- You must log in to be able to postfrankhagen: have done some tests lately - running 321 on win64 giving only about 5% advantage over win32. no need to upgrade for the next scramble...
08-19 21:13Jayargh: @frank-that would be correct as far as I have found.08-19 21:05frankhagen: @JR: looks like WIN - 32-bit OS installed you can't go 64 virualizied even if the machine could..
08-19 20:59frankhagen: @Cori: this is NOT funny - admin is disabled by default - if you enable it, it's there - open without PWD - without further notice - this IS *hit!08-19 20:55Jayargh: @frank the vb I use seems only to run 32bit
..overhead 2% of cpu 
...you can run multiple vb's at the same time though.
08-19 20:52
F.A.Q.
| BAM! | BOINCstats | BOINC | Climate Prediction | LHC@Home | Einstein@Home |
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- Do I lose credit in my combined statistics when I detach all my hosts from a project?
- Do I need to be a member of BOINCstats to use the stats?
- Do I need to register on BOINCstats to use the stats?
- How can I find my stats or my team stats?
- How can I have more credit than my team?
- How do I bookmark the search page?
- How do I create my own signature graphic?
- How is BOINCstats RAC (BS-RAC) calculated, and why use it instead of project-RAC?
- How is the overtake calculated?
- How often is BOINCstats updated?
- I got credits, but BOINCstats doesn't show them.
- I have selected a different non-English language, but sometimes I still see English words or sentences?
- I signed up using different names on different projects.
- I used different email addresses with different projects.
- Is there a BOINCstats team?
- What are the shoutbox rules?
- What columns are there in the stats?
- What if I want to extract data from BOINCstats?
- What is a retired project?
- When is an entity active?
- Where do the icons under options take you?
- Why are there ads on BOINCstats, I think they're ugly, irritating, slowing down, etc, etc.
- Why do I have duplicate/split accounts in the BOINC combined stats?
- Why do I loose credit in BOINC combined stats?
| Do I lose credit in my combined statistics when I detach all my hosts from a project? No, it's like money in the bank, it'll be there forever. You do however risk a split CPID: when your CPID changes detached projects won't update the CPID. |
| Do I need to be a member of BOINCstats to use the stats? You don't have to be a member of the BOINCstats team to use the stats on this site. Everything on the site is available to everyone. |
| Do I need to register on BOINCstats to use the stats? You don't need to register on BOINCstats or in the forum to use the stats on this site. Everything on the site is available to everyone. |
| How can I find my stats or my team stats? This is actually very simple: On the top left of the page is a searchbox. Type your (teams) name and hit Search. The first ten matches from all projects, both users and teams, are shown. If your account isn't one of them, try the search again with exact match ticked on. This will find exactly what you enter in the search box. So: searching for 'John' without exact match ticked on will also find 'John Doe' and 'Big Johnny' in addition to 'John'. Searching for 'John' with exact match ticked on will only find 'John'. The search is not case sensitive. The blue icon under options will take you to your detailed stats. If you can't find your account, please verify that you have at least 1 credit granted in at least 1 project. Also check (on the frontpage) if the project has updated its stats. |
| How can I have more credit than my team? For this a little background knowledge is needed about the workings of team credit in BOINC: Teams get their credit from their members, but only the credit that a member earns while he is a member of the team. A member that already has credits doesn’t take these with him to the team when he joins. Only his newly earned credits will be awarded to the team as well. So, if you already had credits when you joined the team then the team doesn’t get all your credits. If this is a small or new team than you can easily have more credit than the team. At the moment it is not possible to calculate how much credit you have contributed to your current team. Therefore the percentage is based on your total credit. That this is not always correct is obvious, but unfortunately this is something we can do nothing about. There is one project where these rules do not apply and all your credit will transfer with you to another team, and that project is Climate Prediction. This project (unfortunately) doesn’t follow BOINC rules. |
| How do I bookmark the search page? Use the following URL: http://www.boincstats.com/search/result.php?name=whatyousearchfor Replace 'whatyousearchfor' with your search text. If you don't want to do an exact search, add &search_exact=n to the URL. The default searches for users. If you want to search for a team add &searchtype=team to the URL. A non-exact search for a team could look like this: http://www.boincstats.com/search/result.php?name=boincstats&search_exact=n&search_type=team |
