The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:37 pm**

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/394

Name SIMAP July 2013 Scramble
Status In progress
Project SIMAP
Issued by BOINCstats
Start time 2013-07-01 00:00 UTC
End time 2013-07-08 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 14
Number of users participating 132

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:40 pm**

This one is off and running. We are currently 10 from 12.

Having no WiFi suxs

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:29 pm**

I was wondering about this challenge.

Were on the board at #10, I have about 26 cores on it I think. Hopefully enough to get us up a little in the standings. Got off to a late start, no thanks to SIMAP but moving along nicely now.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:30 pm**

PS. What is the wreath badge for in my signature? I can't seem to find the relating project.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:38 pm**

Skywalker TSBT wrote:I was wondering about this challenge.

I have about 26 cores on it I think.

Thats 6 1/2 times more cores than I have total

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:54 pm**

Silver wrote:
Skywalker TSBT wrote:I was wondering about this challenge.

I have about 26 cores on it I think.
Thats 6 1/2 times more cores than I have total

LOL. That's only using 5 of the 16 PC's in my lab too.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:19 pm**

Skywalker TSBT wrote:PS. What is the wreath badge for in my signature? I can't seem to find the relating project.

UOTD or User of the Day - it counts how many times you have been UOTD on any project's home page. It refers to all projects for which you have created a profile in your account... nothing to do with the number credits or even how much you've been contributing to the project on the day in question!

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The site that gathers these stats is: http://uotd.org/top_participants.py?team=34
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Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:01 pm**

PinkPenguin wrote:
Skywalker TSBT wrote:PS. What is the wreath badge for in my signature? I can't seem to find the relating project.
UOTD or User of the Day - it counts how many times you have been UOTD on any project's home page. It refers to all projects for which you have created a profile in your account... nothing to do with the number credits or even how much you've been contributing to the project on the day in question!

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The site that gathers these stats is: http://uotd.org/top_participants.py?team=34
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Ahh-ha!!

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:09 pm**

20 hours in an we just took 7th.

Need a few more players if we want to lower the gap to 6th.

As is, we should be able pull away from the lower pack and keep 7th.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:35 pm**

Skywalker TSBT wrote:
Need a few more players if we want to lower the gap to 6th.

Since I'm a team player, I've just stuck two cores on it :)

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:10 am**

I've got some on it too....no idea how many though as the remote viewing app on my crystal ball aint working from out here on the deep blue sea..

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:06 pm**

Uh! oh!... late as usual!...

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:27 pm**

PinkPenguin wrote:Uh! oh!... late as usual!...

10 demerits and 1000 lashes with a wet noodle.

:violent1:

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:05 am**

WoW!! SETI.USA just roared in and just spanked us down to 8th.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:32 pm**

Can someone explain to me, how with 255 workunits pending for validation for chump change of around 20 points each for around 5000 points, one guy in SETI can come in with 127,000 points in a shot???? Why so high? That's like a million cores, and the validator saying OK ,, yummy!! How can one guy get so many points so quick. It takes days for my WU's to be validated. I'm still getting points from the asteroid competition. Are they sitting on workunits and uploading them all in one shot so they get validated all in a row?

Do I need to slip a quid in with the results? :banghead:

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:30 pm**

Skywalker TSBT wrote:Can someone explain to me, how with 255 workunits pending for validation for chump change of around 20 points each for around 5000 points, one guy in SETI can come in with 127,000 points in a shot???? Why so high? That's like a million cores, and the validator saying OK ,, yummy!! How can one guy get so many points so quick. It takes days for my WU's to be validated. I'm still getting points from the asteroid competition. Are they sitting on workunits and uploading them all in one shot so they get validated all in a row?

Do I need to slip a quid in with the results? :banghead:

8-10 PCs and 3-4 decent GPUs'll give that on SETI... most of the credits come in on the GPUs in any case so don't need a lot of PCs. Naturally you have to be patient enough to build up a backlog of about 500 - 600 Wus so that the credits roll in regularly.

You can always slip a quid or two to the Seti bunch, they're always keen greenbacks...

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:33 pm**

I didn't know there was a GPU WU for SIMAP.

So, can one sit on a bunch of WU's that were completed prior to a competition and upload them during it?

Posted: **Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:12 am**

Skywalker TSBT wrote:I didn't know there was a GPU WU for SIMAP.

So, can one sit on a bunch of WU's that were completed prior to a competition and upload them during it?

There isn't... thought you were talking about SETI the project not the team...

In SIMAP comps some people hoard 'n dump... (SIMAP allows you to download 60 wus per core so you can usually hoard 2-3 days of stuff per core before the comp starts)

(hmmer units are worth a bit more than simap units - but those are finished now and you can't choose them)

Posted: **Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:04 am**

I missed the kick off but I now have 8 cores on the job with more to come.
BTW the UOTD wreath thing only appears if you tick it - which I have done.

Posted: **Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:15 am**

2K more to grab 7th place from santa's little helpers

Posted: **Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:46 pm**

alezevo1 wrote:2K more to grab 7th place from santa's little helpers

7th it is!!

Posted: **Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:01 am**

and it finished TSBT 7th from 14 teams.

Individually the spoils were.....
Skywalker TSBT 23rd ( and a first team #1 I believe

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Megacruncher TSBT 44th
PinkPenguin 53th
Janos of TSBT 60th
alezevo1 73rd
Paul of TSBT 78th
Reeltime 195th
Storme 208th
Grum 360th
albagael 367th

well done all.

Posted: **Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:54 pm**

Posted: **Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:16 pm**

alezevo1 wrote:

Skywalker TSBT 23rd ( and a first team #1 I believe )

well done all.

Well done young skywalker :salute:

Posted: **Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:37 am**

Silver wrote:
alezevo1 wrote:

Skywalker TSBT 23rd ( and a first team #1 I believe )

well done all.
Well done young skywalker :salute:

Indeed, much greatness in the youngling I sense :) Strong with the force he is, strong with the force...

Posted: **Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:37 am**

Yoda... Flying the skull and cross-bones! Is that a touch of the dark side I see ?

Congrats Skywalker a great no.1.

Posted: **Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:25 pm**

I would like to thank the Academy, my fans, my kids and of course AMD, Intel, Nvidia and ATI.

Now where's the beer?

The Scottish Boinc Team

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