Posts by pututu

1) Message boards : Number crunching : TF credit change (Message 11087)
Posted 3 Oct 2025 by pututu

On the reference AMD RX5500 XT card it is running ~46min per WU, credits are 10k per hour. The higher the range the faster the runtime = less credits.

That's a good way to award credit based on a reference hardware. Just make sure you have backup or a secondary reference hardware that can be used in case the original card has problem ;)

This is similar to what Folding@Home is using: https://foldingathome.org/faq/points/
They are using an old intel i5-750. For new generation of gpus, the credit awarded for completing the task is highly inflated and also a reflection of how much the hardware has improved over the past 16 years since the i5-750 was released in 2009. Note: they have quick return bonus which added to the inflated credit also but the concept I think is reasonable.

We have a single benchmark machine, its most important component is its processor: a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz. The machine’s OS is Linux. Here are the steps that we use to determine points for a project:

Take a WU from a project and run it on the benchmark machine until it finishes.
Measure the time it took to complete. Base credit awarded for the WU is then just a scaling factor multiplied by this time.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Trial Factoring (Message 6336)
Posted 23 Apr 2020 by pututu

I just want to report that for these two TF work units, the run time and cpu time as reported does not match with the entry log in the <stderr_txt> section. These two tasks reported more than 2 days and 20 hours of CPU run time for example.

http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/result.php?resultid=388286136
http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/result.php?resultid=388287248

So far the rests of the completed tasks are reporting correctly. Could be isolated case.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Trial Factoring (Message 6302)
Posted 19 Apr 2020 by pututu

Thanks.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Trial Factoring (Message 6236)
Posted 16 Apr 2020 by pututu

Hi,once the "batch1" tasks are depleted, when will the next batch be uploaded? Just want to know the waiting time between "batches" of work units. Thx.