Galileo Galilei Challenge Recap

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Wow! What an amazing week for theSkyNet and POGS. In the last 7 days we’ve achieved a whole host of project milestones. First of all a big thank you to the ‘Astronomy.Ru Forum’, for setting up another exciting challenge and secondly to everyone who connected their computer to the POGS network, we could not do this without you.

Because we all like numbers, here are some global stats from the challenge:

Peak TFLOPS for theSkyNet: 80.53 TFLOPS
Peak TFLOPS for theSkyNet POGS: 76.52 TFLOPS
Number of active users on theSkyNet POGS: 3961
Total theSkyNet credit awarded over the challenge: 143,079,252 credits
Total Teams involved in the challenge: 32
Total users involved in the challenge: 822
Total credits awarded to challengers: 114,596,835 credits
Combined Peak RAC: 9,370,440 RAC ~ 46.85 TFLOPS
Approximate number of hosts participating in the challenge: 2096 hosts with 12,845 reported CPU cores.

Now for the awards:

Alliance/team with the greatest credit:
1st SETI.USA, 40,481,767 credits
2nd BOINC.Italy 9,872,060 credits
3rd Sicituradastra, 9,087,819
Alliance/team with the highest peak RAC:
1st SETI.USA, 3,085,024
2nd Team Norway, 980,721
3rd L'Alliance Francophone, 941,013
Alliance/team with greatest credit to members ratio:
1st SETI.USA, ~605,052 credits/user
2nd ngb:setiteam ~517,638 credits/user
3rd Team Norway ~334,450 credits/user
Individual with the greatest credit:
1st Mumps [MM], 9,665,174
2nd cineon_lut [BlackOps], 6,468,492
3rd STE\/E [BlackOps], 4,825,471
Users who processed area 7,000,000
STE\/E [BlackOps]
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Congratulations to everyone involved but especially SETI.USA who cleaned up on the awards board. Trophy’s and prizes are on route!

Keep your eyes peeled for the next challenge where we will be adding some more categories. If you have any suggestions please head to http://forums.theskynet.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2779.

Thanks for playing your part and helping us all to discover the Universe

theSkyNet