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dougdoug
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Topic 193393

I have been running seti for several years and have a nice certificate from the Planetary Society.
I wish there was the same for Einstein. {This is a wish list site}

Erik
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I just noticed this evening that there is now certificates (account, team, & cross-project) available on the account page. I´m assuming this came to being with the most recent project BOINC web interface upgrade.

My question is, how accurate are the numbers reported? (cobblestones of computation equaling X amount of floating-point operations) Taking into account how ¨fluid¨ (for want of a better word) credit is.

Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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RE: My question is, how

Message 76570 in response to message 76569

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My question is, how accurate are the numbers reported? (cobblestones of computation equaling X amount of floating-point operations) Taking into account how ¨fluid¨ (for want of a better word) credit is.

I really would not take the "floating point operations" at face value, it's more a rough guesstimation. When you think about it, it's even hard to define what a floating point operation exactly is...

OK, if you add, or multiply two floating point numbers, I guess that should count as one operation. Changing the sign of a fp number? If you subtract by chnaging the sign and then adding, does this make one or two operations???

Does an operation that transports a floating point number from/into memory count as well? What about vector operations that operate on several floating point numbers in parallel.... and so on.

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Erik
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Bikeman, thanks for putting

Bikeman, thanks for putting that in perspective. So I guess, if I printed a copy and framed it on the wall and someone asks me about it I can say. ¨It means my computers have been stress tested quite extensively." :D

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