On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:54:09 +1200, "Charlie Fox"
<cpjANTISPAMfox@slingshotANTISPAM.co.nzREMOVEANTISPAMTOREPLY> wrote:

Any one know when the next round of credit is getting handed out? im a
little fustrated as i've carried across 750 odd wu from Classic and have
crunched a few these past weeks, and also the Credit pending function is
unavailable :o(

I want to know if im winning or not... LOL :o)

Okay I wil lstart but I am sure you will other replies too.
First what you did in Classic is not applicable to Boinc Seti.
The credits are figured differently and therefore while you heroicly
did you crunching it is one for the record books and will not be
carried over. There PROBABLY will be a stat line on your account page
regarding your stats but.....
Second...stats in Boinc Seti are credited differently too, 3 people
MUST each return the same unit with the approximate same requesting
for credit score before ANYONE gets any credit. If the request for
credit score from machine #1 is say 25, and machine #2 is say 28 and
machine #3 is 45 that is NOT close enough and the unit will be sent
out at least one more time and you will have to wait for machine #4 to
return a number close to #1 and #2. The middle number of the 3 scores
will be given to each person returning the unit. So if machine #4
comes back with a 26 then everyone will be give a 26.
In Classic you did one unit you got one credit, that created the
possiblity of cheating because there was no way to know which machine
got which unit. Meaning that you could crunch a unit to say 90%, stop
crunching, save the data, and then copy that data to a few thousand or
more other machines, and all they have to crunch is the final 10%, and
they ALL get credit for doing one work unit!
As for the credit pending function not working the reason seems to be
that people just didn't seem to understand that when you crunch a unit
it takes TIME to get credit for it! I could return a thousand units
today, but if those other 2 people that also have to crunch the same
units as I do, and NO it is not EXACTLY that way. The units are
randomly distributed so I could return a thousand units and actually
be waiting for 2 thousand other people to return the same ones.
Anyway...people were getting antsy looking at all that pending credit
so Berkeley turned the page off. I am SURE there was a more technical
reason but that is the reason I believe they did it. As the project
progresses it should be turned back on, maybe with a bit more
explanation included with it.