12/6-16/6 2014 FIFA World Cup-Primaboinca

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/560

Name 2014 FIFA World Cup
Status Upcoming
Project Primaboinca
Issued by Keep The Fire Alive!
Start time 2014-06-12 20:00 UTC
End time 2014-06-16 20:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 7
Number of users participating 0

[Alez]

Like the world cup, off and running. TSBT 4th from 5 with me and Paul slugging it out with 13 Poles. Not really a fair fight but we are holding our own

The Boinc scheduler is a crazy beast. Whatever I tried I could only get a trickle of work for Simap, tried it here on Primaboinca and so far it has said ' yes please, give me more' As far as I am concerned , boinc working on recently done work to determine it's scheduler request and ignoring my wishes is completely against the whole concept of Volunteer donated computer power.
Seems the only way to truly control what you want to run is to have no new work set for all projects except the one you want to run and as soon as you change your mind you have to disable previous project, enable new project and abort all old work. Not very fair on the projects involved and not something I can accomplish remotely.
I think the hierarchy that programs scheduler requests and credit new into Boinc need to re-visit a dictionary and become reacquainted with the definition of volunteer. Rant over

[Silver]

Like the world cup, off and running. TSBT 4th from 5 with me and Paul slugging it out with 13 Poles. Not really a fair fight but we are holding our own

Up to 15 Poles now
We're still pretty close though

Can't help with the scheduler, in fact I don't think anyone or anything can help with it! It is indeed a law unto itself.
The way I try and work is one project at a time for comps and try and finish up the old project units before moving across to the new ones.
When I'm 'just crunching' I pick what projects to run and leave it to do whatever it wants, still find it hard to believe that if you pick three projects and you've got three cores it wont run a project on each core instead of the random run of one project after another.

I do agree with you Alez, you'd think they'd make it easy for the people trying to help out!

[Alez]

yes 15 of them now and we are less than 2K behind them We can take 3rd here

[Alez]

We were briefly ahead of them this morning but now there are 17 of them. As bad as the amphibians for popping out of the woodwork.

[scole of TSBT]

Just got back from vacation, 9 days traveling. Working on primaboinca now. Better late than never.

[Alez]

There are now 19 of them beavering away. Despite that we have moved into a solid 3rd with a day and a half to go. Welcome onboard scole, hope you had a good time off Now that the whole Pirate gang is here, how about 2nd

[scole of TSBT]

We're gaining on L'Alliance Francophone but it would sure help if another TSBT member joined the challenge :bounce:

[Alez]

They are 27k in front of us, we catching them by @ 3k per hour. We can do this

[scole of TSBT]

I don't trust them. They always seem to get more team members to join late when needed. We need a strategy. Like someone bunkering Primaboinca and dumping a couple hours before the end...Megacruncher

[Silver]

Now that's a devious idea, worthy of a pirate indeed :pirate:
I like it

[scole of TSBT]

Credit is not bad for a CPU project, .025 to .03+ per CPU sec. Just sayin'.

[Alez]

Less than 8k in it now :bounce: :bounce: Prepare boarding parties, if Thin Lizzy was around in the 17th century then The Pirates are back in town
Equal points now....... can we grab 2nd and hold it ?

[scole of TSBT]

Aye. 17 against 3, they were no match for the TSBT pirate crew

[Alez]

Indeed, neither the poles or the frogs could stay with us. TSBT 2nd from 7 but realistically 2nd is a victory as nobody could stay with Keep The Fire Alive!

Individual Pirate positions
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 3rd
scole of TSBT 5th
Paul of TSBT 8th

Congratulations to us