Edit: Old title was "The road to 100,000,000 points-a-day thread"

I understand that we prefer Run Time measurements when talking to people outside the DC community (e.g. journalists) because it is more meaningful than points or returned results.

But between us we know that the Run Time measurement is awfully heterogeneous and, for me, almost meaningless: the daily total includes wallclock times and CPU times, as well as time from some old P286 up to the most overclocked latest top range processors.

As long as the techs are using the same formulas for computing points I think the Points measurement is the only valid one for measuring our activity inside WCG.

While it has taken 2.5 months for only coming close to the current Run Time record, during that time the Points record of August 8 (87,120,867) has been beaten on
- October 8 : 89,160,621
- October 15 : 90,537,064
- October 22 : 92,170,206
and finally yesterday October 29 with 95,653,606 i.e. 9.79 % more than on August 8.

And, in my opinion, that gives a better view of what is really achieved regarding new members and UD to Boinc migration.

So, our next target is 100,000,000 points-a-day. And the way things are progressing recently that should not take too long!

Cheers. Jean.