Weekly and monthly do it for me and maybe showing the info in a pie chart format may make it easier to understand the information being shown.

Weekly and monthly do it for me and maybe showing the info in a pie chart format may make it easier to understand the information being shown.

Weekly makes a lot of sense with the current on/off cycle, either daily average or totals. For a longer term, I'd think seriously about defining active users as those which have credit within the longest deadline of ~64.5 days. That peak is very rare, but much of the work has deadlines over six weeks. For a host attached to many BOINC projects, it wouldn't be surprising for the work to end up being done just before deadline.

OTOH, what Scarecrow has already produced is fine with me. The tables allow easy consideration of longer terms, the graphics present the current situation quite well.

                                                                 Joe

Again, I agree that weekly or even monthly averages will provide a "smoothed" picture, given the current volatility in daily data. Perhaps these can be integrated into or added to the current daily tables, with a pie chart to represent the most recent week's averages, as suggested by The Gas Giant.

It stands to reason that users with an RAC of less than 30 (and probably as high as 150) won't report every day. The main reason for this is that, with many workunits earning between 100 and 150 credits, slower machines will need more than a day to crunch a single unit (and AP workunits will take much longer, of course). A second scenario is when the user is attached to other projects, and BOINC is then likely to report closer to the deadline (Joe's earlier post refers). Thirdly, some users (with laptops and dial-up connections, for example) may not attach their computers to the Internet every day. I do concede that the second and third scenarios are likely to affect all RAC groups in roughly equal measure.

[off topic]@ The Gas Giant: it's good to see another process engineer in the forums. We need to stick together in this IT-savvy group!![/off topic]

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I believe the entire idea is just to get an idea. It has helped give me a better understanding. Individuals will tend to average out.. so a snapshot
of a day should "on average" give us an average. Mileage always varies.

There is no perfect chart. There is no perfect statistic. But if you put a pattern together, you can see trends. And that is helpful in gaining understanding.

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Janice

The staff should consider some cleanup, as anyone with a residual rac of say less 0.20 is no longer active. I don't know, why the values don't go down to 0.
Then Scarecrow could eliminate the inactive ones and give us a truer picture.
JMHO

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The staff should consider some cleanup, as anyone with a residual rac of say less 0.20 is no longer active. I don't know, why the values don't go down to 0.
Then Scarecrow could eliminate the inactive ones and give us a truer picture.
JMHO

My suggestion way back was ignore the less than 1
those numbers are so small they are not significant anyway

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The staff should consider some cleanup, as anyone with a residual rac of say less 0.20 is no longer active. I don't know, why the values don't go down to 0.
Then Scarecrow could eliminate the inactive ones and give us a truer picture.
JMHO

My suggestion way back was ignore the less than 1
those numbers are so small they are not significant anyway

I tend to agree, I have some in my list and a couple on my team that haven't crunched in a long long time but still have an RAC.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

oops.. "by host" question.. I think means brand new calculations..

But if it helps at all..

From the last chart I saw 13.11% of the total work was done by the top
162 users.

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Janice

Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

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Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

Thats funny, we do a huge percentage of the work yet are villainized by so many...

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

Thats funny, we do a huge percentage of the work yet are villainized by so many...

Ahh yes the "I got mine so shut up" crowd. Weren't they called sociopaths
at one point?

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Janice

Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

Thats funny, we do a huge percentage of the work yet are villainized by so many...

So the other users (who do 80 % of the work) should be 4 times as important as the big guys?

Just joking, sort of.

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Looks like the RAC stats are a day or two behind....I was out of the shop the last couple days and it appears the DB server that handles the RAC stats is blowing snot bubbles. I shall get it a tissue.

Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

Thats funny, we do a huge percentage of the work yet are villainized by so many...

So the other users (who do 80 % of the work) should be 4 times as important as the big guys?

Just joking, sort of.

Ya it makes sense that the 58.8% of the users only doing 3.3% of the wu
should be more important than the 2.43% of the users doing 47.55% of the wu

hah hah hah

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Just wondering, for you stat guys...Is there anyway to know what percentage of work is done by the top 500 hosts?

A rough estimate: about 20% of the work is done by the top 500 users (not hosts).

Thats funny, we do a huge percentage of the work yet are villainized by so many...

So the other users (who do 80 % of the work) should be 4 times as important as the big guys?

Just joking, sort of.

Ya it makes sense that the 58.8% of the users only doing 3.3% of the wu
should be more important than the 2.43% of the users doing 47.55% of the wu

hah hah hah

Doesn't matter. Nobody should be more important than anyone else.

Doesn't matter. Nobody should be more important than anyone else.

or less

Doesn't matter. Nobody should be more important than anyone else.

or less

Last time I checked, no one has actually said the larger crunchers are worthless. But I have seen lots of larger crunchers threaten if they don't get their way with the project, they'll leave and that the project needs to keep them happy.

Now, I somehow would expect a more or less gaussian distribution. For some reason the 300-499 group is exceptionally small. There must be system based reason why less users fall into that category.

Or, it could have been a buglet in the code. Which has now been corrected so the 300-499 group should be accurate. Let this be a lesson, never code sober.

Now, I somehow would expect a more or less gaussian distribution. For some reason the 300-499 group is exceptionally small. There must be system based reason why less users fall into that category.

Or, it could have been a buglet in the code. Which has now been corrected so the 300-499 group should be accurate. Let this be a lesson, never code sober.

May I question that correction
That jumps the total active users 9000 in one day
which is not consistent with the number of users thru the month

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