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Message 2023105 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 14:52:23 UTC

Hi everyone!
I recently restarted Boinc after a couple of years..
Earlier there was a page were You could see your progress and total ranking, with a red or green arrow depending on your contribution?
Is this still available?
Best regards from Roland in Sweden
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Message 2023110 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 15:36:58 UTC

Some of the third-party stats sites provide this sort of feature. As far as I'm aware it has never been part of the "core" of BOINC.
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Message 2023112 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 15:42:21 UTC
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Sounds like you’re talking about BOINCstats.

https://www.boincstats.com/
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Message 2023119 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 16:53:32 UTC - in response to Message 2023105.  
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Look at your account page, midway you will see a list of 4 links. I prefer Free-DC. It will show your average RAC. You can move around that site and see how you compare to others.
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Message 2023121 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 17:06:56 UTC - in response to Message 2023119.  

I agree. I like FreeDC a lot better.
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Message 2023160 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 22:40:27 UTC
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I like boincstat's graphs better, where I can clearly see the trends over weeks. I didn't find similar graphs in FreeDC, but I probably didn't dig enough.

What I don't get is why everyone has their own idea of RAC, which seems to be simply a larger moving average window. Is it just for stabilizing RAC so ranking is more stable? I like BOINC's because it lets me quickly see the difference new hardware or workload change makes.
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Message 2023164 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 23:03:44 UTC - in response to Message 2023160.  
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I like BOINC's because it lets me quickly see the difference new hardware or workload change makes.
BOINC's RAC is of no use for checking major changes as it takes 6-8 weeks for it to get to it's new "normal" range.
The best method for quickly seeing the effect of changes is the WU runtime of WUs of the same type. The next best is the APR (Average Processing Rate) for a given application on that computer, once again for WU s of the same type.
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Message 2023169 - Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 23:51:21 UTC - in response to Message 2023164.  

I like BOINC's because it lets me quickly see the difference new hardware or workload change makes.
BOINC's RAC is of no use for checking major changes as it takes 6-8 weeks for it to get to it's new "normal" range.
The best method for quickly seeing the effect of changes is the WU runtime of WUs of the same type. The next best is the APR (Average Processing Rate) for a given application on that computer, once again for WU s of the same type.

I think our definition of "quick" and "change" is quite different. :-) I am a fairly casual cruncher. I am not talking about optimization of a specific application to squeeze out last bit of performance on same hardware. That needs controlled benchmarking, not credits. For me, the recent credits is more of a way to see how much of adding a new piece hardware changed, or a workload change, or some problems surfaced. A few days is "quick" enough for me and BOINC RAC more or less does the job for sharp changes. Honestly, most of time I am just looking at daily credit increase. That's what brought me here when I suddenly realized SETI's credit doesn't seem to be matching what I used to see. Soon I found a bunch of invalids and then top pinned post about Windows 10 + latest nvidia drivers... :-(

This goes back to my other question: why boincstat and freedc have separate RACs that are trailing BOINC RAC even further behind...
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Message 2023172 - Posted: 15 Dec 2019, 0:09:55 UTC

IMHO a better way to check the performance of the host is by FreeDC dialy production.

Better and faster than RAC. RAC takes a mean of the production in a long term.

I choose a beacon, one of the long term top hosts who runs 24-7 & SETI only. Then i compare what my host does against it.
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Message 2023173 - Posted: 15 Dec 2019, 0:19:20 UTC - in response to Message 2023172.  
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IMHO a better way to check the performance of the host is by FreeDC dialy production.

Better and faster than RAC. RAC takes a mean of the production in a long term.

I choose a beacon, one of the long term top hosts who runs 24-7 & SETI only. Then i compare what my host does against it.


I agree with Juan. With FreeDC I can see what I am doing everyday with combined or by selecting a single computer, I can see how it is doing the same day. So if I change something, I can see within a day how it has affected productivity on that machine.

The only issues is that the status are updated twice a day due to when Seti reports the credits. So I have to wait until the end of the day to see the total

My 2 cents...
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