OK, but shouldn't it be based on how much work is done and not how fast your
computer is?
Like if you process x G/MFlops you get x credit.
Or does SETI get more work to do for a faster machine?

I guess I'm looking for the formula or method which they calculate the
credit.

On the website it just says it's based on the CPU speed and how much CPU
time it takes to do a work unit.

Maybe I'm under the wrong impression of how it works? Is it just the average
of the results over a certain time and not over a certain amount of WU?

On a side note, some people's is going to be in the billions in no time
because it seems to go up pretty fast.

Devon.

"f/f george" <george@yourplace.com> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:26:47 -0400, "Devon Ferns"
<NOSPAMdfernsNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Does anyone know what the average credit is?  I know, it's obviously the
average of how much work is done for all work units, but, why is it that
something like a P4 3.x GHz gets over 900 average credit and I get say

130

for a P3 1.4GHz?

Shouldn't the work units have about the same amount of work each?

Thanks,
Devon.

Think of it as a speedometer, the faster your machine(s) is the faster
the RAC is. His machine could be a multi processor machine, an HT
machine, he could have multiple machines on the account, etc.
My stats are:
Total credit 21119.09
Recent average credit 1091.79
BUT I have 7 machines all working under the same account to get that
RAC. That is how us "farmers" get such high stats.

Here are my 7 computers:
4366 Seti1  341.52 7226.12 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Pentium Microsoft
Windows 2000 Professional Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.00.2195.00)

4459 mikes  200.18 3569.91 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Pentium Microsoft
Windows 2000 Professional Edition, Service Pack 4, (05.00.2195.00)

4395 Seti6  170.91 3096.29 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Pentium Microsoft
Windows 2000 Professional Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.00.2195.00)

4414 seti8  120.44 2171.45 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Pentium
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, Service Pack 1,
(05.01.2600.00)

4258 Donnie  117.99 2010.95 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.50GHz Pentium
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 1, (05.01.2600.00)

4440 SuesDell  104.85 1636.41 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Pentium
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 1, (05.01.2600.00)

4426 sue-s  80.96 1407.96 GenuineIntel Pentium Microsoft Windows 98
SE, (04.10.2222.00)
The first set of numbers after the name is the RAC, the second set is
the total for that machine.
i.e. Seti1 RAC is 341.52 and total is 7226.12.