The Scottish Boinc Team

Weekly update time...


Completed Challenges:
2nd (out of 3) for Rosetta
4th (out of 11) for SETI@Home

Current Challenges:
4th (out of 11) for Einstein@Home - (Ends: 01:00 on 14-Apr)

Upcoming Challenges:
Rosetta - (Starts: 12Noon (BST) 21-Apr)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
None

Once again it's weekly update time...


Completed Challenges:
4th (out of 13) for Einstein@Home

Current Challenges:
None

Upcoming Challenges:
Rosetta - (Starts: 12Noon (BST) 21-Apr for seven days)
SIMAP (May Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-May)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
QuantumFIRE - (Starts: 1am (BST) 23-Apr for three days)
Enigma@Home - (Starts: 1am (BST) 3-May for five days)

{Edit} I've moved this to a new thread in Kudos as it fits better than in Gauntlet{/Edit}

{Edit} I've moved this to a new thread in Kudos as it fits better than in Gauntlet{/Edit}

Mmm. I'm no so sure. Challenges & gauntlets go hand in glove surely?

But whatever I'm busy cooking some rosetta so that I can have some ready for the kick off.

As far as the Quantum challenge goes we are already crunching some big numbers for that -mainly down to steve- so we might as well enter it as even with no extra effort we'll do fairly well in it.

Enigma? Why not?

And just 12 hrs into the Rosetta Again! crunch we are a good solid 2nd out of 10 runners. :wav:

Oops down to 3rd. Still, no disgrace in being overtaken by Team China and we are pulling well clear of the seven teams behind us.

The Quantum Fire one starts at midmight. I'll set a couple of cores onto although I think we are relying on steve to carry the day really.

I see there are WCG and DNETC challenges coming up. We should do the latter but maybe avoid the former?

Oops down to 3rd. Still, no disgrace in being overtaken by Team China and we are pulling well clear of the seven teams behind us.

The Quantum Fire one starts at midmight. I'll set a couple of cores onto although I think we are relying on steve to carry the day really.

I see there are WCG and DNETC challenges coming up. We should do the latter but maybe avoid the former?

It ain't much I can do to help... my Linux boxes really don't like Rosetta (too many errors) so I have left them on Quantum / ViP and the rest is doing Rosetta. Team China doesn't look like an impossible target at the moment... we could try tweaking their tail a little... (if my calculation is correct it would need another 4-6 cores)...

I'm sure we'll all settle for your help with Quantum. We have established an early lead here which is gradually extending. :wav:

As regards Rosetta, Team China are indeed far from uncatchable. Certainly there is no chance of us doing worse than 3rd. :wav: again!

:wav:
We won the Quantum one comfortably! 8) 8)
Well done everyone.
:wav:
Maybe "kudos" is the best place for this thread after all! :)

With about 28 hours to go on our challenge, it's again weekly update time...


Completed Challenges:
1st (out of 6) for QuantumFIRE

Current Challenges:
3rd (out of 16) for Rosetta - (Ends: 12Noon (BST) 28-Apr)
2nd (out of 4) for DNETC - (Ends: 00:45 (BST) 31-Apr)

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (May Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-May)
Enigma@Home - (Starts: 1am (BST) 3-May for five days)
SIMAP (June Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-Jun)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
None - What would you like to do...

And don't forget that we have the Pentathlon coming up; running from the 5th of May until the 19th of May covering five (as yet) unknown projects...

I'll probably go for the Pentathlon (assuming they choose projects I already do) and then the SIMAP scramble in June.

Just to repeat what I've posted elsewhere about the Boinc Pentathlon


The projects & timings announced so far are:

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


The enigma@home challange started 24hrs ago and so far we are a rather undistinguished 4th of 8. If anyone wants to join Swoopert & me we'd appreciate the company.

Thanks to a very short SIMAP month, that challenge is 'ongoing' but unlikely to change over teh rest of the week....


