7th Annual BOINC Pentathlon: 5th - 19th June 2016

hanluc · 14 Apr 2016 at 20:55

OK, so I'm thinking..

Atlas ... Being as we like this one, and the admin wants to be in it and ensured extra work units.
Asteroids .... stable, lots of work, GPU entry but scores great on CPU as well.
Skynet POGs ... stable, lots of work

Maybe
Cosmology, NFS or Enigma ??

or even Universe? I'll take this as Ba's entry

we already have a strong team on there.

PDW · 14 Apr 2016 at 22:30

Not a problem with any of those as far as I'm concerned !

chris182008 · 16 Apr 2016 at 19:25

I'm in, not really fussed which projects.

BaBa · 16 Apr 2016 at 20:16

I'll take this as Ba's entry

Happy to switch round as its only for a few days

scole250 · 22 Apr 2016 at 22:57

Anything but Enigma or Rosetta

Maybe Cosmology, Universe, SRBase, PrimeGrid, Poem...

PDW · 26 Apr 2016 at 08:34

hanluc said:
OK, so I'm thinking..

Atlas ... Being as we like this one, and the admin wants to be in it and ensured extra work units.
Asteroids .... stable, lots of work, GPU entry but scores great on CPU as well.
Skynet POGs ... stable, lots of work

Maybe
Cosmology, NFS or Enigma ??

or even Universe? I'll take this as Ba's entry we already have a strong team on there.

Despite what your first post said I think voting closes on the 27th but their website is suffering from 'technical difficulties' at the moment.
Have you already selected our entries for this or are you going to wait till voting closing ?

I can wait, just thought it had got a bit quiet in here !

hanluc · 26 Apr 2016 at 09:10

I was aware it was the 27th, I amended post #5, didn't remember I stated the 17th in the first post

No I haven't entered us yet and yes, I thought it would be fun to cast our vote after it had finished

The site has been down since the weekend, I will enter us as soon as it's back, there was another longer deadline for entering but without the options of choosing project recommendations, but I'm sure they extend the first deadline considering the circumstances.

hanluc · 26 Apr 2016 at 11:42

Major Update, this year's pentathlon will be postponed.

Dear fellow crunchers,

bad news today. As you may already have noticed, seti-germany.de and the Pentathlon pages have been down since Saturday. The server was hacked and we do not know yet when everything will be back online. Of course, we do not want to bring it back up just to see it being hacked again during the Pentathlon. Additional security measures are being implemented right now.

I really feel bad to have to say this, but we will have to postpone this year's Pentathlon to make sure that we can provide the usual service (stats, daily bulletin, project announcements) and all teams have the opportunity to sign up. We can not give a new date right now, but we hope that we can run it still in May or early June, as we definitely want to avoid the hot summer months.

If you registered your team before last Friday, all information is in our latest backup and will be restored. If you wanted to participate but could not sign up yet, don't worry; we'll make sure that you can still sign up once the Pentathlon pages are back online (of course, you can also submit your project suggestions via email if you like).

We will post a proper announcement as soon as we have a new date. Really sorry for the chaos this year.

Regards,
pschoefer

Why anyone would want to hack a volunteer boinc team is beyond me.

colinmcr · 26 Apr 2016 at 18:25

That's a shame

PDW · 2 May 2016 at 08:34

Seems they are back in business and everything has been put back by 1 month

Let's hope that's not when summer is this year !

hanluc · 2 May 2016 at 09:11

OK we're in, with Atlas, pogs, asteroids & cosmology as our suggestions.

tipes · 2 May 2016 at 13:09

Am I too late to join this effort?

PDW · 2 May 2016 at 14:24

tipes said:
Am I too late to join this effort?

Not at all, officially starts on 5th June now, just keep watching this thread and activity will increase when we get closer to the off

scole250 · 5 May 2016 at 01:03

They start keeping score on June 5th at 00:00 UTC, but they will announce the first project on May 31st 00:00 UTC (or shortly after). That's when it begins! You need to load a full bunker then and suspend network activity until May 5th 00:00 UTC.

danewesley · 13 May 2016 at 11:38

Im currently doing asteroids for ocuk when im not using my computer, is there anything more specific i should be doing?

ozaudio · 13 May 2016 at 21:12

danewesley said:
Im currently doing asteroids for ocuk when im not using my computer, is there anything more specific i should be doing?

cpu or gpu?

hanluc · 14 May 2016 at 08:49

danewesley said:
Im currently doing asteroids for ocuk when im not using my computer, is there anything more specific i should be doing?

Asteroids is fine, there's a good chance it will be included in the pentathlon, we'll know sooner closer to the start date.

danewesley · 15 May 2016 at 09:41

ozaudio said:
cpu or gpu?

Both

PDW · 30 May 2016 at 20:13

The clock is counting down, the competitors start edging towards the start line, the organisers have issued their preview...

https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/350-BOINC-Pentathlon-2016-The-Awakening-of-the-Machines

Several new teams this year including the Raccoon Lovers. What GD would make of that I can't bear to think, hopefully we will be beating the Raccoon Lovers and not the other way round :eek:

hanluc · 31 May 2016 at 08:45

The marathon project has been announced and it's .. drum roll...

The Citizen Science Grid

https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/list/category/3-BOINC-Pentathlon

Deadlines are only 4 days so bunkering will have to happen later but worth hitting now to build up pending credit.