Moisés Cardona

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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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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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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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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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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