Hi everyone, Today, I ran a benchmark for the distributed.net client on my new AMD Ryzen 7 1700 running at 3.30Ghz. The PC has a 16GB Crucial Ballistix 2400Mhz RAM module. Computer details: See my Ryzen PC build here! Post Views: 1
Hi everyone, During these days, World Community Grid has been running a Beta Test for their Smash Childhood Cancer project due to Android workunits results being invalid (Beta test discussion over here). I love to participate in Beta Tests and this is no exception. What I didn’t expected was to receive such amount of Android workunits that it made me reach to 180 days of runtime. Because of this, I received the Ruby Badge for Beta Testing: These are my stats up to this point of the day: And…
Hi everyone! I’m proud to announce that my badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer project from World Community Grid has finally turned to Sapphire! It took 6 days to get this medal: The Sapphire medal is awarded after running a project for 2 years of CPU time. The next badge is the Diamond 5 Years badge. Below, you can see my stats up to this day: 2 years and over 100 days already! Can’t wait to get my Diamond 5 Years badge! Take a look at this…
Hi everyone, Today, I noticed my badge for the Bitcoin Utopia Campaign #15 was upgraded to Silver! Bitcoin Utopia is a place where your Bitcoin ASIC miners mine Bitcoin which are sent to different campaigns. It is like a crowdfunding project by using Bitcoins. Campaign #15 is the American Cancer Society campaign, so every Bitcoin or Satoshi mined goes to them. The Silver badge is awarded after acquiring 25 Million BOINC Credits. Currently, Bitcoin Utopia is also running a SETI@Home…
Hi everyone, Today, I received my Emerald badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer project from the World Community Grid. It took me 3 days to get the medal! The Emerald badge is awarded for running a project for a year . The next badge is the Sapphire badge awarded for running a project for 2 years. Then, after the Sapphire badge comes the Diamond badges which are awarded after running a project for 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 years. Below you can see my stats up to this point:…
Hi everyone, Once again I made another milestone in the Smash Childhood Cancer project of the World Community Grid. It has turned from Gold to Ruby, again in just 2 days! The Ruby badge is awarded for running a project for 180 days. The next badge is the Emerald badge, awarded for running a project for a year (remember, these times are in CPU time and not in real life time. Unless you have a single core PC, then, it will be in real-life time). Here are…
Hi everyone!! This is extremely amazing! Just yesterday, I got the Silver Badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer of World Community Grid, and today, I woke up to find out I received the Gold Badge!! The Gold badge is awarded after running a project for 90 days. I’m very happy to have contributed to this project of World Community Grid. The next badge is the Ruby badge, which is awarded after running a project for 180 days. These are my…
Hi everyone, Two days ago, I told you that I have got the Bronze badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer project of World Community Grid. Today, I’m pleased to announce that I have got the Silver badge!! The Silver badge is awarded for running a project for 45 days (CPU time). This is the message I got in BOINC (The software used to run this project on a PC): You can see that it only took me 2 days to…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I wrote that I got the Bronze badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer sub-project on World Community Grid. Today, I checked out my badges in Bitcoin Utopia, a crowdfunding project where your Bitcoin ASIC mining hardware mine Bitcoins for charitable causes, and found out that I also got the Bronze badge for their Campaign #15, American Cancer Society: On Bitcoin Utopia, the Bronze Badge is awarded once you reach 1 million credits on a campaign, which are…
Hi everyone, As you may know, I am committed to donating my computer spare time to distributed computing projects, especially to World Community Grid, which runs a variety of projects looking for cures for various diseases. Last week, they launched the Smash Childhood Cancer sub-project after having run a beta for a few weeks. Today, I’m proud to mention that I have got the first badge of this sub-project, which is the Bronze badge: A Bronze badge is awarded after…