Karl, glad to hear you are venturing out of your comfort zone. You'll find it all very interesting. I found this article in Wired to be written at about the right level to see what the protein quest is all about. I found it from the links on the project's articles page. Caution, those articles are all over the map as far as human readability. If you end up in one that doesn't grab you in the first paragraph... skip it. It was probably written BY a PhD, FOR a PhD.

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100.000 rosetta :)

what is a cobblestone?

Hi Scott,

One cobblestone or one credit is the equivalent of:

1 percent of the work done per day by a computer that has a speed of:

1000 double-precision MIPS (Whetstone) and

1000 VAX MIPS (Dhrystone)


MIPS = million instructions per second

"Double-precision" means calculations with a depth of 64 bits (32 bits is "single-precision") which are about 16 decimal digits.

edited for spelling and clarity

Regards,

Christoph

what is a cobblestone?

It's another word for credit.

Look here in the Wiki:

A Cobblestone is 1/100 day of CPU Time on a Reference Computer that does:

1,000 double-precision MIPS based on the Whetstone Benchmark.
1,000 VAX MIPS based on the Dhrystone Benchmark.
The Cobblestone is named after Jeff Cobb of SETI@Home, for what reason I am not sure.

18000 to Rosetta :-)

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WOO HOO! my first Rosetta credits!

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PEACE

1K Rosetta!

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Finaly I have more credit on Rosetta than any other project.


200 000 here I come :)

Anders n

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I just crossed the 1,000 posts mark. I've made every effort to make most of them informative, understandable, and helpful to other Rosetta contributors. I hope you have been aided by them and found them useful.

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"You can't fix stupid" (Ron White)

I just passed 200000 points in Rosetta (and a few days ago 500000 points for all projects).

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I just passed 200000 for Rosetta :)

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>>>> Have made it to 80,000 Cobblestones for RALPH@home

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Just passed 100,000 for Rosetta.

Bill

Test - and Thanks

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Just passed 100,000 for R@H. Onward and upward.

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>> Have made it past 90,000 Cobblestones for RALPH@home.
>> Passed 100,000 Cobblestones for QMC@home
>> Cruised past 800,000 Cobblestones for all projects. (900,000 I am on my way).

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25k today next goal 50k

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OT but, whats happened to RCN? Mass Alien abduction?