Formula Boinc 2017

hanluc · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:10

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

Also in our favour is their short attention span, if it takes them any more than a week they'll be climbing the walls

hanluc · 5 Feb 2017 at 21:28

We're down to 5th but it's all really close between 3rd 4th & 5th.

ozaudio · 6 Feb 2017 at 21:06

and back to 3rd

Senture · 7 Feb 2017 at 08:49

Well this is going to be interesting if we keep swapping places so quickly

ozaudio · 9 Feb 2017 at 20:31

any help with nfs

andy_taximan · 9 Feb 2017 at 20:37

i was looking for a different project to do next, ill give it a go,

Just uninstalled boinc and reinstalled on a spare ssd D: wow there was so much crap in the old folders, well worth the cleanup

ozaudio · 11 Feb 2017 at 09:17

im waiting on amd zen cpus now to see if a £200 cpu will match or better what I have now.

hanluc · 11 Feb 2017 at 10:02

ozaudio;30492874 said:
im waiting on amd zen cpus now to see if a £200 cpu will match or better what I have now.

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:

ozaudio · 11 Feb 2017 at 14:05

ba will sell his 64 cores and even his 120 core build. contact him

hanluc · 20 Mar 2017 at 21:17

http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?lang=en&year=2017
The first sprint discipline starts in 3 days time on the 23rd, the project will be announced the day before.

It should give us an indication who is playing.

ozaudio · 22 Mar 2017 at 13:10

yoyo @ home is the project.

PDW · 23 Mar 2017 at 14:30

In at number 3

Something has happened to the OcUK header image displayed on the project pages.
The blue background has gone so the white text of Overclockers is invisible, we are now just UK with a blue/red graphic :eek:

hanluc · 23 Mar 2017 at 14:53

The forum logo at the top of this page looks OK but when you open it in a new tab it goes all wrong.
I've captured the logo and uploaded it to picpar, so we can use that one for now.
http://i.picpar.com/1yqc.png

PDW · 23 Mar 2017 at 15:23

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 ?

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 ?

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'

hanluc · 23 Mar 2017 at 18:00

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 ?

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 ?

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'

I shall amend those.

ozaudio · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:09

PDW - there is only you running yoyo lol. seems to get getting very quiet around here.

edit - unless hanluc is planning some bunker drop?

hanluc · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:50

ozaudio said:
edit - unless hanluc is planning some bunker drop?

PDW · 23 Mar 2017 at 22:07

I can't imagine he would be the only one, why else would someone take the trouble to download work to their computer and not run it

ozaudio · 24 Mar 2017 at 16:03

that's a good point PDW, although im not sure who that is

your reduced output in primegrid has give evga time to catch up and are only a very short distance behind us

hanluc · 24 Mar 2017 at 16:39

Bombs Away!

... I was going to pull the trigger tomorrow AM but realised that's the weekend! when the servers go wrong!