviously don't understand your log file. Entire file from this computer follows; I will probably not be at the shop to check the others until Sunday

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04:16:04:Removing old file 'configs/config-20130227-094621.xml'
04:16:04:Saving configuration to config.xml
04:16:04:<config>
04:16:04:  <!-- Folding Core -->
04:16:04:  <checkpoint v='25'/>
04:16:04:  <core-priority v='low'/>
04:16:04:
04:16:04:  <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
04:16:04:  <extra-core-args v='-forceasm'/>
04:16:04:  <power v='full'/>
04:16:04:
04:16:04:  <!-- Network -->
04:16:04:  <proxy v=':8080'/>
04:16:04:
04:16:04:  <!-- Slot Control -->
04:16:04:  <pause-on-battery v='false'/>
04:16:04:
04:16:04:  <!-- User Information -->
04:16:04:  <passkey v='********************************'/>
04:16:04:  <team v='36684'/>
04:16:04:  <user v='Davison'/>
04:16:04:
04:16:04:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
04:16:04:  <slot id='1' type='CPU'>
04:16:04:    <cpus v='-1'/>
04:16:04:  </slot>
04:16:04:</config>
04:22:00:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 60000 out of 500000 steps  (12%)
04:51:41:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 65000 out of 500000 steps  (13%)
05:23:19:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps  (14%)
******************************* Date: 2013-06-20 *******************************
05:54:04:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps  (15%)
06:24:50:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps  (16%)
06:58:46:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps  (17%)
07:32:54:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 90000 out of 500000 steps  (18%)
08:06:50:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 95000 out of 500000 steps  (19%)
08:41:20:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 100000 out of 500000 steps  (20%)
09:15:26:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 105000 out of 500000 steps  (21%)
09:46:19:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 110000 out of 500000 steps  (22%)
10:16:25:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 115000 out of 500000 steps  (23%)
10:46:17:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 120000 out of 500000 steps  (24%)
11:15:34:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 125000 out of 500000 steps  (25%)
11:45:09:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 130000 out of 500000 steps  (26%)
******************************* Date: 2013-06-20 *******************************
12:14:26:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 135000 out of 500000 steps  (27%)
12:44:09:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 140000 out of 500000 steps  (28%)
13:13:28:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 145000 out of 500000 steps  (29%)
13:43:05:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 150000 out of 500000 steps  (30%)
14:12:23:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 155000 out of 500000 steps  (31%)
14:42:03:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 160000 out of 500000 steps  (32%)
15:11:20:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 165000 out of 500000 steps  (33%)
15:40:53:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 170000 out of 500000 steps  (34%)
16:10:12:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 175000 out of 500000 steps  (35%)
16:39:47:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 180000 out of 500000 steps  (36%)
17:09:17:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 185000 out of 500000 steps  (37%)
17:38:55:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 190000 out of 500000 steps  (38%)
18:08:07:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 195000 out of 500000 steps  (39%)
******************************* Date: 2013-06-20 *******************************
18:37:35:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 200000 out of 500000 steps  (40%)
19:07:16:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 205000 out of 500000 steps  (41%)
19:37:11:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 210000 out of 500000 steps  (42%)
20:07:36:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 215000 out of 500000 steps  (43%)
20:37:19:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 220000 out of 500000 steps  (44%)
21:06:37:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 225000 out of 500000 steps  (45%)
21:36:13:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 230000 out of 500000 steps  (46%)
22:05:32:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 235000 out of 500000 steps  (47%)
22:35:02:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 240000 out of 500000 steps  (48%)
23:04:22:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 245000 out of 500000 steps  (49%)
23:33:57:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 250000 out of 500000 steps  (50%)
00:03:16:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 255000 out of 500000 steps  (51%)
00:32:50:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 260000 out of 500000 steps  (52%)
******************************* Date: 2013-06-21 *******************************
01:02:12:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 265000 out of 500000 steps  (53%)
01:31:47:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 270000 out of 500000 steps  (54%)
02:01:09:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 275000 out of 500000 steps  (55%)
02:30:37:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 280000 out of 500000 steps  (56%)
03:00:03:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 285000 out of 500000 steps  (57%)
03:29:30:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 290000 out of 500000 steps  (58%)
03:58:50:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 295000 out of 500000 steps  (59%)
04:29:05:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 300000 out of 500000 steps  (60%)
04:59:30:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Completed 305000 out of 500000 steps  (61%)

[Joe_H]

What specifically do you not understand? What you have included in your post is just part of a log file, I assume copied from the window in FAHControl. The actual log file is stored on your drive. Using Refresh in that window should reload the log from the beginning. The window otherwise shows that you changed the configuration, and the progress on the WU after that change.

P.S. I have edited your post to show the log in a scrolling window. You can do that by placing Code tags around the log entries that you paste into the posting window. You can add those manually, or using the Full Editor to post they are selectable from the top of the posting window.

[Davison]

Following is the info I believe you want;
03:25:42:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Project: 8577 (Run 0, Clone 7, Gen 77)

15:06:39:WU01:FS01:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:8084 run:19 clone:3 gen:88 core:0xa4 unit:0x000000866652edcc5130079f6d7be302
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16:04:28:WU00:FS01:FahCore returned: FINISHED_UNIT (100 = 0x64

16:04:28:WU00:FS01:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:8577 run:0 clone:7 gen:77 core:0xa3 unit:0x000003af0a3b1e5951226084cf644a9a


16:04:28:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Project: 8084 (Run 19, Clone 3, Gen 88)

22:23:26:WU00:FS01:Received Unit: id:00 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:8584 run:0 clone:3 gen:84 core:0xa3 unit:0x000003fb0a3b1e59512261240aee9b4c

22:31:06:WU01:FS01:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:8084 run:19 clone:3 gen:88 core:0xa4 unit:0x000000866652edcc5130079f6d7be302

22:31:07:WU00:FS01:0xa3:Project: 8584 (Run 0, Clone 3, Gen 84)

[P5-133XL]

You are not getting QRB points yet

Hi Davison (team 36684),
Your WU (P8577 R0 C7 G77) was added to the stats database on 2013-06-19 10:06:00 for 1654 points of credit.
base points

Hi Davison (team 36684),
Your WU (P8084 R19 C3 G88) was added to the stats database on 2013-06-19 16:03:34 for 264 points of credit.
base points + 10% A4 bonus

Project: 8584 (Run 0, Clone 3, Gen 84) There is no record of you returning this WU yet

[Davison]

i thought the estimated points per day shown on the FAH control was somewhere close to accurate. Apparently that is not the case as the score only increases about that much but that is what made me wonder if the work units were being returned.

[P5-133XL]

The estimated PPD assumes QRB and if you are not getting that, it can be significantly high. If do much starting and stopping the estimates can be long way off for several frames: I've seen multi-million PPD's for something that should generate 15K PPD ...

I've found that HFM.net tends to be more accurate and more flexible in how it estimates PPD's than the v7 clients.