LHC@home

Is it randomized? Is it because of a "good" profile? Is it because of Credits?
How can someone become user of the day (and what's so special about it)?
I did not find an answer for that questions on the lhc@home site (maybe I'm blind *g*)...

I believe this is a general BOINC function so the code is not specific to LHC. If we assume this is true, then it is obvious that it does NOT have to do with credits. The seti@home user of the day has had 0 credits several times (a seti-classic account imported into BOINC). I'm also pretty sure that you have to have both a profile and a picture attached to your account. Other than that, I believe it is random. One would hope a "good" rating would contribute but who knows... If you REALLY want to know you can always download the source code from Berkeley and find out for yourself :)


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User of the Day selection is random. We thought of some credit-based selection but then it would be another kind of top-N list.


Markku Degerholm
LHC@home Admin

but theres 2 users of the day ???
the one shown on the main page
and always a diferent user of the day is shown on the participant profile page

Dave

> Is it randomized? Is it because of a "good" profile? Is it because of
> Credits?
> How can someone become user of the day (and what's so special about it)?
> I did not find an answer for that questions on the lhc@home site (maybe I'm
> blind *g*)...
>
>

Sorry, I'm not speaking of number crunching...
Mark, I have seen your computers run Linux & LHC@home ...
how do you do so? By compiling on your own ?

Regards,
Yannick.

@yak: I have downloaded the 4.09 linux-client (binary) that can be downloaded from the lhc-page. The second PC uses a nightly 4.13-snapshot from the boinc.berkeley-page. I compiled it.