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8th BOINC Pentathlon - May 5th - 19th 2017

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What is this event all about?

The BOINC Pentathlon is a two week long BOINC team competition. Five different projects will be crunched over the two week period.

The BOINC Pentathlon consists of 5 separate "disciplines".

  • Marathon (CPU, 14 days)
  • Sprint (GPU or CPU, 3 days)
  • City Run (CPU, 5 days)
  • Cross Country (GPU or CPU, 5 days)
  • Swimming (CPU, 7 days)

The fun and challenging aspect of the Pentathlon is resource management. The 5 "disciplines" are run over a 14 day period, so each "discipline" overlaps another discipline. Figuring out what to run, and when to run it, is what makes the Pentathlon a unique and challenging BOINC points race.

Run-times and projects for each discipline are announced 5 days (Marathon, City Run, Cross Country) or 3 days (Sprint) before their respective start via Blog (Feed , Twitter , Facebook ).
This allows some time to stock up on completed WU's, but it can also be dangerous if you forget to turn in the completed tasks before the deadline. It also adds another twist to resource management, if you are trying to stockpile WU's, while simultaneously running the current active disciplines.

New to BOINC?

Check out the BOINC Essentials Thread for information about BOINC, how to install and use the BOINC client, and what projects are available on the BOINC platform.

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Disciplines to crunch:

Marathon (CPU): Cosmology@Home
Starts: 5/5
Ends: 5/19
Project Support Thread

Sprint (CPU): yoyo@home
Starts: 5/13
Ends: 5/16
Project Support Thread

City Run (CPU): World Community Grid - SubProject: OpenZika
Starts: 5/5
Ends: 5/10
Project Support Thread

Cross Country(GPU): Einstein@Home
Starts: 5/9
Ends: 5/14
Project Support Thread

Swimming (CPU): LHC@Home
Starts: 5/12
Ends: 5/19
Project Support Thread

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Each team signing up for the BOINC Pentathlon (Registration and Project Selections open until April 27th) can suggest one project for each discipline, except for the Marathon which is chosen by the event organizers. The projects with the largest number of suggestions will be crunched.

Projects are not eligible if they have any of the following attributes:
  • were chosen in last year's Pentathlon (Citizen Science Grid, PrimeGrid, Rosetta@home, theSkyNet POGS, Universe@home)
  • can not provide a sufficient number of workunits
  • support just a few operating systems
  • provide non-CPU-intensive (NCI) applications
  • use buggy or test-only applications
  • do not allow the creation of new accounts
  • don't support WebRPC
To keep this process as transparent as possible, we'll publish the suggestions of every team when announcing the final projects.

  • OCN Project Nominations:
    • Sprint - Collatz Conjecture
    • City Run - OpenZika
    • Cross Country - Einstein@Home
    • Swimming - DENIS@Home

Prizes Being Donated for the Pentathlon:

$75 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: SuperZan
$75 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: NBrock
$50 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: Wheezo
$50 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: WhiteWulfe
$50 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: fragamemnon
$50 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: MNMadman
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: Ithanul
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: Clairvoyant
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: Spdaimon
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: makr
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: mixolyd
$25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
Winner: Compaddict

Sponsors:


Small Tech Station - Donated by: Spotswood - Free Shipping US48
Winner: Finrond



CPU Water Block - Donated by: Watercool

Winner: IMI4tth3w
 
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b0OWCb55uf0mighDjlJhJbJ3fRwGTNfBcN1MiFqG6OM/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false

Pentathlon Participants

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rc0ckpUX8oxUv52Oa0eC3kZQ1f1laCdI3DoxsOj2neA/pubhtml?gid=568864905&single=true&widget=true&headers=false

Just three weeks until the start of the Pentathlon.
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Polls for our project selections are in each discipline's thread. All of the threads are linked in the OP.
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Let me know if there are any errors in the threads.
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Whooo, only a few weeks to go for this again!
 
#6 ·
The sign up form is borked. There is no submit button.
 
#8 ·
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Originally Posted by tictoc View Post

I used the form to sign up, and checking on my phone the Submit button is there. Maybe scroll down?
For me the prize entry is screwed up and no submit button or a list of people signed up. I'm probably blocking a cookie the form doesn't want me to block....but I don't have any problems with the BGB signups which should be the same.

This is what it looks like for me.

