May 2015 competitions

[Dirk Broer]

April has gone -again-, May has arrived -as usual-. What to do besides Seti.Germany's BOINC Pentathlon, still only BOINC challenge that has a mythical 5-core AMD CPU as namesake?


May 01 to May 08 - Crunch into May - PrimeCrunch
Team BOINC@Frankfurt does a PrimeGrid challenge for teams

Crunch into May - PrimeCrunch chat and stats page


May 04 to May 09 - Bartolomeo Cristofori Memorial Crunch
The ngb:setiteam organizes a MilkyWay@Home challenge in hono(u)r of Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano.

Bartolomeo Cristofori Memorial Crunch chat and stats page


May 05 to May 19 - 5th BOINC Pentathlon
Welcome to the sixth edition of the competition inspired by the Pentathlon in ancient Greece. SETI.Germany warmly invites all BOINC teams to participate. The most important facts:
5 disciplines, 1 winner. We start with the Marathon: a still undisclosed project. Start: 05/05/2015, 0:00 UTC End: 05/19/2015, 0:00 UTC

Stats page
Our team page for the Pentathlon
Daily bulletin
Challenge shoutbox


May 08 to May 12 - CRUNCHATHLON WCG [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 World Community Grid project!

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


May 16 to May 20 - CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID [MONTHLY RUN - RACE IX]
This challenge is issued by the French team 'CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES' and 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 GPUGRID [MONTHLY RUN - RACE IX] chat and stats page


May 18 to May 25 - Enigma@Home challenge
An Enigma@Home challenge from our Ukrainian friends form Colombia. Or was it the other way around? This project already runs good on a Raspberry Pi!
Alan Turing must be getting stark raving mad in hardware heaven, seeing how little hardware is needed nowadays compared to what he achieved building from scratch -literally.
Go and see the movie 'The Imitation Game' to see what I mean.

Enigma@Home challenge chat and stats page