1 year of DC in review

[Philippart]

My dear friends,
about a year ago on May 29th 2006 my physics teacher told me about SETI and SETI@Home. I was immediately facinated by the idea of connecting computers over the internet, being a computer/technology/internet addicted. While setting up Boinc on my main computer, I read about the other projects on the boinc website and attached to rosetta too.

What changed in my life:
* I gained some friends and met a lot of friendly people. I'd like to highlight BlackMountainCow and Petrusbroder especially.
* I've seen some great competitors, Ken_06 and recently caferace.
* My fleet expanded from 1 cruncher to 9 crunchers and there's still no end in sight, I still have 3 more mainstream class CPUs waiting for some mre hardware
* I feel good donating CPU time to worthy projects

Achievements:

Boinc:
over_132,000 credits at Rosetta@Home
over__60,000 credits at WCG
over__15,000 credits at Nano-Hive@Home
over__12,000 credits at Einstein@Home
over___9,000 credits at Simap@Home
over___9,000 credits at CPDN
over___6,000 credits at Proteins@Home
over___4,000 credits at Malariacontrol.net
over___4,000 credits at Docking@Home
over___3,000 credits at QMC@Home
over___2,000 credits at Tanpaku
over___1,000 credits at SETI@Home
over_____800 credits at Ralph@Home
over_____500 credits at Spinhenge@Home
over_____100 credits at uFluids
over______60 credits at Predictor@Home

Boinc combined:__263,003 credits

Other Platforms:
nearly_50,000 credits at DPAD/Muon1
over__13,000 credits at Folding@Home

Thank you for this great time, I'm looking forward to a few more years of crunching together with you.


(I'm posting this now because I go on holiday tomorrow, 1 day France, 1 week Switzerland, most of the crunchers are already shut down, yes, caferace is going to overtake me in WCG now )

 

[caferace]

Back 'atcha. A fine bunch of folks!

(Have a nice vacation )

-jim

 

[TallBill]

I'm curious with only 267 posts now a year later how you picked Anandtech to crunch with. For people like myself the choice was obvious.

 

[GLeeM]

Congrats on 1 year anniversary!

Nice stats :thumbsup:

 

[Philippart]

I had another forum account here earlier, I changed it to so that it matches better with my username in DC projects.

I first learnt about Anandtech when the first Half-Life2 benchmarks were posted here. Anandtech was the first to publish these results in 2003 I think. That was also the reason why I chose it as a team.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Philippart
I had another forum account here earlier, I changed it to so that it matches better with my username in DC projects.

I first learnt about Anandtech when the first Half-Life2 benchmarks were posted here. Anandtech was the first to publish these results in 2003 I think. That was also the reason why I chose it as a team.

Ah ok, next time you want to change names just pm the mods Glad its been a good year.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Originally posted by: Philippart
What changed in my life:
* I gained some friends and met a lot of friendly people. I'd like to highlight BlackMountainCow and Petrusbroder especially.
* I've seen some great competitors, Ken_06 and recently caferace.
* My fleet expanded from 1 cruncher to 9 crunchers and there's still no end in sight, I still have 3 more mainstream class CPUs waiting for some mre hardware
* I feel good donating CPU time to worthy projects

*#1 - Same to you man!
*#2 Yeah, Jim can be a pain in the neck with his crunchers
*#3 Oh, that sounds sooo familiar
*#4 That, too!

Congrats on all you milestones and points Tom, glad to have you with us here on TA/TAS!

:beer::beer:

 

[Rudy Toody]

Congratulations on all the milestones.:thumbsup:

You left one out, though. You started the please delete thread which the TeAm's voracious neffers promptly took over.

 

[deerslayer]

Congrats!

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
*#2 Yeah, Jim can be a pain in the neck with his crunchers

I don't have a "Fleet". It's more like a loosely-affiliated gang of computers. :laugh:

-jim

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
Congratulations on all the milestones.:thumbsup:

You left one out, though. You started the please delete thread which the TeAm's voracious neffers promptly took over.

Definitely one hell of an achievement, and one that will be remembered for a good long time (especially if I can help it).

:beer: & :wine: to another good year. Hmm, going at that rate of expansion on your fleet, this time next year you'll have... 81 machines.

 

[petrusbroder]

Congrats, Tom, to your anniversary!
You have really done well - both in crunching and in posting! Your thread is a classic, a record breaker and was/is a great initiative! :sun:

So enjoy and please stay on - you are a great team-mate!