Cyberia,

It has always been tracked by member and projects to the second, point and result exact, but never published. The Badges were the first step, enhancement of the My Grid page to see the project contributions is another, in the planning. Many more features to the badges were requested and considered and wish-listed. Read the forums to find out what ideas are already there.

The RICE jobs for a long time on multi project devices came in 1 in 10 1 in 20. I noticed Didactylos only recently picked up his, so it can take 2 month. Many people run this as a preferred project, thus what was left for the general pool was little. There's a pick index somewhere that is tuned so to ensure that with the constant varying of job lengths, the coming and going of volunteers, priority batch completion requests for experiments, version upgrading related production fluctuations and what not, all projects get their relative fair share of total grid resource, but it is by far a constant.

Btw, there is a boast thread to tell folk you have yours, when it's there: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=20432

so I have another question,,,,

if 14*24 = 336hrs reqd to get badge is the order of precidence the total hrs or the total days?

suppose you have a quad core and all it works on is rice... eace core works 8 hrs on a wu; so in 8 hrs you have the equivelent of 32 hrs contribution...

so how daes this really work?

PISSY!!!!! Do not hate the player hate the game man! :} We have your back Barney!

Jean,

First I was not attempting to humor or otherwise entertain you (CAs) in any form.

I was simply attempting to ascertain what the criteria was for the actual awarding of badges.

Considering the Bionic software is cognizant to the actual number of cores a system has the question of days contribution :vs: hrs contribution becomes significant and I was simply attempting to fully understand what the actual criteria was. A quantity of "DAYS" is one thing; a quantity of "DAYS EQUIVALENCY (336 hrs) is quite something else.

Either way is fine, and a reasonable person would want to indeed know how the criteria of "DAYS" evaluated since there could clearly be a minimum of 2 conclusions. First, is 14 days regardless of the number of cores and equivalency. Of course the other is 336 hrs or as you so elegantly articulated 1,209,600 seconds!

Thanks for entertaining my question and forcing a laugh.

As for TV's or Books... Yeah, I think a neighbor has a TV and should I choose to fix it I could watch it.

As for books, I have rooms full of them, all technical thanks, one of which as I was doing some research forced the question to arise to an otherwise reasonable person unable to clearly make a simple distinction.

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Chuckle, I have been amused.

Night all.
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