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Profile Friedrich S.

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Credit: 4,606,346
RAC: 1,409
Message 7500 - Posted: 23 Jan 2005, 16:38:17 UTC

Hello,

I just installed BOINC climatepredition.net (CPDN) and this morning the first trickle was uploaded.
I looked at my account and found the following:

Total Credit: 94.52
Rec. Average Credit: 112.63

With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the same?

Friedrich

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Profile geophi
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Message 7502 - Posted: 23 Jan 2005, 16:57:27 UTC - in response to Message 7500.  

> Hello,
>
> I just installed BOINC climatepredition.net (CPDN) and this morning the first
> trickle was uploaded.
> I looked at my account and found the following:
>
> Total Credit: 94.52
> Rec. Average Credit: 112.63
>
> With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the same?
>
> Friedrich
>
I think the RAC is calculated for a day. So since your trickle duration was less than a day, it adjusted it to what it would have been in a day?
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Profile Andrew Hingston
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Message 7503 - Posted: 23 Jan 2005, 17:52:39 UTC

It's worth adding for the benefit of new users that RAC is not a reliable measure in CPDN anyway, as it often goes haywire after a model is completed. Credit is given on trickles returned, and is recalculated when a model is completed, but errors in RAC are not corrected.
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Profile Friedrich S.

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Message 7505 - Posted: 23 Jan 2005, 18:28:54 UTC - in response to Message 7502.  

> > Total Credit: 94.52
> > Rec. Average Credit: 112.63
> > With only one PC and only one result (trickle), should they not be the
> same?
> >
> I think the RAC is calculated for a day. So since your trickle duration was
> less than a day, it adjusted it to what it would have been in a day?
>
That may be it.
I finally found some information on the RAC and how it is calculated and updated.
I guess I better go by Total Credits rather than RAC.

Thanks for the answers!

Friedrich

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