February 2015 Competitions

[Dirk Broer]

February 2015 starts with a problem, challenge-wise: there's three challenges to choose from, and all of them CPU projects...
Extremely poor planning from our Russian and Polish friends, who issued their challenges weeks after the Anguillian Pirates had issued theirs.
But do as you like and crunch what project you have the hots for!
It the total number of challenges remains as low as this I might be able to place logos with them in an update.


February 01 to February 08 - Black Barts Pesky Pirates POGS Party
The Anguillan pirates provide loot for us all: POGS has the most trophies/badges of all BOINC projects.
You practically get a trophy for every breath you take/fart you make while crunching, I've already got 113 of them, stinking or not.

Black Barts Pesky Pirates POGS Party chat and stats page


February 01 to February 08 - Bivium must collapse
Russia Team seems to want us to try to break the server while crunching SAT@Home. To make this more challenging they've recently increased the credit.

Bivium must collapse chat and stats page


February 01 to February 08 - Beyond Earth
Polish National Team finally wants us for Constellation in this hectic first week of February.

Beyond Earth chat and stats page


February 01 to February 08 - Enigma mysteries
Another Polish Team, BOINC@Poland wants us for Enigma and in doing so provides work in this otherwise calm week.

Enigma mysteries chat and stats page


February 14 to February 18 - CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE III]
This challenge issued by the french team CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES will take place every month at varying dates for four days. All teams are welcome Let us take forward the World Community Grid project ! Keep crunching !

CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE III] chat and stats page


February 20 to February 24 - CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID [MONTHLY RUN - RACE VI]
This challenge issued by the french team CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES will take place every month at varying dates for four days. All teams are welcome Let us take forward the GPUGRID.net project ! Keep crunching for biomedicine and do real science, at home !

CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE VI] chat and stats page

[NeoGen]

I'm in for SAT@Home! Starting in about 1 hour... I got 3 machines already on it

[Dirk Broer]

I've set my machines mainly at POGS, but try to run SAT and Constellation as well

[Dirk Broer]

I'm in for SAT@Home! Starting in about 1 hour... I got 3 machines already on it

And doing nothing but SAT! They are all Phenom II X6 machines judged by your output....

[NeoGen]

It's actually 1 Phenom II X6 1100T running all 6 cores, 1 Opteron 2360SE running 6 of 8 cores, and 1 FX-8370 running 4 of 8 cores.

That's pretty much all I've got. I tried pitting them all together at this and even running a batch of workunits ahead of time to dump as soon as it started but even all that is nowhere near where the other guys are. I'm not even on the to 10 anymore. Oh well..

[Dirk Broer]

Don't worry: You're still at #12! I'm at #61 (SAT); #39 (POGS) and #29 (Constellation).

[Dirk Broer]

Don't worry: You're still at #12! I'm at #61 (SAT); #39 (POGS) and #29 (Constellation).

Don't worry: You're still at #22! I'm at #96 (SAT); #29 (POGS) and #40 (Constellation) now.

[NeoGen]

Are we going for the Enigma challenge in 2 days?

[Dirk Broer]

Are we going for the Enigma challenge in 2 days?

Yep:
Name: Enigma mysteries; Status: Upcoming; Project: Enigma@Home; Issued by: BOINC@Poland
Start time: 2015-02-08 00:00 UTC; End time: 2015-02-15 00:00 UTC; Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating: 13
Team Name
BOINC@Poland
L'Alliance Francophone
UK BOINC Team
SETI.Germany
AMD Users
SETI.USA
The Scottish Boinc Team
Amateur Radio Operators
[H]ard|OCP
SETIKAH@KOREA
BOINC RUSSIA
Colombia
BOINC@Latvia

[NeoGen]

Come on guys... vaughan, Beerknurd, Kalle Heiman, Dwan, B Johansson... I see you all on the list of participants on this challenge.
Are you guys going to let me run away with a 30K credits flush?