4. BOINC PENTATHLON 2013 - Public Forum

[SEARCHER]

http://www.seti-germany.de/stats/penta2013/boinc_pentathlon2013.png



:) Hello Team SETI.USA,
:) Hello Friends from Team SETI.USA.


Team SETI.Germany continues it's new invented challenge and invites all BOINC-Teams to participate in the 4.rd BOINC PENTATHLON, following the ideals of the ancient Pentathlon.

It will start May the 5th 2013 (00:00 UTC) and will end May the 18th 2013 (23:59 UTC).

Like in the ancient Greece, the Pentathlon will be held in 5 disciplines. That means within 14 days the participants will have to crunch 5 different projects, all of them for a period of 5 days. That said, you can easily see that some projects will have to be crunched at the same time.

Each team that would like to participate has to sigh up : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php?&lang=en until April the 27. th 2013. Like in the last year the favourites in the different disciplines can be chosen by every team on their own. The project that gaines the most voices will be crunched.

A list of the projects that can be chosen from can be found here : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/25_en_Disciplines.html , but you can also suggest other projects. (But before suggesting other projects, please check if the project and/or their servers would be able to withstand the combined BOINC forces. We do not want to bring any project server down.)

More information can be found here : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/22_en_Welcome.html

New Rules 2013

1. All disciplines are now 5 days announced before the start (no longer 1 week)

2. 1 of the five disciplines is a marathon discipline. It is calculated over the entire pentathlon (or until no longer work units available). The scoring is the same with the other disciplines.


In the last year it was very exciting until the end.


b-) Many Greatings SEARCHER

[Rattledagger]

Each team that would like to participate has to sigh up : http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php?&lang=en until April the 27. th 2012.
Hmm, I don't think we'll manage to meet this deadline. :p

[SEARCHER]

@ Rattledagger,

thank you very much, you have very good Eyes my Friend.


b-) Many Greatings SEARCHER

[Duke of Buckingham]

HELLO Searcher, good to see you. :-h

[DrPop]

Hi Searcher, good to hear from you! Thanks for the invite and we'll see if we can get enough crunchers together to participate. :)

[SEARCHER]

;) Hello Duke and DrPop,

thank you for your nice WELCOME to me. Yes, I hope Team SETI.USA starts with a lot of Crunchers.

I wish you a very nice and sunny Weekend and I see you soon.


<):) Many Greatings SEARCHER

[SEARCHER]

:p Hello Duke,

Please do advertising on your team, so many of you join.


b-) Many Greatings SEARCHER

[Duke of Buckingham]

;) Hello Duke and DrPop,

thank you for your nice WELCOME to me. Yes, I hope Team SETI.USA starts with a lot of Crunchers.

I wish you a very nice and sunny Weekend and I see you soon.


<):) Many Greatings SEARCHER


:p Hello Duke,

Please do advertising on your team, so many of you join.


b-) Many Greatings SEARCHER

SEARCHER

We will be there for sure there are many calls and more than a thread on the forum about BOINC PENTATHLON 2013.

I hope I can have some fun as the last year (2012). It was quite a good event.

Duke

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[John P. Myers]

Hey there SEARCHER, tell us more about the marathon discipline. Hopefully it won't be something boring like WuProp or FreeHal. I remember in the 2nd Pentathlon when FreeHal was picked for some reason. It was really boring and caused alot of people to lose interest.

[SEARCHER]

:) Good Morning and Hello John P.,


the marathon discipline is top secret. For all participating team `s.

But I can tell you, it will be a very stable and well-maintained project.

John no one is perfect, but we learn from our mistakes and try to improve every year.

You know for sure that we will do our best.


b-) Many Greatings SEARCHER

[John P. Myers]

Almost time to announce the first Discipline of the most epic of all competitions. On your marks...

:D

[Fire$torm]

I've edited this threads title to better reflect it's function and made it a sticky.

F$

[pinhodecarlos]

As part of the BOINC Pentathlon, the project SIMAP will start on 2013-05-05 00:00:00 (UTC) and will end on 2013-05-19 00:00:00 (UTC). The stats of SIMAP will be updated every hour. The last update was on unknown (UTC). Now it's 2013-04-29 22:40:04 (UTC).
The stats not only show the output of the last hour, the last 12 hours and the last 24 hours but also the daily output.

http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/challenge.php?challengeid=1

[John P. Myers]

As part of the BOINC Pentathlon, the project SIMAP will start on 2013-05-05 00:00:00 (UTC) and will end on 2013-05-19 00:00:00 (UTC). The stats of SIMAP will be updated every hour. The last update was on unknown (UTC). Now it's 2013-04-29 22:40:04 (UTC).
The stats not only show the output of the last hour, the last 12 hours and the last 24 hours but also the daily output.

http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/challenge.php?challengeid=1

This is the Marathon Discipline and will be crunched for the entire duration of the Pentathlon. You may begin submitting completed workunits on May 4th at 8PM EST/5PM PST to count towards SETI.USA's score ;)

[John P. Myers]

If you would like additional strategy/commentary/help/smacktalk regarding this, and other, competitions which SETI.USA enters into, you may request access to the "Members Only" forums here: http://www.setiusa.us/forumdisplay.php?93-New-Team-Members-Get-Member-s-Only-Access-Here. You will be verified as actually being a legitimate member of SETI.USA and then allowed to access alot more content :)

[John P. Myers]

The 2nd Discipline is World Community Grid: Computer for Clean Energy - Phase 2

All credits granted between 05/06/2013, 8PM EST/5PM PST and 05/11/2013, 8PM EST/5PM PST will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that pending credits cannot be taken into account!



