Historic Achievement

[Alan C. Lawhon]

-- Name starts with Lawhonac
1 Lawhonac 661,465 1000

Well, it only took four months (virtually to the day) for my slow poke computer, but tonight I reached a major folding milestone – completion (and successful return) of my 1,000th work unit! The joyous event occurred around 9:30 P.M. local time when WU 5770 (14, 178, 3753) completed crunching and transmitted back to Dr. Voelz’s server at Temple University. With this noteworthy achievement, I have now racked up a total of 661,465 points. At my computer’s current pace, I’m on track to rack up 2,000,000 plus points for the full year – provided the mouse that runs the treadmill powering my computer doesn’t give up and fall over dead – or go on strike for higher wages. (Ha! Ha!)

If Project 5770 were a simulation requiring 100,000 completed and returned WUs, my barely-hanging-on decrepit old computer would have completed the equivalent of one percent of the full simulation. (Not bad for a computer that was considered a top-of-the-line “beast” when I bought it five or six years ago.)

With this monumental achievement behind me, I suppose my only question now is whether folders receive extra “bonus points” for hitting (and surpassing) major milestones such as your 1,000th completed and returned WU and/or your first (and successive) 1,000,000 point increments? I would think a special bonus of 1,000 points when you cross the 1,000th completed WU – and each successive multiple of 1,000 completed WUs - might be appropriate with maybe an extra five thousand points for each 1,000,000 point threshold you cross. (Just thinking out loud …)

[P5-133XL]

Congrats on getting to your own personal milestone. No, milestone bonus points do not exist. Interesting idea.

[Jesse_V]

Congratulations! That's really awesome.

On the topic of achievement awards, last year I ran across a REALLY old archive of one of the early F@h news blogs, and I specifically remember that there was a post specifically about the first donor to achieve 1 million points. I thought it was neat, but unfortunetely I don't know the URL. But no, they don't give out additional reward for passing specific milestones. Certain teams sometimes offer prizes for specific things, but in general there's no official award other than us being impressed and your own personal satisfaction.

[HaloJones]

You can download a certificate of your personal contribution if you wish from the main Stanford site.

[GreyWhiskers]

Here's the URL for your certif: http://fah-web2.stanford.edu/awards/cac ... c.1007.jpg

[kiore]

Well done! Your "slowpoke" mustn't be that slow...

[RMouse]

-- Name starts with Lawhonac
1 Lawhonac 661,465 1000

Well, it only took four months (virtually to the day) for my slow poke computer, but tonight I reached a major folding milestone – completion (and successful return) of my 1,000th work unit! The joyous event occurred around 9:30 P.M. local time when WU 5770 (14, 178, 3753) completed crunching and transmitted back to Dr. Voelz’s server at Temple University. With this noteworthy achievement, I have now racked up a total of 661,465 points. At my computer’s current pace, I’m on track to rack up 2,000,000 plus points for the full year – provided the mouse that runs the treadmill powering my computer doesn’t give up and fall over dead – or go on strike for higher wages. (Ha! Ha!)

If Project 5770 were a simulation requiring 100,000 completed and returned WUs, my barely-hanging-on decrepit old computer would have completed the equivalent of one percent of the full simulation. (Not bad for a computer that was considered a top-of-the-line “beast” when I bought it five or six years ago.)

LOL....4 months to do 1000 WU's is slow? Try me. I have been folding for 3/4 a year and have done about 230 WU's. THAT is slow.

Is it really 100,000 WU's for one project? That makes my contribution completely meaningless.

[mdk777]

That makes my contribution completely meaningless.

Exact opposite, large distributed computing requires the participation of the many...small donations, multiplied by thousand, or hopefully one day, millions of contributors lead to results unachievable for the individual, or even the large university.

[RMouse]

Is it really 100,000 WU's for a project?

[bruce]

Is it really 100,000 WU's for a project?

There's no set number.

Runs and Clones start at 0 and go to some predefined numbers. Multiply those two numbers and you'll know about how many WUs are in circulation at any one time. Each Gen completed creates a new Gen so that number can be unlimited, although at some point, the protein is defined as "folded" (if that's the desired end-point) and the project ends.

[Jesse_V]

Is it really 100,000 WU's for a project?

There's no set number.

Runs and Clones start at 0 and go to some predefined numbers. Multiply those two numbers and you'll know about how many WUs are in circulation at any one time. Each Gen completed creates a new Gen so that number can be unlimited, although at some point, the protein is defined as "folded" (if that's the desired end-point) and the project ends.

This thread: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21614 has a good amount of useful information about the number of WUs per project.