8th Annual BOINC Pentathlon: 5th May - 19th May 2017

[hanluc]

Hi OcUK - Overclockers UK,

less than ten months have passed since the seventh *BOINC Pentathlon* came to an end. Now the Pentathlon is back to its usual date *from May 5 to May 19* and SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to compete in five disciplines at five projects for the eighth time.

This year, the stable and popular project World Community Grid is set for the City Run discipline, with only one subproject being considered for the Pentathlon.

The teams may enter their favorite WCG subproject and three additional project suggestions while signing up using the using the registration form at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php until *April 27*. The suggestions will be taken into account in the project selection as described at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/25_en_Disciplines.html.

All information about the BOINC Pentathlon is available at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/, while you can find the answers to many questions at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/27_en_FAQ.html.

Looking forward to seeing you again at the Pentathlon!

Regards
pschoefer

8th BOINC Pentathlon
from 05/05/2017, 0:00 UTC
to 19/05/2017, 0:00 UTC
5 disciplines
1 winner


https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php
(OcUK finished 11th Overall)

Marathon
Cosmology@Home
http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ (OcUK finished 12th)
Start: 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC

City Run
World Community Grid - OpenZika (OcUK finished 10th)
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Start: 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC

Cross Country
Einstein@Home (OcUK finished 11th)
https://einsteinathome.org/de
Start: 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2017-05-14 00:00:00 UTC

Swimming (OcUK finished 11th)
LHC@home
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
Start: 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC

Sprint
yoyo@home (OcUK finished 12th)
http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/
Start: 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC

 

[andy_taximan]

Why not , and is there a list of projects?

 

[hanluc]

https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php

There are 4 drop down menus with the projects lised. WCG has been decided for the last one, so for that it's just the sub project we choose.

 

[ozaudio]

cpu rather than gpu based would give us a better chance

 

[hanluc]

cpu rather than gpu based would give us a better chance

There will be at least one GPU project.
Explained here https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/25_en_Disciplines.html

 

[andy_taximan]

Well my pc likes nfs

 

[Bowmore]

I'd like to throw out an alternative to OcUK running the Pentathlon this year for yourselves. If OcUK were to crunch the Pentathlon for SUSA I'd be willing to bet that OcUK would find themselves moving up in the Formula BOINC standings

Interested?

 

[hanluc]

We've got until the 27th to add our project suggestions, 2nd May is the deadline for entry.

So far we have just one

NFS@home.

I like numberfields@home, think the admin guy there is really on the ball.
I think also collatz for gpu

Anyone else got any other suggestions?

 

[MGP]

For me it has to be projects related to desease research or astronomy. I just don't see the point in looking for all this meaningless number stuff. So projects like Pogs, Einstien, Asteroids, Cosmology (although that needs the virtualisation thing that I struggle to get working without killing the computer, Rosetta, WCG, GPUgrid, Denis ....

 

[hanluc]

Personally I like maths projects, but each to their own.

It's been Announced that WCG will be one of the projects, with a choice of either
Fight aids, openzika or mapping cancer markers being chosen.

Rossetta is not an option as it was ran last year. I don't think that GPUgrid being Nvidia only is not a good candidate and Denis I'm not sure can handle the work. If there's another shout for it I'll add it to the consideration list. We need to pick 3, and one WCG sub project.

Asteroids
NFS@home
Pogs
Einstein
Cosmology
Collatz

 

[ozaudio]

im easy going, I don't care whats run so long as we don't come last in the challenge lol. does cosmology use a load of ram?

 

[andy_taximan]

i still like nfs, i got back my no1 top host spot
wcg , id go for childhood cancer 1
other then that not fussed

 

[Senture]

im easy going, I don't care whats run so long as we don't come last in the challenge lol. does cosmology use a load of ram?

Not all that much. Windows 10 and 6x 4 core instances uses 11GB with a few background programs running, no where near is ludicrous as Atlas or LHC is.

 

[PDW]

My preferences would be:

Amicable Numbers
NFS
NumberFields
TN-Grid
WCG - MCM

 

[Akagi]

I can do GPU stuff but I'll not be able to do much CPU stuff, she gets a little toasty.

 

[hanluc]

I can do GPU stuff but I'll not be able to do much CPU stuff, she gets a little toasty.

Brilliant, thanks!

 

[hanluc]

The marathon & city run projects have been announced!

See post #1

It starts in less than 5 days!

 

[andy_taximan]

There will be at least one GPU project.
Explained here https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/25_en_Disciplines.html

No gpu then lol

 

[hanluc]

No gpu then lol

Only two of the 5 have been announced so far.
Cross Country is usually the GPU one.

 

[10esseeTony]

How does one go about bunkering for Cosmology?