2018 Pentathlon Race thread

[crashtech]

Go time can't come soon enough for me. These broken down contraptions are creaking under the weight.

 

[biodoc]

I think I'll wait an hour or so after the race starts to release the hounds. After 5 days of bunkering, I don't want to be early.

 

[Pokey]

Congrats Howdy on the grand kid. where is the beer??

Six here and love 'em all.

 

[TennesseeTony]

3 hours til go time! (but I'll wait an hour more also, just in case)

 

[Ken g6]

Don't flush 'til you see the whites of their eyes! the starting stats on their site!

 

[Howdy]

Someone just yell go!

Makes me wonder if Universe server can handle a big ole dump.

 

[TennesseeTony]

GO! GO! GO!

I got distracted by calls and missed the opening hours. Do not EVER put your phone number in at lending tree dot com. I literally got a call 15 seconds after I clicked 'next.' (and then many more, ugh)

 

[Howdy]

I now understand why Number Fields is NOT on my list of favorite projects......

 

[IEC]

Anyone else stuck uploading?

 

[Howdy]

Anyone else stuck uploading?

Universe I was......when I had some "ready to report" I hit update and those sent, then it seemed to move quicker to the "ready to report" and I rinsed and repeated until they were all sent in.

 

[ao_ika_red]

I'll switch my laptop to Universe as it's the only one that has Linux in it.

 

[Ken g6]

I now understand why Number Fields is NOT on my list of favorite projects......

As I recall, one reason I didn't like NumberFields is that some of their WUs finish within a minute, while the rest take forever. Fortunately that doesn't seem to happen with their new project.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Hey hey! Way to open up the games, OCN! 2nd place for them, 7th for us, but a certain someone is asleep at the moment.

 

[IEC]

Universe I was......when I had some "ready to report" I hit update and those sent, then it seemed to move quicker to the "ready to report" and I rinsed and repeated until they were all sent in.

Numberfields for me:
5/4/2018 8:41:42 PM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

 

[ao_ika_red]

SETI.USA
My jaw dropped

 

[crashtech]

Well, I got my stuff going. I hope we'll see some bumps in Enigma and Moo! presently as well.

 

[crashtech]

......

 

[Ken g6]

Hey, we're up to sixth, and we passed the Chinese team.

No, the other Chinese team.

 

[Skillz]

LOL @ "other chinese team"

 

[zzuupp]

As I recall, one reason I didn't like NumberFields is that some of their WUs finish within a minute, while the rest take forever. Fortunately that doesn't seem to happen with their new project.

Yup. Their WU filter misses a bunch.
At least on a POINTS! level they are pretty good for a CPU project.

 

[Skillz]

I can't believe we've held onto the top 5 this long.

 

[crashtech]

I can't believe we've held onto the top 5 this long.

Nice of you to include us, but you guys are in second! Quite the formidable presence, congrats!

 

[Skillz]

2nd in the marathon, but 5th overall.

 

[StefanR5R]

In the teams who registered this year, compared to last year, I am noticing one advantage for us (GridCoin are out; they didn't agree with the organizers who basically asked them not to pay out GRC for Pentathlon participation), but two disadvantages:

• Instead of 2 Italian teams, there is only one. Though I haven't tried to look up whether the other Italians joined them now.
• Instead of one China team, there are two China teams now. Ignoring the Beijing team of last year, who didn't do much.

A curiosity is team "LTT Forums", which seems to be a registration of LinusTechTips_Team gone wrong. Their points are fetched from the project servers' LinusTechTips_Team stats though.

 

[biodoc]

I understand their arguments regarding Gridcoin.

However, the Boinc Petathlon home page has this line: "SETI.Germany warmly invites all BOINC teams to participate."

Perhaps it should be by invitation only.