Posts by David A. Dutton [TopGun]

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is Moo now using CreditNew??? (Message 1257) Posted 27 Oct 2011 by David A. Dutton [TopGun] Post: Thanks! I'm glad to hear it! :) From what I've been hearing is that soon DA is going to remove all the credit options and only leave CreditNew (the device neutrality garbage). This is what a lot of people are concerned about. I hope he doesn't do that as it will really hurt boinc projects. IMO it doesn't matter if people crunch for science, for the glory (credit chasers), or a combo of both. In any case, scientific, etc contributions are being made, and forcing only 1 credit system on projects will turn a lot of people away which would be a loss to the projects around the world. IMO if 2, identical WUs were to generate.. let's say 5,000 credits after running for 24hrs (24 hrs of CPU time) on a 2.x Ghz machine.. that same WU should still grant 5000 credits if it took only 10hrs to run on an i7 cranked up to 5+Ghz. that's why I do not like the new credit system DA proposed. It's like he's penalizing people for using fast machines, and that's a quick way to turn people off projects. I must say, since you are an admin, I REALLY admire the fact MOO can use more than 1 nvidia GPU at once. It's rare to see boinc projects that can use multi CPU or GPU cores per WU.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Is Moo now using CreditNew??? (Message 1253) Posted 26 Oct 2011 by David A. Dutton [TopGun] Post: Projects can always rewrite his DA's "improved" creditnew code. TBH if people can code WUs to work on linux, windows, OS x, and various other OSes. Project programmers should easily be able to change the math in his creditnew code back to the old style or design their own credit/award system Of course this assumes a project compiles the server vs getting it precompiled or in a VM file. I know if I ever ran a boinc project, the FIRST thing I would do is strip out is DA's CreditNew system.