That's why I asked what the consequences would be if someone fakes the 
numbers. I didn't understand what you were planning to do with the data.

-- 
Nicolas

El Jue 01 Oct 2009 23:29:59 [email protected] escribió:
> Individual hosts are not to be trusted, but as a group they can be trusted.
> This calculation is not about the individual hosts credits, but about the
> trying to figure out whether the project as a whole is granting to many or
> too few credits.
>
> jm7
>
>
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> El Martes 29 Sep 2009 14:22:52 [email protected] escribió:
> > The clients could report to each server that their granted credit / hour
> > for all projects is X, and also report how many projects (machines with
> > more projects would get a higher weight in some server side calculation -
> > those with only the single project would get a weight of 0 in the
> > calculation).  The weight might be 1-1/n where n is the number of
>
> projects
>
> > the client is attached to.  This would involve the servers reporting to
>
> the
>
> > clients the credits / hour granted.
>
> What would be the consequences of a client reporting fake numbers? Couldn't
>
> they cheat credits that way?
>
> The client is *not* trusted.
>
> --
> Nicolas
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