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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57377)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by Profile Megacruncher
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"To comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, we are required to only keep personal data for as long as it is absolutely necessary."

Nineteen years on it's a bit of a stretch to describe the DPA as a new law.

One of the points of the legislation of to make sure that data processors do not hold onto personal data long after it has ceased serving any purpose.

Deleting accounts after 3 years of inactivity ignores the fact (rather obvious from the posts of others) that the retained data still serves clear purposes.

It lets volunteers resume their efforts after a break without having to start again at the beginning. And it means that even if you move onto other projects and never return that the credits you've amassed for CPDN remain a permanent part of your Boinc tally. This is how Boinc works!

The DPA is supposed to protect the interests of data subjects (that's us). There is nothing in it which requires or justifies trashing data that the vast majority of would prefer you retain and which allows us to keep our Boinc history complete.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57258)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Megacruncher
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Hurrah!
Many thanks for fixing the credits.
Hopefully they will not break again but if the ever do please try & stay apologetic despite the irritating irritation of your loyal crunchers. Best not to imply that the privilege of being allowed to assist with the science is reward enough and that we shouldn't worry ourselves about the credit. I'll be back. Others might not.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57246)
Posted 28 Oct 2017 by Profile Megacruncher
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The credits aren't so much about fun but are a source of acknowledgment of our freely given efforts, which is why we don't like them arbitrarily evaporating.

I've been running most BOINC projects since the kick-off. I have over 139 Billion credits so the 6 million CPDN credits I have are arithmetically neither here nor there. Except they are/were my credits for this project so I am seriously pissed off by the fact that since returning to a project, which I long ago accepted was a modest payer, to find that not only have I got no credit for my new work but my 6 million has been revised back to less than 4 milliom.

I'd be a little less critical if any of the 86 other projects I'd crunched had had similar problems. But they haven't.

It is about the science but given the choice of doing science with or without disdain most people will go for without.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57205)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Megacruncher
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It's something of what I think Millennials are accustomed to refer to as a FUBAR!
Anyhow I'll finish up my CPDN work & if the credits aren't sorted out I'll be off never to return. Which after 13 years would be a damned shame. Your call.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57184)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Megacruncher
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Hi,
I recently returned to CPDN after a long break.
I've completed a few WU over the last couple of weeks but got no credit for them.
What gives?
You are a project of great maturity & modest size. Bigger projects and newer ones seem to manage real time credit updates and exports as a matter of course. Tell us what the problem is, lest we grow weary and take our efforts elsewhere.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : credit gone wrong (massively) (!) (Message 49936)
Posted 1 Sep 2014 by Profile Megacruncher
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Over a trillion credits for me! Credit hyperinflation in the style of Bitcoin Utopia!

As my Certificate of Computation puts it:


This certifies that
Megacruncher TSBT

has participated in climateprediction.net since 4 September 2004, and has contributed 1,122,398,438,879 Cobblestones of computation (969.75 sextillion floating-point operations) to climateprediction.net.



7) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49801)
Posted 20 Aug 2014 by Profile Megacruncher
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Definitely an over-correction.
I went from 5 Million to 2.5 Billion today!
Not that I'm complaining!
8) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : The Scottish Boinc Team Wants You! (Message 36192)
Posted 22 Feb 2009 by Profile Megacruncher
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The Scottish Boinc Team now have the highest RAC of any UK team - 50K & rising: Don\'t let our modest 14.5 million Total Credit, or our lowly UK 5th by TC, fool you, we mean business!

So we call on everyone & anyone to jump on our bandwagon, as our blurb has it:

\"We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you\'re Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you\'ve no link at all with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome.\"
9) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team Recruiting Thread II (Message 27921)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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We are the biggest, oldest -established in 1999 as Scotland\'s Seti - and, we\'d like to think, best Scottish Boinc team around. [Accept no imitations!] We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you\'re Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you\'ve no link whatsoever with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome.

AND
We\'re the only team with a Highland Coo as a mascot.
We\'re top 50 for CPDN and want to improve on that.
We are versatile: Top 100 for 32 other Boinc projects (and top 150 for our 3 hindmost ones). All eggs in one basket? Not us!
We\'ve got an excellent forum.

