QMC Mini-Crunch 20th - 27th April

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

QMC has won the vote for a weeks mini crunch, a week was chosen due to the length of the WU's on offer.

At this moment in time we are only behind 385,803 credits behind the number 1 spot for the UK. Its taken a while to work our way back up to take this crown back that was stolen from us.

Now all we want you to do if you so wish is to just run QMC@Home for one week with nothing else been processed. If you don't wish to participate no problem just carry on crunching your seleceted projects of choice.

I'm sure some fancy numbers & graphs will follow this post closer to the time of the crunch.

Not running QMC and want to ask questions then feel free to do so, people here will help you with it before it becomes time to crunch for a week

[UBT - Mikee]

I'm sure some fancy numbers & graphs will follow this post closer to the time of the crunch.

Can't think what you mean...

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

BOINC@Hull appear to have stopped crunching this project now, or at least they have not had any granted credit in the last week.

OCUK seem to have picked up pace slightly, but its nothing to be concerned of

[UBT - The Prof....]

Everything except QMC set to no new tasks, starting to run down the cache in preperation... .. .  .

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

Everything except QMC set to no new tasks, starting to run down the cache in preperation... .. .  .

I had everything run down, but must have pressed the wrong button, got some ABC work I'm now getting rid of then its back on to QMC

[UBT - NyeD]

Just running down the last of my Einstain cache. By tomorrow pm should be just QMC.    

[UBT - Mikee]

QMC Week long Crunch

Initial Stats

Official Start 00:01 20th April 2007
Official End   23:59 27th April 2007
Of course you can start and finish whenever you like - it seems some people have all ready started - no probs!

The graphs below will change when I upload a new set - should be late evening each day. If they don't appear to have changed then I either haven't changed them or you need to press 'reload'

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UK position as at 20:00 19th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,036,973 (-361,385)	  
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   675,588   	

Total gain of 0

These are world teams immediately above us - I'd be disappointed if we didn't overtake SaR Hessen during the week!

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World position as at 20:00 19th April 2007    Difference   RAC
               
29       SaR Hessen                   739,339 (-63,751)     571
30       BOINC@Denmark                719,366 (-43,778)   1,740
31       Sweden@BOINC@Home            681,428 ( -5,840)   2,187
32       UK BOINC TEAM                675,588    	      3,654

Total gain of 0

So the first target is "Sweden@BOINC@Home" - we should be able to overtake them by Saturday

[UBT - Mikee]

An impressive start to say the least. We've all ready jumped 1 World place with ease! At current rate we should just overtake SaR Hessen by the end of the week. If a few more people join in it'll be even quicker.

For graphs - see earlier post.

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UK position as at 19:30 20th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,036,973 (351,847)	  
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   685,126   	

Total gain of 8993

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World position as at 19:30 20th April 2007    Difference                   RAC                    
29       SaR Hessen                   740,275 (55,149) Gained 8,602       633 (+ 92)
30       BOINC@Denmark                720,045 (34,919) Gained 8,859     1,639 (-101)
31       UK BOINC TEAM                685,126                           4,186 (+532)     
32       Sweden@BOINC@Home            684,581 (  -545) Gained 6,385     2,224 (+ 37)   


Credits over 23.5 hours = 8993

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 2 PROGRESS

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UK position as at 19:30 21st April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,328 (339,318)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   698,010      

Total gain of 22,067

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World position as at 19:30 21st April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

29       SaR Hessen                   741,697 ( 43,687) Gained 20,064      670 (+  99)
30       BOINC@Denmark                722,032 ( 24,022) Gained 19,756    1,612 (- 128)
31       UK BOINC TEAM                698,010                            4,982 (+1328)    
32       Sweden@BOINC@Home            687,072 (-10,938) Gained 16,778    2,227 (+  40)   

Credits over 2 days = 22,422 

Anyone interested in a league table?

