> Well, I don't even look at RAC it is unstable and other than self > comparison it seem pretty hopeless. As far as a historical compare on > RAC even more useless. Agreed :)
> The economic uses of credit awards and using it to guide behavior is > pretty much been abandoned by everybody but the participants ... So, the question is: for what reason BOINC still maintain credits still? This question should be solved before any measures to improve or change credit estimation/reqarding could be done. Do we need credits and if "yes, we need", for what purpose we need them now ? > The problem is that Eric's script will mean that over a 4 year life of a > computer the CS it earns in year four will take more processing time to > obtain. That is the flaw ... as the performance average increases the > award goes down. Yes, it seems so. But again, from "economic" point of view it can stimulate participant to invest in more new and fast hardware if he still wanna stay on ladder's top. Again, it's good for project :) > That means that the earnings of a new person cannot be "fairly" compared > to mine. Unfortunately, it's impossible to compare new participants to old ones "fairly" For example, someone started to participate ten years ago, when just NO ONE had even quads. He spend pretty big money to buy good PC for 24/7 crunching in his favorite project. He participated all these ten years, but just he can't spend more money on PC upgrades from that time. And compare this one to new participant, let say scool boy who decided to install BOINC with the same project on his donated by parents new i7 (that can even cost less than i386 some time ago!). This scool boy will outnumber in credits our old participant in ~few months! Ten years of truly serving and few months between playing WoW ;) What "fair" in that ? I see nothing even near to "fair" here. And actually I see no solution for this dilemma. That's why I think "total" credits even less useful than RAC. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
