I'm new to BOINC. About a month and a half ago I wanted to do Test4Theory and set up the BOINC and VM for that, but they were not accepting volunteers at that time and started several other projects. Now I have gotten on to T4T and I currently have 9 projects, and that is just too much. I only finish a few tasks per day, and my RAC suffers. I think I should give up a few projects, but when I do, they still show up on my stats. If I leave a project and it remains on my stats, what will happen the RAC for that project? Any advice on the best way to do it? Any thoughts on which projects to keep? Here is what I've done so far:

Projects.....Total credit....Average credit......Since
Test4Theory...........905............59.........12 Sep 2011
[email protected],239...........39.........12 Aug 2011
[email protected],703...........49.........12 Aug 2011
[email protected] Aug 2011
[email protected],006...........24.........12 Aug 2011
[email protected],680..........31.........12 Aug 2011
climateprediction.net.399............12.........12 Aug 2011
[email protected] Aug 2011
[email protected] Sep 2011

When you stop doing work for a project, the RAC for that project will go to zero over the next few weeks. It's only recent average credit, it's not worth anything, although it may inhibit you to post on some projects' forums (e.g. Seti and Einstein have this rule where RAC must be above 1 to be able to post in their main forums). The total credit you have will stay with your account.

As for which project(s) you should or shouldn't run, that's wholly your own decision. As I posted in this post, for this month I run the following projects: World Community grid (Clean Water), Spinhenge, Einstein, Rosetta, Constellation, Test4Theory and Surveill, and only between 9pm and 7am when electricity rates are lower.

My BOINC is attached to 53 projects (42 of them showing here). I can switch easily between them, just set one on No new tasks and another on Allow new tasks. I have a couple of projects for which I've set personal milestones, need to get so many credits before I leave there.

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