With four members running a total of six processors, the team has completed 21 work units for a total of 72882 points. We are now in the upper 10% of all teams by total contribution.

An online bonus point calculator offers some hope of clarifying the scoring (except when there is a frank malfunction such as Tsyokawe is evidently encountering). By entering the project number and estimated TPF (time-per-frame) from the FAHControl application into the calculator, Ronnie got an Estimated Credit output that agreed with the one shown by FAHControl, but with quite a bit more detail as to where the number came from. Evidently different types of jobs are served to different processor types, and the type of job served to a fast graphics card can be eligible for a rapid-turnaround bonus much larger than the base score.

New team members initially received small WUs earning a few hundred points. However, RoseCity’s score of 15188 for six WUs suggests that the server is now sending her WUs that qualify for large turnaround bonuses. Scoring is still fairly opaque to us, however. In particular, we do not yet know why Tsyokawe’s batch of five WU received a total score of zero. Tsyokawe is pursuing the question through a new-user forum at the FAH site.