Just got my first badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer subproject of World Community Grid!

Just got my first badge for the Smash Childhood Cancer subproject of World Community Grid!

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:

Smash Childhood Cancer Bronze Badge
Smash Childhood Cancer Bronze Medal BOINC message

A Bronze badge is awarded after having run a sub-project for at least 14 days in CPU time, and as of this post, I’ve already had ran this sub-project for 20 days in CPU time.

Smash Childhood Cancer Bronze Badge in the World Community Grid Statistics table.

What is CPU time? It’s very simple. Each core is able to run a single task of World Community Grid, so if you have a quad-core system or a 4 thread system and you have run exclusively the Smash Childhood Cancer sub-project, having received lots of tasks to fill each core of your PC, each core counts as a full day, so for each day, you have contributed 4 days of work for that particular sub-project.

I’m very proud of this accomplishment and I won’t stop collecting and upgrading my badges. Take a look at my other badges from this and other projects below: