Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of MultiUser

Timestamp:

Jul 24, 2011, 11:15:44 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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MultiUser

@@ -7 +7 @@
 The features support the following goals:
 
+ * The set of users may be large (1000s) and dynamic.
+  Typically, only a few may have jobs at any given point.
  * The project's resources are shared fairly among users, based on quotas.
  * Users have privacy: a user cannot see the computational results of other users.
@@ -23 +25 @@
 Users can supply computing resources to the project,
 and this may affect their quota (see below).
+
 
 == Access control ==
@@ -41 +44 @@
 the amount that each one gets is proportional to their resource share.
 
-Quotas are set by administrators, via the admin web interface.
+The way in which quotas are determined is up to the project.
+Some possibilities:
+
+ * Each user attaches their own PCs to the BOINC project,
+   and their quota is the recent average credit of these hosts.
+ * Volunteers attached to the project can assign shares of their resource
+   to scientists, and a scientist's quota is the sum of these,
+   weighted by the volunteer average credit.
+ * A user's share is increased if they contribute to the portal,
+   e.g. by participating in the message boards.
+
+Quotas are set by administrators, via the admin web interface
+or other mechanism.