I'm reaching somewhat of a milestone in the next few days. I have been running the Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) for over a decade. 12 years actually. During that time I have faithfully logged my daily progress as I helped number crunch radio telescope signals in the long time search for Extraterrestrial signals. In short, we have been looking for a cousin of E.T. So far, haven't found any.
So, I have an Excel sheet with about 3460 lines of daily records. I didn't log weekends, and sometimes I missed some logging days when traveling or on vacation. The work units went on, so I get caught up. I am considering retiring the effort, as I move towards passing the 10,000,000 mark in work units completed. I figure that I've done my part. I'll keep running until I pass the milestone, but then will gracefully shut down my search.
There are 4,004,760 users as of today. I am ahead of all but 28,601 of them. So I am ahead of 99.28582% of the world wide users.
Not Bad!
Dad
Woah this is the (near) end of an era! Way to be in the top 1%! That is incredible!
ReplyDelete-Bradley
You can run a BOINC with the best of 'em, that's what I always say. Those alien critters are out there somewhere, good job with the search.
ReplyDelete-Patrick