The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/783

Name CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE XVIII]
Status Upcoming
Project World Community Grid
Issued by CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES
Start time 2016-05-24 17:00 UTC
End time 2016-05-28 17:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? No
Number of teams participating » 8
Number of users participating 0

Let's run this one. Last challenge before the Pentathlon. And I need to finally earn a 5 year badge.

scole250 wrote:Let's run this one. Last challenge before the Pentathlon. And I need to finally earn a 5 year badge.

Just an FYI, run, report and validate 5 to 10 wus on each machine. Keep your cache small until the computer is trusted, then load up. Several projects don't require a wingman after the machine is trusted, so validation is immediate. I'm currently doing that with Ebola.

In case anyone want's to bunker for this comp, the Ebola WUs give a 10 day deadline and you can load them now. Mapping Cancer Markers only gives 7 days. Will be almost 2 more days before you can bunker that.

Anyone else running it?

Good timing. I have enough Zika cached to get my "green" badge and the 8500 more hours that I need. I just changed teams and went dark. You'll only get the 1 bunker dump because I'll be at my max for days ... heaven forbid that I turn a badge blue - yuk

I'm in!

BTW...I'm seeing Zika on androids

Only on droid if you can get the damn .png files to load....... FFS, I want units, not graphics. Dump the graphics and get with the science.

Bryan wrote:Good timing. I have enough Zika cached to get my "green" badge and the 8500 more hours that I need. I just changed teams and went dark. You'll only get the 1 bunker dump because I'll be at my max for days ... heaven forbid that I turn a badge blue - yuk

Once you start you'll need to take the others Blue too! You know how you like order in your color world.

scole250 wrote:I'm in!

BTW...I'm seeing Zika on androids

Ooh, i'll have a look at that then.

Alez wrote:Only on droid if you can get the damn .png files to load....... FFS, I want units, not graphics. Dump the graphics and get with the science.

All but one android had WCG transfer hung up. I connected to the android using Boinc Manager, aborted all the transfers, used Boinc Manager to shut down the Boinc Client on the android and power cycled the android. All of them now getting Zika WUs. WUs taking about 19 hours on my slowest android, RK3188.

A little more than an hour in and we've jumped out into 1st with over a 800k lead on Gridcoin. Not a bad start. 8)

Great start boys.
Since my pc threw its toys out of the pram last night I suspect I won't have contributed much. I think it's back on track now though.

BTW, nice drop Sphynx.

Bryan, not all of your WCG badges are emerald and never will be. You need at least a couple sapphire badges to add balance to those gold ones

scole250 wrote:BTW, nice drop Sphynx.:

Glad to...just don't expect to see it again...that was stressful!

scole250 wrote:Bryan, not all of your WCG badges are emerald and never will be. You need at least a couple sapphire badges to add balance to those gold ones

Agreed, those gold badges really throw off everything.

scole250 wrote:BTW, nice drop Sphynx.

Bryan, not all of your WCG badges are emerald and never will be. You need at least a couple sapphire badges to add balance to those gold ones

Nice try Only the double skeeter can't become emerald.

Unless they come out with a bunch more projects so I can get WCG to 5M then I'll have no choice but to take one up to a multi year badge. It will ruins the whole color scheme but I'm not ready to do that yet.


You guys did really well on the bunker bombs! I hope it holds off the bad guys.

Bryan wrote:Nice try Only the double skeeter can't become emerald.

Unless they come out with a bunch more projects so I can get WCG to 5M then I'll have no choice but to take one up to a multi year badge. It will ruins the whole color scheme but I'm not ready to do that yet.


You guys did really well on the bunker bombs! I hope it holds off the bad guys.

I have two words for you Bryan...Fuddy Duddy!

I'm telling you, a 100 year CEP2 would be a prize in your badge stable.

As for holding off the bad guys, we are gonna need some help I think. That smiley is fantastic! I love it! We should get that for SUSA, I could use it every day.

Sphynx wrote: That smiley is fantastic! I love it! We should get that for SUSA, I could use it every day.

Yeah, like right after every post I make :bootyshake:

Bryan wrote:

Sphynx wrote: That smiley is fantastic! I love it! We should get that for SUSA, I could use it every day.

Yeah, like right after every post I make :bootyshake:

Well, not every post...

I should be in there somewhere .... honest :)

We'll take your word for it. Better stay in the top 500 though because that's where the individual kudos stop.

scole250 wrote:We'll take your word for it. Better stay in the top 500 though because that's where the individual kudos stop.

its not looking too good for me either then

We'll try not to leave anyone out. I'm just trying to motivate Alez

Well we held 1st for over 24 hours but Gridcoin is like the Borg. Lifeless, no personality just a machine that keeps coming. LAF isn't far behind them either. Still not too shabby for us. :) How do those new WCG badges look?

scole250 wrote:Well we held 1st for over 24 hours but Gridcoin is like the Borg. Lifeless, no personality just a machine that keeps coming. LAF isn't far behind them either. Still not too shabby for us. :) How do those new WCG badges look?

Borg...exactly! I was thinking the same thing. They have been putting up over a million/day for a while and hopefully they will stay right there when the Pentathlon starts.

I just crossed over 9 yrs 38 days on Ebola with the last update and hitting 10 years by the end of the challenge looks possible...at least it does if you include the pendings. 8) ZIKA is probably gonna have to wait for a bit.

After 2 days we've been passed by the Borg...I mean Grtidcoin, LAF, SETI.Germany and SETI.USA. Thanks Mumps. Still mad that I passed you on the SAT challenge, eh? Still a good running for TSBT.

I was hoping for a my first 5 year badge on Ebola but I think I committed too many cores to the beta and special denge 2 WUs they released. At least I have those badges.

TSBT finished 8th of 18 teams

2013 crunchers. Individual finishes...
Sphynxx 3rd
scole of TSBT 8th
Bryan 26th
Megacruncher TSBT 46th
Skywalker TSBT 176th
stuartsjg 188th
alez TSBTs Pirate 247th
kwolkan 314th
AndyNicholl 340th
pdemeur 438th
Paul of TSBT 447th
Sirius Dogma 879th
giles26 1079th
Peter Teago 1251st
atfogarasi 1271st
jmart79 1412th
MacDitch 1490th
Fullsus 1552nd
Ecoworrier 1644th
Allan Jackson 1726th
G.Ross 1771st
funky_mango 1801st
Thinboab 1894th

8th is a excellent finish considering the project and teams. Great job everyone! And a thanks to Sphynxx and Bryan. Yoose guys' help is always welcome. :salute:

Woo hoo, I managed to get inside the top 500
As Scole said; great effort team and thanks for a big chunk of help from Bryan and Sphynxx

Awesome effort & excellent help.
We have soared into 184th place & best of all are now a full 5 places ahead of Scotland! :drunken:

and I made top 250 :) so boo hoo suxs to the neysayer, you know who you are .....