the credits are for us participants to measure how much work we have done. The credits have no value in real life. There was a rumor or joke on some project that you get a toaster when you hit one million.
Some of us compete at user, team, individual GPU or computer level who gets highest credit average.
I'm sure the credits are explained thoroughly somewhere.
BOINC project credits CAN have ancillary real value if you also run a Gridcoin wallet. Your GRC award is based on your relative credit magnitude against all other project participants that also run a GRC wallet.
The current set of tasks take considerably longer to run (LATeah4011L...) versus previous ones since end of June. The credit is still the same. This is on a GPU, I presume situation is the same for CPU tasks as well.
The current set of tasks take considerably longer to run (LATeah4011L...) versus previous ones since end of June. The credit is still the same. This is on a GPU, I presume situation is the same for CPU tasks as well.
he's asking about the gravitational wave tasks on GPU.
the LATeah4011L tasks you're referencing are gamma ray and nothing to do with his question.
but to answer his question, GW tasks have always had lower credit reward. it's just the way it is. GR runs 2x faster and get's 3x the credit for an effective credit increase of over 6x in most cases. the project admins don't seem concerned or interested in normalizing credit reward between the task types.
The current set of tasks take considerably longer to run (LATeah4011L...) versus previous ones since end of June. The credit is still the same. This is on a GPU, I presume situation is the same for CPU tasks as well.
he's asking about the gravitational wave tasks on GPU.
the LATeah4011L tasks you're referencing are gamma ray and nothing to do with his question.
but to answer his question, GW tasks have always had lower credit reward. it's just the way it is. GR runs 2x faster and get's 3x the credit for an effective credit increase of over 6x in most cases. the project admins don't seem concerned or interested in normalizing credit reward between the task types.
Anyone know whats going on with the credits for Gravitational Wave Search for the GPU's?
There's nothing "going on" with GW task credits. Everything is normal. Your problem is that you're not doing very many tasks.
Take a look at your tasks list. Your entire list shows 79 valid tasks for several weeks. In the last 24 hours there were 5 so a rough estimate, if that rate of production were to continue, is that your RAC will eventually get down to around 5K. You could easily work this out for yourself.
If you want a higher Einstein RAC, run more tasks. Your equipment is certainly capable of doing so - two GTX 1080s.
If you want to read the 'official' version of what credit is all about, take a look at this page. The problem is that many (if not most) projects tend to do their own thing with deciding what credit to allocate. For that reason, the traditional explanations and calculations are largely irrelevant these days. That page was last updated in 2013.
Since humans tend to be quite competitive, projects may try to leverage that to get people to contribute more. I guess it should be expected that projects will use this to their own advantage, without paying much attention to the 'official' methods for allocating credit.
Hello I am very new here and
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Hello
I am very new here and I want to learn.
What are the credits for?
Hi Alexandra, the credits
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Hi Alexandra,
the credits are for us participants to measure how much work we have done. The credits have no value in real life. There was a rumor or joke on some project that you get a toaster when you hit one million.
Some of us compete at user, team, individual GPU or computer level who gets highest credit average.
I'm sure the credits are explained thoroughly somewhere.
BOINC project credits CAN
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BOINC project credits CAN have ancillary real value if you also run a Gridcoin wallet. Your GRC award is based on your relative credit magnitude against all other project participants that also run a GRC wallet.
See Gridcoin - Rewarding Volunteer Scientific Computing if you are interested.
Hi Petri33! Thanks so much
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Hi Petri33!
Thanks so much for the explanation. Very complete and clear!
Anyone know whats going on
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Anyone know whats going on with the credits for Gravitational Wave Search for the GPU's?
My BOINC manager graph is declining despite the project showing me earning 1,000 credits per task.
How can I be declining when I am earning and if anything I should be flat lining.
I have no error tasks and 2 validations pending. So I am puzzled as to what is going on.
The current set of tasks take
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The current set of tasks take considerably longer to run (LATeah4011L...) versus previous ones since end of June. The credit is still the same. This is on a GPU, I presume situation is the same for CPU tasks as well.
Harri Liljeroos wrote: The
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he's asking about the gravitational wave tasks on GPU.
the LATeah4011L tasks you're referencing are gamma ray and nothing to do with his question.
but to answer his question, GW tasks have always had lower credit reward. it's just the way it is. GR runs 2x faster and get's 3x the credit for an effective credit increase of over 6x in most cases. the project admins don't seem concerned or interested in normalizing credit reward between the task types.
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Ian&Steve C. wrote: Harri
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Sorry about that. Didn't read careful enough.
Greg_BE wrote:Anyone know
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There's nothing "going on" with GW task credits. Everything is normal. Your problem is that you're not doing very many tasks.
Take a look at your tasks list. Your entire list shows 79 valid tasks for several weeks. In the last 24 hours there were 5 so a rough estimate, if that rate of production were to continue, is that your RAC will eventually get down to around 5K. You could easily work this out for yourself.
If you want a higher Einstein RAC, run more tasks. Your equipment is certainly capable of doing so - two GTX 1080s.
Cheers,
Gary.
Alexandra Kastowsky
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Hi Alexandra, welcome to the Einstein forums!
If you want to read the 'official' version of what credit is all about, take a look at this page. The problem is that many (if not most) projects tend to do their own thing with deciding what credit to allocate. For that reason, the traditional explanations and calculations are largely irrelevant these days. That page was last updated in 2013.
Since humans tend to be quite competitive, projects may try to leverage that to get people to contribute more. I guess it should be expected that projects will use this to their own advantage, without paying much attention to the 'official' methods for allocating credit.
Cheers,
Gary.