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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Thanks for the reply. I see a problem for badge-chasers like me. How do we make sure we maximise our chance to win? Rather than a choice for long/short, we need sub-project selections.
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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Skgiven's guesses of the short/long tasks are rather accurate.
Our usage of either of these is primarily based on the experiment/researcher needs.

Now, regarding zombie67 concerns about sub-project selection, I can say that we will NOT implement it. Unlike other DC projects that do so trough the differnet apps they deploy, GPUGRID runs a single app for all of its WU types (only splitted in two weight categories—short/long). Moreover, sub-project selection would result in a competition for resources between GPUGRID scientists and we don't want that, we are single research group with common goals.

The most you can do is to use short/long WU to indirectly select between experiements (i.e. HIV is only running on short)...

Finally, and adding up on Toni's words, let me remark the fact that as scientists our goal is to get our work published. Publications are the measure of performance and success and they are the means to communicate our findings and developments. Publication Badges are designed to acknowledge your contribution to the achievement of these goals. In fact, they will be linked to each and every one of the publications done so far using GPUGRID. AFAIK and correct me if I am wrong but, this is a unique feature in the DC community that I am sure you will appreciate.

Cheers,
i

I'm just going to venture a guess that Stoneageman is going to have a lot of sapphire badges. O_o

Are the water badges retroactive? Or will they only be for publications going forward from the implementation of this badge system?

Well that's great recordkeeping as far as who's contributed what to each publication. It sounds like you've been planning for this badge system for awhile now.

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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Joined: 27 Jun 10
Posts: 9
Credit: 59,850,788
RAC: 577,588



Publications

#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

I think the proper order is:
...
Leu 150*
Ile 200*
...
Lys 400*
Gln 500*
...

I think the proper order is:
...
Leu 150*
Ile 200*
...
Lys 400*
Gln 500*
...

Mmmm not really... Ile/Leu are the same (131.17 Da) but Gln/Lys are 146.14/146.19 Da...
But anyway, it's just to define an order.

Thanks!

Are the water badges retroactive?

No, and neither are the amino acids, though they could be; you can use heavy αα's as a biological tracking technique.

Yeah he said they were retroactive, and then contradicted his earlier response. I see now that they do give credit for previous work. Outstanding! I wish I'd started this project earlier, I'm missing so many badges.

Yeah well, it happens. I know, trust me. ^^

I just turned off short runs because of the ridiculously low credits I was getting on some of the units. Some were running as long as the long runs, and giving 25-30% of the credit. I'm sure you've already heard that before. I want to contribute to all of the subprojects without feeling like I'm being shorted. Is there anything to be done about this?

I'm still wondering, which of the amino acids resembles Chuck Norris the most? :)
Good work! It's a very clever badge system.

I'm still wondering, which of the amino acids resembles Chuck Norris the most? :)

*atomrofl*
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