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Message 51255 - Posted: 17 Jan 2015, 6:33:14 UTC

Just completed some "UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe"
The eu models get only quarter credit compared to the old "UK Met Office HadAM3P (global only) with MOSES II landsurface scheme"
Both the "global only" models and the "eu_models" run the same time elapsed (and cpu), but the eu models get about a quarter of the credit vs the globals
I've got a dozen or so of both the global and eu, will keep running, but -- this is strange.
See -- http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/results.php?userid=3970&offset=0&show_names=0&state=2
The UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe v7.01 seems to be a total loser for credits.
Huh?

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Message 51371 - Posted: 6 Feb 2015, 22:45:47 UTC

I have now reported one of these work unit types, and am seeing the same issue.

The MOSES (Global Only) type I reported last year gave 10,064.32 credits, the Europe model gives just 2,191.17 credits for a similar run time.

I wont be doing any more of these as the return is not really worth it (7 cr/hr).

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Message 51372 - Posted: 7 Feb 2015, 1:40:47 UTC

I reported this problem to the IT people back in January. When it will be fixed???
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Message 51374 - Posted: 7 Feb 2015, 22:09:00 UTC
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I noticed that the credit awarded is exactly the same as the other (non-MOSES) Europe work unit type, so perhaps they have just got it mixed up.

17791628 9545343 17 Jan 2015 5:09:11 UTC 6 Feb 2015 18:15:18 UTC Completed 1,004,026.51 888,650.10 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe v7.01

17635813 9423239 8 Jan 2015 11:02:12 UTC 14 Jan 2015 4:05:09 UTC Completed 313,293.72 216.84 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Europe v7.23

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Message 51621 - Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 11:29:00 UTC

Does anyone know if this credit error was corrected?

I am not keen to run this WU I have just downloaded for 1,000,000 seconds only to find I am getting a 5th of the credit I should be getting for this WU type.

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Message 51624 - Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 12:15:48 UTC

I don't normally pay much attention to credits but a moses global model on my i3 machine has run for a tad over 102 hours for 1,748.32credits. I haven't checked when it last sent a trickle up so the time may be a bit high but should be in the right ball park.

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Message 51628 - Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 19:15:22 UTC - in response to Message 51624.  

Dave,

Eirik and Conan are posting about the

"UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe"

model. The MOSES model (global only) provides the proper amount of credits per trickle.

The last of the MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe models I completed did only give 2,389.90 credits, just like the regular EU models, only it takes more than 3 times as long to run.

I raised this a 2nd time via the moderator e-mail list awhile back. I'll raise it a third time and see if anything gets done.
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Message 51750 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 3:26:47 UTC

This model is still not getting the correct credits, less than a 3rd of what they should be getting.

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Message 51754 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 11:33:17 UTC
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Agree there's a gross credit anomaly here.
And agree that as a Linux user -- with a few ten-thousand linux-only wu's in the queue - maybe haklf are misconfigred?
(I misspell cause a lot of wasted downloads are just that --0 lisspellllled)
Don't care much, but -- grr

Insult on top of injury -- yeah -

I trust the very upstream researchers.

Sometimes the many blunder - or blundcr- - or misconfigured bandwidth-wasting "crap" or "beta" or whatever wu-s -- annoy me.

But I keep on crunching.
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Message 51755 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 12:58:14 UTC - in response to Message 51754.  

Bad credit assignment is one thing, but what I'd like to know is if this is just some bad coding that is wasting power on work units that should only take a quarter of the time.

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Message 51757 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 23:17:44 UTC - in response to Message 51755.  

Bad credit assignment is one thing, but what I'd like to know is if this is just some bad coding that is wasting power on work units that should only take a quarter of the time.


No, that is not it. It is a high resolution model and takes quite awhile to finish one year.

The credit looks to be about 25% of what it should be. I'll bring it up again.
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Message 51758 - Posted: 4 Apr 2015, 7:16:27 UTC

As I noted in an earlier message

[Quote]I noticed that the credit awarded is exactly the same as the other (non-MOSES) Europe work unit type, so perhaps they have just got it mixed up.

17791628 9545343 17 Jan 2015 5:09:11 UTC 6 Feb 2015 18:15:18 UTC Completed 1,004,026.51 888,650.10 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe v7.01

17635813 9423239 8 Jan 2015 11:02:12 UTC 14 Jan 2015 4:05:09 UTC Completed 313,293.72 216.84 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Europe v7.23
[Quote]

They seem to have used the same crediting system for each Europe model even though they are completely different models.

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Message 51759 - Posted: 4 Apr 2015, 7:44:31 UTC - in response to Message 51758.  

Conan

We know about this. It's what geophi was talking about. And he HAS emailed the project people about it, and not for the first time.

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Message 51760 - Posted: 4 Apr 2015, 9:22:46 UTC - in response to Message 51757.  

The credit looks to be about 25% of what it should be. I'll bring it up again.


Thanks geophie, this may motivate more linux crunchers to download the TRIFFIDs currently piled up.
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Message 51765 - Posted: 5 Apr 2015, 2:34:45 UTC

Les,

Yes, thanks, I know this, I was responding to a couple of lower down replies as to me the issue did not seem clear.

I am still processing them even with the much lower credits, as I am hoping the science or results, may come to something useful.

Thanks to the moderators for their response in this matter.

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Message 51791 - Posted: 8 Apr 2015, 13:21:45 UTC

The credits have now been fixed for "UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe" models. They now give 9,559.58 credits for a completed run.
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Message 51792 - Posted: 8 Apr 2015, 17:46:31 UTC - in response to Message 51791.  

The credits have now been fixed for "UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe" models. They now give 9,559.58 credits for a completed run.

And because of the way credits are calculated on this project, the change is retrospective: all completed tasks have been automatically re-credited at the new rate.
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Message 51793 - Posted: 9 Apr 2015, 5:47:35 UTC

Thanks to all who helped in getting this done.

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Message 51893 - Posted: 26 Apr 2015, 17:55:51 UTC - in response to Message 51791.  

I have noted for years now that credits from climate prediction load have been significantly lower than for other boinc loads. I'm not really in it for the credits, but if I was I imagine I would abandon climate prediction.

Right at the time of this announcement, units for climate predication jumped four-fold. The fix report on Apr 8 implied that the adjustment would be back-dated, but I expect the boinc-manager graphing code doesn't retrieve the change automatically.

As an example, before April 8, einstein@home ran at about 300% higher credit than climate prediction. At the moment I'm seeing climate prediction at about 30% higher for work units completed. einstein@home is still far more "profitable" though -- I have climate prediction's resource share set 17 times higher than einstein@home. Other loads, like pogs, are comparable to einstein@home.
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Message 51894 - Posted: 26 Apr 2015, 19:28:07 UTC - in response to Message 51893.  

Welcome to the boards, Andrew.

You are correct that CPDN is less generous with credits than many, probably most, other boinc projects. (That's okay with me.)

Given that credits are recalculated for all tasks every time the credit script runs, as Richard noted above, it explains why all completed tasks will be corrected. However, the correction should show as a one-day jump in the curve, not a change for all dates when the corrected tasks ran.
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