Points increasing?

[LaTech]

Hey,

I don't know if anyone's asked this before or not...but I have a question. I've been folding for a while (not quite a year, I think...or if so, just barely) and I've noticed that to get to my first 100,000 points took what seemed like forever, but the second 100k points are 3/4 done. Does anyone understand the logic of that? And, if so...could you explain it to me?!

LaTech

 

[Mohonri]

There are a few causes of "point inflation"--big WUs get a large bonus, QMD's get a large bonus, and the benchmarks are run without assembly optimizations.

 

[Mattman]

Hehe, not for me...I just happened to check my stats twice within a few hours and I turned in an 11 point WU! WTF is that? I don't even see an 11 point WU listed in Stanford's list of currently running projects. Is there a way to get partial credit for a WU?

 

[ICE_9]

If it has an EARLY_END. Most of the time caused by an unstable processor, but also some bad WU can cause it too.

 

[gnewbury]

Talk about big WU - Just checked EMIII -
I've got a 1,112 pointer and a 592 pointer cranking on my X2 - 500ppd, one box.

 

[sirholio]

I've noticed things like that occasionally when I check the stanford pages for my user stats. I'll see some users with justabout the same number of points as WU's and I'm at the opposite side of that. not a lot of WU's, but gaining in points.

like right now it's 85 wu's and 11337 points where as someone who hasn't folded in a long while might have 400 wu's and roughly the same points.
they just seem to be worth more now

 

[84gthatch]

yea the pts are increasing it used to be you had an almost 1:1 ratio in pts/wu