More WU = more points?

[jamezzz122]

I noticed that some people have more completed WU but less points than others that have less WU than them. How does the point system work?

 

[Porphyria]

Different work units are worth more points.

For instance, one work unit I just did was 320 points, whereas the one im working on now is only 30.

 

[Tigerbiten]

Stanford benchmarks all the new protiens to find out how long it will take them to fold in days.
Then they multiply that figure by 110 to get the points value of the protien.

In the early days of F@H the protien where worth 0.7 to around 30 points.
A good speed was 0.7 Points per Hour per Ghz
As time has passed and computers have got faster the points value for each protien has increased.
Now a good speed is aound 2 PpHpG with some worth over 4.

Luck.........

 

[pduan87]

Stanford benchmarks all the new protiens to find out how long it will take them to fold in days.
Then they multiply that figure by 110 to get the points value of the protien.

In the early days of F@H the protien where worth 0.7 to around 30 points.
A good speed was 0.7 Points per Hour per Ghz
As time has passed and computers have got faster the points value for each protien has increased.
Now a good speed is aound 2 PpHpG with some worth over 4.

Luck.........

Ahhh, the good ole days of BBA5's and villins and where gromacs didn't exist

FOLD ON!!!

 

[BillR]

Ahhh, the good ole days of BBA5's and villins and where gromacs didn't exist

FOLD ON!!!

Heh, and the hot setup was an over clocked P-III whatever or an AMD Slot “A” 850 at 950 with dual delta fans that the neighbors could hear.

Ah yes, the good old days? LOL

 

[r00k]

taken directly from the folding faq

How do you decide how much credit a work unit is worth?

How do you determine how many points a work unit is worth? Before putting out any new work unit, we benchmark it on a dedicated 2.8GHz Pentium 4 machine with SSE2 disabled (more specifically, as reported by /proc/cpuinfo on linux: vendor_id : GenuineIntel, cpu family : 15, model : 2, model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, stepping : 9, cpu MHz : 2806.438, cache size : 512 KB). This machine runs linux, so all WUs are benchmarked with the linux core.

We plug the results of this into the following formula:

points = 110 * (daysPerWU)

where daysPerWU is the number of days it took to complete the unit. This equation was chosen to match the points for previous Gromacs WUs to the previous point system. The upshot is that Tinker WUs will be worth more than before we set up the new points (i.e. before April 2004).