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Message 1980280 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 13:41:57 UTC

I clicked on the top 100 participants on the BOINC page and was somewhat surprised to see only a few running Seti. Are we, the users here, really that small of a batch? Collatz Conjecture had a significant share of most of the top 100 users allotment. Is there a historical graphic that shows the active users for Seti for the last 5 or 10 years?
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Message 1980281 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 13:43:51 UTC

Many projects "pay" far more per task (or per hour) than SETI.
In terms of number of users SETI is still one of the largest projects using BOINC.
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Message 1980291 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 14:51:08 UTC

I can speak from personal experience a few years ago when I ran Collatz for a while. It gave WAY more credits on a daily basis than SETI does. That completely biases the Top 100 you were looking at.

The problem is that there is no metric for cross-project evaluation of work done. So no way of comparing credits given between projects. Also, there are users who work multiple projects at the same time, and that is a whole other can of worms.
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Message 1980296 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 15:06:19 UTC

The credits awarded on Seti main and Setri Beta don't even match.

If I set my computer to equal time for Main, Beta and Einstein, the RAC's are, approx, 2500, 4000, 100,000.
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Message 1980302 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 15:45:27 UTC - in response to Message 1980281.  

Many projects "pay" far more per task (or per hour) than SETI.
In terms of number of users SETI is still one of the largest projects using BOINC.


Interesting, good to know! Thanks!
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Message 1980446 - Posted: 15 Feb 2019, 7:12:44 UTC - in response to Message 1980291.  

The problem is that there is no metric for cross-project evaluation of work done.

Actually, the problem is that no one uses the metric for cross project evaluation- and that is the Cobblestone.
If everyone (particularly Seti- yes this project) actually awarded Credit for work done according to the Cobblestone definition, then cross project comparisons would be possible, and valid. And a very nice by-product of that would be Seti paying out a whole lot more for each WU processed than is presently the case.
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Message 1980456 - Posted: 15 Feb 2019, 7:58:34 UTC

...but only if they remain constant in terms of number given for a fixed parameter and not waggle around like [insert phrase]...
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Message 1982427 - Posted: 27 Feb 2019, 7:20:19 UTC

LoL, just as with elections. Important not how vote, but how count ;)
Credit-based metric is screwed. Even between AP and MB types of SETI work, not saying about inter-project comparison.
Even on earlier days when CreditScrew wasn't even in project my AMD GPU got more than order of magnitude more from MilkyWay than from SETI, credit-wise.
So, select top-100 and count share of that for SETI is about the same as count one from each state no matter how big state is. ;D
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