Regarding our drop in production, I wonder if a lot of folders might not be turning off their computers.
Here's something that's affected my statistics. For some reason, FAH opts to send my not-so-powerful home PC 400-frame workunits. The first one took nearly two weeks--but it finally gave me a burst of 239 pts. [I did turn it off a few times and also lost a night's work when my PC froze for reasons unknown to me.] Now FAH has sent me a new 400-framer, which will cause my PC-processor to have no points for about 10 days. So, it seems like I'm not producing.
On the other hand, FAH sends my G4 laptop 100-frame WU's that are only worth between 50 and 100 pts. that finish faster. I'd have thought my laptop would get the high-pt. value WUs and my PC would get the smaller pt. value. Whatever.
For example go to:
Review the second graph. Similar for some others.
I believe they send the wu's they need to have done sooner-to the machines that a history of consistent completion.
My lappy #1 has been folding 3 times faster than any of my other 7 machines I have on, yet I have rec'd a 41, 46, 41, 41 in the last 4 draws.
I'm hopin' for another 600 pointer...but I understand that that the research is what guides them.
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Here at work, there's one 741 pointer that will take six days, a 241 pointer that is taking 4 days, a 270 pointer that is taking 4 days, and a 55 pointer that is taking a day.
So over time, it's working out to be 50 points or so a day per machine (4 of them.) They won't all show up at the same time, but that's 200 points of my production a day.
The other three machines, a laptop, and a couple desktops, crunch when idle - the two desktops pop out about a hundred points a day, and the laptop can do about the same. So my average should show up at about 500 points a day in a week or so.