Page 1 of 1
Folding@home Stats Report
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 5:33 pm
by Burlingtonian
New to FAH and trying to understand Stats Report. I note that teams with similar Credit numbers have very different WU numbers. Eg.:
7 39,368,425,929 1,307,910 234980 -5
8 38,284,063,230 611,568 37651 -3
How are these correlated?
Re: Folding@home Stats Report
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 6:01 pm
by JimboPalmer
Perhaps I can help.
Points are a measure of how much science you did. It is modified by a Quick Return Bonus that rewards being fast to complete Work Units.
A Work Unit is a piece of the science to be completed and returned.
When I started 11 years ago I had very wimpy CPUs and GPUs (I still have wimpy CPUs, my GPUs are up to adequate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duron#App ... _8,_130_nm)
This would not be allowed to fold today as it does not support SSE2, and would not complete any WUs before the deadline anyway. It made very few Points per WU.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/r ... 0-pro.c212
This would not be allowed to fold today due to no Double Precision floating point math and no support of OpenCL, and would not complete any WUs before the deadline. It made very few Points per WU.
So as a trailing edge technology volunteer for 11 years I have lots of WUs completed for about the same points as a new volunteer with modern gaming equipment.
Code: Select all
Rank Name Points Work Units
1,348 JimboPalmer 562,224,047 161,653
1,349 Kylar182 561,918,508 9,895
So the older the team (I belong to team 14) the more likely it is to have older volunteers who used wimpy equipment by today's standards.
Re: Folding@home Stats Report
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 6:04 pm
by Joe_H
One team can be an older one, many of the WUs completed would be from CPU projects and overall earn less points than GPU projects. In addition, it might take a week 15 years ago to complete a WU, and earn 100-200 points
A more recently created team might be doing a greater percentage of its points through GPU folding.
Re: Folding@home Stats Report
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 6:07 pm
by NBR
Yeah, I have a mobile processor which isn't great either but is still better than any 11-year-old equipment.
Re: Folding@home Stats Report
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 6:30 pm
by Neil-B
You will also find a disparity in the stats between teams/folders who only CPU fold and those who GPU fold ... My 32thread CPU Xeon slot (not the fastest but still quite good) does say 175k ppd whereas a quite good GPU might be hitting 1m ppd ... for a similar total points count I may need to complete 10x more WUs than someone GPU folding ... so it is not just old vs new that cause oddities in Points per WU but the type of folding done.
Not complaining as GPUs do more science and get more points - my CPU folding does less science so gets less points