The Scottish Boinc Team

crille · Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 6

Dear members of the Scottish Boinc Team, Smile

From the 5th to 19th May 2010 SETI.Germany is arraging a completely new competition: the BOINC Pentathlon. This new cross-project competition is inspired by the Pentathlon of the ancient world.

Like in the ancient Greece we'll also perform this BOINC Pentathlon by running 5 different disciplines. This means within 2 weeks the participants will need to crunch 5 different projects, each for 5 days.

Each team that wants to participate in the BOINC Pentathlon needs to sign up here (possible until 1st of May).

More information regarding the BOINC Pentathlon can be found here.

Your participation is very much appreciated.
crille

Reeltime · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:06 am Post subject:

Great idea. Hopefully we garner enough support to make this a worthwhile competition
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crille · Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 6

I hope so

crille · Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 6

Hi!

A little reminder Wink

: The BOINC Pentathlon will start on 05.05.. You'll have to sign up until 01.05.

I hope you'll join the fun like these teams did so far Smile

Best regards from Germany
crille

Megacruncher · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject:

Righty-oh. I've signed us up for this event nominating the following projects

Milkyway
Einstein
Rosetta
Collatz
FreeHal

Nothing too controversial there I hope. Smile

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PinkPenguin · Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject:

First project is: EINSTEIN form 00:00 5th May to 00:00 10th May..... as usual I was late noticing it! Smile

http://www.setigermany.de/blog/lang/en/category/boinc-pentathlon/
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Megacruncher · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject:

Two further projects have been announced. Thus far all are ones that we (okay, I, but I knew what you wanted) voted for. We have:

Einstein .......... 00:00 5th May to 00:00 10th May
Milkyway ........ 00:00 9th May to 00:00 14th May
Freehal .......... 00:00 10th May to 00:00 15th May

Get yourselves ready with some crunched Einstein ready to return there are just 24hrs to kick-off!
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Megacruncher · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject:

And the 4th project is Collatz conjecture! Cool

Another of our strong projects. Very Happy

So that's

Einstein .......... 00:00 5th May to 00:00 10th May STARTED!! Shocked

Milkyway ........ 00:00 9th May to 00:00 14th May
Freehal .......... 00:00 10th May to 00:00 15th May
Collatz ........... 00:00 12th May to 00:00 17th May

Some interesting overlaps there. Confused

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MacDitch · 05/14/2010, 0.00 (UTC)

The fifth and final project is......

Megacruncher · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject:

Way-hay! 5 out of 5 nominations successful. Can't beat that can you? Cool

So the final timetable is

Einstein .......... 00:00 5th May to 00:00 10th May STARTED! Stops at midnight Sunday
Milkyway ........ 00:00 9th May to 00:00 14th May STARTED!
Freehal .......... 00:00 10th May to 00:00 15th May Starts at midnight sunday.
Collatz ........... 00:00 12th May to 00:00 17th May.
Rosetta .......... 00:00 14th May to 00:00 19th May.

So lets go for it
this is the link to the Pentathlon leaderboard where as you will see we are only just within the points for Einstein. This one of our weaker projects so any top 25 result must be be considered worthy in such company. We are doing slightly better for Milkyway.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 12:11 am Post subject:

We are keeping our performance respectable for the Pentathlon.

The Einstein leg is now complete and yielded us a useful 9 points. As things stand we have 15 points for Milkyway and 30 for FreeHal. The aggregate 54 points puts us in 22nd= place in a field of 31 of the top BOINC teams. Collatz is yet to come and should be our strongest project and will maybe drag us up into mid-table.

If you really want a ridiculous amount of detail, as in an utter nerd-fest of numbers (you have been warned) about our progress in the project then click this.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject:

Status Update

Einstein .......... 00:00 5th May to 00:00 10th May OVER
Milkyway ........ 00:00 9th May to 00:00 14th May STARTED! Runs until Midnight Thursday.
Freehal .......... 00:00 10th May to 00:00 15th May STARTED! Runs until Midnight Friday.
Collatz ........... 00:00 12th May to 00:00 17th May. STARTING IN 2 HOURS
Rosetta .......... 00:00 14th May to 00:00 19th May. STARTING Midnight Thursday.

NB all times are GMT (the same as what applies to this forum).
We are up one place to 20th with nearly half of the contest done.
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MacDitch · Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject:

Just starting the last six hours of Milkyway and we are a solid 16th - approx. 1/2 million ahead of 17th and the same behind 15th!

About 30hours of FreeHAL left (if it survives!) and we're currently sitting in 17th - just 5k ahead of 18th and the same to get to 16th.

Collatz we're in 13th - but sinking! Still a few days to go on this one.

Rosetta starts tomorrow night (when FreeHAL ends)

Oh, and for completeness, for Einstein we came 23rd - just! and overall we're currently 16th out of 28.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:49 pm Post subject:

Milkyway finishes at 1am BST so we should switch all switchable GPUs to collatz.

Actually Rosetta starts in less than two hours at 00:00 14th May GMT (= 1am 14th May BST). There is 24hr overlap btwn Freehal and Rosetta.

Anyway good work and we are putting in a workmanlike performance against elite competition.
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MacDitch · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:01 am Post subject: