The Scottish Boinc Team

Thanks for that admin01! So basically to see and contribute to this forum you need to either be outside the UK or, like me, using a VPN to give that impression. How do we communicate that to people? When I try to connect to this forum without a VPN I get nothing at all. Can we put something in place...

Yikes! The Online Safety Act is a ridiculously complex and frankly unworkable attempt to address some real issues. If taken as written then it would shut down not only this forum but pretty much every other forum in the UK & in theory any forum any where in the world which might ever be visited ...

Of course the elephant in the 2025 room was that things had changed a little at the end of 2024. TSBT had been caught tweaking our benchmarks in a SiDock sprint in Formula BOINC. Now, such behaviour is neither uncommon nor is it against the rules (there are no rules!). Also crucially our gamesmanshi...

Wow! A nine year long pause in a thread: Impressive!
But given the amount of traffic on the forum recently it probably counts as quite brisk!
Whatevs, good to have your return confirmed.

The February results haven’t quite been finalised but a handy brace of results on the final day have improved our score quite a bit.
Our tally is now 8 primes, 5 of them Mega primes.
We are 17th overall. Not too bad for a wee non-specialist team.

Miklos has found another Mega Prime.

288601570¹³¹⁰⁷²+1 (1,108,909 digits)

Which makes 5 so far, 3 of them Mega primes. Nice!

[Edit: And I’m waiting for it to be confirmed but I think I’ve got another Mega Prime.]

An Eight Years Retired Doctor Writes Yes best to get it looked at. Probably nothing too nasty: I’m assuming you are well into your middle age (unless you had a vasectomy in your teens - which is unlikely) and testicular cancer tends to be a younger man’s problem. Anyway good luck Dirk, and keep us ...

Two more Primes for our February haul.
Gregg got an utterly huge Mega Prime 284831742¹³¹⁰⁷²+1 (1,108,160 digits)

And I bagged the rather more petite 6063*2^2179330+1. (656,048 digits)

That’s 4 in total for the team. Still 20 days to go.

And TSBT are on the T de P scoreboard, thanks to Miklos who has just discovered 5045*2^2159865+1.

Hopefully the first of many, or at least several.

Okay folks, this is a simple one, just run Primegrid and collect as many primes as you can during the month of February. Not easy mind you - 24hrs in and only 12 individuals, representing 10 teams and with a measly 14 small primes between them have so far troubled the leaderboard. http://www.primegr...

Granowski wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:10 am @Megacruncher --- You have a FIND! Congratulations, Gregg

Thank you!
Yes my thirteenth prime and my biggest so far. It even made the top 5000!

Fair enough Gregg.
As it is, there are 4 of doing the latest PG challenge: Miklos, myself, Wailing Angus Beef and Laird o’ th’ Wee White Hoose.
After a slightly sluggish start we are now up to 28th. Not bad but I’m sure we can improve on it.

But which projects actually run on Mac OS?

And so, TSBT finished 5th overall.
All 3 individual participants, Scole, Miklos & me, made the top ten.
It's not glory but it's honest & respectible.
Well done all.

I’m pretty sure it’s had Linux work in the not too distant past.

Whatevs, there are three of us crunching for TSBT in the challenge just now and we are sitting a respectable 5th out of 13 participating teams.
Go Us!

All best wishes for 2025!

This has already started.

Let’s join in and give it our best effort.

BTW so far I’ve only been able to get work for my windows machines.

https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challe ... /chat/1126

I'll be giving my all in the PG races next year!

Seasons greetings everyone.

10th Place - well done ... Gregg, Indeed, 10th is very respectable considering the number of teams mainly crunching Primegrid. There were some decent individual performances also: Miklos M. ........... 17th Megacruncher ...... 21st Granowski .......... 66th PecosRiverM ........ 74th Wailing Angus B...

Let us hope so!

Nobody has posted here for ages.

Here's an old favourite. I just can't think what made me think of it today!

Granowski wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:23 am as far as I can see we have representation of six Crunchers ... it makes me happy!

regards, Gregg

And it makes me happy that you are happy Gregg!
We aren't doing too badly,8th overall.
No new primes yet though.

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10713

A tribute to Willy de Zutter, founder of BOINCStats, who is terminally ill.

It is the sub project GFN21 only and as usual with PG challenges only work downloaded after the kickoff counts.

I remain unconvinced by AI. It's basically enormous copying with considerable bluffing.
And importantly nobody is even pretending to be close to artificial self-awareness or artificial volition.

