8/2-15/2 Enigma mysteries - Enigma@Home

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/648

Name Enigma mysteries
Status Upcoming
Project Enigma@Home
Issued by BOINC@Poland
Start time 2015-02-08 00:00 UTC
End time 2015-02-15 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 6
Number of users participating 0

[scole of TSBT]

If you are already crunching in another challenge, it's time to make sure your Minimum work buffer is set low enough so you can finish those WUs and get crunching on Enigma when it starts. I leave mine at .1 days w/0 additional.

[Silver]

Swap overs are always a challenge in themselves!
Always good to see who manages to get their sums right - I'll give you a clue, it's not usually me

[Alez]

Won't be me either. I will miss at least the first day if not more depending on work and of course the scheduler playing ball or ball ache.

[scole of TSBT]

Get a secure remote desktop app and ditch BAM! You now have BoincTask to handle everything from 1 system.

[Silver]

I see there's a few folk having a go at this one
Looks like it could be hard going for us to get a good result!

[Dirk Broer]

Ye're doing not too shabby, arrr

BTW: NativeBoinc is up again: http://nativeboinc.org/site/host_stats# ... er=credits
http://nativeboinc.org/site/team_stats#project=enigma

[scole of TSBT]

Mr. Silver be gettin' an A in BOINC challenge WU management :pirate:

[Silver]

Mr. Silver be gettin' an A in BOINC challenge WU management :pirate:

Well I had to get it right at least once 8)
Hopefully Alez can get his scheduler on track so we can get after our French chums
I see your blazing a trail towards the top again Scole

[Alez]

Remote access is not a problem, time is, on this job. Doing 16 hr shifts to compensate for lack of experience at nights and at the end of that the last thing I want to do is remote access my computers. Bam works all over the world even on African connections and a remote connection can't physically reboot a computer. Got a little bit of time this morning so hopefully once I am finished updating the challenge section etc I will get a few more over and get my kid to chase the rest tonight or tomorrow night. Best I can do, reality is we need more of the team to change projects for a challenge, even if they only do it once or twice a month and not much we can do about that either.

[Alez]

Ye're doing not too shabby, arrr

BTW: NativeBoinc is up again: http://nativeboinc.org/site/host_stats# ... er=credits
http://nativeboinc.org/site/team_stats#project=enigma

Some of the individual projects are working again. Unfortunately the team stats and individual stats are not so I can't do an update of overall positions and I'm not typing up individual project stats, that would just send me up the wall.
If the team stats starts working again then I will do an update.

[Alez]

LAF dispatched, de-limbed and on the frying pan. Korea next ...... though only if a few more members join us in the hunt to solve the Enigma. If no-one else joins in then we won't catch them and 4th it is and that's after only 1 1/2 days of the comp gone. It's that simple.

[scole of TSBT]

Reeltime, Garry Ross and Iain joining in along with the regular crew.

Com 'oon Scots! Let's show everyone who's the best team in the UK!

...and there's nothing like a team challenge to take a WUProp application up a level or two. Enigma now magenta :)

[Alez]

ahum , eh, enigma 96 240hrs, POGS 322 085 hrs :)
would imagine Paul is purple in Enigma ?

[scole of TSBT]

ahum , eh, enigma 96 240hrs, POGS 322 085 hrs :)
would imagine Paul is purple in Enigma ?

I saw this post coming as soon as I clicked the Submit button

But well done for 96,259+ hours Enigma for cyan and well done to Paul for 127,661+ hours for purple

[Alez]

ahum , eh, enigma 96 240hrs, POGS 322 085 hrs :)
would imagine Paul is purple in Enigma ?

I saw this post coming as soon as I clicked the Submit button

But well done for 96,259+ hours Enigma for cyan and well done to Paul for 127,661+ hours for purple

can't help it .... leave the door ajar like that I'm always going to kick it in It's one of my redeeming features

[Alez]

My laptop's bored and decided it wants to join in the Enigma@Home challenge, so team #14 is Anguillan Pirates and my 2 cores are off chasing Colombia 8)

[Silver]

I saw this post coming as soon as I clicked the Submit button

But well done for 96,259+ hours Enigma for cyan and well done to Paul for 127,661+ hours for purple

Thanks chaps it is amazing what a couple of droids pottering away can do for your WUprop score

