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1st Trickle: Why is Total Credt different from Recent Average?
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 Friedrich S.Send message Joined: 22 Jan 05 Posts: 38 Credit: 3,913,281 RAC: 4,871 |
Hello, I just installed BOINC climatepredition.net (CPDN) and this morning the first trickle was uploaded. I looked at my account and found the following: Total Credit: 94.52 Rec. Average Credit: 112.63 With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the same? Friedrich |
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geophi Send message Joined: 7 Aug 04 Posts: 2169 Credit: 64,553,422 RAC: 6,017 |
> Hello, > > I just installed BOINC climatepredition.net (CPDN) and this morning the first > trickle was uploaded. > I looked at my account and found the following: > > Total Credit: 94.52 > Rec. Average Credit: 112.63 > > With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the same? > > Friedrich > I think the RAC is calculated for a day. So since your trickle duration was less than a day, it adjusted it to what it would have been in a day? |
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Andrew Hingston Send message Joined: 17 Aug 04 Posts: 753 Credit: 9,804,700 RAC: 0 |
It's worth adding for the benefit of new users that RAC is not a reliable measure in CPDN anyway, as it often goes haywire after a model is completed. Credit is given on trickles returned, and is recalculated when a model is completed, but errors in RAC are not corrected. |
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Friedrich S. Send message Joined: 22 Jan 05 Posts: 38 Credit: 3,913,281 RAC: 4,871 |
> > Total Credit: 94.52 > > Rec. Average Credit: 112.63 > > With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the > same? > > > I think the RAC is calculated for a day. So since your trickle duration was > less than a day, it adjusted it to what it would have been in a day? > That may be it. I finally found some information on the RAC and how it is calculated and updated. I guess I better go by Total Credits rather than RAC. Thanks for the answers! Friedrich |
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