2016 Formula Boinc Challenge

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:44 pm

It's officially on...

http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang= ... &year=2016

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:18 am

No VGTU project@home

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 3:50 pm

But they have Convector, Quake Catcher Network and Optima@home

Post by **Bryan** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:30 pm

scole250 wrote:But they have Convector, Quake Catcher Network and Optima@home

Don't forget DirT and RNA!

Optima is saying they will have steady work starting in 1-2 months.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:26 am

Was going to join the forum and request VGTU and Dennis be added , but then read through it and decided it would be a complete waste of my time.
See some of our favourite teams are still with us ...... let battle commence

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:15 pm

Alez wrote:See some of our favourite teams are still with us ...... let battle commence

You're on! :albino:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:52 pm

As soon as the rosetta challenge is over I'll get on it.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:06 am

Poor Rechenkraft.net! They won league 2 last year and got tossed into league 1.

You know, one FB strategy might be that late in the season we push a team into the lead so they get the privilege of competing in league 1 also

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:36 pm

scole250 wrote:Poor Rechenkraft.net! They won league 2 last year and got tossed into league 1.

You know, one FB strategy might be that late in the season we push a team into the lead so they get the privilege of competing in league 1 also

Don't you dare....

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:55 pm

Dirk Broer wrote:
scole250 wrote:Poor Rechenkraft.net! They won league 2 last year and got tossed into league 1.

You know, one FB strategy might be that late in the season we push a team into the lead so they get the privilege of competing in league 1 also
Don't you dare....

Let's see, raise AMD.users RAC by 3.5M a day for the last month and whammo

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:04 pm

Bryan wrote:
Dirk Broer wrote:
scole250 wrote:Poor Rechenkraft.net! They won league 2 last year and got tossed into league 1.

You know, one FB strategy might be that late in the season we push a team into the lead so they get the privilege of competing in league 1 also
Don't you dare....
Let's see, raise AMD.users RAC by 3.5M a day for the last month and whammo

If you definitely want to do that, do it with a project that AMD Users has almost no credits for, e.g. Cosmology@Home, GPUGrid, Einstein@Home or so...And Formula Boinc is more than just RAC based, it is explained here

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:41 pm

Oh that's just evil ......

Post by **Bryan** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:26 am

Dirk Broer wrote:
If you definitely want to do that, do it with a project that AMD Users has almost no credits for, e.g. Cosmology@Home, GPUGrid, Einstein@Home or so...And Formula Boinc is more than just RAC based, it is explained here

Check out rule #8:

Teams are splitted in 3 divisions, after calculation of their average RAC of November the year before. RAC Division thresholds are fixed to 0, 1 million and 10 millions credits.

3.5M/day would bounce you guys above 10M.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:02 pm

Bryan wrote:
Dirk Broer wrote:
If you definitely want to do that, do it with a project that AMD Users has almost no credits for, e.g. Cosmology@Home, GPUGrid, Einstein@Home or so...And Formula Boinc is more than just RAC based, it is explained here
Check out rule #8:

Teams are splitted in 3 divisions, after calculation of their average RAC of November the year before. RAC Division thresholds are fixed to 0, 1 million and 10 millions credits.

3.5M/day would bounce you guys above 10M.

As all(?) credit is good for the advancement of science or a good cause, feel free to help us in November...

Post by **Bryan** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:06 pm

Somebody grab a screenshot, TSBT is #2 on FB

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:45 pm

Bryan wrote:Somebody grab a screenshot, TSBT is #2 on FB

In that case .... Dirk, beep beep

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:12 pm

TSBT now in 1st place. Great crunching from all contributing to the challenge.

All we have to do now is hold it for the next 10 1/2 months

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:16 am

Awesome work guys!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:21 am

TSBT is currently doing very well in the Formula Boinc challenge, but it lasts until 12/01/2016 and a lot can happen. I'm sure there will be changes in the standings between now and then. A big thanks to the TSBT members to have been helping so far but we could certainly use more help targeting certain projects. If you are interested in joining the chatter, let us know (either PM or post here) and we'll get you added to our Formula Boinc discussion thread.

