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Message 3441 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 18:41:03 UTC

Credit granted seems unrelated to work done.

Examples...

751.51 694.75 30.00
499.31 450.13 60.00
734.21 690.28 30.00
715.04 685.98 30.00
724.05 680.55 30.00

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Message 3444 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 21:36:41 UTC - in response to Message 3441.

Credit granted seems unrelated to work done.

Examples...

751.51 694.75 30.00
499.31 450.13 60.00
734.21 690.28 30.00
715.04 685.98 30.00
724.05 680.55 30.00


You can find the amount of credits in the bases load thread, there are some bigger jumps in range changes. All the credits are precalculated for every bases based on iterations / runtime.

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Message 3445 - Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 9:27:38 UTC - in response to Message 3444.
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What the job is doing is not the issue, you have used my system. Credit should reflect the amount of work actually done. It does not appear to be the case.

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Message 3446 - Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 17:30:30 UTC - in response to Message 3445.

What the job is doing is not the issue, you have used my system. Credit should reflect the amount of work actually done. It does not appear to be the case.


There could be an exception with a lower k value in a higher n range.

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Message 3450 - Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 20:22:04 UTC - in response to Message 3446.
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What I am talking about is the actual amount of CPU time the jobs have used. Sticking to the examples I quoted above, four of the jobs used 700+ CPU seconds and got credited 30, and the other used nearly 500 seconds and got credited 60. What the job actually did is not really a factor.

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Message 3451 - Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 20:28:37 UTC - in response to Message 3450.

What I am talking about is the actual amount of CPU time the jobs have used. Sticking to the examples I quoted above, four of the jobs used 700+ CPU seconds and got credited 30, and the other used nearly 500 seconds and got credited 60.


Yes, that was I mentioned before.

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Message 3452 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 6:35:33 UTC

It is interesting isn't it. You look at it from your point of view and see nothing wrong, I look at the same figures from my point of view and see nothing right.

It seems clear we will not be able to resolve it, so I will detatch, end of issue. I had only atatched this machine, so it is easy for me to do this.

Good luck with your project.

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Message 3453 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 16:11:08 UTC - in response to Message 3452.

It is interesting isn't it. You look at it from your point of view and see nothing wrong, I look at the same figures from my point of view and see nothing right.

It seems clear we will not be able to resolve it, so I will detatch, end of issue. I had only atatched this machine, so it is easy for me to do this.

Good luck with your project.


Sorry to hear that, if you can provide me with the numbers not the runtime we can do an analyse. Otherwise these values are useless.

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Message 3454 - Posted: 26 Apr 2017, 6:45:41 UTC

I've no idea which they were, but a very quick look at my results page reveals further examples...

217520576 213480690 19176 24 Apr 2017, 1:33:58 UTC 24 Apr 2017, 1:53:58 UTC Completed and validated 747.97 725.47 30.00 Riesel Base v0.20
218078215 214021622 19176 24 Apr 2017, 1:28:40 UTC 24 Apr 2017, 1:41:30 UTC Completed and validated 746.13 724.38 60.00 Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average v0.20

... here, for example, are two units that were adjacent on my results page. Their CPU times are less than two seconds different, yet one gets twice the credit as the other. You see one is Riesel, the other Sierpinski and your view point may be this is totally reasonable. To me, I see one job has used the same time as the other, but gets twice the credit.

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Message 3455 - Posted: 27 Apr 2017, 1:05:22 UTC

Work done are not necessarily measured in CPU time. Each task presumably completes an equal k range hence assigned the same credit locally. There are spikes along the curve hence the admin chooses to normalize the credit per task in each section.

When I calculate the credits given in a long term the credits seemed to correlate with CPU time in contrast to your 'example' just from a few tasks, and you don't even bother to crunch for some more.
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Message 3458 - Posted: 27 Apr 2017, 18:20:31 UTC - in response to Message 3454.

I've no idea which they were, but a very quick look at my results page reveals further examples...

217520576 213480690 19176 24 Apr 2017, 1:33:58 UTC 24 Apr 2017, 1:53:58 UTC Completed and validated 747.97 725.47 30.00 Riesel Base v0.20
218078215 214021622 19176 24 Apr 2017, 1:28:40 UTC 24 Apr 2017, 1:41:30 UTC Completed and validated 746.13 724.38 60.00 Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average v0.20

... here, for example, are two units that were adjacent on my results page. Their CPU times are less than two seconds different, yet one gets twice the credit as the other. You see one is Riesel, the other Sierpinski and your view point may be this is totally reasonable. To me, I see one job has used the same time as the other, but gets twice the credit.


ok, between these 2 apps there is a difference in the range we are searching:

60-100k vs. 100-150k, thats why the credits are higher.

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Message 3476 - Posted: 3 May 2017, 18:24:11 UTC - in response to Message 3458.

Some odd stuff here too;

http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/workunit.php?wuid=215291496

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