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    December 2015 competitions

    End of the year -again. Years seem to go faster each year, just as the amount of scored credit, or is that an illusion?
    How can we close the year with a bang, without having to buy fireworks?


    November 25 to December 02 - 100th anniversary of General relativity
    Old soldiers never die, they just fade away, as General Relativity -a good friend of General Electric- once said. Astronomy.Ru Forum wants us to do some Einstein@Home in his honour.

    100th anniversary of General relativity chat and stats page


    December 04 to December 08 - "In the Moo!(d")
    SETI.USA has issued a Moo! Wrapper-challenge. Stampede of mad cows will follow...

    "In the Moo!(d") chat and stats page


    December 09 to December 11 - * Duo Centum Quadrigis Provocationes *
    Mad cows inside yet? Sicituradastra has issued a Collatz challenge.

    * Duo Centum Quadrigis Provocationes * chat and stats page


    December 19 to December 23 - CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID [MONTHLY RUN - RACE XVI]
    For the GPU heavies: Crunchers sans frontières have their monthly GPUGrid challenge. Used to be nVidia Double Precision only, but there's now an OpenCL CPU application too. And they have an AMD GPU application....for Windows only.

    CRUNCHATHLON GPUGRID XVI chat and stats page


    December 24 to December 28 - CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE XIII]
    This monthly challenge, issued by the French team CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES, takes place every month at varying dates for four days. All teams are welcome
    Let's take forward the World Community Grid project! Keep crunching! as they say at http://www.crunchersansfrontieres.org (a little knowledge of French can be useful, comprenez-vous?).

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


    December 25 to January 01 - New Year Countdown
    horriblecoders -know your strengths and weaknesses- have issued a SETI@Home challenge to end the old year and begin the new.

    New Year Countdown chat and stats page


    December 28 to January 04 - "Despite my age I don't live in the past, but in the future" 3rd Rita Levi-Montalcini memorial
    We will also enter the new year with Rosetta, organised by BOINC.Italy, like last year.

    3rd Rita Levi-Montalcini memorial chat and stats page
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 12-02-2015 at 12:58 AM. Reason: now->know


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    In some 11 hours General Relativity will have faded away, mayhem may be started later.


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    Thank You for all the hard work Dirk, this is awesome!





    Challenge me, or correct me, but don't ask me to die quietly.

    …Pursuit is always hard, capturing is really not the focus, it’s the hunt ...

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    Hi all, also a Collatz challenge going on presently, and we are currently holding 10th place: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/739

    Also, a big congrats to Dirk!
    Milestones Today
    Dirk Broer passes 120,000,000
    Last edited by Ramjet; 12-12-2015 at 03:02 AM.

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