DC Vault Shake up - OcUK members input needed.

[hanluc]

In an attempt to get some life back into the DC Vault competition, Rusty, who runs the DC Vault is proposing a shake up of the vault. He has asked that various representatives of the Vault teams consult their members with regards to adding/removing projects from the competition and recategorising them if needed.

Please post here if you have any thoughts on what projects you would like to see added, removed or moved within the vault to another category.

The project must:
be active
accept new members and teams immediately upon registration
have parsable team stats
have team stats that are updated regularly
provide a client program which runs on a local PC

The project must not:
be a keylogger or mouseclick counter
have a maximum number of teams or members or exclude any country

From discussions so far it seems that likely candidates for removal are RNAWorld due to its lack of work and PSP due to it falling to accept new members and teams immediately upon registration because of the manual registration it uses.

 

[hanluc]

Yeah, I've put some time and effort into it, Phil more so, it would knock us of out of the top 10, but we have to look at what is best for vault not only ourselves. It's not a very popular project, some guys from [H] requested over 10 days ago to be added to the server and still no reply, this is unacceptable in my opinion and looking further back a guy from SETI.Germany requested to have his team created and never received any reply, we are neck and neck with them, if they just drop a few WUs in PSP they would be 1000s ahead of us. It is also covered by Primegrid as one of its sub projects.

Some guys are also talking about having a Boinc only vault or at least the vast majority being Boinc, which would kill it for me, I made the point their would a a whole bunch of big teams in the top 10 who would be there just as a matter of circumstance and may not be interested in the vault.

One argument is that muon1 & ogr-28 (not added yet) are covered yoyo@home and PSP & SoB are covered by Primegrid.

 

[hanluc]

Current suggestions for removal from [H] and agreed with by evga are:

ABC
RNA
LHC
The Lattice Project
Climate Prediction

.. for lack of continuous work

Docking
eOn

.. because they are closing/closed

PSP

.. registration time.

Current suggestions for addition are:

Constellation - Physical Sciences
Ibercivis (they gave permission via PM) - Miscellaneous since it is an umbrella project
PrimaBoinca - Mathematics
DistrRTgen - Miscellaneous
Numberfields (they gave permission via PM) - they also said they have multiple years worth of work left to do. - Mathematics
Distributed Data Mining - users should take note that it requires Java to be installed - This would most likely fit in Miscellaneous.

I've been trying some of the projects so far,
Numberfields: seems ok apart from the boinc progress bar starting at 50% and finishing around 64%, but that's nothing to be too concerned about.

Constellation: currently running smoothly
Ibercivis: No work sent, none sent for the past 9 days according to the stats, I'll bring that up.

The rest I haven't tried but according to the stats they seem to be running ok.

WUprop and Mindmodeling have also been mentioned with reservations brought up about them.

If anyone has any thoughts on the above please say.

EDIT: Forgot to say, I going to request that OGR-28 be added now that 27 has finished unless anyone has any objections.

 

[hanluc]

The proposed additions & removals and the reasons behind this are now in the open forum of the vault, feel free to voice your opinion there if you have one.

Projects to be removed:

ABC
RNA
LHC
The Lattice Project
PSP
Climate prediction

Projects to be added:

Constellation - Physical Sciences
PrimaBoinca – Mathematics
Numberfields – Mathematics
OGR-28 – Maths
NRG@Home - Bio
MindModeling – Bio

We are ranked very low on some of these new additions, and quite high on some of the removals so we will slump down in the rankings, but all the more fun climbing back up hopefully.

 

[hanluc]

I've done some calculations of what vault points we'd get if these projects where added to the vault tomorrow, maximum possible would be 10,000 pts obviously.

Constellation OcUK position 71 out of 617 teams = 8,866 pts
Mindmodeling OcUK position 83 out of 863 teams = 8,782 pts
Numberfields OcUK position 172 out of 617 teams = 5,262 pts
Primaboinca OcUK position 248 out of 348 teams = 4,498 pts
NGR OcUK position 155 out of 199 teams = 2,262 pts
OGR-28 OcUK position 269 out of 280 teams = 393 pts

So certainly some room for improvement