Some things you should all know about.

[Bigred]

I discovered a few things this morning that I want to share with all of you. It started with this statement from the DNETC web site.

Own statistic for each user
Now every user has its own statistics on www.distributed.net and crunch on its own account 'xyz@dnetc.net' (Where 'xyz' is your BOINC nickname without special characters) I added in section 'Cross-project statistics' in 'Your account' link to distributed.net statistics 2 May 2010 11:29:47 UTC

I followed the link and discovered that all of us using DNETC have been added to the DNETC team on distributed.net and as of now I've found no way to change that. If you look here you'll see that we've all been added to the DNETC team. I clicked on the Email password link but they obviously didn't use my email when signing me up for this.



This not only affects the stats but I discovered this is a pay project. The prize is $1000 for the individual that solves the problem. I currently have a 1 in 186 chance of doing this. There is also a $1000 prize for that persons team. Should I find the correct key I would want the team money to go here not DNETC.

I left a message on the message boards at DNETC. Until I find a way to change to the correct team I'm pulling the plug.

[JohnWayne]

Does this mean the Challenge is over??

[Bigred]

Does this mean the Challenge is over??

It means that you need to make your own choice if you want to continue considering the information I posted above. I've pulled all my machines off this project until they can resolve the issues I have with it. It's up to each individual to decide what they want to do.

[Angus]

Now is the time I step in and say that this is just like the YoYo wrapper implementation of the dNET clients. I hope you're all happy that you didn't get credit as the Free-DC team.

[alpha]

That's why I posted this. Maybe I should have been clearer.

[LAURENU2]

That's why I posted this. Maybe I should have been clearer.

Next time if you leave Out

[JohnWayne]

Now is the time I step in and say that this is just like the YoYo wrapper implementation of the dNET clients. I hope you're all happy that you didn't get credit as the Free-DC team.

True, but the wrapper is done by dnetc itself, not a third party.

Other than all BOINC dnetc participants being combined into the dnetc team, the work is righteous. I'm not saying this is right, just that the dnetc project has not been hijacked by a third party.

[Angus]

True, but the wrapper is done by dnetc itself, not a third party.

Other than all BOINC dnetc participants being combined into the dnetc team, the work is righteous. I'm not saying this is right, just that the dnetc project has not been hijacked by a third party.

I never said that there was a third party involved. DNETC@HOME runs the distributed.net GPU RC72 application inside a BOINC wrapper by DNETC@HOME.

Instead of letting the participants apply the stats to their own distributed.net accounts and teams, DNETC@HOME has hijacked all the stats for their own team. Exactly like yoyo did for his wrapped version of the OGR client.

[alpha]

True, but the wrapper is done by dnetc itself, not a third party.

I think people are throwing around some confusing terms here, and clarification is required. If someone uninformed reads this thread they could very easily be deceived.

The team which run the distributed.net projects (OGR-27 and RC5-72) are nothing to do with any BOINC project currently running. The name of the distributed.net native client is "dnetc", and again, this is nothing to do with the unofficial BOINC project named "DNETC@Home" which is just a wrapper for the native client, made by some third-party (just like yoyo@home).

Even though these BOINC projects have their own statistics, the official statistics are the only ones you should be looking at.