Stats cant lie
article written by TW.
Five days ago I talked about the odd statistics which were showing up in my BOINC client for Einstein@Home. Sadly in the intervening five days, nothing has become any clearer.
Now, the BOINC client has been running constantly (with the exception of one 9 hour period) for the last five days, yet the increase seems minimal and the average is plummeting like a stone. Looking at the client stats page there are still 82 work units “pending” credit (at around 53.4 credits per unit) so eventually this should change.
Even so, I am still not sure how the two sets of numbers compare to each other. I cant work out how the averages are calculated at all. Any comments welcome.
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Tags: Averages, BOINC, Einstein, Einstein@home, LIGO, Mathematics, Maths, Physics, Science, SETI, Software, Statistics.
Heather
wrote:
None the wiser.
Although I suspect the clue is in the title- they are calculating this on e=mc2^2 basis
This comment was written at February 19th, 2007 at 21:26,
TW
wrote:
Having said that, even pushing it through that doesn’t generate the numbers (unless they are using an arbitrary value for either e, m or c) …
This comment was written at February 19th, 2007 at 21:27,
Why Dont You Blog?
wrote:
Einstein@Home…
It looks like the Einstein@Home servers are down again. This seems to happen once or twice a month and can last for anything up to a few days.
Looking over the BOINC message log, it appears that the servers may have been kaput since around 0430Z today…
This comment was written at February 21st, 2007 at 17:53,