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[AMDave]

Hogmanay Hootenanny 2022 Challenge
The Hogmanay Hootenanny 2022 (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1098) challenge begins shortly on Dec. 31 at 12:00 UTC. Welcome to all participants!

More... (https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/forum_thread.php?id=818)

[Dirk Broer]

That's three hours and fifteen minutes to switch from SiDock to NFS on the last day of the year...

[vaughan]

We secured 9th, I added a few GHz in the final 12 hours or so that boosted our chances. Now on to the NFS challenge plus I have some catching up to do in PrimeGrid's SR5 race with Gelly.

[Dirk Broer]

Those who are not into WuProp stars and/or subproject badges can best stick to the 16e WUs, fully 16e Lattice Sieve V5, and in your preferences lasieve5f - huge numbers, uses up to 1.25 GB memory
They pay best per WU, but also per kW/h

[Dirk Broer]

Now on to the NFS challenge plus I have some catching up to do in PrimeGrid's SR5 race with Gelly.
I don't know how you fare with Gelly, but you sure are catching up with NFS...

[vaughan]

I switched 6x TSC 12 cores from PG-WOO to NFS

[Dirk Broer]

I switched 6x TSC 12 cores from PG-WOO to NFS

The Science Cloud seems to have run dry...or you've switched again.
6th place for the team (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1098) seems secure.

[vaughan]

The Science Cloud seems to have run dry...or you've switched again.
6th place for the team (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1098) seems secure.

Sorry Dirk I had to bail out on NFS as TSC was running low on funds.

[Dirk Broer]

No problem! An extra spot on the list would have costed a small fortune I guess, as Seti.Germany has 1.3 million credits more.
I am bleeding off the surplus of NFS WUs now and might be able to get a golden '16e for smaller numbers' badge yet.

[vaughan]

Is that for WU-Prop?

[Dirk Broer]

Is that for WU-Prop?

WuProp counts hours for all Boinc-apps and shows them as stars in a circle (Four badges in my signature between WCG and OProject), NFS gives badges for its apps as multi-pointed stars (six of them stacked on top of each other: Turquoise for 16e, Sapphire for NFS-Total, Silver for 14e, Gold for 15e, and two silver for 15e small and 16e small) You can check your NFS badges at https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/home.php
This gives a team view https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/team_members.php?teamid=66&offset=0&sort_by=total_credit

[Dirk Broer]

I am bleeding off the surplus of NFS WUs now and might be able to get a golden '16e for smaller numbers' badge yet.

I got a sapphire badge (10 million credits) for the big 16e instead, still working on the gold '16e for smaller numbers' badge.

[Dirk Broer]

I got a sapphire badge (10 million credits) for the big 16e instead, still working on the gold '16e for smaller numbers' badge.

I got the gold for '16e for smaller numbers' today, so I'll have two sapphire (total and 16e), two gold (15e and 16e small) and two silver (14e and 15e small) after my signature update.

[Dirk Broer]

For the time done with badge hunting on NFS as I made Amethyst (1 million credits) for 15e, 16e for smaller numbers, and 15e for smaller numbers.
As there is hardly any 14e work, it will be very hard to even make that subproject to Gold (500k credits), let alone Amethyst.