So. What are you waiting for? Join us now or at least visit us.
10) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team Recruiting Thread - CLOSED (Message 27470)
Posted 23 Mar 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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The blurb says
\"We are the biggest, oldest -established in 1999 as Scotland\'s Seti - and, we\'d like to think, best Scottish Boinc team around. [Accept no imitations!] We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you\'re Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you\'ve no link whatsoever with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome.\"

AND
We\'re the only team with a Highland Coo as a mascot.
We\'re top 40 for CPDN and want to improve on that.
We\'ve got an excellent forum.

So. What are you waiting for?
11) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26408)
Posted 28 Jan 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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Microsoft has helped keep us afloat with a fellowship to keep me on the project for two years (well another 1.5 years by now). So remember that the next time you hear someone cursing about the \"blue screen of death\" or \"evil\" Bill Gates! :-)


Not at all. I\'ve always regarded Mr Gates and his company as heroes - indeed architects of the 21st century no less. Without some degree of standardisation, which, almost by definition is going to be flawed and mediocre, but nevertheless essential, the internet couldn\'t work, or at least wouldn\'t have taken off, and I wouldn\'t be talking to you.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26407)
Posted 28 Jan 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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I\'m getting a little tired of \"techies\" being scathing about the staying power of BBC newbies, of whom I\'m one



Just to second MM\'s post. I\'m also a \"newbie\". Chrissy


If you\'ve got this far you can\'t be fairly described as a Newbie. You might even be veering dangerously close to techie-hood!

My point about newbies was that, BBC with it\'s implicit \"no one else has has ever done anything like this before\" stance and keeping everyone in the dark about the tradition that went before, hasn\'t exactly made it easy for people to keep going.

The vast majority haven\'t kept going & won\'t survive to become seasoned Boincers: but for those that have, welcome to the club.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26389)
Posted 27 Jan 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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Hi Mega

If there was ever \'a big wodge of our licence fee\' paid to Oxford, I have certainly never been told about it.....and I think the idea may be causing a few hollow laughs there, not least in the room where Carl looks after the servers......


Thanks for the reply to my post: Although the fact you deleted it might make others confused! However, I accept that the extended sexual exploitation and abandonment metaphor may have not been everyone\'s idea of an appropriate post in a general access forum, and I apologise if it went too far.

Anyhow, my intention was not to accuse you of feathering your nests (I\'m sure some dosh was involved but I can see that the trickle down effect, as always in the public sector, might be non-existent) but to express my sympathy at being your left high & dry as the BBC have bailed out.


So the collaboration with the BBC fitted the research team\'s ethos and aims. Drs David Anderson and Eric Korpela certainly seem to think that the way to expand DC beyond the realm of computer hobbyists and into the general public is by getting media publicity.


Yep it was general media publicity that got Seti Classic 5 million users. I think it would have been better if the BBC had publicised CPDN and Boinc in general rather than insisting on a short-term stand alone BBC branded project. I just hope that a fair number of the Newbies keep on going. Having been kept ignorant of matters Boinc until the last minute I\'m not sure they will. The telly programme was a bit generic and didn\'t mention your previous and continuing work or even refer to Boinc or Distributed Computing as the important movement it could be.


Thinking about cpdn communication with the stats sites on a longer-term basis, not all of the cpdn mods are great experts. I know next to nothing. Are there sites/places/forums we should be looking at from time to time to pick up on or report problems?


It looks like Willy of Boincstats will come to you and keep you right! Also the Boincstats shoutbox had lots to say about your efforts and would be worth observing if ever you try anything as adventurous again.

As a final comment I will say that well motivated though your efforts were, and splendid though it would be to to have my CPDN, BBC and SAP credit conflated, the current position is probably as good as we can easily get.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26305)
Posted 23 Jan 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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The next export should only have CPDN + Classic + Spinup in it, this one I will use again.

Anybody knows how much credit there is in Classic + Spinup?


There was an earlier export on the 22nd which had the BBC figures added in. As far as I can tell the one at the time of the daily update WAS just CPDN + Classic + Spinup. The stats surged a bit (about 4% for TSBT) but not by the huge amount they did when BBC credit was being double counted.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26293)
Posted 23 Jan 2007 by Profile Megacruncher
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I just spotted this in the Boincstats shoutbox:

\"[BOINCstats] Willy: We are restoring yesterdays stats and will rerun the daily update with CPDN XML files from yesterday, to prevent the stats mess up. We will keep using these old files until credit on CPDN is restored to normal.
2007-01-22 21:01:04\"

If I understand this right -and hopefully I don\'t- it means that CPDN stats will not be updated by BOINCStats until the CPDN Classic credit is removed. Yikes!




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