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mohrorless · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: BOINC standings question...

I had an average day today for shrubbing. Got 818 in credit. Absolutely average, right there with my RAC.

HOW DID I FALL 20 IN THE BOINC STANDINGS?

I looked at the standings on Boincstats, and I noticed that anyone that had less then 900 in credit for the day fell (A LOT) those with more than 900 climbed in the standings.

I noticed that Climate Prediction seemed to be the related cause for it all too. Then I looked at the Climate prediction page of the BoincStats site. BoincStats is reporting that Climate Prediction received 100 million in credit today, when it looks like they had averaged around 50 million for the last 60 days. Shocked

I think that something might be amiss with the climate prediction data.
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jonnyv · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject:

I can't remember where I saw it now, but CPDN figured out a way to combine the credit for their various projects into the main project. So those users are getting a boost when that happens.

Found it: BIG credit changes at CPDN, again!
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mohrorless · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

They've always done that. They do trickle updates because the WUs take a LONG time to finish (80+ days on my Core2 6400's). So, every day they send a small update with the information you've gleaned thus far and you get credit for that.

Those WUs are "in progress" because my client didn't properly tell CPDN to go <bleep> itself when I dropped the project. The timers are wrong, and that's probably because of them combining projects, but if you go to the details of that WU here you will see all of the trickles that I sent back for that WU. All told, it's more than a million seconds of CPU time, or roughly 14 days. 6700 credits / 14 days is only 400 credits/day.
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mohrorless · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

Ok, so that is not it then. Please explain that unsual skew on the right side of the charts on this page:
http://www.boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=cpdn
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A Shrubbery · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

Credit adjustment. They've done it before when they decided that BBC wasn't giving enough credits. I had 8000 that day when I can only top 2000 when all the planets align.

I didn't read the entire article but they were expecting huge numbers of credits.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Yeah, that's probably from the combining of projects. They put CPDN classic, CPDN, and BBC all together. It'll probably take a few days for it to normalize again.

If you look at my credit history for CPDN there's a huge spike while I wasn't even running CPDN (and I mean huge, like 40k credits) that vanished the next day. No clue what they were doing lol.
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