I am purely speculating, and I have little idea of how hard this would be to pull off. But would it be possible to have a speeds page as part of the team site. It could be just like the
speed page at distributed.net. We could submit speeds for various projects, CPU's, and OS's. It'd doesn't need to be as complex as theirs though. Here's what I'm thinking could be the choices.
CPU
2xG4
G4
G3
PPC60x
68K
AMD Athlon
AMD Duron
Intel P4
Intel PIII
Intel Celeron
Misc. Super Computer CPU's (Although technically the G4 does fall in this category, it won't)
OS
OS X
OS 9
OS 8 or earlier
Linux
UNIX (Although technically OS X does fall in this category, it won't)
Windows NT
Windows 9x
The list of projects is the five that we participate in. Each project will of course need to have it's own unit of measurement. So here they are
SETI units/week
RC5 MKeys/s
F@H units/week
Ubero units/day
dFold units/hour
The database also doesn't need to keep track of every piece of data entered. It need only keep track of and display this data
CPU
OS
Average
Best
Worst
Number of data points entered
Finally in the event of some outsider entering bad info, the whole database could be backed up every 7 days. And any particular benchmark could be restored without effecting the others.
As I said before I have little idea of how hard this would be to program. But I would be willing to offer help from a mathematical standpoint, and later on (ie Junior year, two years from now) I could offer programming help. I'd imagine that in the end, the decision to do this or not depends on reader or possibly scott.
So what does everyone think. And what do you think reader.
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