First 2011 Crunch Poll

This section is where you can post topics related to Challenges from other websites, such as Formula-BOINC, SETI-Germany and BOINCstats, as well as project challenges such as from WCG, PrimeGrid et al.

As a Team, we really want to engage as many team members with these challenges, as this gives us a great way of attracting more members to our Team...plus we get to show our strengths as a Team by (hopefully) doing well in each one.

PS: I have moved lots of topics into this section where they are relevant...as you can see, we've always been happy to take part in Challenges...and long may that continue ;-)
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UBT - Mikee
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First 2011 Crunch Poll

Post by UBT - Mikee »

The projects to vote for in the first Crunch of 2011 are (in no particular order) :-

SIMAP http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/

Average credits, around 1 to 2 hour WUs, currently 2nd in the UK.

eOn http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/

Low to average credits, 5 to 15 minute WUs, currently 3rd in the UK

Primaboinca http://www.primaboinca.com/

Low to average credits, around 1 to 2 hour WUs, currently 2nd in the UK

Androinc http://androinc.net/

Average to High credits, around 1 to 2 hour WUs, currently 3rd in the UK, but about to drop to 4th.

Voting closes Friday 25th February or sooner if there's an obvious winner!
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Post by Temujin »

I voted for simap because I'm already running that :roll:
But, i'd be up for Androinc too
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Post by Woodles »

I'm not running any of them at the moment so any is good for me. Voted for Androinc as it's our worse one at the moment (nothing to do with it giving the best credit, honest!  :D )
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

:lol: Andronic for me because it's the only running project that UBT - mickyb is in pole position  :oops:

Sure I'm going down when the big boys join in  :wink:
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Post by Joshrandom »

I voted for Primaboinca because, just like John and Simap, I'm already running it. :wink:

As for Androinc, well I'm a bit uncertain about what the project is actually trying to do, all this business about cracking Motorola encryption codes sounds just a wee bit dodgy to me.  :?
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

:cry:  Alas poor andronic ....  :cry: I see a flotilla of HMS Temujin's cpu's on the horizon  :P
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Just 9 votes so far! Don't be shy guy's!

It'd be nice to get to double figures!
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Post by UBT - bobuk »

i think we need a poll  to see just how many team members actually call into this forum



b. :D
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Post by Temujin »

UBT - bobuk wrote:i think we need a poll  to see just how many team members actually call into this forum
Not a huge amount according to this
Just 9 forum members visited yesterday :shock:
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Post by primalsole »

I voted for Simap because it seems to be something useful that they are doing.
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Post by UBT - Rick Horn »

I shall not be joining this crunch, as it looks like Androic will be the project chosen, and, like Joshrandom, I have grave worries as to its real purpose.
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Post by hgblade »

Although I voted for Androic I must admit that I didn't realise what this was at the time - and now having looked a little more I, too, share the concerns previously expressed about the ethics (at the very least) of this project.
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Temujin wrote:
UBT - bobuk wrote:i think we need a poll  to see just how many team members actually call into this forum
Not a huge amount according to this
Just 9 forum members visited yesterday :shock:
Can be a bit misleading as members that have revisited today get removed off Mondays list and put on today instead.

As an aside, I see we have our first ever Image rating! Young Keith (hgblade) has managed to post over 10,000 messages - nearly double 2nd place!
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Post by Temujin »

UBT - Mikee wrote:
Temujin wrote:
UBT - bobuk wrote:i think we need a poll  to see just how many team members actually call into this forum
Not a huge amount according to this
Just 9 forum members visited yesterday :shock:
Can be a bit misleading as members that have revisited today get removed off Mondays list and put on today instead.
You're quite right Mikee, it can be a tad misleading but still, it's gone 11pm now and we've only had 11 members visit today, 2 of those are admins and 1 only just signed up.
Not stunning numbers from 800+ active members and 3800+ total team members.
Mind you, 35 have visited this month and 55 this year, that's not so bad :thumbup:
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Do we want a rerun of the poll?
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Post by LupusUK »

Was thinking of voting for eOn but choose SIMAP in the end because it seems to have similar aims to POEM and Rosetta which I am already running
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Post by primalsole »

UBT - Mikee wrote:Do we want a rerun of the poll?
I think it would be a good idea, because it seems that some of the team have changed their mind because of what Androic's real purpose my be.
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Post by UBT - Rick Horn »

primalsole wrote:
UBT - Mikee wrote:Do we want a rerun of the poll?
I think it would be a good idea, because it seems that some of the team have changed their mind because of what Androic's real purpose my be.
Under the circumstances, I would also agree.
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Post by Temujin »

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
primalsole wrote:
UBT - Mikee wrote:Do we want a rerun of the poll?
I think it would be a good idea, because it seems that some of the team have changed their mind because of what Androic's real purpose my be.
Under the circumstances, I would also agree.
I'll go with that :thumbup:
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Post by hgblade »

I'll go along with all of that.

(Actually, any excuse to delay the start suits me - I had one motherboard die on me around Christmas, finally got round to looking for a replacement earlier in the week, only for my main system's motherboard to also die. Now I only have the system I'm using at the moment, and that has all my other work to do so BOINC is suspended.  :cry:  
HOWEVER .... tomorrow I take delivery of a new system, complete with i7 processor and Nvidia GTX570, PLUS to replace one of the dead boards a new AMD 6-core motherboard with new ATI graphics card   :D )
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Temujin wrote:
UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
primalsole wrote:I think it would be a good idea, because it seems that some of the team have changed their mind because of what Androic's real purpose my be.
Under the circumstances, I would also agree.
I'll go with that :thumbup:
Hmm. I was thinking about this this afternoon (it was a long drive!). I was going to sugggest running the 2 winning projects as a dual crunch. Members could then choose whichever to run. However, that would dilute/mix the results and may not be that satisfactory.

Are we happy to null and void this poll then?

If so, suggestions for the rerun please.
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

:o Happy for a revote  :shock:eon  :wink:
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