I'd like to do a GPU project before the weather gets too hot to support it. EDGES is a nice, low-heat project. What if we left it for awhile, e.g. to do Milkyway, and came back to it for a later race portion?
I think it would do us well to stay on the EDGeS-project to increase our lead. When we leave the project for an other CPU-project we will drop a bit and therefore staying around makes sense.
We could, however also start on something else ... Numberfields@Home, NFS@Home or - if there are enough WUs - universe@home test project ...
Inpu please ...
if we give a project a big bump, it will still need crunchers to keep it there
I see that it's been previously discussed, and I suppose it doesn't matter much now that we're about to switch from Edges, but I haven't been able to consistently get work from them. I run a lot of projects simultaneously, and just use the priority number assigned to each project to increase or decrease my focus on them. I increased Edges to my highest priority project, but this morning, looking through the logs, I see that most of the time, when I connect to Edges, I get no work available. Oddly, if I sit there and click update repeatedly, I will eventually max out my Edges queue. But if I don't do it, it only gets work sporadically, and just moves on to my other projects. I saw the discussion about JIT WUs and the linux script that was so generously provided, but alas, I am running Win7. Oh well, on to MW, I guess.I've been having more trouble getting work lately. This time it looks like it's not just the odd way EdGES doles out WUs:
...we should do what we did last year, which was everybody doing whatever they want up until around September, and then work together on projects that can get us some extra points [in the Formula Boinc race].
If Universe test project gives out more WUs, we should get them. We are only 88,100 behind. There should not be much movement in this project.
A big part of choosing projects is if anyone had planned on moving it to 1M or 5M or a major Milestone. For instance, I had planned to move NFS to 5 or 10M this year. It is high paying.
Another thing to look for is if the project does not have many people crunching it. Like YAFU, not very popular, we already have points.
I recently noticed that FiND is high paying and so thought to run that to 1M or more if they continue to have WUs. But we are not that close to points so ...
Also it is a med/bio project, which should help, I believe. I don't know any more about it though.
We are not far from points in Citizen Science Grid and if they ever get SubSetSum going that might be an option.
Another thing to consider is if the project might close or only have a few WUs available. Like a few of the projects last year where we stole some points! Gerasim might be one of those this year? It is good paying, we have some points and are not that far behind more.
We have points in Leiden Classical and are very close to more. It is not very popular, maybe because it is low paying?
And finally: if we give a project a big bump, it will still need crunchers to keep it there
thanks for the stats petrusbroder. One thing I was thinking about is that we can hold another race in the fall (sept-nov) in order to adjust our resources on where they are needed before the end of the year. Didn't include december because of the f@h race. By then it should start cooling off and more people will have their gpus available. I''l be leaving 7 cores on edges until the next cpu project since I have amd cards and it's not worth it to me to also do cpu milkyway.
I dusted off my old and trusty HD4850 and got it running on linux (many hoops to jump through) and on MW@Home it matches the output of my GTX980! D: