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I participated in WCG using the UD client, but later switched to BOINC.
When participating using the UD client, I got Points and Computer Time credited in the UD client as well as on the website. However, when I began participating using BOINC, all got lost, and everything got reset, as if I had registered as a new member. The only thing that didn't changed was the 'Registered Since 10/29/2006' item. Can someone please shed some light on this? |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Hi,
----------------------------------------Please see the Help section for explanation on several subjects relating to points: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=points A few Extracts (Valid as at 5/18/07): Points on agent and web are different World Community Grid is running two types of agents. The UD (Windows) agent and the BOINC (Windows/Linux/Mac) agents. The points displayed in each agent only include the points earned by that type of agent. The website will display the total points earned by both types of agents. How are points calculated for the BOINC agent? BOINC points are calculated in a two-step process. First, the points (also called credit) claimed by a host are determined. BOINC points are calculated based on a benchmark that is run periodically by the BOINC client. This benchmark is then run through a calculation that determines how much credit per second of run time that device should earn. More information about that formula is available at the following sites: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/credit.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC_Credit_System#Cobblestones Second, once validation has been completed, BOINC gives the same credit for a result to every device that worked on the same work unit. BOINC calculates how much credit this should be by taking the claimed credit for each result that was determined to be valid, eliminating the low and high values and then averaging the rest. This process eliminates the ability for malicious users to artificially claim higher points for their work. Why does my BOINC agent show different points than the web site? The BOINC agent and the UD agent compute points differently. In particular, BOINC points are much lower than UD points. As a result, World Community Grid multiplies the points granted to a user for a result by 7 when the statistics are imported into World Community Grid's web site. The BOINC client is not aware of this multiplication, and it thus reports the points that were granted by BOINC. Essential is, that you kept the same member name when u registered the BOINC agent and all will come together on the "My Grid" statistics page. Sekerob
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