Hi all,

First of all I don't know if this is the correct section to post, feel free to move.

I'm currently investigating if it would be possible to simulate RAC based on previous results. I know this won't work for all projects and is dependent on a lot of factors. I don't need it to be an exact estimate. My goal is to give an indication of max RAC based on previous results of a host running 24/7.

I made a little program to calculate the rac based on the results for this host: https://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome//results.php?hostid=23189
I used the code from update_average in lib/util.cpp as a guide but no matter what I try I never end up to the RAC displayed.
I would have thought I at least would be able to calculate the RAC correctly from the results.

When is this function called? I sometimes see that report times are not chronological. What happens in these instances?

Who can help me with this little project?

Thanks in advance,
Jef

As RAC is Recent Average Credit, provided you have records that go back over a a few months, and have done changes to either the computer in question, the applications or the "work habit" then it should be fairly simple to predict future RAC.
Further, if you move from, say, 8 hours per day to 24 hours per day a simple multiply by three will be a very good approximation. However if at the same time you move from running screen savers or other work then it becomes a more difficult problem to solve.

The best description of RAC I know was in the late lamented Unofficial BOINC Wiki. Here's a stab at the Wayback Machine rendering of it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080311233928/http://www.boinc-wiki.info:80/Recent_Average_Credit

Yes, I found that one via another thread. Too bad the Excel file link doesn't work. Anyone has that file or knows where I can find it?

Yes, I found that one via another thread. Too bad the Excel file link doesn't work. Anyone has that file or knows where I can find it?

I used to have it and got it tweaked so that it worked. I don't think it's on an active machine, though. I'll look through my box of cast-off hard disks when I get back from Paris at the weekend.

In the meantime I succeeded in getting it working. If you find it easily it would be welcome but you don't have to search for it too hard.