Do they still have that annoying bug where it forces a benchmark at a farily frequent interval and ends up losing CPUs (e.g. my dual cores suddenly become singles after the benchmark)? This only happened when I was running QMC and is the main reason I stopped crunching on any of my multicores back in December '06 (and haven't cruched anything at all since January).

Have you tried changing your general preferences, specifically the setting for multiprocessors, increase the number. I have seen 2 projects running at the same time on a computer with hyper threading.

Any changes you make to your general preferences will be changed on all projects once they connect.

It has nothing to do with preferences, although I have run into that one in the past when attaching to a new non-BAM project (bloody annoying too!).

For QMC it is a completely different issue - In order to get around issues with people cheating by manually modifying thier benchmark results or using an optimized client (e.g. 5.5.0 anyone?) they integrated a a component in their wus that woudl force a benchmark in order to get realistic benchmarking . Regardless, whenever I was actively cruching QMC (and ONLY QMC) benchmarking would run several times a day (vs. once every couple of days) and drop a CPU core on all of my dual cores every time it ran thereby reducing their productivity by 50%. The only way to get the core back was to restart boinc and then run the built in benchmarking app. Obviously very annoying so I simply stopped crunching for them. Haven't tested since so they may have fixed it already - they have had a few application updates since then...

Benchmarked before 1rst QMC started running earlier, finished up the other projects WU and got a 2nd QMC, no benchmark on that one. Both been running fine (Core2 Duo/Vista/5.10.20 setup) for the last 4h or so.

I've been running QMC for a while and from what I've read in the message boards and seen in my own results the credits are now preset for most WU's. There has been no extra benchmarking showing up on my machines.

Bill

Good to hear - I'll throw some of my dual cores into the mix in the next couple of days...

@steve2000

There would be no point to voting for project of the month if people abstained
Vote what you want
I created the tie this last round of votes by electing QMC (anybody to be resented it's me)
I didn't even vote for 1 of the 2 projects I'm founder of (RCN or RieselSieve)

@everybody
If you don't prefer the choices for the month it's open to discussion
the idea behind POTM is to boost the 20 or 30 lesser known projects (I quit counting @20 projects)


I'm going to try and push 12 cores as long as I can, but I have go back to YOYO and try to regain some positions(from 1st to 7th)

POTM October QMC@home starting credits 675,171 credits


Keep on Crunchin'
Frank Encruncher
Woof

Edit: still trying out new emotions

A lil over 24h in, no other benchmark since the 1rst.

Thanks for the updates everyone!

I've got it up and running on a few of my dual cores since early this morning without any issues so it looks like they got rid of the extra benchmarking component of the application when they changed their credit system - it used to run immediately after starting each new wu so it would have been pretty easy to spot. I've got 300 to start with and will start putting some real numbers up soon - that is as soon as SIMAP work runs out....for now QMC will have to be conent with 50% cpu time.

We're doing great we already climbed to 37th by RAC.
In the last 24 hours, we got 12,419 credits.

Nice, if we can manage to keep this 12k/24h average, we should crack the 1mil mark by the end of the month... thats if QMC doesnt run out of work like Predictor and uFluids

Just a heads up - as noted on the home page of QMC, there is limited support until Oct. 6. On the "Number Crunching" message board under "Running out of work" it sounds like the work that's there is all there is until then. If you only have a day or so of WU's you may want to keep an eye on the server status or just load up now.

Bill

It looks like they are finally going to leave beta phase and become a full project, hopefully the work will keep coming, if not we go to the second place project and crunch Einstein until they give us more work. Einstein needs alot of help as well.

HEY HEY
I JUST FINISHED SIGNING UP FOR QMC. GOT WU'S ALREADY. MUST BE SOME KICKING AROUND

I started on QMC last night.

I set my own contribution target for QMC at 300,000 for this month.

With Lunja on board we should crack 1,000,000 easy...

Another day another 28,440 points and we are up to 33rd by RAC.
Keep up the great work team!!!

LMAO!! Two hours later and we're 30th!!

We're on

This is cool! Lets keep it up.

QMC report 32,203 points in the last day
26th position by RAC.
And now we started moving up by TC.
GREAT JOB TEAM!!!!!

And the RAC will continue to rise if everyone keeps crunching at this rate. I believe it takes about 2 weeks to reach your maximum RAC if you don't change your resources. Great numbers eveyone!!!

Bill

Daily update: We are up 42,459 points!!
We are in 24 by RAC!!!
We're really crunching now !!!!