The BOINC Statistics display for host average.

By which.I assume the graphical display in BOINC Manager.

Many years ago, as an undergraduate at one of the major physics labs in the UK, I was taught two lessons which have stayed with me for over fifty years (the actual physics, sadly, has not).

Lesson 1: Do every calculation twice. Once, using the best technology and the highest precision available (at the time, that was a sliderule). And again, with a pencil on the back of an envelope, to 'order of magnitude' - nearest power of 10 - precision only. That checks that you put the decimal point at the right place in the first answer.

Lesson 2: A number is meaningless unless you state the units it's measured in.

In this case, your numbers are 7000, 2000, 4500. Those are measured in "BOINC credits". They should be equivalent to "cobblestones", which is a defined number in terms of the number of calculations performed in reaching the scientific answer. Many of us wish that this was still the case, so that we can do the sort of comparisons that you are attempting.

But unfortunately, and disappointingly, the direct link between 'work done' and 'credits awarded' was broken over 10 years ago. Each project is free to choose its own credit reward rate, and as you have found, they don't all keep that consistent, even between the different task types within their own project.

As things stand at the moment, you have two options. Either take a deep breath, relax, and stop worrying about it. Or take it up with the research/administration team at Milkyway@Home: they are in control of their own credit rewards, and have the power to change it. But it may be low on their list of priorities.

Posting because noone else has posted here for the last 2 days.

I have submitted an email to TACC regarding BOINC@TACC. So far I have received two responses. One was automated and one said that my email concern had been forwarded to the correct people for action.

Bill F

jeeze 100A wow. just think for a second. your bathroom heater, 10A maybe? think it will start a fire? maybe you better only deliver 1A to the house. Yes put a 1A trip on the transformer that serves half a dozen houses. Then its Peter safe.

Have I ever shared the analogy I use to teach novice users the difference between downloading and installing software?

It's like coming home from holiday.
First, the taxi driver dumps your suitcase on the garden path. (that's downloading)
Then, you unpack and distribute. The souvenirs go on the mantelpiece, the guide books on the bookshelf, the half-eaten British Rail sandwich in the bin, the dirty laundry into the washing machine, and the empty suitcase into the closet under the stairs. (that's installing)

From: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-community/blob/master/contributors_calls/2022-06-02-minutes.md

Client Release Update

Vitalii stated that v7.20.x was nearly ready for Alpha testing. The big change is with respect to Windows and the new security libraries. The internal documentation was restructured. Another change is the use/support for C++19. There will also be a new release for OSX. The clients will no longer rely on the certificate bundles and instead use the system certificates.

Richard asked if it is still necessary for David to be in the loop for building and releasing the client. Vitalli "yes and no". Vitalii has some of the credentials.

Richard mentioned that the release notes have/had been prematurely published on the Web server which created confusion in the community.

General discussion the state of the BOINC project/community

They originally said toward the latter part of April, but I don't remember the date. It could change in any case.

Yes but there was an update I can no longer find, all the transition is done, final testing "can start" as of a week ago.

If you use the BOINC Manager 'attach' wizard, it goes through a extra stage: it calls get_project_config.php to fetch the master_url and attaches to that.

If you use boinccmd to attach to the project, you are responsible for verifying that you have the up-to-date address, by following links link the one you've kindly posted.

If you are attached to a project by an Account Manager, you are in the hands of the administrator of that AM, who may or may not be keeping alert to changes and applying them in a timely fashion.

There's an open request to get this mess sorted out (#2642), but no progress.