September 2012 Competitions

What would a month without competition be? Less strenious on the hardware perhaps.
This month there's:

September 1 to September 8 - Hi, Higgs boson!
Russia Team (not Team Russia, that's another Russian team) wants us to go and find a Hogs Bison, errh,
Higgs Boson. First one that catches it becomes famous and if you happen to be female (and/or named Higgs),
journalists will haunt you for the next century whenever your boson is mentioned...
Despite being held in the same time frame as the SIMAP challenge there was by day seven a sizeable AMD crew of fifteen amongst the 594 participants out of 15 teams. Zachariah Rotkin lead at #64, followed by B Johansson at #81, Dirk Broer at #83, Vaughan at #96, maeax at #152, gamer007 at #164, seizmic at #202, velociraptor01 at #244, meshmar at #269, Benedito Ubirata da Silva at #273, Nexis at #333, Mike at #402, Trent at #441, Moops at #463 and Hautlle at #530. Despite our best effort we have dropped two places and are now the 21th team world-wide.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/240



September 1 to September 8 - SIMAP September 2012 Scramble
The traditional monthly SIMAP Scramble, organized by BOINCStats! With 524 participants from 16 teams, so slightly less popular than the hunt for the Hogs bison. Bender10 lead the team, as usual, at a 40th place, followed by B Johansson at #125, smok88 at #133, Dirk Broer at #138, gamer007 at #232, BigMike at #305, Ken429H at #323, Moops at #395, junior at #397, Trent at #399, Freddie at #441, Hautlle at #487 and Mike at #508 and so thirteen AMD Users here at day seven. WUs seemed less hard to get by the end, perhaps because Mumps and Peppert were saturated -these mega-crunchers together having scored in excess of 8 million credits on SIMAP in these six days!
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/238



September 14 to September 21 - LHC@Home Classic Again!
Team Colombia must have had succes hunting the Hogs Bison, as they have issued yet another challenge for LHC@Home Classic, with 497 participants from 9 teams. As there are enough WUs for this project nowadays, why not? We must have been able to shake off BOINC Synergy with SubsetSum@Home by the 14th off course. We've pushed them back to 33 days distance by now (was 5), but I'm not sure we're safe yet...we're still shaking, quite hard actually, but Ralfy won't go away.
A bit to my surprise I found myself chasing Zachariah Rotkin -our LHC Classic champion earlier this month- in the beginning, but I ran out of WUs too soon. But B Johansson became our 17-men team champion again and ended at a 31st place, followed by Zachariah Rotkin at #42, Kle at #45, Dirk Broer at #46, Sentient_Life at #85, Seizmic at #120, Velociraptor at #161, Hauttle at #166, Meshmar at #191, Nexis at #197, Maeax at #209, Vaughan at #215, Moops at #299, Trent at #373, Mike at #402, Gamer007 at #404 and Benedito Ubirata da Silva at #449. I've never seen such a bumpy ride, we've changed between #5 and #8 as team and have had several #1s, team-wise: see for yourselves! and eventually levelled out at #6.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/244



September 17 to September 22 - POEM@HOME Blitz
Team IBM wants us to try our GPUs on POEM@Home. Remember that Poem will usually want a complete CPU core per WU and that it takes a app_info.xml to make that happen. Otherwise this will clog-up with other processes and make endless WUs in terms of hours. For both nVidia and Ati/AMD.
348 participants out of 12 teams took part and B Johansson won here as well team-wise, ending up at #43, before Dirk Broer at #54, Vaughan at #112, Kle at #143, Trent at #147, Darryl at #154, MCocuzzo1 at #184, newcomer Sascha at #202, Smok88 at #209 and Moops at #285. B Johansson and Dirk both broke the 4,500,000 barrier during the challenge, B Johansson also the 4,000,000 earlier in the challenge.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/246



September 20 to September 27 - We wait for UFO
Wow! Another Seti challenge, now from team BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA. For both nVidia and Ati/AMD, latter by virtue of the Lunatics drivers. And you can do Seti on your CPU as well of course, the Astropulse WUs return big scores -after hogging your PC for countless hours.
As always with Seti challenges a real massive number of participants, 3990 from 14 teams. Due to our somewhat later entrance we have some catching up to do: Our first member, Dave Herrington, can be found on a 385th position, followed by Cov_route at #585, OhioRuss at #625, Vaughan at #1027, James Maddeaux at #1083, Elninyo222 at #1087, Klaus Wandenelis at #1286, Dirk Broer at #1439, Gremlen at #1733, Mark O.McGuire at #1741, Sitectrl at #1929, MLaferriere at #2347, Gamer007 at #2517, Skuzz at #2524, B Johansson at #2687, DaFritMan at #2697, NBDBBM at #3083, Paul at #3408, Supspacer at #3431, Ben Garner at #3457, Lysergius at #3629, CliffMcLane at #3683, Irishpub72 at #3852 and Ricky at #3919.
Some pretty impressive climbing in general!
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/248



September 24 to September 29 - Crunchland Nomads
Team IBM has discovered that there's more fun organizing WCG challenges through BOINCStats and wants your CPUs for World Community Grid. No problem as the surrounding challenges all want your GPU.
1853 participants from 8 teams here. Jason1478963 is our most productive member with WCG, and ened at the 4th position, followed by Visschman at #26, Xwingace at #88, Bender10 at #110, Jvierra at #112, Jimmyhua73 at #133, Chris 1968 at #152, Meshmar at #153, Chase Wright at #164, SuicideCabbage at #172, Bholleran at #187, Prophet194 at #198 (missing 194 by just 4 places), BlackAdder1 at #256, AceHunter at #266, Maeax at #311, Mmstick at#315, Dirk Broer at #345, Numbacruncher at #349, Elvis at #388, Tomk86 at #414, Obiiwayne at #458, Smok88 at #511, SuperMecha at #538, Dmtucker at #545, GQisleboyX at #571, Stanx at #672, Hautlle at #740, Moops at #780, VoxLuna at #799, Suddenstop at #801, Maddestman at #835, Bluemarlo at #841, Subarusvx at #873, Benedito Ubirata da Silva at #934, Bproctor at #952, Pauley at #980, Wmj at #1183, Gremlen at #1256, Vaughan at #1448, Ken429h at #1473, Fos2000 at #1500, oLpH at #1524, Jrouyer at #1532, Murasaki at #1665, Doost at #1740 and Aldesa65 at #1765.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/252



September 25 to September 29 - Call of Union
DC Russian Union (yet another Ruski team) wants your GPUs for DistrRTgen, a project with pretty much the same requirements as POEM, aka: Free a CPU core for it. Pays handsome though. Also for both nVidia and Ati/AMD. DC Russian Union itself went off like a rocket, at the last day team China joined and showed her might (passing us in a mere day) We sure could have used some heavy GPU artillery here....Where was VALDIS? Only 256 participants from 12 teams, but scores ran high and three teams, DC Russian Union amongst them, breached the 100 million credits mark during the challenge alone, the best -Team Musketeers- went for the 500 million mark.
B Johansson was our best man here at #74, followed by me at #93, Vaughan at #108 and Jussi at #222.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/247