E@H floating point speed.

Manney
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Topic 197548

Why is there a difference in floating point speed, between E@H stats and BAM stats.
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/server_status.php
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/5/project/detail
551.296 TeraFLOPS vs 1148.2 TFLOPS

Logforme
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E@H floating point speed.

See this old thread

Manney
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So the BAM results are the

So the BAM results are the accurate ones? with the 'corrected' calculation method ?

Logforme
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I think only the project

I think only the project scientists can answer that question. But my gut feeling is that the people programming the E@H apps probably have a better clue of the actual amount of calculations required than a credit based statistics page do.

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