January Competitions

A new year -just look at the banner above- and new competitions too.
Bit first our carry-overs:

December 27, 2012 to January 03, 2013 - Show your supercruncher !!!
Another very late entry from GPU Users Group, who want to see whether their nVidia GTX 690 are as good as the nVidia marketing boys have promised.
For those of us with non-DP capable or HD 38xx Ati/AMD cards or Llano/Trinity APUs: this is your chance! You can't use them for MilkyWay anyway. 450 participants from 15 teams so far. Most participants seem to be tied up at MilkyWay, WCG and/or Seti at this moment.

Name	Rank	Team Score
Vaughan	83	http://boincstats.com/signature/299/...llenge/sig.png
Dirk Broer	90
Ded1o1	147
Kagaya Kyo	339

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/299


December 28, 2012 to January 04, 2013 - 2012 - 2013
SETIKAH@Korea must have thought about their team name when they organised this challenge.
We'll be going out the old year with Seti@Home and we're beginning the new year with it as well.
There are already 4209 participants from 23 teams and Wingless Wonder strikes again!
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/277
http://boincstats.com/signature/277/...llenge/sig.png


January 01 to January 06 - A Small Step to Infinity
IBM wishes a happy new year to us all with a challenge for NumberFields@home.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/268


January 01 to January 08 - Happy New Year
The Polish National Team wishes a happy new year to us all with a challenge for OProject@Home.
Better not wait too long starting up, as some WUs have a long validation track.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/308


January 01 to January 08 - SIMAP January 2013 New Year's Scramble
Our monthly classic.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/290


January 05 to January 07 - The first Weekend of the year: Do you have everything needed to get your targets?
Dutch GPU Cows wants you to test your hardware on DistrRTgen in this first weekend of the year. Only real heavy GPUs will make any impact in a mere two days.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/301


January 05 to January 12 - Seti Forever
Boinc Russia offers an opportunity for those who've done not enough Seti@Home last weeks.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/309


January 13 to January 19 - 13 January 1993: STS-54 Shuttle mission 8:59.30 am EST (13:59:30 UTC)
Dutch GPU Cows organizes a complete week for Einstein@Home.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/303


January 13 to January 20 - WUProp works parallel with other projects (NOT USES CPU ¶ GPU)
Team Russia promotes the WuProp project. This project provides information by and and for Boinc users about projects, CPUs and GPUs.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/311


January 20 to January 27 - FreeHAL works parallel with other projects (NOT USES CPU ¶ GPU)
Team Russia promotes the FreeHAL project. Their claim about not using CPU needs some correction: you can choose for nci or normal WUs.
My own experience is that you do need plenty of free RAM to run it too, especially with 32-bit systems. Sometimes HAL is the only left thing runing...
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/313


January 25 to February 01 - January (also known as: ice-month) is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors.
Janus is also known to have two faces, but that aspect of him is not mentioned by Dutch GPU Cows, who organize a complete week forMilkyWay@Home for him.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/305


January 29 to February 01 - Crunch with the best, or lunch with the rest ! [Season 1 - Episode 1¶12 : Happy New Year !]
This seems to be the month of the long challenges names! Brigade du Cosmos wants you for Seti@Home again.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/279

Wow... so many challenges going on this month! :)

Pretty cool, huh?
No big preps for this month's run.
I just doubled the amount of RAM in both Laptops and added new faster RAM for the resident Gamer's box. Some small and affordable but effective upgrades.
I also replaced the dodgy NVidia 9600GT GPU in my goddess's Linux desktop that was giving us tons of errors with the spare HD3450 which oddly seems to be performing much better.

Have you picked a project to monster yet?

... other than DPAD.
That did not go un-noticed
I will take my place back, eventually, you know. :icon_twisted:
Although it may take quite some time. :(

I only have 4 cores on DPAD to play around with, so you should have no difficulty catching up with me. But then again it depends on how spread thin you are with so many challenges and projects. :)

At the moment I'm running a DPAD client under Wine on a Linux_64 host. It runs, but not very efficiently.
I have at least 382 hours to wait for my CPDN work units to finish machines before I can give chase.
I'm not sure how I'm going to allocate my resources for the rest of the month yet. I have to do some more testing.
In the mean time your pulling out a handy lead. :)

Dirk........
How is it that you over looked the "Year of the Snake Challenge" at Prime Grid. Presently there is only myself(54th) and the Wingles Wonder(181), crunching for our glorious team, where is everyone else

Ah yes.

chris posted about it here: http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showth...nake#post74428

Dirk posted earlier in that thread about the Team challenge vs Project challenge misunderstanding so may not have seen chris's post.

Re the "Year of the Snake Challenge":
"Unfortunately, ATI/AMD GPUs can not be used for this challenge, nor can any Nvidia GPU that lacks double precision hardware. Specifically, the GPU must have Compute Capability 1.3. Please see the List of Compatible GPUs for more details."
:( total bmmr
So I'm doin Collatz until the next Einstein rally "January 13 to January 19 - 13 January 1993: STS-54 Shuttle mission 8:59.30 am EST (13:59:30 UTC)"

Problem here is that it is being organized outside of BOINCSTats, so it flies under my radar.
I would not know where to look for the team and/or participants stats.
I have tried the PrimGrid Forum, but apart from postings about the challenge I can find nothing.
Where can I find this challenge's stats?

Now I see the problem.
PrimeGrid do their own challenge stats.
They create them when the challenge starts.

You can find the links under the time-left-counter on the PrimeGrid front page: http://www.primegrid.com/
Participants: http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2...top_users.html
Teams: http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2...top_teams.html

Afterwards the challenge stats get added to the challenges pages: http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/

That is not always the case: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/pchallenge/team/overview
shows a host of Primegrid challenges, and that is where I expected this one to come up too

Drat. I have to bail on the Einstein@Home run.
Got really poor connection to the project server and coupled with the amount of download it is causing me problems.
I built up a fair amount of pending over the last 24 hours with 3 GPUs, so that will help.
(EDIT - Much less pending than I thought. One GPU got a few validation errors)