BOINC Pentathlon 2013

Our friends at Seti-Germany have announced they are running another BOINC Pentathlon for this year. We are invited to participate in the 4th BOINC Pentathlon. Details follow. We need to propose some projects and I will submit our team's application to participate.


http://www.seti-germany.de/stats/pen...athlon2013.png


Hello vaughan,


Team SETI.Germany continues it's new invented challenge and invites all BOINC-Teams to participate in the 4.rd BOINC PENTATHLON, following the ideals of the ancient Pentathlon.

It will start May the 5th 2013 (00:00 UTC) and will end May the 18th 2013 (23:59 UTC).

Like in the ancient Greece, the Pentathlon will be held in 5 disciplines. That means within 14 days the participants will have to crunch 5 different projects, all of them for a period of 5 days. That said, you can easily see that some projects will have to be crunched at the same time.

Each team that would like to participate has to sigh up : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pen...g.php?&lang=en until April the 27. th 2013. Like in the last year the favourites in the different disciplines can be chosen by every team on their own. The project that gaines the most voices will be crunched

A list of the projects that can be chosen from can be found here : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pen...sciplines.html , but you can also suggest other projects. (But before suggesting other projects, please check if the project and/or their servers would be able to withstand the combined BOINC forces. We do not want to bring any project server down.)

More information can be found here : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pen...n_Welcome.html

NEW RULES 2013 :

1. All disciplines are now 5 days announced before the start (no more than 1 week)
2. A of the five disciplines is a marathon discipline. It is calculated over the entire pentathlon (or until no longer work units available). The scoring is the same with the other disciplines.


In the last year it was very exciting until the end.


Many Greatings SEARCHER

All we have to do is sigh up!

I guess I'll put my 2 cents in:
2. Collatz or Primegrid
3. Cosmology
4. As much as I'd like to see Clean Energy Phase2 get a boost, I wouldn't recommend it for a race as it is very memory intensive and Jason and I have found you can't really run more than 3 WU's at a time without problems. So, any other WCG project.
5. The only one I've ran on the list is NumberFields@home, so it wouldn't be fair for me to vote on that one.

Good Luck Team! :wav:

All done. sigh :)

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All done. sigh :)

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It took me a minute, but I got it. haha

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All done. sigh :)

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What will be crunching? Any new projects to sign/sigh up for just to test?
(we will of course not know the pentathlon's real parts till five days before)

My personal sighs would be for..
1. Marathon. The first sigh: it can't be choosed. So be it. With the amount of projects I am active in there is but little chance that it won't be one of mine.
2. GPU rowing: Preferably something AMD friendly, such as Collatz, MilkyWay or Moo! and not a GPU/CPU hogging OpenCL one such as DistrRTGen. If nVidia, PrimeGrid and Einstein are equally good.
3. Physics & Chemistry - CPU (Taekwondo) Deep sigh, hard choosing. Pogs pays best, but we have a too small team there. Cosmology -12th worldwide- is one of our best projects.
4. World Community Grid - CPU (Short Track Speed Skating) FightAids? -I am close to ruby there- or any of the other golds and silvers. Clean Energy2 already is ruby with me and HCC will reach emerald soon.
5. Mathematics - CPU (Weightlifting). Phew! Quite a bit to sigh for. Apart from YAFU and Sudoku I am active in all. SubsetSum, PrimaBoinca and NumberFields are among my personal favorites, as a team we're defending a 3rd place worldwide with SubsetSum, but we are 7th with YAFU as well.

GPU: Distributed Rainbow Tables
Physics & Chemistry: Asteroids
WCG: any
Mathematics: SAT

We can change our proposed projects any time until 27th April.

Everybody PLEASE let me know what you want to run.

I like running Moo and Skynet POGS and I still have that one machine that's running SOB and has been for the last 5 or 6 years but I'll run anything short term.

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GPU: Distributed Rainbow Tables
Physics & Chemistry: Asteroids
WCG: any
Mathematics: SAT

We can change our proposed projects any time until 27th April.

Everybody PLEASE let me know what you want to run.

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GPU MilkyWay@home (preferred) or Distributed Rainbow Table Generator
Physics & Chemistry Any other than Leiden Classical
World Community Grid The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2
Mathematics yoyo@home

I'd like to see Moo lol enen if I did have a fried mobo that I had to replace today.

I also have a fried motherboard to replace... hope yours goes well.

Thanks Jason but I had one laying here and it went right in. I just had to reinstall the vga driver and I download the board drivers and it took right off. It was a cruncher only box so only I lost about 2 hours of production.

The BOINC Pentathlon will start on 05/05/2011. The first project is already announced: 05.05. - 10.05.: Help Conquer Cancer in the World Community Grid discipline.

The further anncouncements can be retrieved by
* Feed: http://www.setigermany.de/blog/categ...entathlon/feed
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/SETIGermany
* Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SETIGermany/177588328907

All announcements are available in english, french and german.

The BOINC Pentathlon stats are here:
http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pent...pentathlon.php
Your team stats are available at:
http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pen...NC@Poland.html
Please control for each project (projects will appear a week before it will start), if the address of your team XML file is correct:
http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentathlon/teamxml.php

We wish you lots of fun crunching the projects.
crille
SETI.Germany
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Greatings SEARCHER

According to the Pentathlon Stats page we start with Simap (05.05. - 19.05.) and the second project is WCG -The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 (07.05. - 12.05.), the third will be Einstein@Home (08.05. - 13.05.)

