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Credit
The project's server keeps track of how much work your computer has done; this is called credit. To ensure that credit is granted fairly, most BOINC projects work as follows:
* Each work unit may be sent to several computers.
* When a computer reports a result, it claims a certain amount of credit, based on how much CPU time was used.
* When at least 3 results have been returned, the server compares them. If the results agree, then users are granted the smaller of the claimed credits.
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ow credit is determined
When your computer completes a result, BOINC determines an amount of claimed credit in one of two ways:
* In general, the claimed credit is the result's CPU time multiplied by the CPU benchmarks as measured by the BOINC software. NOTE: the BOINC software is not optimized for specific processors. Its benchmark numbers may be lower than those produced by other programs.
* Some applications determine claimed credit themselves, and report it to BOINC. This would be the case, for example, with applications that use graphics coprocessors or other non-CPU hardware.
Claimed credit is reported to a project when your computer communicates with its server. The granted credit that you receive may be different from the claimed credit, and there may be a delay of a few hours or days before it is granted. This is because some BOINC projects grant credit only after results have been validated.
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