Any chance of us getting top?

[markdeacon]

Hi, any one here think they could get us to the top of the list? I'm doing my bit lets see a few more people running other projects come over here and do the climate prediction

[NeoGen]

We keep getting new members everyday on BBC.
Now that I check it our team has 75 members! We are the second largest team, only team United Kingdom has more members than us (82).

As all these new users start getting on the project, we'll slowly increase our Team output.

The difference from us to the teams above us is that we're a large mass of "small" users. None of us is even in the top 100 participants. I guess each of us individually doesn't produce much, but all of us together we strike a powerful blow!

And that is why I love to be on this team! :D

[markdeacon]

cant the hardcore guys on this forum with like 26 billion computers start this project and then we go mental in front of united kingdom!


I chose this team over my own country lol. My love for AMD lol

[NeoGen]

The "hardcore guys" of our Team can be counted by the fingers most likely... and their computers as well. lol :roll:
Anyways, one "hardcore guy" could be our Admin Vaughan, who has something between 10-15 machines I think. But he uses them to maintain the ballance of our team across the dozens of projects we run.
We usually find a new favorite project every few weeks and many members migrate to it temporarily. Vaughan makes sure we don't lose ranks all across the rest of the board by crunching the more needy projects.

Other "hardcore guys" will hopefully see this thread and leave a post and/or join BBC. We just have to wait for the replies now.

[NeoGen]

I chose this team over my own country lol. My love for AMD lol

That makes 2 of us. ;)

[markdeacon]

the BBC project is probably one of the best projects for the team to win on.

Chances are noob's like me will join cause they like amd and want to be on a winning team. Then drop by the forums and start working on other projects.

So hardcore guys start going mental on this one for the good of the team lol.

I don't know how to get hold of the data but I'm guessing that this project attracts the most new members of the team because it did me. I am now likely to start doing other projects when i get fed up with this one.

[NeoGen]

This project had a huge media coverage all over the world. It was even featured on TV, which is very very rare for any distributed computing project. That helped bring alot of new people into this hobby/sport. (hobby to those who are not very interested in stats, sport to those who compete against each others for the top ranks)

With boinc you can even run several projects at the same time, you know? You can try some other boinc project a little while you keep working for BBC. The only thing is that your cpu power is divided by the number of projects you run at the same time.
I myself for example have an account on almost all boinc projects out there and run only one or two at each time, leaving all others suspended in the meantime.

[markdeacon]

i want to focus all my computer power on one project to make a real difference. If you do it bit by bit it will be slow and useless to the cause you are doing it for.

[NeoGen]

You are right in that. :roll:
But I for example can't stay too long at a project. I just get bored of seeing always the same. I have to be constantly jumping from project to project really.

And then there's also those projects that don't really have an end, so by saying... Seti@Home for example is a project to analyze signals from space to see if we can find proof of existance of intelligent alien lifeforms. That will never end for sure... or not in my lifetime at least!

EDIT: And it's one of the oldest (if not THE oldest) distributed computing projects that exist!

[Frederic Brillouet]

Team Wales' best member has only amd powered computers. He would be first on our team as well. Why the hell can't we convince him to join us?