Optimize Windows?

[LP]

I'd like to get the opinion of those that run Boinc here.

Optimized Windows Boinc- fair or not?

I'm just wanting your opinion.

[daddygeek]

Yes, it is fair

If you run Linux, Optimized it is the only way to run. Unless you like getting 50% less credit than windows.

[LP]

I didn't say Linux. I said Windows.

I agree with running Linux optimized. It corrects an bug.

I'm asking because it seems unfair to me , for someone to inflate the benchmark in Windows and get 3 times the credit, same as under-value-ing the bench in Linux gives you 50% of what Windows gets.

I'm not going to run Boinc if it's not on an even playing field.

[NeoGen]

Yea, optimized is the way to go, especially on projects where WYCIWYG (What-You-Claim-Is-What-You-Get)

All is fair in Love and Distributed Computing!

[Keith75]

From everything I have read about it the optimized version is fair and it is the regular version that is screwing you out of points since it doesn't take advantage of your chips features. Be like saying your car should drive with two flat tires in a race designed for motorcycles.

[NVM]

i just modified/hacked DNET so i'm really pulling in the points now,almost double. next i'm going to modify SOB and try F@H as well. is that fair?

[Ototero]

The difference is that if the optimised code is available (publically) to anyone that wants to use it, then that is fine.

If I hack my own version just for my benefit, that is cheating.


Just my opinions.

[LP]

From everything I have read about it the optimized version is fair and it is the regular version that is screwing you out of points since it doesn't take advantage of your chips features. Be like saying your car should drive with two flat tires in a race designed for motorcycles.

It was explained to me that all it does is inflate your benchmark. It doesn't make any more use of your cpu, make it run faster, better, etc, than the regular version.

If it did, as in using flags in F@H turns on SSE, better utilize your cpu, then I could see using it. But not if all it does is inflate your benchmark.

[NeoGen]

But the optimized client does just that what you said.
Check Crunch3r's page of optimized boinc clients. It has boinc versions with SSE and SSE2 enabled.

http://www.guntec.de/Crunch3r/boincx86.html

Seeing that the client doesn't actually do the work, then the end result for the user is an inflated benchmark, so by saying, but the benchmark values are much more in accordance to our machine's real capabilities.

[LP]

Wait til you guys see the claimed credits coming in on Linux machines (mine included) and that they are using "optimized" Windows machines as part of the quorum of 2, in Simap.

I'm waiting for the crying to begin.