Individual Milestones 11: New Year (2016), New Thread

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Originally Posted by denim

I ask, as I don't plan to do BU, but see how it has changed BOINC and I wonder if such a distortion due to the credits where people have to spend to get it, will alienate or scare off new crunchers.

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Like I said, before, I do believe that BU has changed the landscape; however, some crunchers will adapt to the changing environment and use projects like BU to stay on top. As one of the top teams in the world… we have too; if we didn’t we would quickly lose our position to another team.

Look at what GPU’s did to the landscape… my (3) outdated GPU’s can run circles around most people running CPU only projects.

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Originally Posted by dcushing

No, U get what U buy in equipment, in return.
Just a fact of Boinc'n

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I do agree with Doug on this, that you get more in return in credits, the more equipment you buy.


I believe that most people that start crunching do it for the science like I did back in October 2009. I had one computer and Einstein, Seti and Milkyway were my first projects; I didn’t even know about credits back then. A year later in November 2010 I found SUSA and got the credit bug… which by the way, I still blame all you guys for that little mental disorder. =))

All things being equal, a person with one computer will never catch someone running three. Will that discourage some… maybe. BU isn’t really any different it just makes the pie graph look rather odd.

Will I ever be number one in total credits on this team? Very unlikely but that doesn’t discourage me… it motivates me. Granted, I’m not a new cruncher anymore but I once was… crunchers evolve.



Edit: If anyone cares to discuss this further, I'll move it to a more appropriate thread. Let me know.

I'm steadily crunching away around half a million credits a day on Collataz using just my laptop, so that's a milestone I guess :-)

And 16 million total credits.

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Originally Posted by sandtiger

I'm steadily crunching away around half a million credits a day on Collataz using just my laptop, so that's a milestone I guess :-)

And 16 million total credits.

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Why, yes it is! Congrats Sandtiger and don't be a stranger here.

Mighty fine daily production there sandtiger! Keep it up!

That is a ton of credits from a laptop.

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Originally Posted by sandtiger

I'm steadily crunching away around half a million credits a day on Collataz using just my laptop, so that's a milestone I guess :-)

And 16 million total credits.

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Wow... That is impressive.

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Originally Posted by sandtiger

I'm steadily crunching away around half a million credits a day on Collataz using just my laptop, so that's a milestone I guess :-)

And 16 million total credits.

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Wow and your laptop has not melted =))

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Originally Posted by Dave gpu

Wow and your laptop has not melted =))

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It lives on a cooling pad, even before I got back into crunching.

For those wondering this is the laptop https://smile.amazon.com/HP-Touchscr.../dp/B00X5X2MW8

1 million on Leiden, my 40th project at that level.

Congrats Al, that is a major accomplishment! On most CPU projects a million is a BIG deal!

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Originally Posted by Sphynx

1 million on Leiden, my 40th project at that level.

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Great job well done.

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Originally Posted by Sphynx

1 million on Leiden, my 40th project at that level.

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Very nice.

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Originally Posted by Sphynx

1 million on Leiden, my 40th project at that level.

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Nice work!

Looks good to me! Should you mention; "Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies?" =))

A major achievement ... my user rank on Seti dropped to 50,000 =)) I've been working on it for years!

Surpassed 23 Million the other day, 10 Million of that is Collatz Conjecture. I remember back in the pre-GPU days when it took me 4 years to get my first 11 Million
Joined BOINC Fri, 24 February 2006
Sunday, 28 March 2010 11,000,000
Long Hiatus
Tuesday, 20 September 2016 12,000,000
So basically what took 4 years before I've done in a month..wow

Congrats Sandtiger!! There are some CPU projects that pay much better than you remember as well :D

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Originally Posted by sandtiger

Surpassed 23 Million the other day, 10 Million of that is Collatz Conjecture. I remember back in the pre-GPU days when it took me 4 years to get my first 11 Million
Joined BOINC Fri, 24 February 2006
Sunday, 28 March 2010 11,000,000
Long Hiatus
Tuesday, 20 September 2016 12,000,000
So basically what took 4 years before I've done in a month..wow

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Congrats. Nice numbers :cool:

Just turned over 10 Billion combined today. :D

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Originally Posted by STMahlberg

Just turned over 10 Billion combined today. :D

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10 Billion \:D/

Woah!

SETI@home 25 Million

14 years, 4 months, and 12 days to make it happen. Average of 4764 credits per day, although let's be honest some days were better than others :D

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Originally Posted by FourOh

SETI@home 25 Million

14 years, 4 months, and 12 days to make it happen. Average of 4764 credits per day, although let's be honest some days were better than others :D

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Man, that was a slog wasn't it? Congrats!

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Originally Posted by FourOh

SETI@home 25 Million

14 years, 4 months, and 12 days to make it happen. Average of 4764 credits per day, although let's be honest some days were better than others :D

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Makes the mind wobble well done.:-bd

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Originally Posted by Dave gpu

Makes the mind wobble well done.:-bd

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Kind of like 1 Billion on GPU Grid... I'd better get to work!

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Originally Posted by FourOh

SETI@home 25 Million

14 years, 4 months, and 12 days to make it happen. Average of 4764 credits per day, although let's be honest some days were better than others :D

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Congrats. I am going to have to step it up big time to ever reach that milestone. Nice work.

25M on Asteroids :D

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Originally Posted by Bryan

25M on Asteroids :D

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Nice Bryan! Setting the bar pretty high for the rest of us aren't you?

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Originally Posted by Sphynx

Nice Bryan! Setting the bar pretty high for the rest of us aren't you?

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Shoot no, I'm only in 7th place on this team! There's some mean suckers way up ahead of me :D

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Originally Posted by Bryan

25M on Asteroids :D

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Wow... that's awesome. :) And to think I was happy just barely getting my Ni badge.

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Originally Posted by Bryan

25M on Asteroids :D

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Wow, nice!!! I have to catch up.

Kind of a strange Milestone, but I'll take it. 25,000 hours on Micro Collatz Conjecture, all on the backs of 4 Raspberry pi.

One milestone I've been waiting for a for a while.

Just crossed 1M hours at Wuprop :)

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Originally Posted by Bok

One milestone I've been waiting for a for a while.

Just crossed 1M hours at Wuprop :)

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Wow... that's a lot of hours! Congratulations!

10M WCG

That's one I never expected to get :D

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Originally Posted by Bryan

10M WCG

That's one I never expected to get :D

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Nice!

500k in Rosetta. :)

Woot! Congrats denim! That one is painfully slow to hand out credits. :)

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Originally Posted by denim

500k in Rosetta. :)

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Wow. Congratulations!

Yay! Finally got 1M at WCG. Holy cow that was a lame run.. :P