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20 Year badge for my contribution of Smash Childhood Cancer from World Community Grid

20 Year badge for my contribution of Smash Childhood Cancer from World Community Grid

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Hi everyone, I did it! I finally got the Diamond 20 year badge for my contribution toward the Smash Childhood Cancer from World Community Grid. This came as a surprise since these days I’ve only been crunching tasks with my 24-thread server which is located in Puerto Rico. All of my other machines were disabled since Sunday due to Hurricane Irma passing over the State of Florida. They are all now activated once again since we just got power again….

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Ruby Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project project from World Community Grid

Ruby Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project project from World Community Grid

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Hi everyone, As I said yesterday, today I woke up with a new shiny badge, Ruby Badge from the Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid. The Ruby badge is the following:  It is awarded after 180 days of contribution, of which as the time of this post my contribution is 203 days. The next badge is the emerald badge, awarded after 1 year of contribution. Remember that in the computing world, one CPU thread equals 1 day, so 8…

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Gold Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project project from World Community Grid

Gold Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project project from World Community Grid

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Hi everyone, I got the Gold badge from the Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid and this night, I’ll receive the Ruby Badge! This is the Gold badge for this project:  So far, I’ve contributed 178 days for this particular project, and the Ruby badge is awarded after 180 days, meaning today night I’ll get it 😁 My stats so far: Additional Stats: The notice I got in BOINC when I got this badge: And here are the tasks…

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An introduction to the Distributed Computing project Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid and my first badges

An introduction to the Distributed Computing project Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid and my first badges

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Hi everyone, Today, I’m happy to announce I have acquired the Bronze and Silver badge for World Community Grid new project called Microbiome Immunity Project. For those who knows me well, you know I’m a big fan of Distributed Computing projects, especially the ones that runs on the BOINC platform. I believe that computing power should be donated to projects that have worthwhile causes, so I know that the electricity I waste is done for a good purpose as my…

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What am I crunching in my PCs now that World Community Grid is having issues with BOINC?

What am I crunching in my PCs now that World Community Grid is having issues with BOINC?

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Hi everyone, As you may know, today World Community Grid had an outage that has been partially fixed. As of this moment, tasks cannot be sent or received, so I decided to crunch some Enigma@Home workunits. The reason is to increase my BOINC credits in that project and reach the #1 spot for the Puerto Rico leaderboards in that particular project. Currently, I’m placed #3: Of course, this is temporarily and once World Community Grid has fixed the issues and I can…

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