The 3rd Discipline in the GPU category is Einstein@Home

All credits granted between 05/07/2013, 8PM EST/5PM PST and 05/13/2013, 8PM EST/5PM PST will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that pending credits cannot be taken into account!

[John P. Myers]

In less than an hour the 4th Annual BOINC Pentathlon begins. Let's see how many servers we can crash this year :D Let's go team!

**==

[John P. Myers]

It has begun everyone! :D Do your worst!

[John P. Myers]

Congratulations to all crunchers from all teams. SIMAPs servers are broken :D Of course this is temporary, so never stop crunching!

[kmanley57]

Congratulations to all crunchers from all teams. SIMAPs servers are broken :D Of course this is temporary, so never stop crunching!

GEE! I do not have even half of them uploaded yet! Guess I will hold them for a little while, and break the server again 'later'. :p

[myshortpencil]

My upload rate for SIMAP from 8 to 9:30 is 418 WUs per hour. 45% have validated. No errors. No invalids.

[John P. Myers]

We're currently in 3rd place, only 65K behind SETI.Germany. If anyone wants to join us crunching SIMAP to help the team out, it'll be much appreciated :)

[Mumps]

*aighhh*


Work #
Tasks ready to send 0
Tasks in progress 542,193

[DrPop]

*aighhh*

I just got that too! ZERO tasks available!:confused::p:mad:

[Mumps]

I've never seen that happen over at SIMAP unless their batch was completely out. They are generating work, but at this point their work generation is not keeping pace with consumption. Time for a little Slicker help! :)

[John P. Myers]

1323

Keep up the SIMAP work guys! It's paying off :)

[John P. Myers]

This time its not a hardware or configuration issue but overload through many users. As announced, SIMAP is marathon discipline in the BOINC Pentathlon organized by seti-germany.de. Many users had pre-calculated lots of results and have now submitted their results today after the start of the pentathlon. This caused substantial overloading of the server, however it will normalize after this wave has been processed. From the server side we cannot do anything - the network connections and the storage are at their limits...


Lets hope that some results gets through and that the project benefits from the event. Right now it just like if it was a hacker attack.
Bwahahaha! =D>=D>=D>

[John P. Myers]

Don't forget tonight at 8PM EST/5PM PST you may begin turning in completed workunits for World Community Grid's Clean Energy Project - Phase 2. Go team go! :D

[John P. Myers]

Yoyo has been announced as the 4th discipline! All completed workunits turned in from May 11th 8PM EST/5PM PST to May 16th 8PM EST/5PM PST will count towards our score in the Pentathlon. Crunch on!

[myshortpencil]

Severe weather may cause power outages in localized areas over the next 24 to 72 hours. See Tornado Threat Returning to Plains? (http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/tornado-threat-plains-returns-20130504) at weather.com. Protect your equipment.

[John P. Myers]

The Einstein Discipline is now alive at the Pentathlon. GPUs are very very welcome on this project :) As of right now we are in a 3-way tie for 1st place!

Stats: http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php

Go SETI.USA go! **==

[Duke of Buckingham]

The Einstein Discipline is now alive at the Pentathlon. GPUs are very very welcome on this project :) As of right now we are in a 3-way tie for 1st place!

Stats: http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php

Go SETI.USA go! **==

Nice. Go team Go. :D

[shiva]

I'm attaching to yoyo, any sub project better than others or run any of them?

[Al]

Might want to take this private. No secrets in the public forum.:D
PM sent with a link.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I'm attaching to yoyo, any sub project better than others or run any of them?

Nice to see you in here shiva.

[shiva]

Nice to see you in here shiva.Hi Duke, how are things going? Good to be back at setiusa. thanks

[John P. Myers]

WCG ends tonight (US time zones 8PM EST/5PM PST). At that moment, Yoyo begins. It has been a very exciting race so far and i thank you all for your participation. We are doing well. Crunch on!

[myshortpencil]

I'm going to use the end of WCG as an opportunity to reboot my computers.

[John P. Myers]

The battle is on! Everyone crunching Yoyo now like there's no tomorrow. Let's show the world we mean business :cool:

[myshortpencil]

It will be glorious!

