July 2014 Competitions

[Dirk Broer]

With the 2014 Football World Cup underway all BOINC competitions seems to have come to a sort of stand-still.
There's only three -of the team kind- programmed for July so far, two for Seti@Home and one for theSkyNet POGS:


July 07 to July 08 - [Twenty Four 021] Heinlein Day Crunch
Twentieth 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 ! For this [TWENTY FOUR 021], we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the great American Science-Fiction writer, Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988). A crater on Mars was even baptized with its name ! Happy crunching to all.

Heinlein Day Crunch chat and stats page


July 09 to July 11 - In memory of William A. Bradfield, Comet Hunter (1927-2014)
William A. Bradfield, the mild-mannered comet hunter of South Australia, died on June 9, 2014, at age 86. His remarkable tally of 18 comets, each discovered visually and credited to him alone, puts him among the most prolific and elite comet discoverers of all time. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astro....3Dg2QsaI.dpuf

William A. Bradfield Memorial Crunch chat and stats page


July 31 to August 01 - [Twenty Four 022] Ranger 7 Crunch
Twentieth 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 ! For this [TWENTY FOUR 022], we celebrate Ranger 7 who was the first US space probe to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface back to Earth. After his Moon landing on july 31, 1964, Ranger 7 sent its first image at 13:08:45 UT at an altitude of 2.110 km ! Happy crunching to all.

Ranger 7 Crunch chat and stats page