Historic Achievement
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:25 am
-- 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 …)
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 …)
