KWSN Orbiting Fortress

[LanDroid]

By a close vote, WCG wins PotM for July. All of you badge-hunters have a long way to go to catch up with this shrubber!

[LanDroid]

Starting stats:
127th Place
334,598,495 Total points
46,183 RAC 137th place.
46,881. Daily average over past week.
1,346,089. Points in past month.
417 years 111 days total team run time.

[Mifun]

Hmm it doesn't looks like other projects (like SETI, Einstein etc) and i definitely dislike it.
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[LanDroid]

World Community Grid combines resources to shrub smaller sub-projects. You can peruse these projects here (currently 12 active) and select which you want to support in your profile. To start out you may want to select all projects and crunch 'em as they come...

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/viewAllProjects.do

You can earn badges based on computing time per project:
Bronze - 14 days
Silver - 45 days
Gold - 90 days
Ruby - 180 days
Emerald - 1 year
Sapphire - 2 years

KWSN recently exceeded 400 years of total shrubberatory support for WCG.
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[branjo]

Like its projects - seems they have lot of sense for us. Added it.

Ni.
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[Plomos]

Finishing up my que of other WUs and then picking up some WCG WUs. Already have one badge, going for more! Ni!
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[Blurf]

I'm in...
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[The King's Own]

In, two whole tasks completed.
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What are you going to do, bleed on me?

[LanDroid]

Milestones:
A Shrubbery passes 9,500,000
Murdog8 20,000
Sir Dancealot passes 9,000
Colleen passes 2,000
tjcares 2,000
branjo passes 200

[The King's Own]

The spare parts, and now incorrectly named KWSN-Einstein rig, collected 108,444 points on Einstein and has now been re-tasked to WCG.

What a pain that was.
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What are you going to do, bleed on me?

[Killerrabbit]

Are you renaming the rig each time you switch projects?

Ni
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[The King's Own]

I didn't think far enough ahead, you can only merge PCs with the same name, so that could be cumbersome. I will rename the spare parts rig once to KWSN-POtM.

I have just come into some extra cash and am in the process of building a replacement main rig from new, but not the latest, discounted parts. I got an EVGA LGA 1156 motherboard for $40 on Amazon and a Thermaltake Black Widow case on sale for $41 at Best Buy. I might be able to afford a 600 series EVGA card if I am lucky, otherwise I found a refurbished GTX 580. The CPU will be the best core i7 I can secure with obvious limitation it won't be the latest model.
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What are you going to do, bleed on me?

[LanDroid]

I didn't give WCG much of a description up top 'cuz I assumed all Knights had shrubbed it at least a bit. So it is great to (be proved wrong once again and) see a crop of newbies hittin' the grid!

Milestones:
Gemjunkie[TeaM] passed 700,000
Kemanmaldea passed 350,000
flommi 25,000
Sir Mifun passed 3,000
branjo passed 2,000
The Kings Own passed 2,000

[branjo]

[Plomos]

moved up 3 spots on the team today via 300 points so far today. That puts me at #135 wooooooo

Looks like there are plenty of people shrubbing for us that we never see here
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[LanDroid]

You have probably seen the announcement regarding the "Help Conquer Cancer" sub-project in your client, but did you notice the GPU Alert for WCG!

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~juris/WCG/UPDATE-JUN2012.pdf

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/341/1/012027/

[The King's Own]

I tried to figure out how to get the most bang for our buck when crunching WCG workunits.

It appears that, simple averaged on my two rigs, (intel core i5-750 and AMD Athlon II 620) Say No to Schistosoma would give the best return. Unhappily Help Fight Childhood Cancer is the least rewarding in terms of points but IMHO, most valuable in terms of significance.

I am changing my preferences on the KWSN-POtM rig so it just runs Schistosoma. We will see if it makes any points difference if I just crunch that one project.

I included a screen scrape of the spreadsheet, the calculation columns are hidden to save space.

Unlike other BOINC projects I crunch, with WCG there is quite a lag between completion, validation and reporting to BOINCStats.


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What are you going to do, bleed on me?

[branjo]

I am running all projects except of "Clean Energy" (what a bullshit) and getting results I am satisfy with them. The best one seems to be "Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2", but who cares - I like all of them
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[Plomos]

Remember a couple of things when looking at points, credits, and badges for these WCG projects

the points are unique to WCG (not the same as boinc credits)

Boinc credits are what we keep track of across projects

WCG badges are earned based on runtime as listed above by LanDroid

So for instance I have run a total of 2 say no to schistosoma WUs. I have 2,230 WCG points for that sub project but from looking at my results status page each is only worth ~150 Boinc Credits. So i have about 300 credits from that project. Likewise i have just over 1 day of CPU runtime for it so i should earn the bronze badge after 13 more days of run time for that project.

Main point here is credits are different from points cause I have 42,360 points but only 6k credits
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[branjo]

Me (more or less) either

i can see points on their site, but where can I find boinc credits breakdown by sub-project?

Thanks and Ni!
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