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I gathered some numbers from DC-stats, and it appears that, since May 11th, F@H output has increased ~30%. See PDF for spreadsheet.

Could this apparent boost be due to the launch of CureCoin around May 11th, or are the statistics too fuzzy to make that kind of conclusion?

edit: fixed broken pdf link

The cause-and-effect conclusions are always a bit fuzzy, but compare the stats for the CureCoin team with the totals and draw your own conclusions.

bruce wrote:The cause-and-effect conclusions are always a bit fuzzy, but compare the stats for the CureCoin team with the totals and draw your own conclusions.

Curecoin PPD: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&t=224497

Could be coincidence, but I suspect that there's a correlation/causation.

Before the CureCoin was launched, this was the data from the Client statistics by OS page (04 May IIRC): This is what it currently reports: Sorry that the data isn't formatted into a pretty table since time is against me.

Jesse_V wrote:

bruce wrote:The cause-and-effect conclusions are always a bit fuzzy, but compare the stats for the CureCoin team with the totals and draw your own conclusions.

Curecoin PPD: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&t=224497

Could be coincidence, but I suspect that there's a correlation/causation.

No way to tell how much is purely new CureCoin donors, and how many donors were pulled from other teams.

7im wrote:

Jesse_V wrote:

bruce wrote:The cause-and-effect conclusions are always a bit fuzzy, but compare the stats for the CureCoin team with the totals and draw your own conclusions.

Curecoin PPD: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&t=224497

Could be coincidence, but I suspect that there's a correlation/causation.

No way to tell how much is purely new CureCoin donors, and how many donors were pulled from other teams.

It would require a closer look at the data, but I'd suspect most people that moved to curecoin are using a previous name used for folding, versus new people are using a name that hasn't appeared or hasn't folded much before.

Unless you looked at each donor name on the CureCoin team to see if they had 2 fah teams listed, that data is not exposed at a level that anyone but PG could "take a closer look" at with any level of ease.

So while there IS a way that is very manually intensive, nobody is likely to do that. End result is the same.

Might be interesting to look at a few of the top donors on that team though.

Many of the top donors hang out in #curecoin, and I've heard a good number of reports of people switching over to F@h from mining to folding, or firing up high-end machines or massive cloud instances specifically for Curecoin, bringing them over a million PPD in some cases. 7im is right though, without a deeper inspection it's all speculation, but based on what I've read there's a chunk of that performance that actually is new to F@h.

What difference does it make? Obviously there has been an upsurge in Folding.

It doesn't make ANY difference at all to the project what team any particular Folder belongs to. The data posted by PantherX shows a significant boost in the number of cores Folding, so there has likely been a combination of people switching teams and people devoting new machines to Folding.

In either case, it is good for the project!

What PX data are you reading? The active clients and the active cores went down. Flops went up, only a little.

PantherX wrote:Before the CureCoin was launched, this was the data from the Client statistics by OS page (04 May IIRC):
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Sorry that the data isn't formatted into a pretty table since time is against me.

Unfortunately, snapshot core data isn't as robust as multiple core polling points over time, but it's a meaningful addition and I didn't think of checking the OS Stats page , thanks PantherX

Does the information here help?

Information prior to 11/28/2012 can be found here.

If PPD has increased while TFLOPS have stayed relatively constant, then one would assume that many less powerful clients leaving have been offset by the addition of fewer more powerful clients...