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    5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    This is the public thread for the 5th Pentathlon. Say anything you'd like everyone in the world to know



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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    ... Say anything you'd like everyone in the world to know

    Hi. I will be crunching, thank you! There, JPM, that is the extent of my plans that I would like the world to know at the moment.

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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Oh, are we doing this again?


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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Are they gonna split everyone up by horoscope like 2 years ago or is it team vs. team this time ?


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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Quote Originally Posted by DrBackJack View Post
    Are they gonna split everyone up by horoscope like 2 years ago or is it team vs. team this time ?
    That's the Space Race challenge. The Pentathlon is purely a team effort.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bryan
    Oh, are we doing this again?
    Well of course! The world would be quite upset with us if we didn't show up for this


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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    kool, I'm in on it this year.


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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Yeah, I think I can come to the party.

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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Pentathlon breakdown:

    Begins May 4th at 8PM eastern/5PM Pacific and lasts 2 weeks.

    There are 5 "Disciplines".
    1 Discipline, called the "Marathon", is a project that runs the entire 2 weeks of the Pentathlon. This is most likely a CPU-only project.
    1 other Discipline, called "Sprint", runs for 3 days and is meant for GPU crunching. Which 3 days it will run is not known until 3 days before it's time to run it.
    The other 3 Disciplines are all CPU and are all run for 5 days each and each is announced 5 days before it's time to run it.

    Bunkering is encouraged but not required.

    As you can see, there will be alot of overlapping and simultaneous distribution of crunching resources going on. If you plan to be away for this event, may i suggest setting your computers to simply crunch the Marathon Discipline. This will assist the rest of us by allowing us to focus more on the ever-changing competitive environment.

    As always, i thank you very much for your participation and crunch on!


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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    If anyone would like to join this forum for the first time and crunch the Pentathlon for SETI.USA, now's a good time to do it because I'm giving away 13 days of free crunching to the first person who accepts this offer. I will be crunching only Pentathlon projects from May 5 to May 19. Click the link in my signature for details.

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    Re: 5th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

    Quote Originally Posted by Z-TAC View Post
    If anyone would like to join this forum for the first time and crunch the Pentathlon for SETI.USA, now's a good time to do it because I'm giving away 13 days of free crunching to the first person who accepts this offer. I will be crunching only Pentathlon projects from May 5 to May 19. Click the link in my signature for details.
    id take ya up on that offer but i just added 2 more computers on my network at work to crunch with , so ill leave it for somone who really could use the help

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