23/10 -> 30/10 : NFS@Home - Complete

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:01 am

Name: Pre-Halloween Haunt
Project: NFS@Home
Issued by: California State U. Fullerton Physics Dept.
Start time: 2010-10-23 00:00 GMT
End time: 2010-10-30 00:00 GMT

http://boincstats.com/bam/challengeChat.php?chid=99

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:06 am

42 hours to go!

A little more warning for this one. Starts at midnight (GMT) tomorrow.

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:37 am

18 hours to go!

Starts at midnight (GMT) tonight. :)

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:32 am

Hmm, Eight Hours in and we are a measly 8th out of fourteen.

Anyone want to spare a core for this project?

Sicituradastra. 1 718,006
California State U. Fullerton Physics Dept. 2 112,292
BOINC@Poland 3 87,934
L'Alliance Francophone 4 7,544
Team China 5 1,830
Turan@BOINC 6 1,300
X Grubbers Kick Ass 7 1,283
The Scottish Boinc Team 8 1,149
AMD Users 9 740
Belgium Heavy Metal Wired Federation 10 478

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:21 pm

6th now. I have put another couple of cores onto it and am still working up to speed...

Post by **Megacruncher** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:18 am

5th Now.

Sicituradastra ................. 1 . 1,395,035
CSUF Physics Dept ......... 2 ... 249,710
BOINC@Poland ............... 3 ... 186,040
L'Alliance Francophone .... 4 ..... 24,894
The Scottish Boinc Team . 5 ...... 17,741
Team China ................... 6 ...... 3,593

NFS is quite generous with the credits so 12 cores or so on it in 24 hrs has netted me over 10K. All to play for! Okay just 4th place to play for, but that's something. :)

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:34 am

Megacruncher wrote:NFS is quite generous with the credits so 12 cores or so on it in 24 hrs has netted me over 10K. All to play for! Okay just 4th place to play for, but that's something. :)

Uh!...Oh! Looks like I'm gonna get steam-rollered by Steve on ViP... There goes my hat-trick (1st in sign-up date, 1st in Team, 1st in Country...

...Well it was nice while it lasted and maybe we'll go up a place or two in the UK. 8)

Meantime, let's see if we can have a little fun with AF...

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:30 am

With just under 2 days left the French are holding us off and even drawing a little further ahead:

L'Alliance Francophone .... 4 . 58,067
The Scottish Boinc Team . 5 . 51,136

So, I'm pulling all the stops out and putting all my CPU cores onto NFS. Any extra help will be gratefully received.

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:48 pm

Now that was a joy to see!....
:wav:

'fraid I wont be able to do more than I'm doing at the moment the NFS WUs tend to crash my other junk heaps (even the 15es).

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:22 am

We moved up to 4th possibly as much due to the French losing pace as us picking it up. Hopefully they don't have a mighty cache of completed WUs saved up for the last day.

Any Hoo, with just over 24hrs to go the position is:

The Scottish Boinc Team .. 4 . 72,536
L'Alliance Francophone ..... 5 . 66,980

So, a health lead & grounds for some quiet optimism, but no room for complacency.

Post by **aardvark** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:36 am

Cavalries arrived, WCG got dumped :violent1:

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:32 am

aardvark wrote:Cavalries arrived, WCG got dumped :violent1:

Excellent, I thought I detected the welcome morning smell of toast.

We have now nearly a 12K lead over the french with just 16 hrs to go!

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:51 am

Yippeee! Toasted French fries for tea!

.... hopefully.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:05 pm

PinkPenguin wrote:Yippeee! Toasted French fries for tea! .... hopefully.

For a late supper perhaps: 6 hours to run, some caches to empty and a cushion of 19K. Should be enough.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:25 am

Yo we did it! :wav: A clear 4th well ahead of L'AF!
Well done team!

steve · Post by **steve** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:48 am

PinkPenguin wrote:
Megacruncher wrote:NFS is quite generous with the credits so 12 cores or so on it in 24 hrs has netted me over 10K. All to play for! Okay just 4th place to play for, but that's something. :)
Uh!...Oh! Looks like I'm gonna get steam-rollered by Steve on ViP... There goes my hat-trick (1st in sign-up date, 1st in Team, 1st in Country... ...Well it was nice while it lasted and maybe we'll go up a place or two in the UK. 8)

Meantime, let's see if we can have a little fun with AF...

Sorry Pinky did no realise you were going for the hat trick. Just have to take one for the team. Now second in the uk charts and a very minor success at VRS 3 to 1st in 4 days

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:23 am

steve wrote:Sorry Pinky did no realise you were going for the hat trick. Just have to take one for the team. Now second in the uk charts and a very minor success at VRS 3 to 1st in 4 days

Dinna fash yesel - I already had the hat-trick for most of the year, which is fine by me. So it's thanks for the help in getting us to the no.2 position and let's go for no.1 ! (I'll keep chipping away s'long as the project's got jobs...)

... ViP and VRS... You going through the projects alphabetically or is it just a coincidence ?

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:13 pm

Challenge complete and thanks to some sterling efforts we saw off the French attack. :)

Top ten round-up:

Sicituradastra. 1 2,817,475
California State U. Fullerton Physics Dept. 2 575,388
BOINC@Poland 3 391,785
Scottish Boinc Team 4 102,861
L'Alliance Francophone 5 75,260
Turan@BOINC 6 14,430
Team China 7 10,999
AMD Users 8 5,847
X Grubbers Kick Ass 9 2,440
eblueprint 10 828

The Scottish Boinc Team

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