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Message boards : Seventeen or Bust : Bonus Credit from DC tasks

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Joby Kechinsky
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Joined: 1 Sep 20
Posts: 20
ID: 1300456
Credit: 5,712,077
RAC: 0
PPS LLR Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,805,652)SoB LLR Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,511,649)PPS Sieve Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (185,405)AP 26/27 Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (238,537)GFN Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,944,395)WW (retired) Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (24,000)
Message 151471 - Posted: 12 Sep 2021 | 8:44:48 UTC
Last modified: 12 Sep 2021 | 8:46:52 UTC

Several days ago, I finished another SOB task. When checking the status of the DC task, I noticed the computer (http://www.primegrid.com/results.php?hostid=1080437&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=13) which the DC task was assigned to had many hundreds of SOB tasks assigned, but most were aborted. It appears that the computer is aborting all the long tasks, while completing only DC tasks. Are DC tasks for SOB also worth 60% more credits than normal tasks?

It doesn't seem fair that short DC tasks are also eligible for the 50% credits bonus since they are not long jobs. Then again, perhaps DC tasks should also be awarded bonus credits since they will not be credited for discovering a prime, while still using valuable computing resources.

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Joined: 10 May 09
Posts: 804
ID: 39821
Credit: 1,935,039,845
RAC: 1,392,602
Discovered 2 mega primesEliminated 1 conjecture "k"Discovered 1 twin prime2022 Tour de Primes largest primeFound 1 prime in the 2022 Tour de PrimesFound 1 mega prime in the 2022 Tour de Primes321 LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (6,713,183)Cullen LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (12,030,513)ESP LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (7,141,825)Generalized Cullen/Woodall LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (10,267,839)PPS LLR Sapphire: Earned 20,000,000 credits (26,114,586)PSP LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (19,513,382)SoB LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (16,870,747)SR5 LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (16,096,531)SGS LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (11,548,106)TRP LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (11,153,506)Woodall LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (12,728,327)321 Sieve (suspended) Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,000,576)Cullen/Woodall Sieve Sapphire: Earned 20,000,000 credits (37,579,150)Generalized Cullen/Woodall Sieve (suspended) Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (6,843,367)PPS Sieve Double Silver: Earned 200,000,000 credits (248,763,985)Sierpinski (ESP/PSP/SoB) Sieve (suspended) Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (6,473,750)TRP Sieve (suspended) Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (8,243,608)AP 26/27 Sapphire: Earned 20,000,000 credits (34,452,529)GFN Double Gold: Earned 500,000,000 credits (706,953,464)WW (retired) Double Gold: Earned 500,000,000 credits (729,524,000)PSA Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,042,125)
Message 151476 - Posted: 12 Sep 2021 | 10:16:40 UTC - in response to Message 151471.

That is my machine. If you read my earlier messages (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9742) my system is having issues downloading hundreds of tasks at a time. It is a BUG in the current version of BOINC and so I have been aborting the long tasks because I know they cannot get done in time.
The problem has been settling down, but I have not had time to downgrade the software to a previous version to stop it from going crazy.
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Joby Kechinsky
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Joined: 1 Sep 20
Posts: 20
ID: 1300456
Credit: 5,712,077
RAC: 0
PPS LLR Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,805,652)SoB LLR Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,511,649)PPS Sieve Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (185,405)AP 26/27 Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (238,537)GFN Amethyst: Earned 1,000,000 credits (1,944,395)WW (retired) Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (24,000)
Message 151487 - Posted: 12 Sep 2021 | 13:52:09 UTC

Collected a few sample data by dividing the credit by the CPU time taken on the same computer. The credits earned per second of CPU time on long tasks were no different from that earned by fast DC tasks.

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