Houston, we have new paper......

I'm looking at the issue of converting our existing points milestones to credit milestones to go along with the coming conversion at WCG. Unfortunately, dividing by 7 doesn't give nice round numbers:

   POINTS          CREDITS
   25,000            3,571
   50,000            7,142
   75,000           10,714
  100,000           14,285
  200,000           28,571
  250,000           35,714
  300,000           42,857
  400,000           57,142
  500,000           71,428
  600,000           85,714
  700,000          100,000
  750,000          107,142
  800,000          114,285
  900,000          128,571
1,000,000          142,857

We go in half million increments up to 10,000,000 and the one million increments up to 20,000,000. With Gerald closing in on 24,000,000 points, we need to add more room at the top. We also need to keep the stepped approach so that our milestones provide recognition and encouragement to crunchers at all levels - from the "when my machine at work is idle" to the "run my own server farm" types. I'm thinking about credit milestones like this:

   CREDITS        POINTS
     2,500        17,500
     5,000        35,000
     7,500        52,500
    10,000        70,000
    15,000       105,000
    20,000       140,000
    25,000       175,000
    30,000       210,000
    35,000       245,000
    40,000       280,000
    45,000       315,000
    50,000       350,000
    60,000       420,000
    70,000       490,000
    80,000       560,000
    90,000       630,000
   100,000       700,000
   120,000       840,000
   140,000       980,000
   160,000     1,120,000
   180,000     1,260,000
   200,000     1,400,000
   250,000     1,750,000
   300,000     2,100,000
   350,000     2,450,000
   400,000     2,800,000
   450,000     3,150,000
   500,000     3,500,000
   600,000     4,200,000
   700,000     4,900,000
   800,000     5,600,000
   900,000     6,300,000
 1,000,000     7,000,000
 1,100,000     7,700,000
 1,200,000     8,400,000
 1,300,000     9,100,000
 1,400,000     9,800,000
 1,500,000    10,500,000
 1,600,000    11,200,000
 1,700,000    11,900,000
 1,800,000    12,600,000
 1,900,000    13,300,000
 2,000,000    14,000,000
 2,250,000    15,750,000
 2,500,000    17,500,000
 2,750,000    19,750,000
 3,000,000    21,000,000
 3,250,000    22,750,000
 3,500,000    24,500,000
 3,750,000    26,250,000
 4,000,000    28,000,000
 4,500,000    31,500,000
 5,000,000    35,000,000
 5,500,000    38,500,000
 6,000,000    42,000,000
 6,500,000    45,500,000
 7,000,000    49,000,000
 7,500,000    52,500,000
 8,000,000    56,000,000
 8,500,000    59,500,000
 9,000,000    63,000,000
 9,500,000    66,500,000
10,000,000    70,000,000

As you can see, that would have Gerald approaching 3,500,000 credits with room to about triple his accumulated crunching. I think the initial values would do well with the smaller crunchers and new ones starting out. I think we'd see a slight increase in the occurrance of the new milestones but not too much. We could also use this same scale for our other 14 projects we are at as well! The only thing I can see that would create a need beyond 10,000,000 credits in the near future would be having a combined-across-all-15-projects milestone set but I think we'll be okay for long enough even there. For the immediate future, I'd only be able to track milestones for just WCG. Eventually, once the website is tracking results for all the projects, it could handle all those milestones too. I think the net is that we end up with nice round milestones for credits and something that should meet our needs for the next couple of years or so. Anyone have any complaints, suggestions, or thoughts on this????

Keith -- that looks good to me, but I will go along with whatever you want since you are the one that will be doing all the work,

Good mornin'. As you would expect, it will be a lot cooler here. I think 60 will be a stretch. Hope you get that rain, DM.

In a quote from the previous "Paper"

Thanks. Have cranked up some machines I normally don't run just to see how much I could produce. I will be shutting one of them back down in a few days as I am worried about the fans in it (Laptop).

As to BOINC Stats, I don’t think I care; I did a bunch at SETI at one time and then a ton at UD before finding WCG. UD (Grid.org ) ran out of work once and kept sending out the same old work units time and again just to keep us busy.. I left them when I found out we were just spinning our wheels and we could have been contributing elsewhere.

As to the political problems/financial markets, I distrust both candidates and parties. I, distrust Obama even more than I distrust McCain and both were complicit with the whole sub-prime issue...Evidence suggests OBama more than McCain.

Anyway, who can tell truth from fiction in our spin world? Oh well, it is just my income/taxes/healthcare they are screwing around with; so it is no big deal.

It occurs to me that being a pure-bred pessimist gives you a significant advantage when considering our federal government...it makes you seem almost clairvoyant.

Have a good day all – an old Irish saying “Hooray Anyway”