Created devices, which is when a device ID is assigned and shows near the start of the BOINC message log appear

- 1st in the My Grid > Device Manager (use the selection filters to also see older).
- 2nd in the Result Status page when tasks are assigned (identified as In Progress)
- 3rd, start showing in the My Statistics > Device Statistics, when work has validated for that device/host and the 12 hourly statistics update run has completed.

Of course, if you look in the client, there is the member level credit [not points] and the device (host) level credit which is updated with each client/server contact. For those with client version 6.10 [tested by WCG presently], go to project tab (advanced/grid view), select WCG and hit the Properties button in left margin to see more running data (see FAQ's for the detail/screenshot).

[OT!] Sounds semi familiar... think it's in those Famous FAQ's collected in the Start Here forum index, to include one that discusses screwed up run time projections[/OT]

@DrDoLittle 99,

The relevant FAQ on devices have in the same index been enhanced to incorporate some of what I said in my previous post... the order of where devices appear first, next, after.

hasta la pasta (late for lunch now ;>)

skgiven, in a word no, I suffer from the same problem you do, only I try to talk the client into joining the team when I return their box, if they agree, I leave it running, if not I remove it, about 85% agree to continue.

I can't find the post, but have seen that due to the reporting/tracking requirements, merging/deleting hosts is not acceptable

on the device manager page, if you change the 2 pull downs at the top to "All" it will show all your devices, active and inactive, but I don't know of a way to make this the default choice.

What is very confusing is that when we look at member profiles we see a number of devices which do not represent the reality. That number is completely useless from my point of view as it cannot be related to anything. It is the number of all devices that contributed one day to WCG as long as they returned 1 single WU. So what? With projects lasting over years this number makes even less sense.

What is very interesting is to know how many devices are active on a daily basis. This means that we get the count of devices that have sent WU's on a given day. In this way we can relate the Yesterday performance in terms of Points, Returned Results, and Runtime to a number of active devices that contributed on the same day. Than we can build an interesting ratio per device and compare between members. Those numbers will make real sense.
WCG knows exactly for each member which device has returned a result on a given day so this number is straightforward to refresh when stats are done in the member statistics. You could have for devices two choices All-Time and Yesterday like it is already done for Runtime, Points etc...