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Message 2431 - Posted: 29 Jun 2004, 0:31:42 UTC

I fully realise that the integrity of the science requires that results be confirmed by cross checking. However as a lone nerd what matters to me is what MY machines(s) have completed. It makes sense to me to display either pending and granted credit together as a single figure or to show both seperately with a cumulative total. If others think this desirable is it capable of being implemented?
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Message 2454 - Posted: 29 Jun 2004, 2:13:25 UTC - in response to Message 2431.  

> I fully realise that the integrity of the science requires that results
> be confirmed by cross checking. However as a lone nerd what matters
> to me is what MY machines(s) have completed. It makes sense to me
> to display either pending and granted credit together as a single
> figure or to show both seperately with a cumulative total. If others
> think this desirable is it capable of being implemented?
>
It would be nice to see them both on the same page, but I think that a total that goes DOWN sometimes would confuse and anger a few people. I would rather see them next to each other on the team page, the client page, and the host page.

I would also like to be able to sort the result lists by any of the column heads.

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Message 2459 - Posted: 29 Jun 2004, 2:26:17 UTC - in response to Message 2454.  


> It would be nice to see them both on the same page, but I think that a total
> that goes DOWN sometimes would confuse and anger a few people. I would rather
> see them next to each other on the team page, the client page, and the host
> page.

Even if it was only available to the specific user, I think adding "WU's returned sucuessfully" to the stats would mean a lot! (or maybe WU's sent/WU's returned sucessfully/WU's with errors)

That way, a user would have SOMETHING that should always be incrementing, reguardless of is a WU is sitting in a queue and won't be processed for another week, or the validator hasn't been run in some time. The "WU's with error" could flag someone to ask "why am I generating errors?, as I've seen a few posts of folks that are exceeding the "50 WU's/Day" limit due to errors

(replace "WU" with "result" in the above, as it seems BONIC no longer talks "WU's")
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Message 2460 - Posted: 29 Jun 2004, 2:29:27 UTC - in response to Message 2454.  

> > I fully realise that the integrity of the science requires that
> results
> > be confirmed by cross checking. However as a lone nerd what
> matters
> > to me is what MY machines(s) have completed. It makes sense to
> me
> > to display either pending and granted credit together as a single
>
> > figure or to show both seperately with a cumulative total. If
> others
> > think this desirable is it capable of being implemented?
> >
> It would be nice to see them both on the same page, but I think that a total
> that goes DOWN sometimes would confuse and anger a few people. I would rather
> see them next to each other on the team page, the client page, and the host
> page.
>
> I would also like to be able to sort the result lists by any of the column
> heads.
> <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&userid=9915">
>
>I fully agree. I use the pending results to compare what each one of my three computers is doing. By just looking at the results page gives you a false impression if you have more than one unit processing W/U's. They are repetative and it takes forever to see whats actually being accounted for. I have a very slow Celeron that has more credit than my Faster AMD Athalon. The Celeron shows 49 results with the largest amount of credit there. The AMD shows 72 results with a miniscule amount of credit. At least if I had pending broken down I could track it.

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Message 2468 - Posted: 29 Jun 2004, 2:48:33 UTC - in response to Message 2459.  


> Even if it was only available to the specific user, I think adding "WU's
> returned sucuessfully" to the stats would mean a lot! (or maybe WU's sent/WU's
> returned sucessfully/WU's with errors)
>



I completely agree. I had submitted that exact suggestion on the "Wish List" some time ago. It already records our results. How hard would it be to actually display "Total Results Returned" on our stats page or even in part of the graphical display? Instead, now we have to dig around our User Page, then click 'computers,' then go to each computer ID (as it continually creates more, unless you merge them all on a daily basis) and look up our results total. The least they could do is put a total of our results somewhere on our User Page.



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