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How is Score determined?

agrikk

agrikk

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So I just completed my first F@H WU (for team 33, of course) so I go to the stats page and descover that with only one unit completed, I have a higher score than some of those with multiple WUs completed.

Why is that?

Agrikk

ph34r my 3907th place, baby!
 
In The early days some work units where only worth 0.6 points not sure what the max was back then.
Now the minimum value is 11 and the max is 160.

So to find the old timers look at their score against number of work units done.
I'm around 30 points per work unit but some are 10 points per work unit.

Luck.........:D
 
Is that simply because the protein in the unit is harder to fold so it requires more processing time and takes longer?
 
I think the points are supposed to be based on how long they take to do on a benchmark machine, but sometimes they seem kind of arbitrary. Over the course of the project, they have upped the points considerably as Tigerbiten alluded to. It used to be good when you got a couple of hundred points/day, but now you need to be in the thousand+ range per day to rank that high.
 
Last time I read some the FAQs at Folding, the WUs were benchmarked on a 500mhz Celeron, which is a pretty weak machine, I don't know if it's changed or not. Probably not since that's why most WU have a time limit of a least a week or two.

There has been a great deal of points inflation in the last two years, not that I think it's bad, though. When I first started in June of 2002, and average Tinker (not Gromacs) WU was 2 lousy points and that took 12 hours on a 1.8ghz P4, so that's a measly 4 PPD. Now that same P4 would do probably 40 points a day with Gromacs. I'm avergaing about 76 PPD with my 2.6ghz P4, and about 55 PPD with my XP2500+.

In fairness Gromacs WUs do more science than Tinker, but I think the points inflation has more pragmatic reasons.

For all of Pandegroups rhetoric about It's the science, not the points." I think they realize many people do Fold for the points. I know I do. the points are a concrete reward, the possible scientific payoffs are far more nebulous.
 
I think this points process is the best way of running this project. It gives people a concrete 'reward' for their usage. I guess if I remember from my intro to psych(shudders) class it would be a positive reward. Competition is the driving force of life.
 
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