Scoring

[Fozzie]

OK I am now churning out the WUs a bit better.

Do you get more points for higher organisms?

Can you specify what type of species you work on?

When are the stats updated?

How long would it take a P3 or P4 to do 40 WUs? Approx.

Lets get after US Distributed.

[ECL]

Fozzie:
1) No. 1 point per work unit.
2) Yes, go to lifemapper.org and sign in. You can choose species, geography and favorite data source. Be aware that unassigning yourself frequently doesn't work, and you may be stuck doing the same work unit hundreds or thousands of times. The more general your preferences, the more species you'll get.
3) Twice a day, at 3 AM and 3 PM Central Time (US) (GMT-6)
4) It varies. I figure on a rough average of 15 minutes per unit, but it depends on the unit - some have more data points than others.

[edorajh]

Hi Fozzie! Welcome to the life of lifemapping!

Do you get more points for higher organisms?

No. Each model computed counts as one unit.

Can you specify what type of species you work on?

Yes. Login to your LM account, and there you can specify type of species and some other info as well.

When are the stats updated?

Personal stats (number of species mapped with their infos) are updated in real time. Rankings are updated twice per day, 9 AM and 9 PM GMT.

How long would it take a P3 or P4 to do 40 WUs?

My P4 1.8 GHz process one unit in about 28-30 minutes. So 40 units (or job packets) will take about 20 hours on my machine.

Lets get after US Distributed.

With FreeDC level of production every team should be on alert. Excellent mapping activity.

[Fozzie]

I'll download 40 WU and take em into work.

This is quite a modem friendly project might stick with it even when DF takes off again.

[alpha]

Originally posted by edorajh
My P4 1.8 GHz process one unit in about 28-30 minutes. So 40 units (or job packets) will take about 20 hours on my machine.

Holy heck. My Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) does a work unit in 15 minutes. I guess AMD is a winner on this project.

[ECL]

I've heard that the Linux version is slightly faster than the Windows version, though I haven't done any side-by-side tests.

I've just watched a few units finish on some of my boxes:
Athlon 2400+ 19.9 mins (WinXP)
P4 2.4 18.1 mins (NT4)
P3 600 97.8 mins (Linux 2.4)(this is a dual, with two lm processes running. Each takes ~98 mins).

[Fozzie]

confidence so I cannot run it at work.

So I can commit a laptop 24/7 and my home PC evenings to LM.

Every little bit helps.