I saw this post coming as soon as I clicked the Submit button

But well done for 96,259+ hours Enigma for cyan and well done to Paul for 127,661+ hours for purple

can't help it .... leave the door ajar like that I'm always going to kick it in It's one of my redeeming features

It would indeed be a missed opportunity to have a friendly dig

[Silver]

And I've passed the 5 million mark at the beginning of the comp and you know what that means......
New badge

[scole of TSBT]

And I've passed the 5 million mark at the beginning of the comp and you know what that means......
New badge

I was just about to point out your new ruby badge coming. I should earn a sapphire badge by the end of the challenge. What new badge are you going to earn Alez?

INCOMING! (all in fun here folks! Alez already has the sapphire badge and is more than half way to the ruby badge.)

[scole of TSBT]

We've gained a lot of ground on SETIKAH@KOREA, but... we need more power!

[Silver]

We all need more power Scole!!

[scole of TSBT]

I hated to play my trump card this soon, but SETIKAH@KOREA won't give up. Ehum...Janos, Skywalker...

[Silver]

Our quest was not helped today by my computer deciding to have the day off

[Silver]

............... We're making progress................

[Alez]

We should have 4th and I should have 12th in the next hour or so. Anguillan Pirates are also now ahead of Colombia. The power of two cores

[Megacruncher]

We've taken 4th although with 47hrs left we certainly aren't secure in it.
I'll see if I can find a few more stops to pull out.

[scole of TSBT]

Great effort from everyone so far.

[Alez]

Iain still crunching away to in 62nd spot. Well done to you sir. We are slowly extending our lead but it can still be overcome so noses, grindstones etc......
Bit of a battle going on down in 13 and 14th team places.

[scole of TSBT]

We're slowly pulling away from Korea, but no time to let up. It is time to reduce the minimum work buffer, if you haven't already done so, in case you want jump on the WCG challenge that starts on the 14th at 18:00 UTC, 6 hours before this challenge ends. I'm staying on this one until it's over though. (I have mine set to .05 days)

[Alez]

When this is over going to move on some of the more neglected projects for a few days. Rosetta for one is in danger of going south fast.

[Alez]

Only 15 hrs left to defend 10th and try for 9th. Need more .... power

[scole of TSBT]

You've got 9th. How bad do you want to hold it? Willing to suspend other projects for bit?

[Alez]

Not really much to suspend as I will hold 9th until I get knocked back to 10th Only 8 hrs to go and since I'm not at my systems, not much more I can do.
Noticed Mr MacLennan has come screaming into the top 100 and David Jackson making headway up the table too 6 of us top 100 now and a few more active as well.

[Megacruncher]

It's over!
And we finished a very decisive & creditable 4th! :)

Individual performances of our members and their alter-egos were:
scole 6th
Alez 9th
Paul 19th
Megacruncher 29th
Iain 63rd
Robert MacLen. 86th
Anguillan Pirate 142nd
David Jackson 264th
Gary Ross. 284th
Reeltime 311th
Thinboab 417th
Well done to all who contributed - thanks in particular to those who crunch but never post here! :)

[scole of TSBT]

Well done everyone!

BTW...It doesn't matter if you have 1 core or 100 cores, it all helps and is much appreciated in the challenges. Some of us have taken this up as a serious hobby but we don't expect everyone else to. We just enjoy seeing others join the forum and post and join the challenges and help TSBT however you can. :)

[Alez]

Well done everyone!

BTW...It doesn't matter if you have 1 core or 100 cores, it all helps and is much appreciated in the challenges.

Anguillan Pirate 142nd - 2 cores of my i5 laptop not runninig 24/7 due to work usage and connectivity issues yet still managed 142 nd. Shows you don't need a monster farm to compete as you may not be in the top 10 but you will still be contributing to the whole team effort and having your own personal battles with those around you who will have similar resources to deploy. I feel just as good about being 9th individually for TSBT as I do that my 2 cores managed 13th of the 14 teams, keeping my record of not being last in a team challenge yet with Anguillan Pirates
Very nice to see some new names on the list and hope that some of you will consider running LHC for the team challenge issued by TSBT even if it is just a core or two for as long or as little as you wish.
Team challenges are won by teams as a whole not just a few individuals and of course it's more fun with a little chat with your team mates. :)