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Prince
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: MilkyWay@home Project News: Validator and Awarded Credit Ch |
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We've made a change to our validator which basically puts a speed limit to the amount of credit any given host can be awarded (per cpu). While this shouldn't effect
the vast majority of our users (as the speed limit is quite high), it should protect the project from users who would like to cheat the project to get excessive credit.
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Source: MilkyWay@home
BOINC project MilkyWay@home: Main page News
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Grizzly
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mohrorless
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Since my PCs arent' that fast I am not worried...
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Al Dente
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: |
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I might have to swap my Phenom 9850 to something else - it's getting ~5,500/day (compared with Q6600s ~2,500) - it definitely seems that this project favours AMD processors.
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Al Dente
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| Grizzly wrote: | Time for YoYo then  |
Or Sudoku - almost as valuable in the Vault, and perhaps even more vulnerable to losing places.
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Sir Papa Smurph
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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I went from 11 k a day to 7.5k
Is this really going to hurt my AMD's  That is all I got 
Well if true I will switch to Sudoku, that project has good credits too, they just take so long 24+ hours
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