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| 1) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project
Message 56108 Posted 18 Sep 2014 by yo2013 |
Regarding the Credits issue with BU: There is currently a new design under discussion that should fix the problems that came with the advent of BU. I like that design! I don't agree with users that say that credit doesn't mean anything. If credits were meaningless, why are they implemented in BOINC? Credits are computed and saved because they are useful for many people. With the advent of BU, they have become rather useless for many of these people. I think any new system should be designed so that that usefulness is maintained. I mostly use credits for two purposes: (1) Compare my contribution to that of other users/hosts and also to my previous contributions. Even whithout BU, this has some problems, because different projects grant different amounts of credits for the same time computing (for example, SETI grants less credit than other projects on my computer for the same time). Yeah, science is more important than credits, but most people (and I) like competition. Also, credit is useful when I buy new hardware and want to compare it to the old one. (2) Compare different projects globally. I allocate more time/resources to projects with lower total RAC. Those projects need more help, so I contribute more crunching power to them. BU's enormous RAC makes (2) more difficult. For example, the pie charts here are completely useless. |
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