Post by **Sphynx** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:30 pm

Congrats guys, you're doing great! We're thinking about transferring Gridcoin to League 2...thoughts?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:04 pm

Sphynx wrote:Congrats guys, you're doing great! We're thinking about transferring Gridcoin to League 2...thoughts?

Don't let those crooks push you guys around! Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the a$$

Retvari Zoltan joined their team. Isn't he one of BU's biggest critics?

Makes me wonder if people really know what they've agreed to.

nanoprobe too?

What I can't figure out if is people are simply looking to be paid while they're running systems to crunch for other projects, I have to think it would pay better to mine bitcoin (for yourself, not BU) to make a little money on the side. I'm still curious if anyone has actually exchanged gridcoins for dollars, euros or other non-crypto currencies.

Post by **Sphynx** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:40 am

Interesting? I just watched the Boinc video on the TSBT Home page and after David Anderson is done you see the Boinc logo with the Gridcoin logo right next to it. Looks like Berkley has given them their stamp of approval.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:07 am

Is gridcoin not run through the grid republic manager as well ?
Retvari Zoltan was the one that kicked off all the $hit on GPUgrid about banning BU, not ' real ' science etc. The hypocrasy runs deep in that one.
Nanoprobe stopped runniing BU quite a while ago. We to have lost a few long term team members to Gridcoin. I only hope they get bored and return to us. Any that are considering it then you are more than welcome home.
I have stopped running the gridcoin app in BOINC as there has still been no explaination as to what it is actually doing on my system.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:39 am

Alez wrote:I have stopped running the gridcoin app in BOINC as there has still been no explaination as to what it is actually doing on my system.

Same here! The f%^&ers have even disappeared from my list of projects, taking my credit with them

Post by **Sphynx** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:11 pm

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/44260- ... equirement

Interesting read.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:56 pm

If team poaching is not the main goal, they need to figure out a way to allow people to participate and reward people for all crunching. I might mine gridcoin if they did that and got rid of the team requirement. I would still like to know what type of resources are used on system to mine gridcoin. Is there just a cpu app, gpu? How any tasks per system, 1 or multiple? What % of a core is used per task? How much does it pay? I'm not interested enough to dig through a dozen web sites researching this for a day though.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:14 pm

Dirk Broer wrote:
Alez wrote:I have stopped running the gridcoin app in BOINC as there has still been no explaination as to what it is actually doing on my system.
Same here! The f%^&ers have even disappeared from my list of projects, taking my credit with them

Exactly Dirk, I felt the same when my credit vanished. I'm a volunteer not an idiot providing them with free computing power and electricity. If they can't get the basics right, like explaining what it does and backing up the database regularly then I have no intrest in their little secret project.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:35 am

TSBT is doing quite well well in the Formula Boinc 2016 challenge. :) We're still holding on to 1st but it's a long time until the end of November. Here is a screen shot of our project standings.

fb.jpg

I see some TSBT members hitting multiple projects and it's really helping. I'd like to give a kudos to some of the TSBT members hitting these projects. I may have missed a project. There's so many. 8) If you'd like to be added to our FB discussion thread, just let me, Alez or Janos know and we'll get you added. Some of you have already been added. Log in and see the banter you've been missing out on :)

Atlas...
David Cameron
utopia-i
Grahame
Skywalker TSBT

Cosmology...
David Jackson
Philippe
DonTex
Grum
Reeltime
thinboab
MacDitch

Enigma...
Iain
Arnie
David Jackson
Reeltime
Stuart
Garry Ross
Thinboab

Gerasim...
FlyingfocRS of TSBT
phildemeur
Snowdog of TSBT

LHC..
Philippe Demeur
Radio
One Norse
Garry Ross
Marysia K
Snowdog of TSBT
Skywalker TSBT

Mind Modeling...
Reeltime
phildemeur
Garry Ross
Thinboab
IbuTronic

NFS...
Skywalker TSBT
phildemeur
Reeltime

Numbers...
Skywalker TSBT
FlyingfocRS of TSBT
phildemeur

Poem...
Philippe
Giles
EmbraCraig
Reeltime

Yoyo...
utopia-i
Skywalker TSBT
Snowdog of TSBT
Philippe

Janos, Megacruncher, Alez, Silver and Bowmore...you guys are the usual suspects and deserve a hand too.

