Shameless badges bragging thread

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:21 pm

And there's my WCG FAH2 sapphire badge

. That's all the active subprojects. Guess I'll have to work on some 5 year badges now

Post by **utopia-i** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:48 pm

That was quick! - Im only 649 days behind you

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:20 pm

I've finally managed to get my WCG clean energy 2 badge

I was begining to wonder if I was ever going to get there :sleepy2:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:38 pm

That's all 6 active sub-projects :cheers:

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:50 pm

scole250 wrote:That's all 6 active sub-projects :cheers:

Good point, I knew there was a reason that I was trying to get that one done!
Also wanted to get it in case the project stopped..... some of my wuprop projects were just a couple of hours away from hitting the next level when the projects finished

Post by **utopia-i** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:18 pm

utopia-i wrote:That was quick! - Im only 649 days behind you

Thats me down to only 365 days to catch you up, just reached ...

Emerald - 1 year

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 2:02 pm

utopia-i wrote:
utopia-i wrote:That was quick! - Im only 649 days behind you
Thats me down to only 365 days to catch you up, just reached ...

Emerald - 1 year

Catch up? You already have more than double the sapphire WCG badges than I do!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 4:11 pm

There it is, my Yoyo ECM master badge

Post by **utopia-i** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 6:18 pm

Well done, I noticed you having a high RAC and catching me fast .. Hopefully you'll be distracted on other projects now ! , until my 2 week bunker hopefully uploads ..

It's interesting why the team haven't crunched more on this project ? I'm second which is worrying!

Sub projects and badges and long WUs deadlines and availability are all good, give it s go ....

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:34 pm

It's just one of those things I guess. I do little bits of yoyo here and there but never enough to make much progress with badges...
I think I've got a way to go for any sort of badge at the moment :sleepy2:

Post by **utopia-i** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:49 am

And almost a month on just got my 1m Master Cruncher ogr yoyo@home badge ,

will hopefully feed thru to my sig soon, looks like a long haul to the Grandmaster 2m badge, but 11 months to do that as FB has just started!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:36 am

Well done utopia-i, that's impressive going already! Good luck with the long haul to two million :bounce:

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:05 pm

utopia-i wrote:And almost a month on just got my 1m Master Cruncher ogr yoyo@home badge ,
will hopefully feed thru to my sig soon, looks like a long haul to the Grandmaster 2m badge, but 11 months to do that as FB has just started!

Well done, keep up the good work.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 6:02 pm

Well done! Not many folks around here sporting a Moo! Wapper master badge

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:44 pm

I've finally managed to achieve some badges!
A WCG FAH2 silver

An Atlas 10k

Bitcoin Utopia for the Boinc stats campaign

Bitcoin Utopia for the modelica campaign

And I'm still grinding away at a few others........

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:11 am

Badges must be like busses ....... nothing then 4 at the same time

Well done sir :cheers:

Post by **utopia-i** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:21 am

Silver wrote:I've finally managed to achieve some badges!
A WCG FAH2 silver
An Atlas 10k
Bitcoin Utopia for the Boinc stats campaign
Bitcoin Utopia for the modelica campaign

And I'm still grinding away at a few others........

Those Bitcoin utopia-i badges look cool, keep going on FAAH2, you really do want a blue one, you just don't know it yet 8)

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:42 am

Nice set :salute:

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:23 pm

utopia-i wrote: Those Bitcoin utopia-i badges look cool, keep going on FAAH2, you really do want a blue one, you just don't know it yet 8)

Oh don't worry utopia-i, I do know I want a blue badge. Its just the getting it part that's the problem!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 6:23 pm

I've managed to get my

badge on Universe, was wondering if I was ever going to hit the magic 7 figures

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:51 pm

Well hats off to my little odroid friends, they've manged to upgrade my enigma badge

I've also managed to get a

primegrid badge, I've been grinding away at that one for what feels like years!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:53 pm

Silver wrote:Well hats off to my little odroid friends, they've manged to upgrade my enigma badge
I've also managed to get a primegrid badge, I've been grinding away at that one for what feels like years!

Do I see an Amethyst Enigma badge? (meaning more than 10,000,000 credits) Yes, it is Amethyst: Paul of TSBT, presently 71st at Enigma@Home
And a Sapphire GFN badge (meaning more than 20,000,000 credits) as well..... Both feats will take me some years yet!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:52 pm

Finally got all my primegrid badges silver or better. Guess it's time to go for gold

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:40 pm

Alez wrote:Finally got all my primegrid badges silver or better. Guess it's time to go for gold

It is that the 321 Sieve is inactive, or I could have pulled a long nose to you :mrgreen:

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:03 pm

:bootyshake: The nose pulling honor is all mine sir

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:36 pm

Alez wrote: :bootyshake: The nose pulling honor is all mine sir

I lead by three gold and two subprojects, Cyrano de Bergerac!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:27 am

Dirk Broer wrote:
Alez wrote: :bootyshake: The nose pulling honor is all mine sir
I lead by three gold and two subprojects, Cyrano de Bergerac!

Pffff, details details

I still tweak your snout :mrgreen:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:48 am

Earned a NFS 5,000,000 Turquoise badge

And what do you think about the goofyx badges?

