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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 disciplines:

1. Marathon (14 days)
2. Sprint (3 days)
3. City Run (5 days)
4. Cross Country (5 days)
5. Javelin (5x 1 day, only each team's third best daily score counts)

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 and one other project) or 3 days (Sprint and one other project) before their respective start. Each day of Javelin Throw will be announced three days in advance. Announcement times for all of the disciplines except the Marathon will vary to account for geographic differences in the teams. Announcements can be found on the, main page, via Blog, or Feed.
• 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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[CENTER][URL=https://www.overclock.net/threads/12th-boinc-pentathlon.1778367/post-28779634][B]12th BOINC Pentathlon - May 5th-19th, 2021[/B][/URL][/CENTER]

OCN Final Overall Ranking: 11th

Disciplines to crunch:

Marathon: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - 15th
Starts: 5/5
Ends: 5/19

Sprint: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - 13th
Starts: 5/15
Ends: 5/18

City Run: PrimeGrid
OCN Final Ranking - 11th
Starts: 5/8
Ends: 5/13

Cross Country: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - 9th
Starts: 5/11
Ends: 5/16

Javelin Throw: World Community Grid: Microbiome Immunity Project
OCN Final Ranking - 17th

• 1st Throw
  • Starts: 5/6
  • Ends: 5/7
• 2nd Throw
  • Starts: 5/8
  • Ends: 5/9
• 3rd Throw
  • Starts: 5/10
  • Ends: 5/11
• 4th Throw
  • Starts: 5/14
  • Ends: 5/15
• 5th Throw
  • Starts: 5/18
  • Ends: 5/19

Project Choosing Rules
The rules for choosing projects are the same as for last year's Pentathlon.

• The projects will be chosen by the event organizers
• Projects from last year's Pentathlon are eligible for this year's Pentathlon
• There may be more than one GPU project

To have your individual stats for the Pentahlon sign up and fill out the form at the following link:

12th BOINC Pentathlon

Fill out this form if you would like to participate in the 12th BOINC Pentathlon for the Overclock.net BOINC Team. You must sign up if you wish to have your stats tracked during the event. NOTE: Only credits earned when you are on team Overclock.net will count. Make sure that you are on the...

docs.google.com

 

[tictoc]

No individual user stats for WCG. A few projects are a little bit off, due to some updating issues.

Marathon - [email protected]

k4m1k4z3 | 805,905​

tictoc | 794,392​

mmonnin | 631,666​

bfromcolo | 281,598​

spdaimon | 168,663​

Doc_Gonzo | 124,529​

OCNfranz | 90,309​

Starbomba | 34,071​

City Run - PrimeGrid

k4m1k4z3 | 58,068,811​

OCNfranz | 23,837,156​

tictoc | 15,836,815​

spdaimon | 7,921,063​

mmonnin | 7,618,460​

bfromcolo | 7,455,168​

bloodcountess | 7,031,906​

Doc_Gonzo | 3,249,644​

Starbomba | 2,551,847​

Jewfro | 12,844​

ToyMachine | 3,411​

​

Cross Country - [email protected]

tictoc | 79,247,605​

mmonnin | 21,424,305​

bfromcolo | 7,094,855​

OCNfranz | 4,943,850​

k4m1k4z3 | 4,579,715​

spdaimon | 2,252,250​

Doc_Gonzo | 1,853,775​

deegon | 1,174,635​

Starbomba | 651,420​

Tex1954 | 304,905​

2002_dunx | 194,040​

Ryan | 147,093​

crispyman | 33,000​

cabigepatch | 2,000​

​

Sprint - [email protected]

mmonnin | 593,580​

tictoc | 579,348​

bfromcolo | 253,370​

Larsl | 220,220​

Doc_Gonzo | 107,622​

Fury1184 | 74,230​

k4m1k4z3 | 71,834​

OCNfranz | 44,204​

 

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Project Specific Notes and Tweaks

Marathon
[email protected]

• SiDock tasks have a two day deadline, so be sure to wait until May 3rd to download tasks. Also, if you are holding any tasks during the Marathon, don't forget to get the tasks uploaded before the 2 day expiration.

Javelin Throw
World Community Grid

• Only the Microbiome Immunity Project tasks will count for Pentahtlon Points
• There is an issue with some Linux distros running this project. Many (most?) all tasks will segfault and error out. This seems to be only affecting some rolling release distros like Arch (and it's derivatives) and Gentoo.

 

[Doc_Gonzo]

Is there a missing link from the first post?

The bit that says:

"To have your individual stats for the Pentahlon sign up and fill out the form at the following link:
12th BOINC Pentathlon"

The second line is not a clickable link. . . . or am i missing seeing something elsewhere?

 

[tictoc]

No you aren't missing anything. I just need to get the form updated. Should have it done tonight.

 

[franz]

Looks like SiDock is the Marathon project this year.

[email protected]

www.sidock.si

Society. The BOINC Pentathlon team selected [email protected] as this year's Marathon project. The Marathon discipline is announced on 30 April and runs for two weeks from 05 through 18 May.

Fairly short deadlines, so I guess no harm announcing it 6 days early.

 

[tictoc]

I was just about to post this.

The deadlines are 3 days, so the early announcement won't really matter at all. Even if it was announced on 4/30, teams would have had to wait until 5/2 to start grabbing work. It also sounds like the project will be down for a few days before the Pent while they move to a larger server.

 

[tictoc]

Sign up form is now live. Link is in the OP.

 

[franz]

boINc

 

[Doc_Gonzo]

In, IN, IN

 

[mmonnin]

Signed up!

 

[spdaimon]

I signed up as well

 

[Starbomba]

Is it that time of the year again? I'm in!

 

[Doc_Gonzo]

Signed up!

WoooHooo!!

I signed up as well

WaHeyyyyy!!

Is it that time of the year again? I'm in!

It sure is - welcome to the party - Yipeeeeee!

 

[tictoc]

Welcome back everyone. Just a few days to go before we can start crushing some SiDock.

 

[bfromcolo]

Signed up, twice

 

[tictoc]

Perfect. That means you get twice as many points.

 

[bfromcolo]

I was thinking it was time to start loading up, but I see SiDock has gone to 2 day deadlines now.

 

[tictoc]

I was thinking it was time to start loading up, but I see SiDock has gone to 2 day deadlines now.

Good catch. I just saw that on the SiDock News forum.

 

[tictoc]

No way to do invites by group or mass PMs, so this is the call to arms for everyone that previously crunched in the Pentathlon.

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