25/1-31/1 Galaxies Galore-MilkyWay@home-complete

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/506

Name Galaxies Galore
Status Upcoming
Project MilkyWay@home
Issued by The Crunchenstein Monsters
Start time 2014-01-25 00:00 UTC
End time 2014-01-31 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 9
Number of users participating 0

[Alez]

With Collatz currently down, nice timing of this contest.

[Megacruncher]

With Collatz currently down, nice timing of this contest.

Yup. Collatz will be out of action for the full duration of this challenge so we might as well go for it.

[Silver]

Count me in :)

[Janos (retired)]

Could be an interesting challenge!

[Alez]

Hmmm, can't remember if MW is enabled on Caro or not.....seems like such a long time ago.

Edit: It's not. Have turned it on remotely. Wait for the temper tantrum and the crash

[Alez]

14 1/2 hours to go. I see that UK Boinc Team has signed up .... not going to say anything else..... :bounce:

[Janos (retired)]

They hae no hope, the bard is on our side.

[Janos (retired)]

Just realised, there will be hardly any bunkering on this comp due to the way Milkyway sends out WU's. Should be a "fair" fight.

[Alez]

Since I'm still stuck in congo, anyone fancy nipping round past mine before the challenge starts and putting together the 3 systems and 5 cards I have waiting for me on the dinning room table. Other half complaining about all the boxes

[Janos (retired)]

Sure, whats yer password?

[Silver]

Sure, whats yer password?

I'd be using my password to go with my account.
Purely for testing purposes of course

[Alez]

Remote building with my kid from 2500 miles away.....this will not end well. My blog will reflect my pain I imagine. Hope he doesn't blow the house up or something

[Janos (retired)]

pwd?

[Alez]

pwd?

nay telling ya
Boy done well, seems to all be functional, operating system, cards and crunching tomorrow....maybe
got 4 ATI cards to choose from , hopefully at least 2 are DP for milkyway

[Silver]

Thats pretty impresive going

[Alez]

Amazing what he can accomplish, when he puts his mind to it. If only he could show such enthusiasm for certain other things.... and of course that fact he is convinced this puter is perfect for minecraft
13 mins in , we are 5th , Sicituradastra streaking into the lead already

[Alez]

Unbelievable, 10 mins in and all 3 gtx 660ti's start throwing errors on Milkyway. WTF Every one states finish file present too long ???? Stuck like that until the morning when hopefully it will be rebooted. I knew Caro would throw a tantrum when it was told to stop munching on Albert. Hal 9000 has nothing on my herd of adolescent delinquent computers.

[Alez]

well no sign of any of the new gpu's online until at least monday but at least we are kicking UBT's butt

[Silver]

Well I suppose that means we'll all just have to keep plugging away :)

[Alez]

Well I suppose that means we'll all just have to keep plugging away :)

In the last 24hrs there has been 18 of us plugging away. Could be done with a few more as Poland are threatening to overtake us for 5th. UBT in 11th

[Alez]

2 days to go, we are 6 from 18. poland got away from us and it seems AMD users want to put us in 7th.... UBT still in 11th

Janos running in 9th, 4 of us in the top 100.

Got some more GPU's online ( finally ) but Mega has the legs on me ....

[Alez]

All done and dusted. We managed to make it back past Boinc@Poland to claim 6th from 18.
Individual efforts were
Janos of TSBT 9th
Megacruncher TSBT 21st
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 22nd
Paul of TSBT 32nd
Iain 200th
Calum Morrell 217th
dw1234 228th
Radio 235th
Skywalker TSBT 260th
Simon 317th
Caledon 339th
allan 354th
Storme 395th
Garry Ross 429th
Andrew McCluskey 451st
John Black 498th
outcast 700th
Robert Hendry 715th
Grum 799th
Shazzadouglas 813th
Leith 819th
thinboab 820th
Kostoglotov 908th

thanks to all who took part.
and for interests sake UKboincteam were 11th