The credits section doesnt make sense !
10 Jul 2006 5:15:41 UTC
Topic 191548
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Hello,
I have just started a team on here for members of another project that crunch on here too and want there credit under the same team name, but I've came across something rather weird, the first person to join the team has 98,000 credits and yet on the same page the total team credits reads only 590 plus the RAC is no where near the same either, I ve checked across a couple of different projects and this seems to happen alot !
So whats the point of crunching the credit if your team is not asigned with it ?
The only two projects that I've found so far that get the total's correct are the BBC climate project and the Climateprediction.net project.
I'm a newbie to the BOINC stats world only having been a member of one team on one project so far so I'm sorry if this sort of arithmetic problem happens all the time,
Sorry for posting a question about BOINC really in here but had no idea who to ask about this
The team page is this
Scotland
Just wanted to find out the answer before more people join and wonder why the totals don't match :)
thank you for your time
best regards
Ian
The credits section doesnt make sense !
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Only credit awarded during team membership counts.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: RE: … the first
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The third-party stats pages don’t always correctly handle accounts whose team membership has varied over their history, so some figures have to be taken with a grain of salt. For example, my team had someone with a five-figure total credit join recently. Just a couple of days later, on BOINCstats his account page said he’s earned something like five percent of the team’s total—clearly wrong—but AFAICT the team total is correct, and the graph shows no jump when he joined.
Hi, Thanks for explaining
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Hi,
Thanks for explaining that so I take it that all the BOINC projects apart from the climate ones have this rather weird team credit problem where even if you join a team from being in no team your credits for the new team start from zilch :(
just seems a bit sad that a long standing member of a project can't devote all his past crunching to his desired team :(
What is " AFAICT " ?
I must admit the worst culprit for these weird numbers is Scotland in the world community grid as that team have 4 million credits but BOINC only shows a couple of thousand :(
thanks for your help guys
best regards to you and yours
Ian
RE: What is " AFAICT "
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An abbreviation for As Far As I Can Tell
RE: just seems a bit sad
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This has been established because in the old DC project(s) some people would SHOP teams, so when they left a team, everything went with them, and it really played around with databases in a short amount of time. So, this is the a fair way to push the cobblestones around. It's kind of like starting a new job, they start your stats new for them, but your stats for the year are still in the account for tax purposes, etc.
RE: It's kind of like
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Or like a player from a professional sports league who’s been traded partway through a season: sometimes published stats will distinguish between his records with the current and previous teams, and sometimes not. If not, unless you’re aware of the history, you might think the newspaper (or whatever) messed up the team totals.