I am new in starting this project. I'm hoping to use SETI to help with a project I am working on. My question is: is there a way to check the amount of data that a single computer has processed through the my account or through the computer itself?

What data are you looking to quantify?

If you want the total number of workunits processed, you'll have to keep track of that on your own as the project does not keep track of this in their database. Note that not all workunits are created equal, i.e. some are short and some are long in processing times, so the actual number of workunits processed is not a very good indicated of how much data a particular host or account has processed.

This is the reason why credits were invented. Credits currently represent a guesstimated value of floating point operations per second the CPU or GPU spends to complete a workunit. Note that only validated work is credited, invalid work is tossed out.

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What data are you looking to quantify?

If you want the total number of workunits processed, you'll have to keep track of that on your own as the project does not keep track of this in their database. Note that not all workunits are created equal, i.e. some are short and some are long in processing times, so the actual number of workunits processed is not a very good indicated of how much data a particular host or account has processed.

This is the reason why credits were invented. Credits currently represent a guesstimated value of floating point operations per second the CPU or GPU spends to complete a workunit. Note that only validated work is credited, invalid work is tossed out.

Actually, Credits are not Floating Point Operations per Second, they are related to Floating Point Operations. It does not matter if you have a slow computer or a fast computer, a task sent to both will generate the same amount of credit (the fast computer will just do more tasks). Different tasks require more or fewer FLOPs and therefore generate proportionally more of fewer credits.

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BOINC WIKI

Alright, I guess what I'm looking for is, is there a way to view the amount of data "crunched" by the processor in the form of gigabytes or another form of measurement? ie. Can I view the amount of data that has passed through a single computer?

Nothing that the project keeps track for you. You'd have to keep track of that yourself, though I'm not sure how useful the data would be if, for example, I have had less "gigabytes" of data go through my computer than yours but I still did more work.

The only thing the project keeps track of for you are credits.

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Nothing that the project keeps track for you. You'd have to keep track of that yourself, though I'm not sure how useful the data would be if, for example, I have had less "gigabytes" of data go through my computer than yours but I still did more work.

The only thing the project keeps track of for you are credits.

There is a relationship between Credits and Floating Point OPerations.

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BOINC WIKI

Nothing that the project keeps track for you. You'd have to keep track of that yourself, though I'm not sure how useful the data would be if, for example, I have had less "gigabytes" of data go through my computer than yours but I still did more work.

The only thing the project keeps track of for you are credits.

There is a relationship between Credits and Floating Point OPerations.

Right, but it seems he's looking for gigabytes or total workunits processed, which can't be derived from Credits or FLOPs.

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