How to get a million credits?
Message boards : Number crunching : How to get a million credits?
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William Ostie Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 1,125,655 RAC: 0 |
I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 |
 [B^S] thierry@home Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 182 Credit: 281,902 RAC: 0 |
Some guys have a lot of computers ..... |
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dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1829 Credit: 115,264,954 RAC: 47,087 
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and invest a lot of money in the project ;) |
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Michael G.R. Send message Joined: 11 Nov 05 Posts: 264 Credit: 11,247,510 RAC: 0 |
Some users are universities with 100s of computers that are on 24/7 :) |
Gerry Rough Send message Joined: 2 Jan 06 Posts: 111 Credit: 1,389,340 RAC: 0 |
And then there's the heavy hitters that are IT pros who have countless computers at work running boinc with their name on the account. Geez. Sorta makes me sick. But then again, we need the great people like that who bring serious firepower to boinc. Boinc output in teraflops would be far less without the heavy hitters!  (Click for detailed stats) |
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ramprat Send message Joined: 22 Jul 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 11,527 RAC: 0 |
Why is it that my credit granted always is a lot less than claimed? http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_986928_project14 |
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stewjack Send message Joined: 23 Apr 06 Posts: 39 Credit: 95,871 RAC: 0 |
William Ostie said: I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 If I ever joined a team it would be called - The only one or two computers and we always turn them of at night TEAM. 
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Jmarks Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 132 Credit: 98,025 RAC: 0 |
Why is it that my credit granted always is a lot less than claimed? You just joined 7/22/07. It takes at least a month to get equal credits. Jon |
Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5659 Credit: 5,694,012 RAC: 1,911 
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I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 you can always buy credits off ebay and cheat (not a very respectable way to get the credits) |
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Mod.Sense Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Aug 06 Posts: 4018 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Why is it that my credit granted always is a lot less than claimed? That statement is incorrect. The question was asked about credits... not about RAC. Your response more applied to RAC which is an average of the credit over time. A new participant basically has a number zeros back from before the joined thrown in to their recent average credit. I believe ramprat was reviewing their results list and noted that granted credit is consistently less then claimed credit. Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense |
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ramprat Send message Joined: 22 Jul 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 11,527 RAC: 0 |
[quote]Why is it that my credit granted always is a lot less than claimed? That is correct, in the result section it will read for example 44.96 and granted 40.96 and sometimes in the 30s' Also I am trying to get the banner with my results, and I am unable to figure out how. http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_986928_project14 |
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Mod.Sense Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Aug 06 Posts: 4018 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
You can read about the signiture line here Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense |
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stewjack Send message Joined: 23 Apr 06 Posts: 39 Credit: 95,871 RAC: 0 |
William Ostie said: I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 If I ever joined a team it would be called - The only one or two computers and we always turn them OFF at night TEAM. Edit and stats banner added Jack
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bruce boytler Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 68 Credit: 3,565,442 RAC: 0 |
Run a Athlon dual 3800+ an honest 24/7 for nearly two years and you will be close to 400,000 if that helps. Mine has never been turned off. 
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zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 11 Feb 06 Posts: 316 Credit: 6,589,590 RAC: 427 |
I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 Just turn this "fun" into a "bad habit". You'll understand fast enough.... Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA |
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Betting Slip Send message Joined: 26 Sep 05 Posts: 71 Credit: 5,702,246 RAC: 0 |
Run a Athlon dual 3800+ an honest 24/7 for nearly two years and you will be close to 400,000 if that helps. Mine has never been turned off. Why do computers have OFF buttons. I have been wondering that since I started with classic seti in 2001.  
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Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5659 Credit: 5,694,012 RAC: 1,911
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Why do computers have OFF buttons. <-- that is a the best question of all time |
Beezlebub Send message Joined: 18 Oct 05 Posts: 40 Credit: 260,375 RAC: 0 |
I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 You start by spending a LOT of retirement funds to always have the newest, fastest, and hopefully more than 1 computer. (I have 4 at the moment, see sig for 2) e6600 quad @ 2.5ghz 2418 floating point 5227 integer e6750 dual @ 3.71ghz 3598 floating point 7918 integer 
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Beezlebub Send message Joined: 18 Oct 05 Posts: 40 Credit: 260,375 RAC: 0 |
I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 And start early: SETI@home member since 8 Jun 1999 (had downtime for a couple of yrs.) e6600 quad @ 2.5ghz 2418 floating point 5227 integer e6750 dual @ 3.71ghz 3598 floating point 7918 integer
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Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5659 Credit: 5,694,012 RAC: 1,911
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I don't understand how some people reach credits in the millions, when it took me 5 months to reach 18,000 don't forget to set aside some of the retirement funds for the electric company or your private alternative energy source. |
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