Completed Challenges:
3rd (out of 16) for Rosetta
2nd (out of 4) for DNETC

Current Challenges:
7th (out of 16) for SIMAP (May Scramble) - (Ends: 1am (BST) 8-May)
4th (out of 8) for Enigma - (Ends: 1am (BST) 9-May)

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (June Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-Jun)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
Rosetta - 3-May -> 10th of May - I figured we'd had enough of Rosetta for the moment.
SETI@home - 11-May -> 18-May

And don't forget that we have the Pentathlon coming up; running from the 5th of May until the 19th of May covering five projects...See this thread for details

once again it's time for a weekly round-up....


Completed Challenges:
7th (out of 17) for SIMAP (May Scramble)
3rd (out of 8) for Enigma

Current Challenges:
None!!

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (June Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-Jun)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
WCG - 17-May -> 23rd of May
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

And don't forget that we have the Pentathlon coming up; running from the 5th of May until the 19th of May covering five projects...See this thread for details

Time for a weekly round-up.... :)


Completed Challenges:
4th (out of 24) for SETI@Home

Current Challenges:
None!!

Upcoming Challenges:
SETI@Home - (Starts: 00:45 (BST) 19-May for 7 days)
Milkyway - (Starts: 1am (BST) 24-May for 6 days)
Docking - (Starts: 3am (BST) 24-May for 7 days)
Cosmology - (Starts: 10:30am (BST) 24-May for 4.5 days)
SIMAP (June Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-Jun for 6 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

{EDIT: Update of next weeks challenges!}

I'm moving the update to Monday - maybe!


Completed Challenges:
None!!

Current Challenges:
SETI@Home - (Ends: 00:45 (BST) 26-May)
Milkyway - (Ends: 1am (BST) 30-May)
Docking - (Ends: 3am (BST) 31-May)
Cosmology - (Ends: 10:00pm (BST) 28-May)
. . . NB: Cosmology challenge starts at 10:30(BST) today.

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (June Scramble) - (Starts: 1am (BST) 01-Jun for 6 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

Sorry, went on holiday so no update last week!


Completed Challenges:
2nd (out of 19) for SETI@Home
4th (out of 11) for Milkyway
?th (out of 13) for Docking (Stats never worked!)
4th (out of 11) for Cosmology
9th (out of 27) for SIMAP

Current Challenges:
RCN - (Ends: 03:45 (BST) 14-Jun)

Upcoming Challenges:
Rosetta - (Starts: 01:15 (BST) 10-Jun for 7 days)
ABC@home - (Starts: 08:30 (BST) 15-Jun for 5 days)
POEM@Home - (Starts: 01:15 (BST) 17-Jun for 7 days)
MilkyWay - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 30-Jun for 7 days)
SIMAP (July Scramble) - (Starts: 19:00 (BST) 01-Jul for 7 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
Rosetta - 24-June -> 01-July
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

We have a current challenge for RCN?

But 16 hours in we have yet to break our duck for this challenge.

So get to it.

We have a current challenge for RCN?

But 16 hours in we have yet to break our duck for this challenge.

So get to it.

In all fairness, at the time of posting only 1 team had any score. Unfortunately, the workunits take a ridiculous amount of time (~24hours on my PentD!) so getting some points isn't a quick exrcise.

{EDIT} Update: Now sitting in a comfortable 2nd place! :) {/EDIT}

Where we're at this week...


Completed Challenges:
2nd (out of 6) for RCN

Current Challenges:
5th (out of 17) for Rosetta - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 17-Jun)

Upcoming Challenges:
ABC@home - (Starts: 08:30 (BST) 15-Jun for 5 days)
POEM@Home - (Starts: 01:15 (BST) 17-Jun for 7 days)
MilkyWay - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 30-Jun for 7 days)
SIMAP (July Scramble) - (Starts: 19:00 (BST) 01-Jul for 7 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
Rosetta - 24-June -> 01-July
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

Well, the POEM@Home challenge is well underway and we are a poor 7th out of 9 teams with a score. Any volunteers to fix this??

