1/12-8/12 December Challenge-MilkyWay@home-complete

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/468

Name December Challenge
Status Upcoming
Project MilkyWay@home
Issued by Team Belgium
Start time 2013-12-01 00:00 UTC
End time 2013-12-08 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 10
Number of users participating 0

[Alez]

Hmmm, bandits at 6 o'clock, looks like someone is using his new shiny stuff

[Alez]

After a day we are comfortable in 5th from 17. No threats from below, but not really hounding the teams above either. Guess we are in a league of our own

Of course should Janos and a herd of raging 7970 munchers choose to join in then that would be a game changer. I'm also certain that Mega has this on his to do list, pinned somewhere on the fridge ?

[Silver]

Hmmm, bandits at 6 o'clock, looks like someone is using his new shiny stuff

It was all going so well until the scheduler discovered some Collatz units last night.
I need to find time to sort out the optimisation settings you posted Alez and see if I can close the gap :)

[Alez]

At least you'll get decent credits out of it. Last night mine found seti to munch on the ATI.
The scheduler is nuts.
I changed everything ages ago to a 1 - 10 scale ( why they use 100 is beyond me ) normally the highest ranked projects are set to 6, lowest to 1
Because of the competition I have set milkyway to 66, seti is set to 1 and yet the scheduler downloads seti units to run I would like to know in which alternative universe this is logical :drunken:

[PinkPenguin]

Because of the competition I have set milkyway to 66, seti is set to 1 and yet the scheduler downloads seti units to run I would like to know in which alternative universe this is logical :drunken:

...I believe it is called Discworld and you are probably somewhere near Rimfall judging from the behaviour of your scheduler. Be careful, or you will fall off the edge.

[Alez]

Because of the competition I have set milkyway to 66, seti is set to 1 and yet the scheduler downloads seti units to run I would like to know in which alternative universe this is logical :drunken:

...I believe it is called Discworld and you are probably somewhere near Rimfall judging from the behaviour of your scheduler. Be careful, or you will fall off the edge.

Discworld makes more sense than Boincworld. If I get a picture of Great A'Tuin I'll post it up, provided the luggage doesn't eat the camera

[Alez]

Well the amphibian chasing me is more persistent than the amphibian chasing Paul. Jeez, they are everywhere. Can't we eat them or something to thin their numbers out ?

[Silver]

Think that would be a great idea!

[Alez]

TSBT currently 5th , wont go higher, I am also thinking that we can't be caught. I'm 9th, Paul 12th, Radio 32nd. Considering to stay with this or go collatz, Or stay here then go collatz. Decisions, Decisions

[Silver]

I was looking at the numbers again too Alez. I think I'm going to run some Collatz overnight then see how we look in the morning

[Megacruncher]

Yup. The Milkyway die is well & truly cast: the Poles cannot be caught & neither can the Ukrainians possibly catch us.

The outcome is less certain on the Collatz front. We are leading just now (and I have oddles of pending credit) but Are You Having A [L'AF] could close the gap. Maybe. But why take chances? You know what to do! :)

[Silver]

Not sure we'll be able to help.
The work generators for Collatz are now disabled to allow the backlog of units to be caught up with.
There is a proper explanation here http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/fo ... &start=300

[Alez]

Yup. The Milkyway die is well & truly cast: the Poles cannot be caught & neither can the Ukrainians possibly catch us.

The outcome is less certain on the Collatz front. We are leading just now (and I have oddles of pending credit) but Are You Having A [L'AF] could close the gap. Maybe. But why take chances? You know what to do! :)

Team wise it is, but I will have to give up 8th place and the chance of going higher hmmm, I'm I a team player

[Silver]

Collatz work generator still disabled so we can do nothing to help the team anyway.
Solo glory is your only option Alez 8)

[Alez]

Work generator doesn't matter as there is 3/4 million units waiting to go
Transitioner backlog (hours) 26 this is the problem, everything you do goes into a queue for pending.
Have tried for a bit but everything pending. Seems MilkyWay may be the only option at the moment. Will keep an eye on the trasitioner backlog.

[Silver]

Ahh, I thought the work generator sent the work out.
Everyday's a school day - as they say.
I might run a few units tonight then and see if they go through in time to help the team. If not they'll help my credit when they count :)

[Alez]

upload/ download server sends the units to you. Next Collatz challenge is the Coolatz ice race starting on the 9th - 1900. Will be on collatz once MW finishes or bit before if anything starts to validate. Seems some people are validating, others aren't. Bit of a lottery so no idea if LAF really are 2 million up or not.
You might make the top 10 in this challenge yet :)

[Silver]

Starting to look a bit tight The Americans are coming....
Think we'll need to keep going with milkyway and give collatz a miss

[Alez]

SetiUSA have pulled in some of their big hitters. Nothing we can do about it. They have crunched everything we have done in a few hours. Simply wave as they go past. Collatz will start validating in a couple of hours. We probably have more chance crushing the frogs with our 2 x 7970's added to the team on Collatz than going any further here.

[Silver]

I really need to start paying attention before I post.
I didn't notice that the USA had only just jumped in to the comp and are rattling through units like they're going out of fashion

[Alez]

As predicted we finished 6th from 22. yeah us.

Individually......

alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 10th
Paul of TSBT 14th ( told you the new shiny stuff was good )
Radio 38th
Megacruncher TSBT 41st
Iain 92nd
Skywalker TSBT 131st
Storme 146th
Caledon 156th
spacehopper68 161st
allan 216th
djpercival 218th
Garry Ross 241st
Richardminton 345th
John Black 353rd
KaizenMike 364th
outcast 439th
Kostoglotov 563rd
Leith 586th
Robert Hendry 605th
Grum 731st

well done all.

[Silver]

That's quite a sizeable list of contributers and a good effort from all.
Go team TSBT!