Article: September 2014 Competitions

[Dirk Broer]

Everybody back from holidays or vacation? Challenges are awaiting you!
So far:


September 09 to September 16 - Beal@Home first challenge
Team Colombia has organized a real treat: A Beal challenge. The first part of the challenge is getting work, the second part is uploading WUs...
And that's not Arnold Schwarzenegger, it is the very Mr. Beal himself, the one that will pay 1 million dollar to whom proves his conjecture.
The challenges faces a real problem as the servers are down since before the challenge. So far this challenges is a dud.

Beal@Home first challenge chat and stats page


September 12 to September 19 - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
SETI.USA is saying goodbye, using Collatz, to a team member who seems to read a lot of Douglas Adams. Keep your towels ready and know that the answer is 42.
We started at 11, but have climbed to 7 since.

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish chat and stats page


September 17 to September 24 - John Goodricke - 250 anniversary of the birth!
Astronomy.Ru Forum has another theSkyNet POGS challenge, the project that has more trophies than all other projects combined.

John Goodricke - 250 anniversary of the birth chat and stats page


September 20 to September 24 - CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID [MONTHLY RUN - RACE I]
For the GPU heavies: Crunchers sans frontieres has a GPUGrid challenge. Used to be -and AFAIK still is- nVidia Double Precision only....

CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID chat and stats page


September 25 to September 30 - [H]ard|OCP TrackJack challenge
The name says it all: [H]ard|OCP organizes a challenge for Constellation@Home's TrackJack application.

[H]ard|OCP TrackJack challenge chat and stats page

[Dirk Broer]

Server status at Beal is not in favour of a challenge at the moment...

Program	Host computer	Status
data-dependent web pages	beal	Active
upload/download server	beal	Switched off
task dispenser	beal	Active
feeder	beal	Not active
transitioner	beal	Not active
file_deleter	beal	Not active
sample_trivial_validator	beal	Not active
sample_assimilator	beal	Not active

[Dirk Broer]

No changes at Beal, three days to go before the first September 2014 challenge begins...

[Dirk Broer]

17 and a half hours to go, Beal still not showing activity...
4 hours to go, Beal still not showing activity...
2 hours under way, Beal still not showing activity...
5 hours under way, Beal still not showing activity...

[Dirk Broer]

Corrected last mistake, let's go live now!

[Jason1478963]

attempting to assist with a couple machines

[Dirk Broer]

My own main Collatz cannon suffers from OpenCL problems since the upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, so I can only use it for Moo! at the moment.
My 2nd Ubuntu 14.04 box is running on two nVidia's without a problem. May build yet another Ubuntu 14.04 box, as the upgrade from Lubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 backfired

[Nflight]

I have three Beal tasks still pending from June 17, 2014. Once they are complete I will have my next trigggl !!!

[Dirk Broer]

I do hope for you that the Beal project will ever reach ative status again.
There is some severe doubt as to the validity of the results at the moment.
The challenge does/did not go as expected too...

[Dirk Broer]

September 12 to September 19 - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
SETI.USA is saying goodbye, using Collatz, to a team member who seems to read a lot of Douglas Adams. Keep your towels ready and know that the answer is 42.
We started at 11, but have climbed to 7, no: 6 since.

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish chat and stats page