Easy. CPID and BAM ID are based on several elements, including
but not limited to the IP address of the machine, sunspot activity and the phases of the moon. Laptops, being the itinerant beats they are, move about, changing IP addresses, changing timezones and being affected by local tides.
Best thing to do with laptops is to wrap them in Faraday cages to reduce some outside influences, and keep them in the same location forever.
Sooner or later, everything works out, as the universal Tao/Chao settles down on them, reverting your overall credits to something approaching normalityâ„¢.
Seriously, I believe it's down to IP addresses
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I have tried to gain an understanding of the CPID process by reading a bunch of the threads in this subforum, but I have failed. Specifically, what is the relationship between a CPID, a BAM ID, a host machine, and OS user accounts on that machine (I don't think the last item in the list is relevant, but just in case I'm wrong...)?
The "problem": I run BOINC on 5 different machines, all under the same BOINC user account, and all managed under the same BAM account. 4 of those 5 machines are showing up on my BAM host list under multiple entries with different BAM IDs and CPIDs. One in particular (coincidentally, the only laptop of the bunch) has 7 different BAM/CPIDs, several of which have recent "last contact" dates.
All of my project accounts have been under the same email address for years. All my machines are attached to all my projects.
1. Is this phenomenon affecting how my credits are recorded?
2. Is there some way I can tidy up my host list so that I get one entry per machine? (I'm a lumper, not a splitter)
Cheers.
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