LHC@home

First, let me say I am not trying to get the WU/CPU value changed.

I'm wondering why different computers have different values for WU/CPU. Going down my list of computers, some are 2/CPU, some are 3/CPU and some are listed as 4/CPU.

It does not appear that the value changes based on how many CPUs the computer has.

I thought that every system was assigned the same number of WU/CPU.

First, let me say I am not trying to get the WU/CPU value changed.

I'm wondering why different computers have different values for WU/CPU. Going down my list of computers, some are 2/CPU, some are 3/CPU and some are listed as 4/CPU.

It does not appear that the value changes based on how many CPUs the computer has.

I thought that every system was assigned the same number of WU/CPU.

When we set the value of the quota to 2 (because most people had a value higher than this) it reset every cpu/core's quota down to 2. However when we changed this to 4 then each cpu/core has to work its way back up to 4 by returning work successfully. As each workunit is returned by a CPU it increases the quota until the maximum is reached (4 in our case when it used to be 500). So in the case where someone had been screwing up workunits and their quota was 1 WU even they would have had to work their way up to 2 when we set the quota at that level. That make sense?

Oh there is also a maximum of 4 cores/cpu so the most any one user can download in a day is 16 which will explain why some of your machines are still at 2 as they have not gotten any results to return and so increase their quota.

Makes sense - thanks!