March 2009 Stats Issues

[rilian]

Bok, i digged some info about this WCG CPID collision on Vzhik account.

At first (in 2005) account Vzhik was created with vzhik@sivash*** email. It had some CPID and all was fine cuz user did not crunch WCG, but crunched Rosetta and SETI on this email and nickname but there was another CPID for these 2 projects

In 2009 he returned to WCG crunching and saw that stats were messed up, and tried to create new acct (with nickname = vzhik@sivash*** and same email) to get same CPID like on rosetta/SETI. It did not work and he returned to old Vzhik acct with this email and crunched on it, and CPID was fixed.

Some days ago someone from his farm attached WCG to vzhik@sivash*** and it somehow connected to the second account and crunched one WU. After that this new computer was reattached to Vzhik, but one WU log remained in stats.

It is not WCG fault

[Bok]

so where do you believe the fault lies ?

In the user xml is

<user>
<id>555428</id>
<name>vzhik@******.net</name>
<country>UKRAINE</country>
<create_time>1231305957</create_time>
<total_credit>67.483467</total_credit>
<expavg_credit>13.124080</expavg_credit>
<expavg_time>1236089526.168140</expavg_time>
<cpid>460722bea70bf2cee4fdc7b76164b6ed</cpid>
<teamid>4576</teamid>
</user>

<user>
<id>142007</id>
<name>Vzhik</name>
<country>UKRAINE</country>
<create_time>1132921714</create_time>
<total_credit>487163.346963</total_credit>
<expavg_credit>5801.679299</expavg_credit>
<expavg_time>1236432626.005150</expavg_time>
<cpid>460722bea70bf2cee4fdc7b76164b6ed</cpid>
<teamid>4576</teamid>
</user>

I removed the email address even though it's public anyway..

I don't think WCG should have allowed two accounts to be created with the same email address, but I can quite understand how it might have slipped through the cracks.

But in the end it's there in the xml and I'm parsing it as it is. I don't think the stats sites should try to filter anything like this out personally Better to show it and then decide whether it should be brought to the projects's attention.

I'll will put a post to the mailing lists and see what others think...

Bok