The Amino acids, components of proteins, the main characters in GPUGRID simulations. Given per total number of credits and milestones in 20 levels, the number of amino acids encoded by the universal genetic code (ordered by molar mass ~weight). Amino acid/credits equivalences below.



The Waters, basic component of life and a distinctive trait of our long and accurate simulations. 7 levels (Plastic, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire) to represent relative contribution to our scientific publications. Each water badge will be linked to the corresponding publication and Science topic. Water/percentage equivalences below.



The donor badge is changed to the crown

The complete information is available in the Volunteers page. We will update the server at the start of next week!

#AA - Milestone (in Million credits)
Gly 0.5
Ala 1
Ser 5
Pro 10
Val 25
Thr 50
Cys 100
Ile 150
Leu 200
Asn 250
Asp 300
Gln 400
Lys 500
Glu 750
Met 1,000
His 1,500
Phe 2,000
Arg 3,000
Tyr 5,000
Trp 10,000

#Water - Top % contribution (percentiles)
Plastic 100
Bronze 90
Silver 75
Gold 50
Ruby 25
Emerald 10
Sapphire 1

Amino acids rofl :) Neat idea, and very much in keeping with what GPUGRID is about.

Nicely Done :)

Regards
Zy

Acknowledgements go to skgiven as well!
His contribution has been crucial in the development of the badge system.

Cheers,
i

sweet. Implemented partially at Free-DC, given it's just based on credit.

See an example on my CPID page here

standalone for use in signatures

which is {img}http://stats.free-dc.org/badgesgpugrid.php?proj=ps3&id=59511{/img} changing {} to []

Bok

Excellent - that didn't take you long =)

This one looks a bit odd,

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I took a guess at that as there was a default badge out there, figured it was a base one everyone got...I should have looked at it first as it was not a good guess perhaps :)

I'll update code to take that out now.

The grey badge will be used as a default below 0.5 M credits, in fact!

T

Ok cool. Reverted back to how I did it originally :)

Thanks for your efforts Bok.

It's way better to have a grey αα than none!

Isoleucine (ILE/I) at it's finest,


The crowns look more appropriate for donations.

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This looks great. I need more compute hardware. ><

Those are cool. :)

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How is the water badge calculated? What does (say) top 1% of contribution mean?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Water badges are equivalent to percentiles in a ranked table of contributors.
Of all contributors for a paper, the Top 1% are assigned a Sapphire, the top 10% (minus the 1% guys) an Emerald and so on...

cheers
i

Thanks. I was not clear on my question. What is the equation? Also, hypothetically, I could be in the top 1% today, but drop out tomorrow. So does this badge represent the highest ever achieved, or just the current ranking?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

The paper rankings are (barring fixes) "static": they represent the contribution that you have given to a specific paper. Thus, they are only computed when a new paper comes out, by counting the calculations that were used in it. Once a paper is published, new WUs can't enter into it, and therefore - once a badge is given, it's given.

Hopefully I did not confuse your ideas.

In other words:
1. Computations are done; say, they have the "LYSTRYP" name tag
2. A paper on LYSTRYP is written and, hopefully, published.
3. We count who has given what to our LYSTRYP (computations and paper)
4. Contributors are ranked; top 1% of the contributors get sapphire for LYSTRYP, top 10% get ... etc
5. There is no n. 5. New workunits will have different names, and new results won't affect the LYSTRYP badges.

In short, paper-related badges are tokens of appreciation for helping us in reaching specific important goals.

Where will these badges appear (other than BOK's site)?

In short, paper-related badges are tokens of appreciation for helping us in reaching specific important goals.

Ah! I get it now. Thanks!

Okay, then I have a follow-up question. There is a choice between long and short tasks. Are any sub-projects available in only one or the other? In other words, if I chose only long tasks, will I be missing out on contributing to some sub-projects? Or if I choose only short tasks, will I be missing out on contributing to some sub-projects?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Where will these badges appear (other than BOK's site)?

Early next week badges will appear beneath your RAC, like this:

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Posts: 9
Credit: 59,850,788
RAC: 577,588



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There is a choice between long and short tasks. Are any sub-projects available in only one or the other? In other words, if I chose only long tasks, will I be missing out on contributing to some sub-projects? Or if I choose only short tasks, will I be missing out on contributing to some sub-projects?

Very good question.
I don't know the long-term answer to that question, but I have an impression of the present situation and can speculate on what I think will/should happen:
At the minute TONI, GIANNI and NATHAN have long tasks (in various numbers) but I have not seen any MJHARVEY or KASHIF long tasks recently, and while I have seen a few normal length NATHAN and TONI tasks, I think these are different projects (but possibly different parts of one project). There has not been many IBUCH tasks recently, of either length, probably because Ignasi has been busy setting up this system and the site.
I expect this will be discussed soon, 'amongst the researchers' if it has not already been agreed upon (related issues have been).
I would speculate that it's most likely there will be both long and normal tasks for as many projects as possible fairly soon. My worry would be that some ongoing research might require step continuity, but for future projects I don't see any reason why there could not be both short and long tasks for all ongoing research. It's sort of set and forget vs interactive & fun. Either way, so long as we know what's happening we can crunch accordingly. We should all be able to reach plastic for every project by crunching a few short (or even long) tasks now and again.