LHC@home

My local Computer ID is different from the LHC information. How does it get changed?

Additionally, my Credit on LHC shows I have not had contact since Jul 2020, however my computer has been crunching numbers 24/7 since I joined. I click on Update for my project at least twice a week.

I built a water-cooled system just for crunching numbers for projects, but if there is no credit for my systems hard work, time and energy use...why continue?

I started out with SETI@Home and when they stopped sending work to be completed, I did not want to waste my computer's capabilities and down time. LHC seemed to be a worthy project. If they cannot get the credit correct, are they getting my completed work correct?

There must be another Project that could use my system's capabilities and time. I really wanted to make an impact with the LHC Project - if I can get things fixed. Any useful ideas would be greatly appreciated.

F.J. Hensley
Computer ID: 10677937

The host-ID given by you was created on 6 Jan 2021 20:27:25 UTC, but the owner is Anonymous.

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10677937

Did you created a new user account on the 6th of January?

mc-plots lists a computer in connection to your account but the last entry was from 2020-07-21:
http://mcplots-dev.cern.ch/cache/stats/host-3-613779-10659688.txt

That computer has a different ID compared to what you posted and no counterpart in the LHC@home DB:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10659688

My local Computer ID is different from the LHC information. How does it get changed?

A typical reason could be if you make a full copy (backup/restore) from one computer to another since both computers then contact the server using the same hostid.
This results in a messed DB record that can't be repaired manually.