Folding Forum

im just wondering if i am the only person on here who doesnt care about points? im wondering if anyone else on here tracks their progress by how many WU they finished, not by points? and its still not competition for me, i hgave all minoe and all my team set to advanced mode on the ps3 and enable large files on the pc.

PLEASE no discussions about points

At one time, I tracked WU's but that easily disapeared with my first GPU client when I racked up around 2000 in one night of EUE'ing. There have been many of those types of events over the years with a few hundred here and there accumulated very quickly over a few days. Now, it happens far less often because the clients pause and go to sleep if they detect too many EUE's but that still does not eliminate the accumulation of bad WU's, just slows it down...

You asked two different questions. The answers are:

No, but not many.
Yes, but not many.

As P5 pointed out, WU count doesn't have much relavance. And I will add that is especially true in the context of 6 years of the project, where early work units were only worth a single point (or less), but took several days to complete on the hardware of that time.

thats kinda my point. point values always change, but how many units you finished show how far youve pushed the science

spazzychalk wrote:thats kinda my point. point values always change, but how many units you finished show how far youve pushed the science

Did you even read my post: EUE's absolutely don't show how far you've pushed the science, but definately push your WU count up.

And a WU completed 6 years ago might have done 1/1000th the amount of science that a GPU2 WU does today. So again, WU count has very little to do with how far you have pushed the science.

Since the points are a rough correlation to the value of the science completed, the points are a much better (though not perfect) representation of the scientific work completed.