It's a shame.
BOINC is running out of projects.

All my primes are relatively minuscule but at least they are mine.

remember to check that you are on TSBT Pete :-) :roll: Whatever, we are well out in front, thanks to some awesome bunkerage. Moreover, thanks to awesome GPU power, and awesome team coordination, we are steadily extending our lead. Final victory in the sprint looks well within our grasp, if not tota...

I've got 48 threads on this.
We aren't doing to badly, although our top contributor has gone Walkabout changing his name and team.

See you again sometime Pete!

Inveteratus has also joined in the effort.

Well, we finished 3rd, just one place and 3 points behind P3DN. But it could have been worse - the last WCG sprint had us 4 places and 13 pts adrift. https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.py?race=2&division=1&standing=team&sprintid=16 Well done and thanks to all who contributed to what w...

It’s a WCG FB sprint & it’s a tough fight where we are struggling to keep in contention. But when it is over in 23 hours I promise I’ll put a few dozen cores onto the PG challenge. As it is TSBT are 17th overall. Individual contributions are McShane …… 38th Miklos ………. 41st Gregg ………. 84th Mega ...

Yup Pete, BOINCManager will instantly and reliably tell you who you are running as and for whom, for all of your projects. Anyhoo despite a ropey start TSBT’s position is improving a bit in this sprint. We are now languishing in an unaccustomed 6th place. However P3DN are just 3 places ahead and we ...

Formula BOINC 2024 Sprint #22 24-Oct 21:00 UTC - 27-OCT 21:00 UTC Project TBD https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.py?race=2&division=1&standing=team&sprintid=22 The next Formula Boinc sprint begins in less than 3 hours! Yup and it is WCG which suits us not. But all cores on deck, rega...

If it’s a GPU project for the sprint then some cores will be available for the challenge.
But the challenge continues for a couple of days after the sprint finishes so some cores should be available then.

Awesome Gregg,
my biggest prime is 353637844^65536+1 which is a relatively trivial 560,239 digit number.

I think it rather depends on what happens with the FB sprint starting later today. We are steadily gaining on P3DN.

A classic 3rd day mahoosive bunker drop propelled us to a narrow but well deserved sprint victory!
Hurrah for TSBT & mahoosive bunkers!

Dearie me!
TSBT are sitting third with 18hrs of the sprint left!

Uh oh!
Our early lead, mainly based on our modest bunkering is being eroded by a serious effort by P3DN!

If you aren't already on it please switch your CPU cores to NFS@Home.
Thank you.

It's NFS!
And TSBT take an early lead.

Brace yourselves folks.
Another sprint starts at 1600 UTC on Thursday 29th August.
Announcement and stats will be here https://formula-boinc.org/sprints.py?ra ... printid=18

Most of us are still around and still crunching. We are making a strong challenge on Formula Boinc. Members of the team are still communicating via other channels, but you are correct Gregg, we have been neglecting this site, and one another. A fair bit of this is because of past fears that this sit...

Yay! We won.
But only a few days until the next sprint!
Fire up that ******* and get bunkering!

And we won it by a huge margin.
Well done everybody.
And as a bonus P3DN could only manage 4th place.
Nice.

I'm not too short of dosh but I'd hesitate before splashing out on a current generation Threadripper 64 core system. £6302 on Scan just for a bundle. Yikes! As it is I just bought a AM5 Ryzen 9 7950X bundle on Scan for a relatively modest £1300. I'm very happy with it. I hadn't realised that it had ...

Time for a shower I think.

We are 33M ahead with 10hrs left. Victory is ours!
And, icing on cake, our chums SUSA look set to force P3DN! into third place!

The next sprint kicks off in twelve hours. The announcement will be posted here https://formula-boinc.org/sprints.py?race=2&division=1&standing=team&sprintid=6 when the project starts. 0800 UTC is 9am in Scotland but I think it might be a rather less friendly 4am for those of you governe...

It was close - well fairly close 5% or so in it - but we prevailed in the end.
Well done everyone.

And, despite the server problems, which turned out to be attempted sabotage, the sprint carried on & concluded with us as clear winners.
Well done everyone.

The second sprint of the season has been afflicted with server problems meaning that until a few hours ago there were no useful stats being displayed. But it’s running rather better now & TSBT have a narrow lead with one day left. But no room for complacency, so get on it if you aren’t already. ...

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