Our teams stats are actually these

Hello Vaughan ,

sorry the first Line is wrong, here is the right first Line my Friend :

The 4. BOINC Pentathlon will start on 05/05/2013. The first project ( The Marathon Project ) is already announced: 05.05.2013 - 18.05.2013 : SIMAP


Greatings again SEARCHER

For a moment I was worried.
Phew. Just the wrong year, not wrong project. haha

There's much more not right in Searcher's original mail, just follow the links...

I thought we were participating in the BOINC Pentathlon but I see a concentration on the new project ABC Lattices so I'll come and join you :)

Going full-out on Simap, Einstein and WCG-CEP2 at the moment, plus some Moo! and MilkyWay on the side

Good onya Dirk, that's the spirit.

I'm having trouble getting WCG-CEP2 units, I only seem to get 1 per machine.
So one of my machines drew down several days worth of ABC Lattice to fill the gap before I'd noticed.
I stopped it as soon as I noticed but it's still working on the last 3 now.
I want my first cep2 badge no I'm so close to it.

My recalcitrant setting has been pointed out to me.
I was running with my shoelaces tied together.
Time for some YoYo, I think.

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Going full-out on Simap, Einstein and WCG-CEP2 at the moment, plus some Moo! and MilkyWay on the side

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I'm also running full out trying to assist on Simap, Einstein, and WCG-CEP2. I believe we are moving to yoyo and closing out the WCG-CEP2 leg. I have a PS3 and a Rasp-PI on yoyo at the moment. I don't think i will be able to hold them off with that.

vaughan if we are surrendering the race let me know so I don't waste anymore electricity.

I've got 26 cores running Simap. But many of them have been up and down as I do upgrades.

I'm getting ecm WUs on yoyo now.
Mind the ecm WUs. They can expand to 1.8GB RAM during the last 20% of the WU.
Someone seems to have decimated the forest of Harmonious trees. If they start sprouting again I should get some. It'd be a nice bonus to get that badge.

I should be dropping in some Ks on Einstein before the end if I can keep the gamer off his rig. :P

It started raining so I'm back inside to switching some more cores to yoyo. Up to 16 now.

What's everyone else running?

I think i have about 90 cores running Simap and yoyo with a few GPU on Einstein.

Keep the pedal to the metal guys, we just gained another spot !! :icon_thumright:

The petal is still to the metal and the electric company is very happy about it.

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The petal is still to the metal and the electric company is very happy about it.

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The CPU's seem to be free after the 6870's and the 6850. lol But yea the TVA is happy.

Just lost my Ubuntu 13.04 system because I rebooted it in order to get a kernel update (it was still on 3.5.0.28).
The kernel got updated to 3.8.0.18, but Unity/Compiz broke down and I was left with an unworkable system (at first no launcher, no menu; later a plain black screen and no tty terminals anymore).
Tomorrow I will rebuild a DVD-drive into the system in order to get a fresh install of Raring Ringtail (at the moment I'm becoming a Ranting Ringtail)

Meanwhile Xubuntu 13.04 and Lubuntu 13.04 are doing just fine -not having to bother with Unity-, as are my Windows 7 & 8 systems.

so sorry to hear your install went south. I have had my share of issues with updates on my ubuntu laptop, but never one where I had to wipe the install. I was usually able to find a workaround until they patched the issue. I have moved to Linux Mint as i'm not very happy with the Unity crap. Is it possible for you to change it to login to a GUI with no effects?(gnome classic no effects)

Not anymore it isn't.....:(:-(:icon_evil::5bomb::5censored:

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Not anymore it isn't.....:(:-(:icon_evil::5bomb::5censored:

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WooHooooo Up another spot today! Attachment 266
Sorry for your loss Dirk, I had the exact same thing happen while updating Ubu 12.04, ended up unrecoverable, so I also switched all my linux boxes over to Mint. To me, it is a lot more user friendly, very similar to the older Ubuntu before unity.

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/...jpg?1353571096
The solution for a messed-up Ubuntu that will not show Icons, Menu or Launcher is -in the end- quite simple:

• Open a terminal via alt-ctrl-t
• type ccsm
• enable unity (again)

http://i.stack.imgur.com/dlmEy.png
It appears that a fresh (re)install can make that Unity gets disabled by default....even an upgrade will do.
It might have something to do with the use of a proprietary display driver.

Lost my BOINC install in the process as well, but thanks to BAM! I'm up and running again on all previously active projects -sans FreeHAL.

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I had the exact same thing happen while updating Ubu 12.04, ended up unrecoverable, so I also switched all my linux boxes over to Mint. To me, it is a lot more user friendly, very similar to the older Ubuntu before unity.

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I'm getting to like Xubuntu and Lubuntu -without Unity- more and more, will try to install Lubuntu on my Apple G3 Blue-and-White and run Drezha's benchmark on it. I already have the Lubuntu 12.04 PPC Iso, and the G3 is plugged in and appears to be functioning well on it's ancient OS9

We've just climbed a place with SIMAP, wonder what's keeping the next bulletin where they will will mention their surprise at our advances with Asteroids and SIMAP!
Just read the German version, but the author of the bulletin seems to use other stats than I do, he thinks we're still at #18, while we've climbed and are at #17 for three days in a row....