Not a project I've yet tried. Maybe now is the time to sign up. :)

Not a project I've yet tried. Maybe now is the time to sign up. :)

Same for me, but no computer available to try it on! Oh well, should be back online tomorrow sometime...

We are fifth now. I've joined up and got 1559 credits in the last half day on 2 PCs running part-time. I've put the whole farm on it now and think we can gain a bit more ground yet. The project pays well & reckon I can probably manage at least 10K per day. But we need more POETS !

BAH project has no work available ...

Weekly update...


Completed Challenges:
5th (out of 17) for Rosetta
3rd (out of 10) for ABC@Home

Current Challenges:
4th (out of 14) for POEM@Home - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 24-Jun)
* NB We're only just (~100 points) 4th so keep that work flowing!

Upcoming Challenges:
Rosetta - (Starts: 01:15 (BST) 24-Jun for 7 days)
MilkyWay - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 30-Jun for 7 days)
SIMAP (July Scramble) - (Starts: 19:00 (BST) 01-Jul for 7 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
POEM@home - 01-July -> 31-July

Current Challenges:
4th (out of 14) for POEM@Home - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 24-Jun)
* NB We're only just (~100 points) 4th so keep that work flowing!

Over the course of the day BOINC@Poland wrestled 4th back from us. At the time of typing and with 48 hours left to go we have edged ahead again & are exactly 713 points ahead of the poles. So a very marginal 1.5% lead and all to play for!

...we have edged ahead again & are exactly 713 points ahead of the poles. So a very marginal 1.5% lead and all to play for!

Approx 33.3 hours to go and we have narrowed the gap to just 92 points. Unfortunately, we are ahead and should be widening the gap.


Oh, and as a few people said yes and nobody said no I've entered us into the POEM month long challenge...

26 hours to go and they are 2.8K ahead. We need more Poets.

As regards the july long challange that's great by me. I'll be there.

I think we are doomed to finish 5th for the POEM challenge. Our polish rivals are over 6K ahead of us and, unless someone has been holding back a huge upload, there is no way we call close the gap in just 1 hour.

Still nice effort everyone! We'll be back!

Just made it back in time to hand e measly 1.500... after being washed out in Provence for the last ten days. Yeargh, I hate water!

Not much help I 'm afraid but there is still the Poemathon in July...

.... but there is still the Poemathon in July...

There certainly is, start filling your caches for a bumper first day return. :)

Time for yet another weekly update...


Completed Challenges:
5th (out of 14) for POEM - but it was a good 4th/5th fight!

Current Challenges:
4th (out of 17) for Rosetta - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 01-Jul)

Upcoming Challenges:
MilkyWay - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 30-Jun for 7 days)
POEM - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 01-Jul for 31 days)
SIMAP (July Scramble) - (Starts: 19:00 (BST) 01-Jul for 7 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
DNETC@HOME - 03-July -> 08-July

Yes for the DNETC challenge.

Well done for the others we seem to have established ourselves as stalwart middle order competitors. 4th or 5th is about par for the course and entirely respectable.

I'll just let POEM run on 'til the end of July then. See if I can knock up my average a bit. Might have to switch desk fan back on and get the machine back up to the 4GHz mark :)

Yes for the DNETC challenge...

Done. :)

A small weekly update this week...


Completed Challenges:
4th (out of 18) for Rosetta

Current Challenges:
6th (out of 26) for MilkyWay - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 07-Jul)
10th (out of 23) for SIMAP - (Ends: 19:00 (BST) 08-Jul)
6th (out of 12) for DNETC - (Ends: 21:00 (BST) 08-Jul)

15th (out of 36) for POEM - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 31-Jul)
* See This Thread for more info on this 'Project of the Month'

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (July Marathon) - (Starts: 19:00 (BST) 08-Jul for 21 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
None!!