| How do I create my own signature graphic? You need to know three different things to get this working: First how to set up a signature on the relevant site; on a BOINC site try looking under forum preference. Secondly how to include a graphic image in a signature. On BOINC sites there is often a link 'How to use BBtags' on the pages where you can use them. If you can't find out how to do those two things, please ask on the relevant site - BOINCstats can't help you further on these. The third thing you need to know is the URL for your stats banner: The signature URL for users looks like this: http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_12345.gif The numbers are replaced with your own BOINCstats ID number. You can find this number on your BOINC detailed statistics page. HTML example: <img src="http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_20820.gif"> BB code example: [img]http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_20820.gif[/img] This will get you this:  The signature URL for teams looks like this: http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_12345.gif The numbers are replaced with your teams BOINCstats ID. You can find this number on the teams BOINC detailed statistics page. HTML example: <img src="http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_712.gif"> BB code example: [img]http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_712.gif[/img] This will get you this:  Adding "_banner" between the ID-number and ".gif" will get you a signature with the projects devided over two colums. This is practical when you participate in many projects. The result looks as this: HTML example: <img src="http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_20820_banner.gif"> BB code example: [img]http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_20820_banner.gif[/img] This will get you this:  This also works with the team signature. |
| How is BOINCstats RAC (BS-RAC) calculated, and why use it instead of project-RAC? BS-RAC is the gained credit of the past x days divided by x, where x is the number of days in the day-history (also used for the 60 day history chart), with a maximum of 60 days. Some projects to not correctly update project-RAC which makes this RAC too high or too low compared to reality. BS-RAC is more accurate than project RAC because it is updated every day together with the daily update and it represents your true average credit per day. |
| How is the overtake calculated? First a creditrate is calculated with the following formula: creditrate = ( (last month credit / 30) * 3 + (last week credit / 7) * 2 + (last day credit) ) / 6. We also have the creditrate that is calculated for the item just above the current item (which for this F.A.Q. we call prev-creditrate). If prev-creditrate is greater then creditrate, overtake is 0. It will not happen. Now we take the current credit from both items, and add the creditrate's to these. We do this until the credit of the current item exceeds the credit of the previous item. Then we check how many times we had to add before we reached this point. That is the overtake value. |
| How often is BOINCstats updated? BOINCstats checks for XML updates every two hours, and, when available, downloads them, reads the content into the database and updates the credits and ranks. The numbers from this update are used to display current credits and ranks for the stats only. The incremental updates take between 15 minutes up to one hour to complete. At 15:00GMT each day all new info from the XML files is imported into the BOINCstats database. New users/teams/countries are inserted at this point, and daily/weekly/monthly numbers are calculated. When there is no new XML file for more then a day, the stats will show zero credits for those days. The numbers from this update are used to display the numbers on the frontpage and the detailed stats pages. The daily update takes about 2,5 hours to complete. The same update, but then just for hosts, runs each day at 1:00GMT, and takes about five hours to complete. Only users, teams, hosts and countries with at least one (1) total credit are listed! When an update is running, there is no check for new XML files until the update is finished. This is why the time since last update can be more than one hour. Until this date, BOINCstats never failed to run it's daily update , which means: when new credit is granted and the XML output by the project is OK, you'll get your credit on BOINCstats within 25 hours. |
| I got credits, but BOINCstats doesn't show them. BOINCstats depends on the XML output of the projects. BOINCstats checks for XML updates every two hours, and, when available, downloads them, and reads the content to update the current-credit. Once a day all stats are updated, and all info from the XML files is pumped into the BOINCstats database. Sometimes the XML output is delayed, or there isn't any XML output for an extended period due to (server)problems at the project. When this happens, it's impossible for BOINCstats to update, and your new credits won't show on BOINCstats, until XML output is resumed. |
| I have selected a different non-English language, but sometimes I still see English words or sentences? BOINCstats is still in development. Pages are added or changed. All pages are designed in English. To prevent a page from having no text, all text defaults to English when no text is available in the selected language. For graphs it's a bit different. The program that renders the graphics has a limited character set. Sometimes this makes it impossible to display correct text in the selected language, and English is used instead. |
| I signed up using different names on different projects. This is not a problem. BOINCstats will merge the different names for use with the combined account. If you signed up to project x with username 'boinc' and in project y you used 'stats', your combined account will have 'boinc / stats' as user name. |
| I used different email addresses with different projects. This could be a problem. The email address is part of the algorithm to match a user across projects. If the email address differs, you might have two BOINCstats accounts that won't merge. This can only be solved by going to all projects and make sure the same email address is used for all projects. |
