6/5-10/5 CRUNCHATHLON PG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE III]

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/780

Name CRUNCHATHLON PG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE III]
Status Upcoming
Project PrimeGrid
Issued by CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES
Start time 2016-05-06 17:00 UTC
End time 2016-05-10 17:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? No
Number of teams participating » 8
Number of users participating 0

[Megacruncher]

Not one we often bother about. But I thought I'd weigh in for once. Bunkering=on

[scole of TSBT]

I'm in :pirate:

Bummer. Project will only give you 100 WUs per GPU. Not enough.

[Alez]

So now I actually have to set up a different crunching scheme on the project, etc, etc, moan, moan.... Ok , let's see if this works ....

[Megacruncher]

I'm in :pirate:

Bummer. Project will only give you 100 WUs per GPU. Not enough.

Yup. Bunkering=Off again

Under a day's worth of work on any half decent GPU certainly is not enough. The bunkering, such as it is, will have to be deferred until sometime tomorrow evening.

[scole of TSBT]

I went ahead and loaded up. It they finish before the challenge starts, it will give the house time to cool off for a bit

[Alez]

Why bunker ? start loading up on mr Pend Ding. Let others do the bunkering for you

[scole of TSBT]

That's the spirit Alez! Nice numbers though

5 hours in and TSBT is still #1!

[scole of TSBT]

Megacruncher got game :bom:

Good turn out....
Paul of TSBT
leecarver
Skywalker TSBT
David Jackson
James
Snowdog of TSBT
Connnor
Krzysztof Frukacz

...just to name a few

[Alez]

That's the spirit Alez! Nice numbers though

5 hours in and TSBT is still #1!

Was actually going to do a wee bit, but then ended up spending the day cutting a tractor out of a fence and then rebuilding the fence. Nice one from my neighbour. Still can't quite figure out how he managed to get so stuck in my fence so well, that we had to remove the tractor with wirecutters. Good effort.
Happy-ish with the numbers, but whilst I could do more, I think they will be getting reduced as it's getting too hot in the house as it's quite warm this week, but just a tad early to transfer systems from the house to the tech shed. Also need to clean out the tech shed. Been slating the roof this week so off to dump now with old window frames etc. The joys..... I need back to work, too tiring at home

[Megacruncher]

The Krauts are off & out of sight!
And the Yanks are suddenly breathing down our necks.
But despite that we look sure of a podium finish.
Nae sae bad for a wee team! 8)
As scole says it's a good team effort but we really can't ignore his pre-eminence in our contribution to date!
But all hands to the pump to make sure we finish with a medal of some sort!

PS @Alez, Aren't you allowed to just keep the tractor in those circumstances? Sounds like you caught it, fair & square.

[Alez]

PS @Alez, Aren't you allowed to just keep the tractor in those circumstances? Sounds like you caught it, fair & square.

I was NOT driving the tractor, I wish to make this very clear.... As such it could be argued that it was ' foul hooked ' and hence had to be thrown back. In todays PC world it appears that catch and release is all the rage. I only fish when it's catch and BBQ

Keep up the good work all and Paul, go kick your GPU unless you are squirreling away a wee bunker drop .....

[Silver]

/snip

Keep up the good work all and Paul, go kick your GPU unless you are squirreling away a wee bunker drop .....

Not an intentional bunker drop, more a pending issue created by my lack of understanding of the app_info files and my "new" amd card/drivers, that means I'm crunching some of the long units
Currently experimenting with the app_inof file so we'll see what happens......

[scole of TSBT]

The Yankee hoard has passed us, but we're still doing well. Four of us in the top 25. And I have a Dukie on my 6

[Alez]

/snip

Keep up the good work all and Paul, go kick your GPU unless you are squirreling away a wee bunker drop .....

my "new" amd card/driver.

New ???? You have deserted team green and joined the dark side ???? Bwahahahahaha

[Silver]

New ???? You have deserted team green and joined the dark side ???? Bwahahahahaha

Well "new" in the primegrid world since none of the 280/290 cards work without faffing about with app_info files.
I've always run amd cards but the new nvidia gtx1080 looks interesting!

[Megacruncher]

Anyhoo, card choice aside, it looks as though with 18 hours to go our amphibian foes are too far behind to worry about (bronze is in the bag! :) ) but we are also gaining some of the ground lost to the Septic Tanks (silver is in sight! :) ). Go for it team!

[scole of TSBT]

The compare feature no longer works on the Boinc Stats team challenges but it looks like SUSA is staying a steady 2.2 mil ahead of us. Anyone have a secret 2.2 mil bunker they're holding back on?

[Alez]

I'm busy looking behind the sofa, maybe I should try down the side instead

[scole of TSBT]

Check between the cushions.

[scole of TSBT]

Alright Megacruncher. You are MC'ing this one. Give us the wrap!

[scole of TSBT]

Ok then...

TSBT finished 3rd of 15 teams :headbang:

Individual finishes...
scole of TSBT 2nd
alez [ TSBTs Pirate ] 8th
Megacruncher TSBT 12th
leecarver 24th
Paul of TSBT 74th
Snowdog of TSBT 193rd
Skywalker TSBT 225th
Stuart 227th
Connnor 248th
David Jackson 298th
James 313th
Krzysztof Frukacz 432nd

Well done all!

[Alez]

I was about to type up the results but scole beat me to it. Cheers. Well done all. Not bad for a 'wee' team

[Silver]

Good effort team, a great result for us there

[Megacruncher]

We were a very close third. Just 7% behind second.
A good effort indeed.

[scole of TSBT]

If Alez had just look BETWEEN the cushions like I suggested he might have found that bunker. Heck, one time in college I found enough change between the cushions for a large Szechuan spicy chicken and 2 egg rolls.

[Janos (retired)]

Anyhoo, card choice aside, it looks as though with 18 hours to go our amphibian foes are too far behind to worry about (bronze is in the bag! :) ) but we are also gaining some of the ground lost to the Septic Tanks (silver is in sight! :) ). Go for it team!

Septic Tanks and Amphibians... love it!

I don't know how common calling the yanks septic tanks is but I've been hearing it a lot lately.
I do hope the seppo's understand rhyming slang and have a sense of humour :)

[scole of TSBT]

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[Bryan]

Anyhoo, card choice aside, it looks as though with 18 hours to go our amphibian foes are too far behind to worry about (bronze is in the bag! :) ) but we are also gaining some of the ground lost to the Septic Tanks (silver is in sight! :) ). Go for it team!

Septic Tanks and Amphibians... love it!

I don't know how common calling the yanks septic tanks is but I've been hearing it a lot lately.
I do hope the seppo's understand rhyming slang and have a sense of humour :)

I sure don't know how common it is since I've only heard it 2 times. I'm hoping that I don't hear it a 3rd time though!

[Alez]

Septic tanks .... Bwahahahaha. A term of endearment used in the forces for years.
Much more civalised than some other references we used to use