April 2014 Competitions

[Dirk Broer]

April time, challenge time. Another month to test the capabilities of your CPUs, APUs and/or GPUs in combination with your OS(es) of choice.


April 01 to April 08 - Bivium cipher can not stand
A SAT@home challenge, issued by Russia Team (so not Team Russia or one of the other Russian teams!)

Bivium cipher can not stand chat and stats page


April 01 to April 08 - SIMAP April 2014 Scramble
The old classic has returned to stay: the monthly Simap challenge by BOINCStats! Will Tamaster once again be our best scoring member?

SIMAP April 2014 Scramble chat and stats page


April 04 to April 07 - Bettina von Arnim Birthday-Challenge
A Rosetta@Home challenge, issued by the ngb:setiteam.

Bettina von Arnim Birthday-Challenge chat and stats page


April 06 to April 13 - The KenzieB Memorial Challenge
Bring your double precision capable cards with you and install them in your boxen for this MilkyWay@home challenge issued by SETI.USA But be warned: You will need at least a couple of GTX Titan Z's to keep up with the big guns...

The KenzieB Memorial Challenge chat and stats page


April 11 to April 18 - Space Race - Yuri's Night 2014 - Hunting Comets!
AerospaceResearch.net (no less) has issued a Constellation@Home challenge.

Space Race - Yuri's Night 2014 - Hunting Comets! chat and stats page


April 16 to April 17 - [Twenty Four 018] My Neighbor Totoro Crunch
Eighteenth edition of the serie of challenges between teams [Twenty Four] issued by the french team BRIGADE DU COSMOS. [Twenty Four] serie of challenges aims to celebrate an important day of the year. 24 hours of intense crunch tribute to this day ! Who has not seen this fantastic japanese cartoon movie broadcasted on april 16th, 1988 ? How not to pay tribute to his brilliant director, Hayao Miyazaki, who amazed us all with his film work. Totoro invites you to crunch on april 16th, 2014. Don't miss this [TWENTY FOUR 018] if you're fans of this small jewel !

My Neighbor Totoro Crunch chat and stats page


April 24 to May 01 - 24th Anniversary - launch of the Edwin Hubble Telescope
The Crunchenstein Monsters want us to bring out our double precision cards yet again: A MilkyWay@home challenge!

24th Anniversary - launch of the Edwin Hubble Telescope chat and stats page

[Dirk Broer]

Advice from ye olde bard for his birthday challenge:

CPUs with FMA3
Intel
Intel introduced hardware FMA in processors based on Haswell (microarchitecture) during 2013.
AMD
AMD introduced FMA3 support in processors starting with Piledriver architecture for compatibility reasons. The 2nd generation APU processors based on "Trinity" (32nm) supporting FMA3 instructions were launched May 15, 2012. The 2nd generation Bulldozer processors with Piledriver cores (FX 43xx, 63xx and 83xx) supporting FMA3 instructions were launched October 23, 2012.

CPUs with AVX2
Intel
Haswell processor, Q2 2013
Broadwell processor, expected in 2014
AMD
Excavator-based processor, expected in 2015

[Dirk Broer]

Late entry in this month's challenges: simap overloaded with work

[Dirk Broer]

Collatz server crapped out, challenge seems over....

[AMDave]

the server is back up & serving work again.
Make sure your completed work is uploaded.