What is the credit used for?

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glowstar Send message Joined: 19 May 10 Posts: 3 Credit: 99,647 RAC: 0	Message 66237 - Posted: 20 May 2010, 3:34:14 UTC I thought that credit is only for make a classament between the computing contributors...Is there any other use for the credit earned? ID: 66237 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

glowstar Send message Joined: 19 May 10 Posts: 3 Credit: 99,647 RAC: 0	Message 66239 - Posted: 20 May 2010, 6:14:08 UTC - in response to Message 66238. No, there isn't. Bragging rights is all. I do not understand at all what you are saying. ID: 66239 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

casio7131 Send message Joined: 10 Oct 05 Posts: 35 Credit: 149,748 RAC: 0	Message 66240 - Posted: 20 May 2010, 7:41:01 UTC - in response to Message 66239. No, there isn't. Bragging rights is all. I do not understand at all what you are saying. credit serves no actual purpose. it only gives a relative measure of the speed that your computer can crunch thru work (so you can brag that "my computer is faster than yours"). ID: 66240 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

glowstar Send message Joined: 19 May 10 Posts: 3 Credit: 99,647 RAC: 0	Message 66241 - Posted: 20 May 2010, 9:09:49 UTC - in response to Message 66240. No, there isn't. Bragging rights is all. I do not understand at all what you are saying. credit serves no actual purpose. it only gives a relative measure of the speed that your computer can crunch thru work (so you can brag that "my computer is faster than yours"). Nice. I like this kind of scoring. I have joined the program yesterday and I am glad that i can help the science research. ID: 66241 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,812,737 RAC: 0	Message 66260 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:52:36 UTC - in response to Message 66239. No, there isn't. Bragging rights is all. I do not understand at all what you are saying. It also allows one to "measure" contributions to various projects and to set personal goals. Many do use it for the "mine is bigger" and "mine is faster" as well ... if you join a team you may also get involved with challenges and other races where the teams compete to do more on a project (or collection of projects) over a set period of time. A few days of processing and you should start to show up on the stat sites as I have on BOINC Stats or Free DC and as you have There are links on your account page that will take you to the various stat pages... So, it is like running ... one stretches and warms up ... then starts to run ... but ... we run for a certain distance or time ... and we probably make measurements of how we did today ... then again tomorrow to see if we did better ... or worse ... It is just one more thing to enjoy, or not, in BOINC ... some don't care at all (or at least say they don't care) and others can't seem to stop talking about their RAC or what they are going to do to raise it ... So, if you are not into numbers, ignore credit... if you are into competition, join a team and start to race ... but, only do what you enjoy ... ID: 66260 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chilean Send message Joined: 16 Oct 05 Posts: 711 Credit: 26,694,507 RAC: 0	Message 66300 - Posted: 23 May 2010, 17:07:55 UTC Welcome aboard! ID: 66300 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote