If you buy a Computer & who you buy it from, or if you build it yourself and what parts you use can make a big difference in the Benchmarks. Also like some people have said if you Overclock the CPU or not can make a big difference too.

How people maintain their Computer can make a big difference also, so to say all the same GHZ Equipped Computers should Benchmark the same is just plain foolish ... IMHO

Dammit Paul, I can't find your post right now. I'm talking about the one where you discussed the idea of actually counting flops.

From what I gather, the infrastructure is already in place in the Boinc client, it's just a case of adding the code to the Rosetta executables, which is rather low on the priority totem pole, since there are other more pressing needs to be addressed by the Bakerlab team.

I think you mean the code release and redundancy thread.

Here's another interesting thought. Rather than have a quorum per work unit, what changes would be necessary to the Boinc Server back end to have a quorum by architecture.

Too many complaints. If you tell me that my AMD64 3700 is going to get the same credit as this other guy's AMD64 3700, I'm going to scream. See, his is a Socket 754 CPU with 512MB cache, running at 2.2GHz. Mine is a Socket 939 CPU with 1MB cache, overclocked and running at 2.6GHz. The benchmarks show that difference... but as far as the OS is concerned, we have the same chip. Plus the nightmare of maintaining such a database.

---

i dont think seting up a what your processer should get would be a good idea.

some people like me run some pretty computer intensive games out there while crunching on some of my machines.. so what that would do to people like me is give me a VASTLY inflated score

as far as steping up to high redundancy well that might cost you some users and really cuts down on the results alot since to do the throwout the high and low like they do on seti requires you to have im pretty sure its 5 results from the same work unit... perosnaly i would prefer if we let the people who are going to inflate there scores go and be happy as long as whatever they are doing dosnt messup the work units themself.. heck if 25% of the people are cheating or such and you decide instead to do only a 2 computer check you now have lost severly since you now only have 1/2 the effective computing power

---