Credit / hour : not fair !
Anonymous
19 Aug 2006 9:46:09 UTC
Topic 13418
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If Bruce reads this thread, I would be VERY interested in his opinion since he has to deal with all these elements.
My intention is a simple one: ON THE AVERAGE a host machine running Einstein@Home should get the same number of credits/cpu-hour as a host machine running the other BOINC projects that grant credit.
Here ON THE AVERAGE means averaged across all the hosts that are attached to multiple projects, and averaged across all the projects (suitably weighed by the number of cross-project hosts).
Rationale: this way, people will chose projects based on their scientific and other merits, and likelihood of success and impact, NOT for other reasons such as credit granted.
Corollary: assuming that other BOINC projects do the same, this will tend to make hosts move to the projects that they are best suited for.
Cheers,
Bruce