Could we maybe set one up for Einstein - we are drifting a bit close to 2nd 100 relegation.

Could we maybe set one up for Einstein - we are drifting a bit close to 2nd 100 relegation.

Well, we're doing POEM as a PotM this month so how about early August? Or do we need something earlier than that?

We should still be 99th for Einstein by the end of the month so I think it'll keep & August will do nicely.

We're a little over 12 hours until the end of the (first) SIMAP challenge and only ~6k behind the team in front.

Anyone up for a last, late charge?

Darn, too late. Finished 2.6K adrift of Picards Charge.
Maybe just as well - they think we are a bunch of big bullies.
Anyhoo I've been concentrating on the POEMAthon where we are 15/30 and just 4.5K behind BOINCStats.

... 2.1K now... 8)

Looks like we just moseyed on past B'stats and into 14th place...

Dammit! back to 15th... this is the third post in a row... It's kind of hot around here so I tend to do a lot of talking to myself...Not that it does any good it just kind of stays hot so I think I'll just sort of fade away...

Dammit! back to 15th... this is the third post in a row... It's kind of hot around here so I tend to do a lot of talking to myself...Not that it does any good it just kind of stays hot so I think I'll just sort of fade away...

Sorry, it's been far too hot here (34+ degrees yesterday) to even think about going near the computer. It's down to an arctic(?) 26 degrees today so I can mange to get close enough to the computer to visit the site. :)

It's a busy week for the update this week...


Completed Challenges:
6th (out of 26) for Milkyway
10th (out of 23) for SIMAP
8th (out of 13) for DNETC

Current Challenges:
7th (out of 17) for SIMAP - (Ends: 19:00 (BST) 29-Jul)
7th (out of 16) for Collatz - (Ends: 21:00 (BST) 15-Jul)
3rd (out of 7) for FreeHAL - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 17-Jul)
7th (out of 8) for WCG - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 18-Jul)

15th (out of 39) for POEM - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 31-Jul)
* See This Thread for more info on this 'Project of the Month'

Upcoming Challenges:
SIMAP (August Scramble) - (Starts: ??:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 7 days)
Einstein (TSBT Challenge) - (Starts: 06:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 7 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
None!!

Good to be back on Einstein for short while....

A relatively quiet week for the update this week...


Completed Challenges:
7th (out of 19) for Collatz
3rd (out of 14) for FreeHAL
8th (out of 19) for WCG

Current Challenges:
8th (out of 23) for SIMAP - (Ends: 19:00 (BST) 29-Jul)

15th (out of 41) for POEM - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 31-Jul)
* See This Thread for more info on this 'Project of the Month'

Upcoming Challenges:
Milkyway - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 21-Jul for 7 days)
Einstein (TSBT Challenge) - (Starts: 06:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 7 days)
AQUA - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 23-Aug for 5 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
None!!

A very quick update this week...


Completed Challenges:
None!!

Current Challenges:
9th (out of 24) for SIMAP - (Ends: 19:00 (BST) 29-Jul)
7th (out of 20) for Milkyway - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 28-Jul)

15th (out of 43) for POEM - (Ends: 01:00 (BST) 31-Jul)
* See This Thread for more info on this 'Project of the Month'

Upcoming Challenges:
Einstein (TSBT Challenge) - (Starts: 06:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 7 days)
AQUA - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 23-Aug for 5 days)

Should we join in?? Challenges:
WCG - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 31-Jul for 7 days)
Aqua - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 7 days)
SIMAP - (Starts: 01:00 (BST) 01-Aug for 6 days)
**These ALL clash with the TSBT challenge**


In Summary
We are down 1 place for SIMAP, though we are only 1k behind the new 8th place...
We have opened the POEM lead to ~21k. :)
We have a TSBT Challenge starting this weekend!!