As I begin to draft this post, our WCG stats indicates that we have 516,653 devices crunching for us, but I know that that is not accurate. For instance, due to replacing computers, and reinstallations after replacing or reformating drives, the WCG now indicates that I have 8 devices, when in fact I have only two, and have never had more than two working computers at any given time. That's quite an inflation of statistics, at least in my case. I also can look at our team stats and see that there are members who, in over a year's time, have NEVER turned in a single result -- NOT ONE -- and there are many more that did some work for awhile but, though still indicated as a member of our HomeBrewers team, have not turned in work in many months (they haven't switched teams, because it would indicate that they had quit our team, so they obviously are no longer crunching for WCG). In fact, close to half of our team's 64 so-called 'current' members fit into that category, and some of them had multiple devices registered, too. So it's anyone's guess how many devices that WCG can legitimately claim are currently crunching for us. Any device that is on only occasionally and is therefore turning in results very slowly, such as taking two months to complete a work unit, isn't doing us any good either, and should not be counted as an active device. Isn't there someway to keep a running count, that might sometimes decrease, of how many devices have returned a result in the preceeding 30 days. I think you would then have a very accurate stat.

I guess on the one hand it is impressive to say that we have 516,653 devices crunching for us, but on the other hand an accurate figure of maybe 300,000 will better demonstrate how much more work we could accomplish if we were to be able to tap into the remaining computers that are not being utilized.

Cheers.

Bill Velek