The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/511

Name Albert Einsteins - 135th Birthday Challenge
Status Upcoming
Project Einstein@Home
Issued by The Crunchenstein Monsters
Start time 2014-03-14 00:00 UTC
End time 2014-03-21 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 13
Number of users participating 0

Just never enough cores, any woo this one is now off and running.

I thought you'd just got another 16 cores up and running

are we participating in this challenge?

Seems there is a problem with Boincstats and the credit s not updating. No user credit is being displayed. @scole250, we participate in all the comps to a greater or lesser extent. There are no strict rules but all contributions are welcome. If you want to go for it then do, there will always be a few of us joining you.

Using BAM, but I still don't have multi system, multi project management quite down yet. We'll see what happens.

Using BAM I'm not sure anyone has much control

Using BAM because I have too many hosts, too far away from me
Hopefully some of my credit pending will start to come through as I'm on the second page of the stats

My RAC is dropping like it's being sucked in by a black hole. Everything seems to be going pending I'm not at my computers just now but from what I can infer I'm getting nothing but gamma ray pulsar searches which take 1 1/2 - 2 hours to do and pay 660 credits
Is this what everyone else is seeing ?
I certainly don't remember that credit was this bad on Einstein. It was never good but this is Seti cpu for gpu tasks credit

It is people caching their WU's pre comp. They are helping you out by making a cache for you :)

Then it's time they started cashing in their cache !!

I think we have a shot at taking 14th place from AMD Users if we could get just a little more resource towards Einstein.

At the half way point we are running 15 from 26. Not a bad effort but not brilliant, more middle of the road. AMD and ourselves are level pegging. They are catcable but only if more peeps chip in. On the other hand our team RAC is rising and the next few days should see us move upwards in the world top 100 away from 97th that we currently occupy which is always good.

Scole you are currently in 167th, so you definitely have a shot at top 100 before the end.
Keep up the good work all.

Taking care to reply to rather than edit the post.

I'd missed this. I'll give Einstein a mighty blast in a few hours. All GPUs and cores at once for a couple of days That'll make a difference. Lets aim for top 10.

scole250, hang on to your hat , we're about to move up a place or two

Lets bring the pain

95th in the world now and right on AMD's tail.

AMD users are well beaten, which puts us 14th. :bounce:
To be realistic, with 40 hrs to go, top 10 is probably beyond us but we could capture 13th from the Koreans.
We will also move up to 93rd in the all time Einstein rankings in a couple of hours.

That's a win win for a couple of days crunching. Always nice to see Einstein in the safe zone although the fact that I am making 1/10th my usual RAC is discouraging for long term commitment to moving Einstein upwards.

It does make it a tougher decision to run when the credit isn't too attractive.
Well done everyone who is taking part
Collatz was down for some/most of yesterday if that makes you feel any better

93rd it is now, might even squeeze 92nd before the fat diva shrieks

Einstein sure is slow giving credit. It's painful to watch the number of tasks in pending credit rise so close to the end of the challenge.

16 hours to go, touch and go whether we can catch Korea or not. I suspect not, but it will be close and depend on the vague whims of the validator. At least all the pending is credit in the bank that you will get in the next few weeks.
On the world stakes, France and Boinc@Austria are tantalisingly close. Might just stay on this for a few more days and see if they can be crushed

Einstein is also our most obvious project to achieve 9 digit status. Maybe we should pick a date and see if we can get it there by our chosen time.

Since I was late to the challenge I'll stay on it for a while after to help you out.
I think it's a good idea to make an effort to hit 9 figures. How about we set up a challenge where we should break 9 digits during the comp?
At current challenge rates it would only take around a month to get there but our normal rate will be a fair bit slower.

Only 6 hours to go. Given another 24 think we would catch Korea but at the moment unless Mr Pen Ding stops being a tight wad or someone has a bunch of units squirreled away for a penalty shootout win then 14 it will be.
At the rate we are shifting we could have 92nd in the world stats in less than 2 days and 91st a couple of hours later. Seems like a decent way to spend the weekend

Yep we've to settle for half way- 14th of 27. Okayish! :)
Best is our move up the all time rankings. 93rd today with further gains possible, although I for one will be finishing off the remaining work & then sitting back, waiting for anyone who thinks that they're hard enough to try and challenge me for team #1!

Megacruncher wrote:then sitting back, waiting for anyone who thinks that they're hard enough to try and challenge me for team #1!

Having checked the stats I'm going to stick my neck out and say that you are pretty safe up at the top there Mega!
I think you'd be able to spot anyone from a fair distance making moves to steal your Crown

Megacruncher wrote:sitting back, waiting for anyone who thinks that they're hard enough to try and challenge me for team #1!

Not taking the bait......yet but I am going after the French in 91st

So it finished TSBT 14 of 27

Individually

alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 57th
Megacruncher TSBT 70th
scole250 122nd
DonTex 208th
Peter Teago 237th
Janos of TSBT 264th
Mark Mair 290th
Dominic Young 324th
Giles 599th
PinkPenguin 613th
Paul of TSBT 624th
Davie Firth 655th
B McT 697th
Radio 728th
Andrew 767th
Kostoglotov 785th
Andrew McCluskey 947th
Robert Hendry 1021st
tiggsy 1036th