 
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Originally Posted by Diffident View Post

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Originally Posted by tictoc View Post

I used the form to sign up, and checking on my phone the Submit button is there. Maybe scroll down?
For me the prize entry is screwed up and no submit button or a list of people signed up. I'm probably blocking a cookie the form doesn't want me to block....but I don't have any problems with the BGB signups which should be the same.

This is what it looks like for me.

Maybe I'll just repurpose an old form. This form was created with the new Google Forms, and the BGB form is from the last iteration of Google forms. I'll check it out later tonight and see if that makes a difference.

My main browser blocks just about everything, but I use a different browser to do the various GDocs for OCN. I'll see what it looks like when I am back in front of my main PC.
 
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It's working now, I accepted all 13 tracking cookies
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that Privacy Badger lists on this page.
 
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I got so tired of the ever increasing number of scripts and cookies on GDocs, that I finally just started using Opera in a VM, through a proxy, to do any editing of Google Forms and Sheets. If I leave Opera open on a Google page, the number of items that uBlock catches just goes up and up, until I kill the page.
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I had the same problem using my browser with Privacy Badger, uBlock, and NoScript running.

@Diffident can you give the new form a shot and see if it works for you. Don't worry about filling everything out, I will just transfer your previous answers over to the new sheet.
 
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I totally missed the signup form somehow. I'll fill it out when I get back to my desktop because mobile isn't rendering it properly (it won't let me scroll horizontally to see all the words at the top, believe it or not)
 
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Originally Posted by tictoc View Post

Thats odd. The form is only 760 wide x 1150 tall.
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It's mainly just the text cutting off on mobile. Doesn't allow horizontal scrolling in Chrome on my gaming rig either, but pretty much all of the words are visible on a 1080p desktop. I suspect it's because it's hidden behind a spoiler, and web browsers for some reason won't let you horizontally scroll through a form that's within a spoiler.

Either way, I'm signed up ^_^
 
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Originally Posted by tictoc View Post

I got so tired of the ever increasing number of scripts and cookies on GDocs, that I finally just started using Opera in a VM, through a proxy, to do any editing of Google Forms and Sheets. If I leave Opera open on a Google page, the number of items that uBlock catches just goes up and up, until I kill the page.
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I had the same problem using my browser with Privacy Badger, uBlock, and NoScript running.

@Diffident
can you give the new form a shot and see if it works for you. Don't worry about filling everything out, I will just transfer your previous answers over to the new sheet.
The new form works while still blocking the tracker cookies.
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Agreed, a list of those who've signed up is rather handy since even when I post something like "I've put my name in" I'll still submit my name like four times.
 
#18 ·
The roster is in the post, but it is not showing up, and it breaks the sign up form when I add the roster to the post.

I had the same problem with this thread last year. I had to rewrite the thread with the BB Code Editor to get it to work last year. I think I'll try moving the roster to the second post and see if that fixes it.
 
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Originally Posted by bfromcolo View Post

New form worked for me as well. You should add a list of who has signed up, or us older forgetful types like me will sign up again every couple days.
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Originally Posted by WhiteWulfe View Post

Agreed, a list of those who've signed up is rather handy since even when I post something like "I've put my name in" I'll still submit my name like four times.
Roster is now in the 2nd post. I'll also use that post for the individual stats.
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#21 ·
God, it's that time of the year already? Been away from BOINC due to several PSU failures, misc component failures (related) and a general middle finger courtesy from life. But given a week or so, i will be back on my feet! Sadly i will not have my Ryzen system primed up (No DDR4 to boot it up), but my Xeons will be battle ready with 36 threads, i'll have a R9 Nano and (hopefully) a Fury, a 290X and if it works for anything, a 5770. BOINC ON!
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#22 ·
Sweeeeeeeet, those are definitely some epic prizes, props to Spotswood and Watercool!
 
#23 ·
Going to have to spend the weekend sorting out my rigs. I had a 960 error out a couple work units during the FAH, not sure if that card is still healthy. I about BBQ myself running a 480, 470 and 5820k in my main rig, it got really hot under the desk. Guess I will have to move everything to the basement again, its nice and cool down there.
 
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I have no idea what I am doing....
 
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Originally Posted by WhiteWulfe View Post

Sweeeeeeeet, those are definitely some epic prizes, props to Spotswood and Watercool!
Yes definitely, it would be nice to get my server off the piece of plywood its screwed to now
:h34r-smi
 
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I have no idea what I am doing....
 
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