timing a work unit

[whocrazy]

Hi. Just out of curiosity, I am doing project 8806, which takes just over 5 hours to complete on my machine. I am really interested in what sort of times other people get on their machine with this project.
Thanks.

[Joe_H]

Do you mean Project 18806 - https://stats.foldingathome.org/project/18806.

[Joe_H]

I looked at older logs on one of my machines, ~14:45 to complete on a Hackintosh with an i7-7700K processor using 4 CPU threads running macOS 10.13.6 for a Project 18806 WU.

[whocrazy]

whoops sorry, yes, I meant 18806
wow. 14:45? I'm guessing you mean 14 minutes and 45 seconds? grrrrr. I'm jealous!

[Joe_H]

Nope. 14 hours and 45 minutes. Used to get these WUs, but currently doing beta projects and haven't seen any in abut a month.

[whocrazy]

The longest work units I've ever had on this new machine took 14 hours. I've not seen any of those for quite a few weeks. I forget the number of the project that it consisted of.
Now the longest I've been getting lately is 8 to 9 hours.

[Joe_H]

I just remember starting out nearly 20 years ago and WUs taking 7-10 days to complete, have no memory of how many points they were given. Not many though. Still recall having my first dual core machine and being able to see the speedup.

[arisu]

I got a list of hours that it took to complete each generation (with some duplicates from expired timeouts) of run 88, clone 14 for project 18806 (394 as of this post). Here are some basic stats using R:

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> h <- read.csv('hours.txt', header=F)
> summary(h)
       V1       
 Min.   : 2.57  
 1st Qu.:11.46  
 Median :18.66  
 Mean   :21.35  
 3rd Qu.:27.11  
 Max.   :71.63
> sd(h[,])
[1] 13.12557