Either that, or keep stats for every day, and take the average of the last 30 'good' days (good being the days that the script succeeded in getting the data) and take average of that. This way there's a possibility to take the spikes out. Say: pick 30 days, take the 2 highest spikes and the 2 lowest spiks out, and devide the remainder by 26. Or something.. That's what I did way back when I created a signature only for myself, with the history available under my grid / my statistics history.


Oops, that last statement surprised me. Do I understand correctly that for GPU work, all that's available will be elapsed time, not run time? Meaning that if you set the GPU to work only 50% on Boinc, it will still report a run time of 24 hours per day instead of 12?
Then to GFL calculation. Do you know of any instance where 'our' GFLs have been compared to the real GFLs that a particular system is capable of. I suppose that the theoratical GFLs of a particular CPU can be found in some datasheet somewhere, or an application that tests and tells you the GFLs of your system. Of course Boinc has such a test if that's any good. Would be interesting to know if these values are close or way off. Perhaps that could bring us some closer to the multiplication value to settle for.

Just did a test on my desktop that's running WCG 24/7 and not used otherwise.
Boinc says it's running at 1052 points credits per day average, 10,52 GFlops.
Installed a LINPACK bases tool that runs a test to determine GFlops, and lo and behold, it tells me after several tests it's doing 10,64 GFlops.
Suspiciously close (?).

edit: points became credits, see post of SekeRob below.

Hi Snurk - you currently know the Total run time, and you also know how many projects have produced badges - so a/b give Runtime/Active Project. Or am I missing something?

Snurk, remember there will always be unsatisfied people. This is your baby and it's working just fine. Don't feel pressured to change anything you are not comfortable with. I'm with Sekerob, I see no reason to change how globes/runtimes/years are calculated.

If, by saying:what you really mean is:

Since you SNURK, have done all the work, including the design, programming and algorithms, such that the total responsibility for the design is totally yours to do with as you wish, AND our only choice is to either say a big THANKS for beauty of your work , or otherwise sit back and complain, criticize, nit-pick and gnaw;

I agree