Formula Boinc 2017

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New season has started and along with it new rules.

The teams selected for the FB are divided into three divisions of 25 teams. The distribution of teams depends on the number of active members (RAC> 100) on each project.
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Previously league assignments were based on RAC in November, now there is the factor of active members, this has demoted us to league 3 (we have been reassigned to league 2) though I see this demotion as compliment being as we won league 2 last year with so few active members.

Also this year, in addition to the usual FB scoring (called marathons now) there will be a sprint discipline.

Marathons : each project is considered as a "Grand-Prix". The 10 best teams on each project get a fixed number of FB points.

Sprint : 20 events of 3-days throughout the year, according to the schedule of the Formula 1 championship. Each sprint will involve only one project. The chosen project will only be known 24 hours before the start of the sprint. The top 10 teams on each sprint are given a fixed number of FB points
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Marathon Projects:
http://formula-boinc.org/projets.py?lang=en&year=2017

Sprint projects with dates:
http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?lang=en&year=2017

 
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I agree with most of what you have said.

The best we as a team can hope for to make it exciting like last year, is if at least one team in our league plays along, otherwise it will be a stroll in the park for us, especially if we do the sprints and no one else does.
 
I was thinking VTGU & NFS.

Though having lurked in the TSBT forums I'm leaning towards NFS now as they have brazenly decided to claim the UK No.1 spot from us.
Whist realistically we won't be able to stop them, unless we have an effort like the Ocuk vs EVGA pogs challenge (4p machines down the back of the sofa) I would like to make it as hard as possible for them.

We have a 6.5 million cushion in our favour
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Also in our favour is their short attention span, if it takes them any more than a week they'll be climbing the walls :D
 
ozaudio;30492874 said:
im waiting on amd zen cpus now to see if a £200 cpu will match or better what I have now.
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I've got the upgrade itch. I'm waiting to see how much the 8c/16t ryzens are and how they perform.
But the worst of it is me constantly looking at broadwell oem xeons for crazy money. Initially I dismissed it instantly due to the price but now slowly the idea is creepy into my head :rolleyes:
 
PDW said:
Was going through changing the ones I had and checked Gerasim (couldn't remember who had set that up) and they have the old logo with the reflection of the letters on it here... http://gerasim.boinc.ru/img/TeamBanner.ashx?teamid=130

Any thoughts on changing to that one ?
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Oh yes, I like that one better. I've uploaded it to picpar again, better than hot linking it to Gerasim.
http://i.picpar.com/Kyqc.jpg

Also, do you want to take control of the projects I set up before they ran the Team import script and/or is there a way to get them set up from the default team setup. Have you just changed the 'default' somewhere ?
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No need for me to take control, I know they're in safe hands. The only reason I took control in the first place was when I started getting interested in boinc I noticed that the team founder was Spie on most projects, and he had since sold OcUK and more importantly didn't do any distributed computing at all. Also many of the other team founders were inactive and some had since left our team! So I assumed team founder, not wanting anyone else to do it who had no interest in our team.

The automatic team set up is done by Boinc Wide Teams https://boinc.berkeley.edu/teams/ The founder of the team there (me in our case) is automatically assigned as team founder to any new Boinc Project. I don't know the ins and outs but sometimes new projects don't use boinc wide, probably the ones you set up as I'm sure if they did it would be automatically overridden by boinc wide.

These two projects don't show a picture at all...
https://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/team_display.php?teamid=1171 - doesn't have an image
http://52.55.66.34/xansons4cod/team_display.php?teamid=60 - shows the word 'image'
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I shall amend those.
 
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I got lucky with the work units. I ran only ECM as in the past I found them to pay best and the 'cw' ones I got given and bunkered up with paid very well, 3 times what the current ECM ones I'm doing, which I got yesterday.
 
PDW said:
Hmmm, getting hungry, what's for lunch ?

If I can't even get the date right what chance have I with the time :o
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I was checking like a fool yesterday to see what project it was, I suppose I can blame you.

Anyway it's Einstein http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=2&lang=en&year=2017
You may have to call on your buddy Justin Time or whatever his name for this one :D

Well done on your world no.1 Amicable numbers status and also to be the first to reach 100 million.
 
My 290s are doing them in 15 mins, 2 at a time, so effectively 7.5 min. I believe credit to be quite high, 3000 odd per WU but the deadlines are really long, 2 weeks which is not good for a 3 day sprint unless you're on the project already.
 
For some reason boinc has detected 4 GPUs in my machine when's there's only 2 (no app_config or cc_config running) and subsequently runs 4 instances, it did this on Amicable as well. Though in the case of Einstein it does seem to run quicker with two with my 290s, afterburner shows the GPU usage spiking when running just one.
 
I've added a 7970 & a 7950.
I now have a theoretical PPD of 2.4 million, that's if my wingmen validated all my work units which of course won't happen.
I'd be happy with a quarter of that ppd for this sprint.
 
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