I have an 8-core AMD processor and at least two of the cores are crunching hadcm3n jobs 24x7, and all I'm getting from the daily trickle-ups is between 600 to 900 credits a day, as compared with thousands of credits from POGS and SETI@Home, combined, running on the other cores.

If there a reason for this, or is something amiss?

Thanks.

The credit system here was/is based on that of SETI, back in 2004. It hasn't been adjusted to whatever values are used by projects today, and it's unlikely that it ever will be.
This project is low on interest in credit matters, and high on the science results. As such, and also because of the long run times of models, and the highly sensitive nature of the models to interruptions, this project will not suit everyone.

PS
The credit scripts only run once per day, so the timing of when you look at the credits is relevant.

I have an 8-core AMD processor and at least two of the cores are crunching hadcm3n jobs 24x7, and all I'm getting from the daily trickle-ups is between 600 to 900 credits a day, as compared with thousands of credits from POGS and SETI@Home, combined, running on the other cores.

If there a reason for this, or is something amiss?

Thanks.

You won't be getting thousands of SETI credits per day from ordinary CPU cores, that's for sure. If you also had an AMD GPU (Graphics Processing Unit - display adapter), then you might be getting thousands of credits from that - but the mathematics of climate modelling for CPDN can't be easily re-written to meet the constraints of a GPU.

Actually, looking at your account page, it's showing no GPU, and a daily average of 341 credits from SETI, which sounds about right.

Les, thanks for the information.

Richard, I was referring to the daily credits from both POGS and SETI@Home COMBINED. I realize that POGS awards much more than SETI.

Why not just give out more credits. It�s not like they cost anything.

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