the idiot wrote:

what do our credits actually mean / signify?
i got my first ones through this morning and now i am up to
158 with an average of 21.79...

Other's on the group have answered this better than I'm going to summarise (:-))


The credits are in units of "cobblestones" which are a rough measure of how much work your computer has done. Boinc WUs can be of variable size and variable computational workload and so the cobblestones are a more fair measure that takes account of a particular WU's complexity.

You get credits awarded some time after you return a WU only when that WU has been verified correct. This can take some time if the s@h database is lagging behind, or if someone else with your WU is slow to return their confirming result.

If you've generated corrupt rubbish, then you get no credit. (Worse, you delay the credits for others with that WU.)


Be patient. Berkeley have all the data. However, their priorities are such that the credits get updated whenever there is any 'spare resource' to do so.

Other Boinc projects will likely update their credits more quickly for their returned WUs. Just because of their different requirements.

Happy crunchin',
Martin