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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I extended the polls for the project voting, and I will send out the first reminder PM to the BGB group in a few minutes. We had a good run last year, but this year I think we can do even better.
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!
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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