Well done TSBT!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:24 pm

We're still hanging on but it's going to be difficult to keep this pace up. We're trying to push Universe a little if anyone (crunching for TSBT :) ) would like to help push it a little.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:05 pm

Reeltime, Skywalker, log into the forum and check your PMs.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:57 pm

Well done jondi_hanluc and OcUK. You folks are like a swarm of army ants.

It's long time until Dec 1st though.

jondi · Post by **jondi** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:04 am

Indeed :)
Keep it up guys, we're all enjoying this, just a pity we can't see what you're talking about

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:13 am

jondi wrote:Indeed :)
Keep it up guys, we're all enjoying this, just a pity we can't see what you're talking about

Why beating you guys of course

Bit of a david and goliath between the numbers of crunchers but I'm sure we can have some fun keeping you guys honest and trying to give you a decent fight for once. As long as we settle a few ' scores ' with a few other teams

then we will be happy

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:08 am

Any team members intrested in this comp can pm me and get added to the discussion. It's a year long but every little helps as the advert goes, what do you have to lose ?

jondi · Post by **jondi** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:11 pm

That's very sneaky of you Scole, switching to NFS while we're all away on Enigma

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:23 pm

I have ADHD. I can't crunch anything for more than a few days without going crazy.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 12:59 am

He really does and it drives us crazy at times

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:32 am

I can empathize with Scole. There's nothing more boring that doing a 5-7 day bunker and then sitting on that same project for another 7 days .... yuk!

jondi · Post by **jondi** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:11 am

Well I hope your ADHD kicks in again soon as those are some impressive numbers you're producing!

Hope I haven't missed out on those quick work units that sometimes appear

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 2:42 pm

I hadn't noticed, but you're right. Those 14e WUs are paying great right now!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:14 pm

scole250 wrote:I hadn't noticed, but you're right. Those 14e WUs are paying great right now!

Taking just as long as 16e WUs, but paying 36 credits instead of 130?

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:49 pm

They ran out of the good ones early this monring ... fortunately I managed to load up with them.

jondi · Post by **jondi** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:39 pm

Dirk Broer wrote:
scole250 wrote:I hadn't noticed, but you're right. Those 14e WUs are paying great right now!
Taking just as long as 16e WUs, but paying 36 credits instead of 130?

I think he meant 16e, unless he was trying to trick me into crunching 14e lol

Bryan wrote:They ran out of the good ones early this monring ... fortunately I managed to load up with them.

Great

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:08 am

Back in a slightly more secure position compared to our rivals in 3rd. We have done quite well these last few days.

Places have been gained in a few places whilst still managing a good performance on the Enigma comp.
Keep it up everyone.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:29 am

OcUK took back 1st in NSF a couple days ago, but we've rallied back. I have a feeling this is going to go back and forth all year. The good news though is, with over a 7 million lead ahead of the 3rd place team, I don't think either OcUK or TSBT are likely to finish worse than 2nd this year.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:16 am

Bwahahahaha, I love it when a plan comes together

Post by **leecarver** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:32 pm

Just hit the million mark on Asteroids, so I'm switching over now to POGS now for the rest of the month (with a brief pause for the GPUGrid race later this week).

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:15 am

OcUK continues their assault, but as my western civilization teacher said to me...

Come on now. You folks have to share to the points. When Climate Prediction gets their credits straight you'll have those 25 points back.

jondi · Post by **jondi** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:51 am

I wanna borrow some of Bryan's aftershave or whatever it is that's making the credit server love him so much

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:23 am

jondi wrote:I wanna borrow some of Bryan's aftershave or whatever it is that's making the credit server love him so much

Let's see...according to the TSBT manual one must wear Hai Karate when crunching Yafu.