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Boinc projects and cannabinoids11/16/2023 decreases the amount of BOINC credits awarded per USD on a regular basis sends the rest of the money for projects which apply for itĤ. keeps the 12% of the donated money for itselfģ. gives 130 million BOINC credits for each USD its users donate for the projectĢ. What if someone starts a BOINC project, which does the following:ġ. It's not as if the credits are worth anything, so until they do, it doesn't really matter to the powers that be.įunny, how it went from "measuring" contributed flops to meaning nothing :DĪnyways, as Retvari Zoltan says on gpugrid: That still puts it (if the methodology stands up) on a respectable par with ~#11 on - but no way is Bitcoin Utopia the second-most powerful supercomputer in the world, as its daily credit output would have you believe. If we leave out those three big integer projects, then BOINC's overall floating-point computing power comes out at 4.0 - 4.2 PetaFlops. I could see no sign of any large-scale input from the sort of Uppercase project that Jord describes. SETI and Einstein have large numbers of computers attached: GPUGrid certainly does a lot of floating point maths, but I think rather overstate the work done by their credit awards. ![]() Other high-paying projects are SETI, Einstein, and GPUGrid. Looking in particular at the 'Top 100' page, I thing we can identify visually that Collatz, DRTG and PrimeGrid are other high-paying integer math projects (I'm not sure why DRTG shows so strongly - it seems to have been offline for the last couple of months). Strip out that one project (which seems to be accounting for 80% of all credit awarded, these days), and the residual figure is a much more consistent 6.8 PetaFlops across all three sites - and pretty close to the 6.99 PetaFlops we started with here. At the time I collected the figures, the grand total computing power was reported to be between 13 PetaFlops and 32 PetaFlops on the different sites, using that RAC -> GFlops reverse calculation.īut all of that was wildly different interpretations of the Bitcoin Utopia phenomenon, which the three sites were displaying as 6.2, 18.1, and 25.3 PetaFlops respectively. The three sites all collect and aggregate their data at different times of the day, and monitor a different number of projects (between 67 and 145). I looked at three of the major statistics sites: BOINCstats (which tends to be regarded as authoritative by David Anderson) BOINC Combined Statistics (the in-house stats site - the power behind those 'Projects in which you are participating' lists on your account pages at BOINC projects) and Free-DC (the source of the graphs on BOINC's Top 100 multi-project BOINC participants page). Well, since I'm helping to look at various aspects of the credit system at the moment, I thought I'd have a scout around. All of those might be diluting the value Richard points out, I don't know.Īll of those might be diluting the value Richard points out, I don't know. There have been fan-based projects in the past, there are probably still fan-based projects this moment, that run nothing but Uppercase and give out credit for that. ![]() Now to give you an idea: even you can start a project today that pays twelve trillion credit per task done on the Uppercase application included in the package. Everything is open source, everything can be hacked, edited, reprogrammed, adjusted, tinkered with to the hearts content of the project administrator. ![]() Aside from perhaps not being included in the Projects List. Not much there can be done to force a project to follow the will of BOINC development, while users can en-masse say that they leave the place. Maybe, but then that's normally done by the users rather than the BOINC development team, for the simple reason of what to do when they would request that a project follow their credit sampling, and the project says "no"? I think a more reasonable request would be to have the project look at their credit distribution, is it as skewed for non-ASIC devices?
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