The Scottish Boinc Team

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

That was quick! - Im only 649 days behind you

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:

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

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

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

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!

There it is, my Yoyo ECM master badge

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 ....

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:

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

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.

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

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........

Badges must be like busses ....... nothing then 4 at the same time Well done sir :cheers:

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)

Nice set :salute:

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!

I've managed to get my badge on Universe, was wondering if I was ever going to hit the magic 7 figures

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!

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!

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

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:

:bootyshake: The nose pulling honor is all mine sir

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

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

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:

Earned a NFS 5,000,000 Turquoise badge

And what do you think about the goofyx badges?

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 :)

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.

Those are some butt ugly monkeys

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

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

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.

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

Both

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...

Well done Scole, I think that's a team first
I'll have to give it a go shortly.

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

signature should pick it up tonight.

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.

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

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

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.....

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

WCG HST sapphire!

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

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 :)

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

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.

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

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?

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

Costs:

1. 16 times the price of a Pi 3, for me 16 x 42 Euro = 672 Euro
2. 16 times the price of a micro SD card, for me 16 x 10 Euro = 160 Euro
3. 16 times the price of a USB to microUSB cable, for me 16 x 5 Euro = 80 Euro
4. 2 times the price of a 10-port hub, for me 2 x 40 Euro = 80 Euro
5. 6 times the price of a stackable case, plus some extra interconnecting material, for me 6 x 20 Euro = 120 Euro
6. 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.