The Scottish Boinc Team

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team ... ngeId=8617

It's a WCG challenge from SETi.Germany & we are taking part.
It kicks off at 00:00 on 16th November and 60 other teams are signed up so best foot forward folks!

I'll be there!

Great stuff. See you there.

Let the bunker loading commence!

Is WCG bunkering okay?
It seemed to be rather counter-productive on Rosetta.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:13 am Is WCG bunkering okay?
It seemed to be rather counter-productive on Rosetta.

The world may never know. The UI for WCG makes it difficult to compare WU info on your own systems and impossible to find useful info on other users systems. I tend to think there's no penalty for bunkering WCG. At least that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

I know that Zika, MIP, and SCC all bunker without any problems. There is one project that sends back trickles, I think it is FAAH, and if your project communications is turned off then the WU fail. Unfortunately, they don't fail right away so you waste a lot of CPU time before you see it.

BTW, MIP pays much less than SCC or Zika. Also, Linux pays better than Windoze.

Bryan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:12 pm BTW, MIP pays much less than SCC or Zika. Also, Linux pays better than Windoze.

How does MCM pay compared to those or OET? I know it requires a wingman but I've already got the SCC and Zika 20 yr badge. Not ready to go for 50 yrs on those.

I'm afraid I don't have the answer to that one. Of course I could make one up ... what do you want to hear?

As I recall everything pays better than MIP but I can't say what is the best.

I will finish off my SCC 20 year badge in the morning and then I may have to run the FB Sprint for 3 days (maybe). Then if, emphasis on if, I decide to invest 14 more days on WCG I'll come back and start working on my next Zika badge. It is unlikely that I will bunker but I could help on the TSBT daily totals. After spending the last 2 weeks running only WCG I'm getting kind of tired of that project. A short attention span you know

Don't anybody try to load a bunker with MCM yet. Too soon. Only give a 7 day deadline, Sorry WCG. I trust you can recycle them

12,000 MIPs in progress so far!

Unticking FAAH & MIP in light of the above. Outsmart Ebola Together seems to pay quite well.
Bunkering will probably commence tomorrow.

On the XstremeSystems forums they were saying that OET will only give 35 WU/machine so that one won't work very well for a bunker.

I'll be tied up on the FB Sprint for the next 4 days and then I'll return.

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:22 pm I'll be tied up on the FB Sprint for the next 4 days and then I'll return.

No problem. Your visits are as welcome as they are bountiful! Thanks to you we are within a few days of overtaking Israel. See you next week.

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:16 am On the XstremeSystems forums they were saying that OET will only give 35 WU/machine so that one won't work very well for a bunker.

Thanks for that. I'll save OET until the starting gun fires.

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:16 amOn the XstremeSystems forums they were saying that OET will only give 35 WU/machine so that one won't work very well for a bunker.

This isn't true. I've got 452 on a system, along with 575 MIP. Maybe they didn't run enough WUs for the project to download a full bunker or they didn't change <ncpus>

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:47 pm

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:16 amOn the XstremeSystems forums they were saying that OET will only give 35 WU/machine so that one won't work very well for a bunker.

This isn't true. I've got 452 on a system, along with 575 MIP. Maybe they didn't run enough WUs for the project to download a full bunker or they didn't change <ncpus>

Good to know ... that'll teach me to read other team's boards

FYI for anyone loading a bunker with MIP1. After several days of running MIP1, the WUs are beginning to take 2x-3x times as long as they did a couple days ago.

Two more days to go...I better get a badge upgrade out of this

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:23 am Two more days to go...I better get a badge upgrade out of this

I got a 20 year on SCC this morning

Bombs away!

Oh boy, I've been watching https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/overview and thinking it started in 10 days time.

So bad. I'll move all my machines back over in about an hours time

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:27 am Bombs away!

Nice one! Moved TSBT up a notch

Yup.
Our second best day ever according to Boincstats.
We are 13th out of 94 in the challenge at present which is very respectable given the quality & quantity of opposition, and after all this is WCG we are dealing with.
Over a million in one day from Steve!
Dinnae fash Andrew! You've contributed 1.7 million credits for us on WCG in the last month so no-one is going to be bothered by a seriously trivial comp mix up. Two in rapid succession was always asking for trouble.
Anyhoo, amusing although the challenges may be, the main aim is the long march on 100th, which is beginning to look a little bit shorter!
151st Today! 150th Tomorrow! Probably.

Don't feel bad Andrew. I've been running a ton of WCG lately and was glad you join you on the Yoyo challenge. I get fidgety running the same project for too long. I'm back on WCG 100% now.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:33 pm We are 13th out of 94 in the challenge at present which is very respectable given the quality & quantity of opposition, and after all this is WCG we are dealing with.

Where do you see this?
The link in the first post doesn't seem to update with any stats unless I'm missing something
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team ... ngeId=8617

OK, its update for me now. Not sure why I couldnt see the stats when you could. Never mind :)

The Challenge Stats for the teams are best checked here https://www.seti-germany.de/wcg/stats_t ... cg&lang=en They update hourly whereas I think the WCG ones do so only a few times per day. [Edit=Actually it's only once a day. How is that?]
We are 12th now!

[BTW WCG points are not to be confused with Boinc credits - I think the exchange rate is something like 7:1.]

We made 150th. Well done everyone!
Tomorrow we should bag 149th!

TSBT now up to 150 with more gains to come. Well done everybody.

WCG position

149th now!
And still holding 12th in the comp!

Here's the table for 149th, we should have 148th on the next WCG update.

WCG position

The SG stats are predicting we will move up a slot to 11th!

148th it is. The next target is IBM Bromont.

WCG position

Bryan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:27 pm The SG stats are predicting we will move up a slot to 11th!

We should be 11th in the next couple of hours

Alez wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:17 am
We should be 11th in the next couple of hours

Every time we get close they drop another bunker. I wonder how many they have.

That's 11th been smashed now.

Awesome!
11th is great & probably secure but 10th may be out of reach.
Soon we can start bunkering for the CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE XXXI] which starts on 2017-11-26 18:00 UTC. https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/963
At current rates we can be top 100 by the end of spring!

We finished 11th!

Well done everyone.

I'm off to bunker for the next one.
In the meantime pending credit may well be enough to carry us into 147th before that kicks off.

147th position as well. Well done everyone who contributed.

WCG position