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Ranking Engine: Why use it?

What are the benefits of Sandra's Live Benchmark Ranking? Here are the main features of the Ranking Engine: It is FREE, for all versions! Score Certification: By performing statistical ...

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Ranking: What is Certification and what does it do for me?

Note: Currently this feature requires the commercial versions of Sandra (i.e. is not present in the Lite version). We hope to bring it to this version in the future. Certification is a new featur...

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Ranking Engine: How to Create an Account, How to Join a Team

How to Create an Account @ Ranking Engine Ranker: Select the rank engine you would like to use. Name: Enter a user name (pseudonym, nickname, etc.) in the User Name box. Please keep it c...

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Ranking Engine: Options

Ranking Options Here are the options supported by the ranking engines in Sandra: Enable Rank Engine: disables the whole functionality completely, i.e. your results will not be uploaded/ran...

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My account has been banned

As any public website, we need to abide by local laws as well as Internet netiquette (set of social conventions), otherwise we would be subject to legal proceedings or taken offline. We do not ta...

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Privacy: Is the data transferred to the Ranking Engine 'personal data'?

To our best belief at time of publication, NO, it is not 'personal data'. NB:This information relates to the SiSoftware's Official Ranker and NOT any other ranker. Please contact the respective r...

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Privacy: Who owns the data (scores) posted to the Ranker?

To our best belief at time of publication, based on the intepretation of UK law, we (SiSoftware) do. Why do we think we own it and not you, the user? Because the software (Sandra) generates it a...

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How are Points awarded by the Ranker?

Each result (and thus score) is local ranked(2) against all the other scores for that benchmark and points are awarded based on its ranking: 1st place: 300 points 2nd place: 250 points 3rd place:...

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How are Points awarded to Computers, Users and Teams?

Computers (e.g. Desktops, laptops, phones, etc.): The highest points awarded for each benchmark are added together to make the computer's points. E.g. if a system has 2 results (50 pts and 65 pts) ...

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What is the default user name and password the Ranker selects?

When you first run a benchmark and the Ranker is not configured, the Ranker configuration dialog is presented with default settings and credentials. Note: These are for convenience ONLY. If you can...

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