1377

[John P. Myers]

Last night the Einstein leg ended and tonight, starting right now, Asteroids@Home begins! The Pentathlon ends 5 days from now and we're currently in 2nd place overall. Go team go! **==

[John P. Myers]

Yoyo ends in under an hour, but Asteroids is going for the next 2 days. Great job everyone.

Crunch on!

[John P. Myers]

Ok everyone. We're in the final hour of the Pentathlon. It has been the most exciting Pentathlon by far this time. Superb job everyone. It's saturday night so go out and treat yourselves for your amazing performance :D

[Mumps]

I went out drinking 2 hours ago and came back for the final "Update" pass at the final buzzer.

Congrats to everyone for a job well done!

[zombie67]

Crap. I've been messed up all competition. I thought it lasted through the 19th for some reason.

[Mumps]

Crap. I've been messed up all competition. I thought it lasted through the 19th for some reason.

It did. The 19th GMT, so welcome to the 19th of May. :)

[SEARCHER]

:) Dear participants of the 4th PENTATHLON 2013,

two very exciting weeks are now over now. We hope it has a lot of fun and joy prepares to participate. I think for a lot of tension was also provided.

Now the 4th PENTAHTLON over and the warmest congratulations to all the winning teams. But thanks to all participating teams. We hope all the 5th PENTAHTLON to 2014 may also welcome so numerous.


But now: Good Bye, Au revoir, Auf Wiedersehen :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9WMIPzd6w


:cool: Greatings SEARCHER

[SEARCHER]

:) Good Morning and Hello Team SETI.USA,


Many Congratulations to 3. SILVER Medals and 3. SECOND Places

by the 4th PENTATHLON 2013


http://www.jokers-paintball.de/content/images/pokal2jpg.jpg

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-%E2%80%93-marathon/

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-%E2%80%93-mathematics/

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-world-community-grid/


:cool: Many Greatings SEARCHER


P.S. : Sorry the Final Medal Ceremony comes a little bit later.

[Duke of Buckingham]

:) Good Morning and Hello Team SETI.USA,


Many Congratulations to 3. SILVER Medals and 3. SECOND Places

by the 4th PENTATHLON 2013


http://www.jokers-paintball.de/content/images/pokal2jpg.jpg

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-%E2%80%93-marathon/

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-%E2%80%93-mathematics/

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/boinc-pentathlon-medal-ceremony-world-community-grid/


:cool: Many Greatings SEARCHER


P.S. : Sorry the Final Medal Ceremony comes a little bit later.

Thanks for your updates SEARCHER, very useful as always and Congratulations to all teams involved on Pentathlon. It is one of the major (and best) events of BOINC every year. We will be waiting for next year Pentathlon, good for the teams and good for the projects ...

http://blog.evenium.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/What-makes-a-great-event-organizer.png

[Fire$torm]

Hello SEARCHER,

Good day to you. And Thank You. You are a gracious competitor.

Looking forward to next year.

Peace,
F$

[DrPop]

:) Dear participants of the 4th PENTATHLON 2013, two very exciting weeks are now over now. We hope it has a lot of fun and joy prepares to participate. I think for a lot of tension was also provided....SEARCHER

Hi Searcher, thank you for you the warm regards and we were most fortunate to have a good turnout this year. Thank you for the good time and we hope everyone shows up again next year - there were a lot of teams this year, so that means you are doing a great job organizing the event.
Keep up the great work! :)

[SEARCHER]

Late, but not to late, the FINAL Medal Ceremony


http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/2013/05/4th-boinc-pentathlon-final-ceremony/


Many Congratulations Team SETI.USA for Place 2. at the 4th PENTATHLON


:cool: Greatings SEARCHER

[SEARCHER]

@ Duke, thank you very much Ricardo and many Greatings to your Family and for now not so Little Miguel.:rolleyes:

@ Fire$torm, hello and thank you very much, but :confused: I hope you know I not fight for Team SETI.Germany. This Time I fight for Team Alliance Francophone. :p See you soon.

@ DrPop, thank you for Complements Dr.Pop, but we have a very great Organisation Team for this Event, so this Work is not to many and we have a lot of Fun by this Work.
b-) And YES, it`s very sure the 5th PENTATHLON for next Year 2014 is at Work.


:cool: Many Greatings SEARCHER

[Rattledagger]

Hello SEARCHER, thanks for a good Pentathlon. :cool:

Also a thanks to Jeeper for his excellent daily bulletins. :cool:

[SEARCHER]

:) Hello Rattledagger, thank you very much, I will give your Answer here to my Teammates.

I tell Dr.Pop before, we have a great Organisation Team for the PENTATHLON. So Jeeper write daily the Bulletins in German, but Susanne translate in English and modesti in French. And PoHeDa look for all come in our WIKI. You see only a great and good Organisation Team can make a great Event, same the PENTATHLON. :rolleyes: Still I hope next Year we busted the 40 Teams Line.

:cool: Many Greatings SEARCHER