On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:46:54 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz> wrote:

I am interested in how long the time listed in the "To Completion" column is
for different machines and the specs of those machines.

Four I have here are:

Athlon T'bred @ 2.1Ghz 256KB 200MhzFSB 512MB      3:03:48
Athlon Barton @ 2.2Ghz 512KB 200MhzFSB 512MB      2:53:17
Celeron1 600 @ 900Mhz 128KB 100MhzFSB 256MB     8:15:11
Celeron2 900 @ 900Mhz 128KB 100MhzFSB 384MB     7:23:16

However, the top machine (3:03:48) has 22 units completed at the moment and
only one took over three hours (3:06:31). The average of the units it has
listed at the moment is 2:43:00 or thereabouts, the fastest 2:20:56. BOINC
is underestimating that machine at present. Celeron1 only has two units in
it's completed state at the moment and that took 8:51:32 and 8:24:11 so it
took a little longer than estimated. Celeron2 has five units and is
averaging 10 hours, 33% longer than estimated. It is playing mp3s all day
but not at night and it's on 24/7 and the units are consistantly around 10
hours, day and night. Both Celerons are on BX boards but different
brands/models. (The Barton is turned off, the girlfriend has gone to bed).

I'm mainly interested in the CPU specs and the estimated times though.
Anyone want to share?

I think if you run the mp3 palyers WHILE doing the benchmarking you
MAY come out with a closer to accurate time. The benchmark is based on
whatever the computer is doing while benchmarking, if you stop doing
your regular stuff it will say it is faster than it really is. Maybe
the Celerons are fast in the beginning but then slow down because of
the small cache and that is affecting the benchmarks? If so then the
programmers should have caught that!

Also, I've completed about 50+ units at least and have only been credited
for one of them, about five days ago. (37.38) I've checked the site when
I've been able to several times over the last few days and a lot of the
other units have three results reported and have done for a while. Wassup
with that?

Cheers,

The units getting granted credits are based on others returning their
units. The board has been down and very little has been getting thru.
I have over 30 units ready to return but can't get thru. I had over
17,000 requested credits before they took that stat down. I now have 
Total credit 1887.86 
Recent average credit 149.09 
as of right now.
I think the machine doing the crediting is not getting the full
attention of the programmers and may be backlogged as well or even
down.