theSkyNet POGS - 2 day challenge.

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A call to arms!
I've entered team OcUK - Overclockers UK into the 'theSkyNet POGS - In memory of William A. Bradfield, Comet Hunter (1927-2014)' challenge over at Boincstats.

Starts: 9th July 1 am our time (midnight 9th July UTC)
Ends: 11th July 1 am our time (midnight 11th July UTC)

The object is simple, for teams to score as many points as possible in the 2 day frame, all you need to do is to crunch for team OcUK - Overclockers UK. POGs work units do need to be verified by other donors so I would suggest starting a couple of days early in order to hit the ground running (or to hoard/bunker work units ;))

Participants, challenge team & user stats can be found here.

Thanks to anyone wishing to participate and good luck to all!
 
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I've got pogs running on my tablet, I could switch two more rigs from DPAD for the challenge.
What sort of preload would you recommend, short for quick returns or a larger stash ?

Well that's ten more instances up and running. I have them on a short buffer at the moment.
 
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Well I've just fired up a dormant rig and loaded up 220 tasks, deadline for them is the 11th so I'll be dumping them when it starts :) I might do it with other rigs, not decided yet.
 
PDW said:
Ooh, my first challenge :eek:

I liked this...

"The Japanese comet hunters were his fiercest competitors, and he'd always sweep areas of sky visible to them first. Only later would he leisurely return to the sky visible only from the Southern Hemisphere."

from here http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/bill-bradfield-comet-hunter-extraordinaire-1927-2014/

I'll be joining in but wasn't going to switch over till late Saturday or Sunday, is that too late to get a head of steam up ?
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Great! that should be ideal, I've found with pogs generally a couple of days later most of the pending credit generally comes in. I have one machine with 310 primaboinca tasks still to complete which will take another 3 days to complete :mad: so what I'll do is download the pogs tasks now and hopefully my wingmen will crunch them and I'll validate them during the challenge.
 
I thought the start of the challenge was early Tuesday morning (our time) but have now realised it is Wednesday morning :o Just means I have an extra day of building up the pending credits :)

Yeah, primaboinca does download a whole bunch of tasks when you first start but sorts itself out. At least the points seem quite good value :D
 
PDW said:
I thought the start of the challenge was early Tuesday morning (our time) but have now realised it is Wednesday morning :o Just means I have an extra day of building up the pending credits :)

Yeah, primaboinca does download a whole bunch of tasks when you first start but sorts itself out. At least the points seem quite good value :D
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It's one particular 3770K rig I have which goes crazy when fetching work on any boinc project for some reason, 710 tasks it grabbed for pogs :eek: wish now I'd have started earlier, I'll probably get through a third of them before the start if I'm lucky.

BaBa said:
Im in:)

Taken the big rig off folding for a few days to throw at this.
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Great stuff! :)
 
I'm current running at around 50/50, half pending, half valid. Production is ramping up, 140,000 today :)
 
Just checking... I don't need to register an account with BOINC for the challenge ?

I was reading the challenge help guide and looked at the team profile page and it only listed 72 members. I'm guessing it isn't necessary as someone like BaBa isn't in the list !
 
Acquired some more hardware, for the cause! Got to keep my rank while all these newbies with uber-farms try to catch up (hanluc excepted).

PS - since the weekend, teamocuk.co.uk now also has POGS stats, though not for the challenge as that's separate from the BOINC system.
 
I don’t ‘ave one of them thar farms, I knows that computers don’t grows on trees.
I’m just looking for the right potato to plant so I can crop ‘em and get the best chips I can :D
 
Hi D, zerker and all the newer folks

Been A while but thought I throw my 4 cores at this too.
I did mean to start a few days ago but life got in the way.

Looks like I've joined the team ok - now just need some results (2h away)
 
I'm expecting much more of this...

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Great start! currently 4th, we dumped 400,000 yesterday :cool: though the Aussies and Frenchies who are behind us dumped more so it will be intersting to see how it goes.

PDW currently 3rd in the user stats! :eek: yous sure you ain't got no farm? ;)
 
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Does I look likes a farmer ?
I looks more like an idjit as not being able to figure out the starting date I ran out of work for the last 6 hours before the start time and had to sit twiddling my dpad thumbs before I could get more:(

Team did look to be heading for 3rd but I think the aussies will take us and the ruskies out :mad:
 
I just checked, and I have...

State: All (2181) · In progress (666) · Validation pending (163) · Validation inconclusive (0) · Valid (1338) · Invalid (0) · Error (14)

I'm doomed! :eek:
 
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