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My result from the Asteroids@Home competition and participating at the GPUGrid BOINC challenge

My result from the Asteroids@Home competition and participating at the GPUGrid BOINC challenge

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Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to show you my result from the “Compete with team Gridcoin! Asteroids” challenge, in which I placed #110: I used my Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 to process this project’s workunits which are, of course, about Asteroids. These are my statistics in the project up to today: That number will continue to go up as tasks are still being validated: Please note that while my credits will continue to go up, these no longer take effect…

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Participating at the “Compete with team Gridcoin! Asteroids” BOINC challenge

Participating at the “Compete with team Gridcoin! Asteroids” BOINC challenge

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Hi everyone, During the past few days, there’s been a BOINC challenge for the Asteroids@home BOINC project in which Team Gridcoin is participating. That also means that I’m participating in it, and you can see from this screenshot of the BOINC manager that I’m running the Asteroids@home project: I’m crunching with an Nvidia Geforce 1060 6GB GPU. Currently, I’m at rank 126 according to BOINC Stats: This challenge will end on May 12, and after this, a GPUGrid challenge will start, in which…

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Diamond 10 Year Badge for World Community Grid’s FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2

Diamond 10 Year Badge for World Community Grid’s FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2

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Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to show you another nice badge that I got due to my Distributed Computing contribution. This time, the badge is from the World Community Grid project, specifically, the FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2. I got the Diamond 10 Year badge, which is awarded once you do 10 years CPU time contribution. This badge looks as follows:  This is the notice I got in BOINC: And these are my stats up until this point: Right now, I’m…

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100K credits and 25% contribution Badges on the OLDK1 BOINC project!

100K credits and 25% contribution Badges on the OLDK1 BOINC project!

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Hi everyone, As you may know, I participate in Distributed Computing projects that runs in the BOINC platform. Recently, OLDK1 was whitelisted in the Gridcoin project whitelist, so I decided to give this project a chance. OLDK1 is a project that primarily processes Latin Squares. To my surprise, in just a few days, I earned the 100K credit badge and I also earned the 25% contribution badge: Hosts connected to this project: Yup, I have my Intel and AMD machines crunching…

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Diamond 5 Year Badge for Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid

Diamond 5 Year Badge for Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid

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Hi everyone, Yesterday, I got the Diamond 5 Year Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project from World Community Grid. The badge is the following:  This badge is awarded after contributong 5 Years in CPU Time. As I’ve explained in my previous badge achievements, CPU Time is like real time, except that the time is dependent to a workunit and per thread. For example, If I have an 8 Core AMD Ryzen 7 with Simultaneus Multithreading enabled, making it 16 threads total, and I get 16…

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My World Community Grid Statistics for November 10, 2017

My World Community Grid Statistics for November 10, 2017

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Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll share my World Community Grid statistics so you all know my progress on their different Distributed Computing projects: As you can see from the above stats, I just need one more year to obtain the Diamond 5 Year medal for Microbiome Immunity Project. I also need 3 more years for FightAIDS@Home to obtain the 20 Year Diamond Badge. As you saw in my two earlier posts, I’ve been moving my equipment and configuring them….

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Got the Sapphire Badge for World Community Grid’s Microbiome Immunity Project!

Got the Sapphire Badge for World Community Grid’s Microbiome Immunity Project!

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Hi everyone, I finally got the Sapphire badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project from IBM’s World Community Grid. This is a badge that is awarded after performing 2 CPU-time years of contribution toward a project. This is the new shiny badge I got:  The message I got in BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing): And here are my stats as of now: There’s still no power in Puerto Rico where my 24-thread server is located, and even if there’s…

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Emerald Badge for World Community Grid’s Microbiome Immunity Project

Emerald Badge for World Community Grid’s Microbiome Immunity Project

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Hi everyone, Today, I got another badge in World Community Grid, and it’s the Emerald Badge for the Microbiome Immunity Project!  This means I’ve processed 1 year worth of workunits in my machines. The next badge will be the Sapphire Badge, awarded after processing 2 CPU-time years of workunits. The message I got in BOINC: My stats so far: My workunits in one of my machines: I’ll be contributing toward this project as well FightAIDS@Home and see if I can get the…

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I got the Diamond 20 Year badge for OpenZika from World Community Grid!

I got the Diamond 20 Year badge for OpenZika from World Community Grid!

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Hi everyone! Today night, I got the Diamond 20 Year Badge from the World Community Grid Project: OpenZika. This badge is awarded after contributing 20 years in CPU-time to this project. The badge is the following:  Here is the message I just got in BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing): And here’s my stats for the World Community Grid project in general: What’s Next? I’ll be focusing now in getting the Diamond 20 Year Badge for FightAIDS@Home – Phase 1, since…

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20 year badge for Outsmart Ebola Together! Another project from IBM World Community Grid

20 year badge for Outsmart Ebola Together! Another project from IBM World Community Grid

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Hi everyone, Continuing with my badge-collecting adventure, I got today the Diamond 20 Year Badge for the Outsmart Ebola Together project from IBM World Community Grid. The other days, I also got the Diamond 20 Year Badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer project as well, and I told you in the last paragraph that I changed the priority of the projects so I can upgrade my badges from the other projects. This is the result of it 🙂 The Diamond 20 Year Badge…

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