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02-06-14, 04:21 PM
Congratulations to Syracuse University, which has passed the AEI E-Science Group to move into FIRST PLACE (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_users.php?sort_by=total_credit) among Einstein@Home contributors. Syracuse University has now contributed more computer cycles to the Einstein@Home search than any other participant. Thank you Syracuse!! Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home

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DrPop
02-07-14, 04:55 PM
Hrummpphhh...if only the had better credit I would love to be the #1 contributing team. Their science is awesome, but why so stingy with the payout? It's not like it "costs" them anything to give a half-way decent credit for time crunched! :)

zombie67
02-07-14, 11:09 PM
Agreed. In fact, they should pay MORE than others, since they also require so much CPU. For example, you can run 3 tasks on a 7970, but only if you give it .5-1 CPU cores per task. Yikes!

pinhodecarlos
02-09-14, 07:09 AM
So you guys run for the credit and not for the goal of the project....

Duke of Buckingham
02-09-14, 09:26 AM
So you guys run for the credit and not for the goal of the project....

To those who do that we call Credit-Whores Carlos but at the same time, the credits should be proporcional to the amount of crunching each one gives. here goes one article with the titlle: "BOINC: Why you should care about the credit-system"

http://itnomad.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/boinc-why-you-should-care-about-the-credit-system/

denim
02-10-14, 12:33 PM
I crunch it regardless. Since Asteroids went to 100% error now on all Android WU's, I have steered one of my phones there. Yeah, I know, not much at all, but I still love the project and they have a number of sub-projects now that is good for the WUProp people.

Slicker
02-10-14, 11:19 PM
So you guys run for the credit and not for the goal of the project....

Yup. Finding some pulsar a bazillion light years away is cool, but getting more credits than everyone else is cooler.