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svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=2111

checkin_notes

@@ -5744,7 +5744,7 @@ Karl 2003/08/14
         _autosetup, aclocal.m4, config.h.in (added)
         depcomp, install-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs (added)
         */Makefile.am, */Makefile.in (added)
-        */Makefile
+        */Makefile (removed)
         client/
             ap_file_io.C
 

doc/backend_functions.html

@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ and the policy for deciding which are correct, are project-specific.
 <p>
 
 <li> <b>Grant credit</b>.
-Some users will attempt to get undeserved credit
-by falsifying their CPU metrics or CPU times.
-The back end
-finds the minimum reported credit for the correct results of a given workunit,
-and assigns this amount of credit to all the correct results.
-This ensures that as long as a reasonable majority of participants
-don't falsify credit, almost all credit accounting will be correct.
+  Some users will attempt to get undeserved credit by falsifying their CPU
+  metrics or CPU times.  Each project and application can have its own
+  credit-granting algorithm, for example granting the minimum or the mean of
+  the median of all claimed credits (during validation time).  The granted
+  credit is assigned to all correct results. This ensures that as long as a
+  reasonable majority of participants don't falsify credit, almost all credit
+  accounting will be correct.
 <p>
 <li> <b>Assimilate results</b>.
 <p>

doc/security.html

@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ application-specific comparison) then they are classified as correct.
 <p>
 This can be probabilistically detected using redundant computing and
 credit verification: each participant is given the minimum credit from
-among the correct results. 
+among the correct results (or some other algorithm, such as the mean of the
+median claimed credits).
 <p>
 <b>Malicious executable distribution</b>
 <p>