I've had a pretty good year!

Wow! I just looked at Hypernova stats. If everyone did his results, WCG would only need 70 members to get the number of results they got today. That member has only 38 devices or about 577 results per device. 577 divided by 24 is about 24 so that member get 24 results per device per hour or one every 2.5 minutes or 150 seconds. I have computers that take over 10 hours to complete a result. Wow! that member must have some super fast devices.

SN2S                                   -   107,094    110  0:090:05:55:13 (Nothing to Gold - 08/10/2012)
CFSW                                   -   244,758  1,830  0:180:08:33:23 (Nothing to Ruby - 25/09/2012)
GFAM     19,465     26  0:006:07:18:28 -   227,255    258  0:117:02:06:06 (Nothing to Gold - 29/06/2012)
DSFL     54,839     60  0:017:20:10:00 -   291,919    298  0:180:06:31:07 (Bronze to Ruby - 16/04/2012)
C4CW    264,302    635  0:099:04:10:21 -   606,168  1,629  1:000:05:36:15 (Gold to Emerald - 01/08/2012)
CEP2    264,585    213  0:093:16:25:35 -   565,076    530  0:246:22:49:34 (Gold to Ruby - 16/04/2012)
HFCC  1,931,143  2,608  1:358:06:36:17 - 1,950,518  2,633  2:000:04:43:48 (Emerald to Sapphire - 16/04/2012)
HCC1    918,500  3,477  1:000:00:38:32 - 1,040,834  3,755  1:050:09:20:05 (No Change)
HPF2    676,228  1,246  0:349:23:20:40 -   881,975  1,466  1:104:19:00:53 (Ruby to Emerald - 16/04/2012)
Beta    203,575    324  0:075:22:05:55 -   244,433    379  0:105:18:31:03 (Silver to Gold - 16/04/2012)

02/01/2012	Accumulated Points:  8,300,857, Current Ranking: 7,019
01/01/2013	Accumulated Points: 10,170,015, Current Ranking: 8,992
		Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 14:148:04:19:48 (#6,428)
		Results Returned (Rank) 21,292 (#8,029)

This year, I've achieved 18 badge upgrades in total (including my "mass upgrade" of 8 badge changes in one Stats Update). I have dropped down the rankings - due to an issue where my computer's battery became flat, and thus, the power was reduced (since rectified, by purchasing a new battery and a stronger power adaptor). This year also saw me break the 10,000,000 points barrier.

So, all in all, a pretty reasonable effort for someone with just with a quad-core laptop.

Edit: Refreshed stats from the last update in 2012.

My crunching progress this year has not been that well. About two months ago I was close to getting on page 9 of results returned. Now I am over 10,000 fewer results than the member who is at the top of page 10 and I have just a little more than 2,000 results than the person who is last. I have been maintaining that for the last couple of weeks so maybe my downward slide is over. I have been doing this for close to 14 years(7 years for both WCG and UD). So I can remember when getting 1 result per day on a computer was good for me. I had a single core computer with less than a Ghz speed. So I have seen a lot of progress in those 14 years. Now I see members like Hypernova and like I said before there would be a need for only 70 members to get way over a million results. For personal reasons I try to get some self worth out of doing this. I am doing well since I am in the top one tenth of a percent of all the members. But I do know that about half of the members do not even have 1 result. Even giving that fact, I would still be in the top 1% of the active members. When I look at members like Hypernova, I wonder if this is worth it because IBM must spend a lot of money maintaining this site and each member must spend some money on both equipment and electricity to generate their results. I have purchased in the last 4 months two power supplies, two hard drives, and two GPUs. I think that if even a small per cent of the members would save their electrical cost and donate this money to IBM, they could purchase more than 100 times the amount of equipment Hypernova has and just close down this site. But I do not know this for sure and since I get some of my self worth from doing this I continue but I am almost sure this will not last more than a couple of years.