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Formula BOINC

• What is Formula BOINC?
  • Formula BOINC is a year long BOINC team competition based on the structure of the Formula 1 Championship.
  • Points are amassed based on a team's individual project ranking throughout the year and by their ranking in each of the 20 sprints.
  • New to this year's competition, is the ability of a Team's founder to vote for each Sprint project
  • See the Formula BOINC home page for a full breakdown of the rules: http://formula-boinc.org/

Sprints

03/12/2019 13:00 (UTC) - 03/15/2019 12:59 (UTC)
World Community Grid - Rank: 20

03/19/2019 21:00 (UTC) - 03/22/2019 20:59 (UTC)
[email protected] - Rank: 9

04/02/2019 16:00 (UTC) - 04/05/2019 15:59 (UTC)
Canceled

04/16/2019 20:00 (UTC) - 04/19/2019 19:59 (UTC)
[email protected] - Rank: 12

04/30/2019 22:00 (UTC) - 05/03/2019 21:59 (UTC)
Collatz Conjecture - Rank: 20

05/07/2019 22:00 (UTC) - 05/10/2019 21:59 (UTC)
TN-Grid - Rank: N/A

05/21/2020 22:00 (UTC) - 05/24/2020 21:59 (UTC)
[email protected] Rank: 5

06/04/2020 20:00 (UTC) - 06/07/2020 19:59 (UTC)
WEP-M+2 - Rank: Canceled

06/12/2020 04:00 (UTC) - 06/15/2020 03:59 (UTC)
GPUGrid - Rank: 15

06/25/2020 22:00 (UTC) - 06/28/2020 21:59 (UTC)
[email protected] - Rank: 22

07/02/2020 22:00 (UTC) - 07/05/2020 21:59 (UTC)
[email protected] - Rank: 16

07/16/2020 23:00 (UTC) - 07/19/2020 22:59 (UTC)
Moo! Wrapper - Rank: 10

07/30/2020 22:00 (UTC) - 08/02/2020 21:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined


Upcoming Sprints

Spoiler

08/27/2020 22:00 (UTC) - 08/30/2020 21:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

09/04/2020 00:00 (UTC) - 09/06/2020 23:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

09/17/2020 16:00 (UTC) - 09/20/2020 15:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

09/24/2020 21:00 (UTC) - 09/27/2020 20:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

10/08/2020 15:00 (UTC) - 10/11/2020 14:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

10/23/2020 05:00 (UTC) - 10/26/2020 04:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

10/30/2020 06:00 (UTC) - 11/02/2020 05:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

11/13/2020 03:00 (UTC) - 11/16/2020 02:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

11/26/2020 20:00 (UTC) - 11/29/2020 19:59 (UTC)
Project to be determined

Current Overall Standings
Link to Overclock.net Official Formula BOINC Stats: http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang=&team=78248&year=2020

 

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I haven't ran WCG in quite some time. Moving some threads over to WCG now.

 

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Sprint stats are up now, and it looks like the baseline stats must have been pulled yesterday. Our numbers are roughly in-line with Free-DC and BOINCStats. :thumb:

 

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We finished about the same as last year. WCG is always a tough project for us, but we did double our average output during the Sprint. :thumb:

 

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Yes, that is a bit of a bummer. Hopefully it gets sorted out and FB continues.

 

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I'm down for anything. A CPU project would be best for me, since most of my GPUs are tied up at the moment.:thumb:

 

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I was skeptical that it was going to happen, but the sprint project has been announced. :wheee:

The Sprint starts in t-minus 15 hours. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...=Formula+BOINC+Asteroids+Sprint&font=sanserif
Time to start stockpiling Asteroids WUs.

 

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Collatz is a GPU project that gives out pretty high points. I ran the crap out of it every BGB, which is pretty much how I got so many points in Collatz.

I will throw a few GPUs at it, since I don't think I've ran Collatz in quite some time. :thumb:

 

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The config file is still used, and I actually had to remove and then re-add Collatz since I haven't ran it since they updated the app after the cheating shenanigans.

 

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What is the config file? I did a new setup since I haven't run this project before. I also disabled CPU processing, because too slow.

The config file is a blank file that will ship with the rest of the project files. The config file can be used to tune the application for maximum performance. Word of warning, if you max out the performance your GPU will run very hot and be under a very heavy load.

I just crashed my system, because I used my normal max performance config and didn't think about the fact that my 5700XT is running on the stock blower cooler. Needless to say it rapidly warmed up to throttling temps, and then crashed the driver. :doh:

Here is a link to the thread on the Collatz forum with example configs. https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/forum_thread.php?id=8
There are also quite a few examples in the last few pages of our Collatz thread: https://www.overclock.net/forum/180...ollatz-conjecture-project-support-thread.html

 

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Late to the party, but I'm rolling now.

 

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I didn't know WEP-M+2 was still around. It is a pretty long running BOINC project, but it is a one man show running on limited hardware so it could be interesting.

 

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Looks like its Linux only, so Im guessing VM in windows would work?

A Linux VM should work fine.

 

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Not too surprised. The project actually shut down for a few days earlier this year to let the servers "cool down" after an influx of new users.

 

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I had a few hundred queued up to release, and they are just sitting in the transfer pile.

Not too much lost time for me, and I generally don't get too worked up over hiccups in projects. I crunched through thousands of bad MilkyWay WUs, to help clear their servers when they had a bad round of tasks a few years ago. lol

 

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A little late to the party. I've been neglecting GPUGrid, so I'm throwing some GPUs at it now.

 

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Excellent. I'll give Einstein a run for a few days. Might have to hold off on testing MilkyWay in Windows on the VIIs.

 

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Unless some teams above us are sandbagging, hopefully I can add to our total, and bump us up into the points for this Sprint.

 

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The Radeon VII can really crank out the Moo! tasks. My VII that is capped at 170W and runs at an average of 1695 MHz, is about 12% faster than my 2080 Super at 245W 1905 MHz.

A VII running at similar clocks and power as the 2080 Super is about 28% faster.

 

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Sprint starting tomorrow on 7/30 at 2200 UTC is [email protected]

I was going to throw some CPUs at this Sprint, but I'll have to reconfigure some things since I always run ATLAS native. Not sure how I could stockpile those tasks, so I'll just have to run some sixtrack.


*Edit* Not sure how that's going to work out, since there are very few sixtrack tasks available. It's been awhile since I ran sixtrack, does anyone know if the tasks come in batches or are they constantly created?