The Scottish Boinc Team

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Name New For Shipmates, Pirate Challenge on NFS@Home
Status Upcoming
Project NFS@Home
Issued by Anguillan Pirates
Start time 2017-09-06 00:00 UTC
End time 2017-09-13 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 9
Number of users participating 0

Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce to you the 3rd Pirate challenge on NFS@Home. Since I have called the challenge on my AP account, I will be crunching for Anguillan Pirates, anyone else who fancies a pop at this is welcome to crunch for either TSBT or AP as you wish. All I hope for is that we enjoy the comp and have some banter .... plus AP will be playing no holds barred on this ...

Here's the skinny for those planning on running NFS with us (or against us)...

-The NFS apps run 25% faster on linux vs win64. That's a big enough margin to make it worth setting up and running NFS on a linux vbox.

- The 16e/lasieve5f app runs 25% faster than the 15e/lasievee app

- The 16e/lasieve5f app pays over 295% more than the 15e/lasievee app and over 361% more than the 14e/lasieved app

I'm too lazy to run the exact numbers but you can earn over 3x as much on NFS running just the 16e/lasieve5f app instead of the 15e/lasievee app. If you are going for max credit run only 16e/lasieve5f. If you are trying to pick up WUProp hours or sub-project badges on the lower paying apps, that is an acceptable excuse for not running just 16e/lasieve5f

Important note though, the 15e/lasievee WUs are using over 1.3GB RAM while the 16e/lasieve5f WUs are using less than 900MB, in case memory is a consideration.

One thing scole's excellent post forgets to mention is that the disparity in credit between 16e and 15e or 14e has been brought up more times than I care to remember and has never been changed, so bottom line is don't feel bad chasing the credit. For maximum bang for you're buck run the 16e app only. Oh and you can either run as an Anguillan Pirate who called the challenge or TSBT who are entered by default..... I'll get my coat now.

2 1/2 days to go for those joining me on AP.

some light reading for those that have forgotten

Competition FAQ and how to bunker
or this
NFS@home competition guide
or this
Running multiple boinc clients on the same system

I was working on FB Sprint POGS ambush. We went from 8th to 4th. Going to see if we can hold it for 12 points.

You doing FB for TSBT ? thought we were off that this year ?

Alez wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:00 pmYou doing FB for TSBT ? thought we were off that this year ?

I'm not pushing FB. I wanted to get POGS to 100k WUProp hours and the FB Sprint was a good excuse to run it and hopefully pick up a few points to keep TSBT off the bottom.

OK, we can decide closer to the time if we want to have a pop at it next year or try and enter AP and win league 3

I'm finally done with POGS. I guess I need to start loading up on NFS.

If no one minds, I'll join you in the NFS challenge.

Tejas wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 8:52 pmIf no one minds, I'll join you in the NFS challenge.

Welcome aboard Tejas!

FYI for other TSBT members...Alez, Andrew, our new friend Tejas and I will be crunching for Anguillan Pirates since they issued the challenge. Join us if you like. Otherwise, try to keep up!

EDIT: Batten down the hatches mates. There be a storm a brewin'...

What a hole shot! The Anguillan Pirates jump into 1st with Tejas leading the field in the #1 spot. Andrew is in 8th and Alez in 12th!

We've got Grubcoin wedged in between us at the moment...but they have at the moment 114 active members on it, that's a lot of grubbers!

Well Tejas came packing, still holding 1st, Andrew up to 6th and Alez in 9th! I should have my systems wound up by morning sometime.

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:10 am We've got Grubcoin wedged in between us at the moment...but they have at the moment 114 active members on it, that's a lot of grubbers!

This is where we hold them by the nose and you kick them in the arse!

That #1 spot I'm currently holding will not last long. I came prepared with a 2 day bunker, my daily output is far less.

scole250 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:35 am Well Tejas came packing, still holding 1st, Andrew up to 6th and Alez in 9th! I should have my systems wound up by morning sometime.

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:10 am We've got Grubcoin wedged in between us at the moment...but they have at the moment 114 active members on it, that's a lot of grubbers!

This is where we hold them by the nose and you kick them in the arse!

There's four of us AMD Users, trying to kick 114 asses! Bound to land somewhere, them boots...
And SETI.USA and Seti.Germany have joined the fun too, not to mention the froggies of LAF.

Well that's all I got. I'm free wheeling now.

scole250 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:21 pm Well that's all I got. I'm free wheeling now.

Impressive, you took the #1 spot with ease.

Oh, I do like a bunker. Other distractions prevented me from loading up sooner

scole250 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:03 am Oh, I do like a bunker. Other distractions prevented me from loading up sooner

So many projects, so few available cycles.

Tejas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:04 am
So many projects, so few available cycles.

Truer words were never spoken The corollary is so few WU and so little time ... like Xansons.

Still waiting for my kid to wind my bloody systems up. He's about to get his ass kicked by messenger. Time to start threatening to pull funding of his kart racing etc. me thinks. Not a happy pappy ....... and one of my systems is claiming that the memory modules are shredded. The joys.
Welcome onboard Tejas, great to have you with us and posting.
ps I'm now holding 14th and 85th position

Well that's my output a little more reasonable. Hopefully I'll be flying home tonight, so should be able to coax a few more systems into life and replace the memory modules in the borked server, unless of course I simply get pi$$ed on the way home
Bottle of Rum at duty free anyone ?

Back home now, dead server will be rebuilt tomorrow time allowing. I'm after top 10 place .... anyone else care to join the pirates? Currently 4 pirates sitting in second place to 100's of gridcoiners.

I've now got 11th, number 10 is proving problematic .... Looks like a dog fight to the final for that top 10 spot.

Slightly less than 2 days to go, I think I should join you guys in the top 10 before the end of the challenge, fingers crossed.

Woohoo...only 1.5 days to go!

scole250 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:44 am Woohoo...only 1.5 days to go!

and I'm still number 11

Since Anguilla took a direct hit from Hurricane Irma with an estimated 42% of all building on the island destryed I'm going to leave this link here. The Royal Navy is on the scene helping rebuild as are 40 Commandos Royal Marine. If you feel like helping then https://www.apanydonate.org/

14 hours to go. I've made and will hold 10th place. Our team 2nd place is safe as houses as well.
All four of us in the top 10 now.

I hit the 20 mil mark. Only 30 mil to go for the next badge

scole250 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:41 pm I hit the 20 mil mark. Only 30 mil to go for the next badge

Best set another NFS challenge for next week then .... and the week after ..... and the week after

Challenge is over. Anguillan Pirates finished 2nd from 12 teams. Thanks to all who competed for the pirates.
Individual kudos goes to
scole of the Anguillan Pirates 2nd
Andrew 7th
Tejas 8th
Alez 10th
Anguillan Pirate 84th

Well done and once again thank you to all.

I appreciate the warm welcome and the chance to join in your challenge. I would have liked to see more teams competing but overall it was fun. I will look forward to the next challenge.

Thanks for all your help. You're welcome to crunch with us any time you choose. Please continue to post on the board whenever you wish.