Wide range of credits for WUs with the same duration

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comes Send message Joined: 31 Mar 20 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,344,264 RAC: 0	Message 97886 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 17:17:56 UTC Hi! I was running the following workunits. All have a similar duration, but the credits differ considerably (almost factor 10). What reasons could there be for this? 06f9f92e_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_951790_192 1088397973 30 Jun 2020, 11:19:39 UTC 2 Jul 2020, 8:35:40 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 28,815.85 28,562.68 626.82 rep465_0081_symC_reordered_0001_propagated_0001_0001_0001_0001_A_v15_relax_SAVE_ALL_OUT_952696_6 1088397719 30 Jun 2020, 11:19:39 UTC 2 Jul 2020, 8:35:40 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 29,076.02 28,823.88 475.31 tgfbR2_1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_6sh6ka7q_951704_1 1088397925 30 Jun 2020, 11:19:39 UTC 2 Jul 2020, 10:28:10 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 28,903.14 28,820.16 66.91 bmpr1_attempt3_2_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_2cc3tr8a_951187_1 1088397751 30 Jun 2020, 11:19:39 UTC 2 Jul 2020, 8:29:06 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 29,106.99 28,899.74 67.38 I look forward to receiving answers, Sebastian ______ AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0] Linux Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04 LTS [5.4.0-39-generic\|libc 2.31 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9)] ID: 97886 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Brian Nixon Send message Joined: 12 Apr 20 Posts: 293 Credit: 8,432,366 RAC: 0	Message 97887 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 17:57:41 UTC - in response to Message 97886. All Rosetta@home tasks have the same target runtime of 8 hours (= 28 800 s). In that time, different tasks perform different amounts of work (running different modelling scenarios, using different starting parameters, …) which means they are awarded different amounts of credit. ID: 97887 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1677 Credit: 17,755,516 RAC: 22,864	Message 97888 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 20:21:33 UTC It also takes a while for the Credit for new a type of Task to stabilise; generally once you've done a dozen or or so of a new type, the Credit awarded will be less variable & more inline with other Tasks done previously. Grant Darwin NT ID: 97888 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

comes Send message Joined: 31 Mar 20 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,344,264 RAC: 0	Message 97896 - Posted: 3 Jul 2020, 21:12:27 UTC Thank you very much for your answers. Very informative. I'm gonna try this out. ID: 97896 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

comes Send message Joined: 31 Mar 20 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,344,264 RAC: 0	Message 97928 - Posted: 5 Jul 2020, 14:57:37 UTC - in response to Message 97888. Last modified: 5 Jul 2020, 14:59:35 UTC It also takes a while for the Credit for new a type of Task to stabilise; generally once you've done a dozen or or so of a new type, the Credit awarded will be less variable & more inline with other Tasks done previously. You are right! I've got two more work units of the same type as above, but now they were granted much better. bmpr1_attempt3_1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_4au3hv3c_951182_1_0 1090293536 4 Jul 2020, 13:44:42 UTC 5 Jul 2020, 5:01:12 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 29,463.52 28,681.66 541.32 tgfbR2_2_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_0ku6fl4r_951849_1_0 1089993993 3 Jul 2020, 21:57:52 UTC 4 Jul 2020, 21:51:35 UTC Fertig und Bestätigt 29,521.18 28,718.83 542.38 Greetings from Lower Saxony, Germany, Sebastian ID: 97928 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote