February Competitions

[Dirk Broer]

Are there competitions in March? Sure. As a matter of fact there is one challenge, issued very late, that began in late February and continues into March. Needless to say we did not enter, as we were already busy with other challenges, and did quite well with good-old-Seti! What can we do this time?

March 1 to March 7 - Divide & Conquer
BOINC@POLAND has organised a Mersenne@home challenge. We are already entered, and from the 15 members with scores on this project six can be counted as regulars, with Vaughan and B Johansson as the ones with the highest total scores.

http://boincstats.com/bam/challengeChat.php?chid=187


March 1 to March 8 - SIMAP March Madness
SETI.USA has planned a Simap challenge in this time frame, but as there were no WUs yet they tried to alter the dates. Then the WUs arrived early....
For now we await the new time frame. We have 133 members with a score on Simap, and some 20 of them can be counted as active. Fortunately late entries are allowed.
Can you run Mersenne and Simap simultaniously? Well, apart from the fact that they are both CPU projects, why not?
Mersenne is very much optimized for each recent CPU family, while Simap might even run on me olde K6III-400 and other old beasties I collected.

http://boincstats.com/bam/challengeChat.php?chid=192


March 20 to March 27 - The March Equinox Challenge
Frome the name of the challenge you'd think it to be PrimeGrid, but no: Correlizer.
We have 12 members with a score, and only four of them are active.
As yet we do not participate, so perhaps a great chance to end up in the team top-10 for this project, or just to reach the magic 10k barrier.

http://boincstats.com/bam/challengeChat.php?chid=190

[Nflight]

I would like to participate if I can muster the time allowance window. My life has been very busy lately and I really need to stay on point with my personal life as much as I can. AMDusers crunching will always be part of me even though you might not hear from me for days or even weeks on end. Crunch on Ladies and Gentlemen!

[NeoGen]

I would like to participate if I can muster the time allowance window. My life has been very busy lately and I really need to stay on point with my personal life as much as I can. AMDusers crunching will always be part of me even though you might not hear from me for days or even weeks on end. Crunch on Ladies and Gentlemen!

You and me both Nflight...

[Dirk Broer]

Simap has now started, but there are no WUs yet, lol
Rosetta is, as the Russians promised, some 4 hours from now. Who lives in GMT -4?
I bet their CPUs are already glowing dark red from the moment it was 00:00:00 in Russia, a country with more time zones than I have active cores.

[NeoGen]

Cool.. you just showed me to a project I didn't know yet, SAT@Home.

AMDave, you are the founder of the Team at SAT@Home... please enable member joining. I just created my account and was going to join but our team does not have a "Join this Team" link.

[AMDave]

It is enabled.
6 others have joined already.
Did you log into your account first?

Others have had the same problem joining their teams (per Message Board posts)

Try again with these work-around steps:
1 - log in to your account page first.
2 - Then open a new tab and paste in this URL "http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/team_join_form.php?id=6"
3 - click the Join Team button

That should complete it for you.
Oleg was under the perception that he had fixed this problem in Oct/Nov last year.

[NeoGen]

I joined through that link, and have now downloaded my first WU, so that all credits count for the Team.

I created the account and logged in, and did a teams search and found our Team among others. I noticed that some other teams (possibly not all) had the "Join this Team" link visible but ours for some reason didn't. I've seen this happen in a number of other new projects, it seems it's a default setting of some sort that is turned off or not working well upon team creation. Not sure exactly about the fix though, but some teams can have the link up and visible.
Maybe after creating a team, we have to set it to not allow members joining, save, and then set it to allow members joining and save again? To do a settings refresh of sorts... who knows?


EDIT: Is there anyone else that has not joined yet, that could join the project and double check after me? I am already on the Team, so I am not able to see the link now even if it was fixed.

[Dirk Broer]

Was able to join without any problem. There was a line "Join this team" that I had to click twice and I was in.
Howdee! The first WU is already running....

[AMDave]

Promoted to Article. Thanks Dirk!

[Dirk Broer]

Thanks AMDave!