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RE: BOINC Hardware Survey

in #boinc7 years ago

There are some bits that can make that a bit tricky.

Sure. The upper and lower bounds probably wouldn't be very tight, but I think they still could be useful. And yeah, looking up FLOPS for each device would be a pain. On the other hand, perhaps you could work with averages rather than individual components (or, like you are saying, do the most common components by hand, and ballpark the rest.)

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Hi @nexusprime and @h202:

I have been skeptical of the reliability of the latter values for some projects.

I have the same concerns.

Finding an automatic way to lookup the FLOPS for the different components might take some time

Fore Nvidia GPUs the numbers can be pulled from here, and for AMD GPUS here.

Regarding CPUs, it's a bit more of a pain, I've found info on ark.intel.com for individual products before, but I had to get a particularly hard-to-find pdf from there and I can't find right now, so I don't have a link.

I've been working on a similar proposal for a hardware profiling database built by GridCoin users, one of the purposes of which would be to provide a large amount of data that potential projects could use to optimize future decisions. I think we have overlapping goals and if you're interested in working together I'm on Discord and usually available during/after the Fireside chats.