| Is there a BOINCstats team? Yes there is! Feel free to join our team: SETI@Home Predictor@Home Climate Prediction LHC@Home Einstein@Home BURP Orbit@Home Message@Home SZTAKI Desktop Grid XtremLab Rosetta@home If you're wondering if there are extra or special stats/features for the BOINCstats teams or its members: no. Not now, and not planned. I'd like to keep stats for every team and everyone equal. |
| What are the shoutbox rules? The following rules and limitations apply to the shoutbox:
Abuse of the shoutbox will be followed by a warning. A second abuse will result in blocking the IP-address used for posting. This is irreversible. The moderators can and will delete shoutbox messages that are in violation with the rules. |
| What columns are there in the stats? All stats: Last month: shows the position shift over 30 days. Last week: shows the position shift over 7 days. Last day: shows the position shift over 1 day. Pos.: position in the stats (depends on sorting method). Total Credit: the total amount of credits Credit day: credit accumulated in the last day. Credit week: credit accumulated in the last 7 days. Credit month: credit accumulated in the last 30 days. Average credit: the average credit granted over the last few days. Overtake: days needed to move up at least one position in the selected stat. Options: links to other stats or statistic. Compare: shows a graphic comparisson of selected items. 5 maximum! Country stats: Population: number of citizens in the selected country. Credit/capita: the average credit per citizen in the selected country. Credit/user: the average credit per user in the selected country. Users/capita: percentage of citizens that runs BOINC. Host stats: CPU: the processor in the host. # CPU: the number of processors in the host. Between brackets is the number of virtual processors, courtesy of hyper threading or dual-core. Operating System: the OS of the host. |
| What if I want to extract data from BOINCstats? If you want to extract data from BOINCstats for tools or statistics, please contact me by email (webmasteratboincstats.com). I do not allow extracting data by wgetting (or similar) a standard page from BOINCstats. When detected, it will be blocked! This puts too much stress on the server and available bandwidth, and the amount of data sent is much more then the few numbers extracted. I offer special downloads for those who request it and are willing to put a word of thanks or a link to BOINCstats in the tool/signature/program/etc. |
| What is a retired project? Retired projects are projects that are no longer active. These projects have reached their goal, and are no longer sending results to hosts. It's also not possible to sign up or attach to these projects. Credit granted by these projects will always be part of your BOINC combined account, except when your CPID changes and differs from a retired project. As these projects do no longer update the CPID, it's impossible to join these stats with the combined account again. If you do however have a BAM! account, and the project is included in it, then you can use the 'Sync retires projects' feature to include the project back into your BOINC statistics. Stats of the retired projects will remain visible on BOINCstats, and will be frozen on the day the project stats were last updated. |
| When is an entity active? An entity is active when it has credit granted in the last 30 days. |
| Where do the icons under options take you? All stats:  Detailed statistics for the selected user/host/team/country.User stats:  This or any other flag displays the user stats for that country. User stats from this user's team.Host stats:  All hosts from the selected host's user.Team stats: This or any other flag displays the team stats for that country. User stats from the selected team.Country stats: User stats from the selected country. Team stats from the selected country. |
| Why are there ads on BOINCstats, I think they're ugly, irritating, slowing down, etc, etc. Running BOINCstats is a costly hobby. Apart from absorbing a lot of my time, it also needs money for the server that BOINCstats runs on and for the co-locating + used bandwidth. The ads cover a part of these costs. Without this income it would be impossible to keep BOINCstats online. |
| Why do I have duplicate/split accounts in the BOINC combined stats? The cause of this is the CPID, Cross Project IDentifier. Every project assigns a new user a CPID. It is partly based on the email address you used to sign up, the other part is random. The CPID is used by BOINCstats to identify a user across projects. Whenever you sign up with a new project, you'll get a new account on BOINCstats because the CPID is new. What to do to make sure you'll end up with one BOINCstats account:
It is impossible for me to manually edit your accounts to create one account. It would take to much time to do this for everyone. Just wait a while, and your accounts will line up automatically. One last thing, which is not too important, but nice for the stats: use the same username across projects, otherwise you get a username like 'Al Bundy @ SAH / Al Bundy @ Predictor / A. Bundy @ CPDN'. |
| Why do I loose credit in BOINC combined stats? When you attach to a new project, or reattach to a projects that restarts after a 'break' your CPID for a project can change. It takes a while for all projects to line up again. During this time, you may loose some credit in the combined stats, and sometime all credit will go to a new account with a new CPID. |
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