Ralph@Home

[Dirk Broer]

Friday, the 29th of August, Ralph@Home became the 84th project where AMD Users broke the 1 Million credits barrier.
With 84 projects that passed the 1 Million we are currently the 6th team world-wide, with only Seti.USA (110), Seti.Germany (103), L'Alliance Francophone (99), BOINC Synergy (95) and Czech National Team (89) before us. And we're not alone at 6, as our friends from BOINC@Poland are there too with 84 projects at 1 Million.

[Nflight]

That is one tough project to crunch. Not for the fact that its work units are long at about 3 hours its because that project rarely puts out work to crunch. But I opened up the allow button and now have nearly 30 Wu's in line up! Much more then I was expecting.

[Dirk Broer]

The project also has granted you three crowns after your name -at least in the FreeDC rankings-, would you like to tell the story behind that?
You donated three times? You were user of the day three times?

[Nflight]

Actually Dirk no I would not tell what that means and I wish it would be removed...

[AMDave]

Crikey!!! nonono. We don't remove the Free-DC (MM) Triple Crown of honour. nonono
They should mean that you are a freakin legend.
I have asked for the current criteria here:
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?44614-A-thought-Free-DC-Triple-Crown&highlight=crowns

[Nflight]

Holy Smokes Batman (Thanks AMDave) I am Legend ! Did you hear that :blob3: ?

OK let me make this Clear! AMDusers is my team, I will not leave for any reason But I am not legend. I donated funds to get the freaky stats back up more then 8 years ago! So the crowns are from a donation to support my stats habit. Not that I have reached the threshold that AMDave has proclaimed I have reached. Which is impossible since I have not gotten enough credits in any field to reach that level of TeraBoks! There Dirk I have handed you the truth so help me god!

[Dirk Broer]

I am glad to have raised the question

[Nflight]

I like the fact that we reached 1,000,000 points in 84 projects. I would love ot reach that level in all the projects but as you know the difficulty is getting everyone to have the facility to crunch enough data to reach that fortification. I wonder if we can rent Poor Boy's herd for a day or two per project?

[Jason1478963]

I have many machines currently idle do to my budget limits and would consider this for our team members especially during my cold winter months. I do believe I will be hitting WCG pretty hard for the next project badge, but I don't think running everything will be in the picture on my current budget.

[B Johansson]

today the number is 85 CONVECTOR reached 1,000,000 points yesterday:icon_lol:

[Nflight]

The problem with Ralph is that the project has always been intermittent. Sometimes 3 months between a couple thousand work units. Then nothing for another 3 months. But this is the first time that hordes of work units are available and for more then one day. Who knows if this agenda will last, unlikely because of their history but you never know this time they may stay up for a longer duration. How long no one knows!

[Dirk Broer]

If anyone fancies the sheer lottery that is the Lattice Project: we need just another few thousand credits to cross yet another 1 million credits mark there....

[vaughan]

I never manage to get any Lattice Project tasks. Been trying for years.

[Dirk Broer]

Getting is one thing, managing to finish (http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/results.php?userid=27383) one is another...

[Nflight]

Like I figured the Ralph project has shut down. They are still allowing people to finish their existing project work but the connection to the main server is now showing 24 hours. I may be wrong but it looks like we are back to waiting for the next batch once more!