Average credit
16 Jul 2005 17:01:42 UTC
Topic 189553
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I am finding that my average credit is quite erratic. Does this mean that my computer has errors happening. I have gone from an average of 103.86 on Jul5 to 80.22 on July 16. Is my computer not contributing?
Average credit
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Your average credit is based on granted credit. You may find when your RAC is low, your pending credit list is going up. When it gets credited, your RAC will go up again.
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Read on the behaviours of RAC
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Read on the behaviours of RAC here in the Boinc Wiki.
RE: Read on the behaviours
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Well I'm afraid I am not any further ahead in understanding at all. There is too much inside language that leaves me out in the cold. In otherwords, "eh????"
I have just added a second slower computer dedicated to SETI and Einstien and updated to the newer version of BOINC on the original machine too. So I can now see the statistics graph. It has been runing for 7 days, as I see -7 days. On -1, which I assume is the last 24 hours, the graph dipped from 100 down to 80. That's a big dip for an *average*.
Therefore the question is, are my computers not contributing or not calculating correctly. Should I still stay in the game, or drop out?
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RE: Therefore the question
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Take a look at your results. Your machines are not having any issues, and are being granted credit.
RE: It has been runing for
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Looking at the results that computer has done since the 1st of July, all of your granted credits were below 100. So how do you expect an average to be above 100 then?
I can't see there what you did before the 1st of July, so I can't see what changed. All I know is that RAC is computed by taking the Granted Credit (not the Claimed Credit) and reducing it by half every week before adding the current Total Credit. So as long as you don't return over 100 credits per unit, you cannot claim an average credit that is over 100!
RE: RE: It has been
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Because ....
........my other machine was as high as 120.56 and has been going down steadily since, but not like yesterday, which was from from 100 to 80. I still don't understand any of the answers. Why is it going down so much? Is the new machine dragging it down, perhaps? -OR- original question, are my computers returning flawed results?
I can't check if your
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I can't check if your computer is returning flawed results, since all the results it's been returning that are shown, claim and are granted around the same amount.
May the addition of the extra computer have brought it down? Not for that one computer, only for your total RAC. But there's a hiat there, since it's not that you add the two RACs together and divide them that gives total RAC. It's more complicated. Even I can't explain that.
So here's my question, are you asking about total RAC or about the RAC for one computer?
If the latter, and that computer is this one, then you'll see that your RAC there is below 80 already. And that's got all to do with the division by two each week of your prior RAC, then adding the average credit you gained that week to that amount. It also adds the weeks you didn't crunch a unit, it also adds the units granted 0.01 or even lower.
RE: RE: Read on the
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You stated there is too much "inside language" that you did not understand. Would you mind explaining more about this. Exactly where is the inside language that you didn't understand? etc.
Jim
Jim
RE: -OR- original question,
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I already answered that your machines are being granted credit. (at least for the results still in the database) If you are being granted credit, the results are validating, and therefore your results are not flawed.