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:40 pm

Wow 5 million, that's some crunching there Scole!
I think the goofy badges look a bit weird but I'm quite happy to take them :)

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:19 pm

scole250 wrote:Earned a NFS 5,000,000 Turquoise badge

And what do you think about the goofyx badges?

Congratulations on the turquoise!
Them Goofy badges won't win any prices for the most beautiful badge, but SRBase badges ain't pretty either.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:23 am

Those are some butt ugly monkeys

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 1:22 am

Got my 2nd gold star for a 'Yoho' project (Cruncher). It is now nicely divided between two golden, two silver and two starless badges.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:29 am

Well done. Was that on Intel/AMD (win/linux) systems or single board systems?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:17 pm

Alez wrote:Those are some butt ugly monkeys

Now that I have those butt ugly goofy grid monkeys on my profile I actually thing that they are butt ugly and pretty naff.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:49 pm

scole250 wrote:Well done. Was that on Intel/AMD (win/linux) systems or single board systems?

Both

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:42 pm

I was going to wait until I had a more colorful version but at the rate WCG is issuing WUs it may be a while. So here it is, the bronze Help Stop TB badge...

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:48 pm

Well done Scole, I think that's a team first

I'll have to give it a go shortly.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 2:05 am

There's my WCG HST ruby badge for 180 days on the project

signature should pick it up tonight.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:35 pm

scole250 wrote:There's my WCG HST ruby badge for 180 days on the project

signature should pick it up tonight.

From 14 to 180 days only took eleven, respect.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Apr 24, 2016 12:54 am

Dirk Broer wrote:
scole250 wrote:There's my WCG HST ruby badge for 180 days on the project

signature should pick it up tonight.
From 14 to 180 days only took eleven, respect.

Jeez, don't encourage him, he'll just end up with a big head

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:30 pm

HST emerald

done! A couple more days and I should have enough banked in pending to get sapphire once they clear.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:53 am

scole250 wrote:HST emerald done! A couple more days and I should have enough banked in pending to get sapphire once they clear.

From 180 to 365 days took only five days.....

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:31 am

Respect to Dink in 5 days. Some people you just can't please

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon May 02, 2016 11:02 am

WCG HST sapphire!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Mon May 02, 2016 11:49 am

scole250 wrote:Respect to Dink in 5 days. Some people you just can't please

Considering your enormous computing power, you MUST have a Double Income and No Kids.
If I were in that position, I'd already bought server mainboards for multiple Opterons/Xeons too.
As for now: it's crunching on a budget. Kids have left the house, but so has my income

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed May 04, 2016 12:16 am

Dirk Broer wrote:...you MUST have a Double Income and No Kids...

Actually, I have a 12 year old son who is getting more expensive each year. Otherwise I might have dual cpu LGA 2011 V3 systems instead of LGA 1366.

But he's a great kid and worth every cent he costs me :)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed May 04, 2016 2:52 am

scole250 wrote:Actually, I have a 12 year old son who is getting more expensive each year.

Just you wait until the child in question hits 15 almost 16 then come back and complain !!!!!!!

Dad , I need the latest tech, trainers, etc goes clean out the window compared to the statement .... Dad I have a girl friend :shock

Post by **Bryan** » Wed May 04, 2016 3:14 am

No Alez, it's I have a girlfriend and I need to borrow the car

Then it is the cost of insurance and gas! Shoot that worth at least the same as a 4 CPU Xeon V4 system.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed May 04, 2016 3:58 am

I may have sold my Evo rally car, but the boy knows fine well that there is no way on gods green earth that he is getting the keys to the MG. He can negotiate with his mother for the Rav if he wishes or he can coninue with public transport. Life is a bitch but I'm bitchier

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:08 am

I've just done a quick calculation on the costs for a 64-core Raspberry Pi 3 system -a poor man's Cray.
It can be done for a little over 1,100 Euro's:

How to build a Raspberry Pi BOINC cluster, and what does it cost?

Say you want a cheap, 64-core system, how you're gonna do it?

Buy 16 Raspberry Pi 3's - the ones with inbuilt WiFi and BlueTooth- as it saves on cabling.
Buy 16 micro SD cards, Class 10, at least U1. We may need that extra read and write speed.
Buy 16 USB to microUSB cables.
Buy two 10-port powered USB Hubs that offer 5V and 2.5 A for each and every port.
Buy six stackable casings.
Install Boinc Tasks on your host system -so you don't need 16 keyboards or 16 HDMI cables.

Costs:

16 times the price of a Pi 3, for me 16 x 42 Euro = 672 Euro
16 times the price of a micro SD card, for me 16 x 10 Euro = 160 Euro
16 times the price of a USB to microUSB cable, for me 16 x 5 Euro = 80 Euro
2 times the price of a 10-port hub, for me 2 x 40 Euro = 80 Euro
6 times the price of a stackable case, plus some extra interconnecting material, for me 6 x 20 Euro = 120 Euro
Free!

That's a grand total 1,112 Euro -but that includes all needed mobos, cpus, RAM, casings and PSUs. It will eat 16 x 3 Watt at most.
A 64-core Opteron system needs a quad Opteron mobo, four Opterons, a non-standard PSU, lots of ECC RAM and at least one disk.
A 64-thread Xeon system needs two 16-core Xeons and a likewise support of other hardware.