why is it on 12/5/06 the users were less than 100,000 and the t flops over 38 and now the users are well over 107,000 and the t flops rated at less than 37?????????/

My guess is outside factors. The t-flops go up when other projects are out of work and back down when those projects get going again. It also seems like people get excited whenever there is some kind of media coverage for the project or BOINC in general. All kinds of things make it go up and down.

"But there are more users than there were then!" True, but they might be less active than they were at other times. People might be giving bigger resource shares to other projects or turning their machines on for shorter times, etc.

Users don't crunch Rosetta, "hosts" do. So you need to study the number of hosts. And not just the total, but the number of "ACTIVE" hosts. See the second chart shown here. As you can see, it varies over time.

And even with this, there is no telling whether these hosts did the same work in the last 60 days that they did prior, and no telling if they crunched a single task 45 days ago, and nothing since.

So you really don't have enough information to assess what exactly is occuring. But the bottom line is that there are many casual users with BOINC. They crunch a project for a little while and then later move to another. There are also teams that all move to a given project for a month, and then the following month they move again.

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Users don't crunch Rosetta, "hosts" do. So you need to study the number of hosts. And not just the total, but the number of "ACTIVE" hosts. See the second chart shown here. As you can see, it varies over time.

And even with this, there is no telling whether these hosts did the same work in the last 60 days that they did prior, and no telling if they crunched a single task 45 days ago, and nothing since.

So you really don't have enough information to assess what exactly is occuring. But the bottom line is that there are many casual users with BOINC. They crunch a project for a little while and then later move to another. There are also teams that all move to a given project for a month, and then the following month they move again.

i see,,,,,,,,,,, thanks

Users don't crunch Rosetta, "hosts" do. So you need to study the number of hosts. And not just the total, but the number of "ACTIVE" hosts. See the second chart shown here. As you can see, it varies over time.

And even with this, there is no telling whether these hosts did the same work in the last 60 days that they did prior, and no telling if they crunched a single task 45 days ago, and nothing since.

So you really don't have enough information to assess what exactly is occuring. But the bottom line is that there are many casual users with BOINC. They crunch a project for a little while and then later move to another. There are also teams that all move to a given project for a month, and then the following month they move again.

i see,,,,,,,,,,, thanks

there are only 39,520 people or computers that crunch rosetta not 107,825 ..107,825 is just the number hooked up to the project,,,,,,but not active with the project?

Any method of counting individual computers is tough. Many machines crunch other projects, are turned off every night, are owned by someone who plays world of warcraft 12 hours a day, etc.

What I find useful is to take the number of credits returned in the past 24 hours (3,822,789 as of the time I write this) and divide it by how much work a computer left on 24/7 only crunching R@H would return. I don't know the exact number but I'm guessing around 200 credits/day when you average older machines with the newest.

By that metric there are 19,114 'computers' running R@H all out 24/7. . .quite a number!

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Any method of counting individual computers is tough. Many machines crunch other projects, are turned off every night, are owned by someone who plays world of warcraft 12 hours a day, etc.

What I find useful is to take the number of credits returned in the past 24 hours (3,822,789 as of the time I write this) and divide it by how much work a computer left on 24/7 only crunching R@H would return. I don't know the exact number but I'm guessing around 200 credits/day when you average older machines with the newest.

By that metric there are 19,114 'computers' running R@H all out 24/7. . .quite a number!

yes it is .......a big thanks to all of them!!!

Looks like our teraflops just got to the magic number of 60 again. Looks like it might be the active users who are up pretty good lately according to boincstats. The hosts are up big today as well. :D

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Looks like our teraflops just got to the magic number of 60 again. Looks like it might be the active users who are up pretty good lately according to boincstats. The hosts are up big today as well. :D

GO ROSETTA!!!!!!!