Yesterday hundreds of users returned complete models without having sent any trickles before: Climate Prediction World stats

How is that possible? I thought a model times-out if there is no answer from the client for a certain time-frame? How is it possible, that all these hundreds of users return their completed models all on the same day? This smells a lot like cheating.

e.g. this user reported 62,573 credits on one day: Detailed statistics for \"Ian\". He has 4 hosts and ALL of them are inactive!
The same applies to this user with 2 (Inactive) clients: Detailed statistics for \"tarboi\"
The most extreme: This user reported 758,587 credits with 1(!) inactive client: Detailed statistics for \"Willbur\".
Another one is not far behind: Detailed statistics for \"Fritz313\" reported 724,617 credits with 2 inactive clients.

What is going on?

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Hi,
Credit for CPDN Classic and CPDN beta has been added in the CPDN stats.
Nobody is cheating and the answer to your question is already in the links you provided (the Boincstats shoutbox)

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Arnaud

Hi,
Credit for CPDN Classic and CPDN beta has been added in the CPDN stats.
Nobody is cheating and the answer to your question is already in the links you provided (the Boincstats shoutbox)

Thanks for the explanation! Mind that the Shout-Box message was posted at 15:28, 21 minutes after I posted my question.

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If you go in your account page on that site, you\'ll see:

Credit From Other Affiliated climateprediction.net Projects

\'Classic\' HadSM3 Cobblestone Credits xxxxx
HadCM3 Spinup Cobblestone Credits xxxxxxxxx
Beta Testing xxxx
BBC Experiment xxxx

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Arnaud