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

Not doing too bad there

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 3 PROGRESS

WOW! A MASSIVE increase in both RAC and total! AT this rate we'll overtake BOINC@Denmark later on tonight and SaR Hessen a couple of days earlier than I anticipated! Well done to everyone taking part!

If you're not currently crunching QMC it's not too late - anyone can join in at any time.

This is one of the better projects in that you can see progress correctly, screen saver works and best of all the quorum is 1 so you get instant credits as soon as a WU is finished - and they're generous with the credits!

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UK position as at 19:15 22nd April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,568 (317,585)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   719,983      

Total gain of 43,800

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World position as at 19:15 22nd April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

29       SaR Hessen                   741,795 ( 21,812) Gained 41,939      619 (+  48)
30       BOINC@Denmark                724,359 (  4,376) Gained 39,402    1,644 (-  96)
31       UK BOINC TEAM                719,983                            6,489 (+2835)    
32       Sweden@BOINC@Home            689,560 (-30,423) Gained 36,263    2,212 (+  25)   

Credits over 3 days = 44,395 

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 4 PROGRESS

Great going guy's! Just about 1/2 way through the crunch and we're doing great!

Up another World place and we'll catch SaR Hessen in the next couple of hours.
At our current rate we'll catch Nordlichter by the end of the crunch. Looking at the daily output graphs it looks like we're topping out at around 20,000/day which is the equivalent of around 40/50 cores running 24/7.

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UK position as at 20:00 23rd April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,738 (298,714)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   739,024      

Total gain of 62,671

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World position as at 20:00 23rd April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

28       Nordlichter                  768,418 ( 29,394) Gained 39,607    5,380
29       SaR Hessen                   741,968 (  2,944) Gained 60,807      596 
30       UK BOINC TEAM                739,024                            7,650 (+3,996)  
31       BOINC@Denmark                726,274 ( -12,750) Gained 56,528   1,667 

Credits over 4 days = 63,436 

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 5 PROGRESS

Up another place overnight.

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UK position as at 07:30 24th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,738 (288,576)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   748,982      

Total gain of 72,809

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World position as at 07:30 24th April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

28       Nordlichter                  770,480 ( 21,498) Gained 46,725    5,316
29       UK BOINC TEAM                748,982                            8,255 (+4,601)
30       SaR Hessen                   741,968 ( -7,014) Gained 70,765      596 
31       BOINC@Denmark                727,684 (-21,298) Gained 65,076    1,736

Credits over 4.5 days = 73,394 

[UBT-mark3346]

Anyone interested in a league table?

It doesn't seem to be moving much?

[UBT - Terry]

Like the league table

[UBT - Mikee]

Anyone interested in a league table?

It doesn't seem to be moving much?

No-one said they were interested so I haven't bothered with it.

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 5 PROGRESS

OK So I was wrong about daily output peeking at around 20,000 - it's still rising - nearly 22,000 today! Still plenty of room and time for anyone else who wants to join in!

If you haven't attached to this project before then the project addy you need is...

http://qah.uni-muenster.de/

Make sure that the team name is ours otherwise your score won't count towards the team total!

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UK position as at 20:00 24th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,878 (276,923)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   760,955      

Total gain of 84,462

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World position as at 20:00 24th April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

28       Nordlichter                  773,751 ( 12,796) Gained 55,427    5,368
29       UK BOINC TEAM                760,955                            8,988 (+5,334)
30       SaR Hessen                   742,312 (-18,643) Gained 82,349      540 
31       BOINC@Denmark                729,625 (-31,330) Gained 75,108    1,815

Credits over 5 days = 85,367

[UBT - Terry]

I liked it the league table thingy looked  8)

[UBT-mark3346]

I thought (don't worry that's what the burning smell is) the question was rhetorical otherwise there would be a long list of members saying they were interested and making the thread very unwieldy.

[Rockinfroggi]

I missed the question, just looked and seen it under your bottom (no wonder I missed it) otherwise I wudda said YES


Blind Old F*rt.

[UBT - Mikee]

I thought (don't worry that's what the burning smell is) the question was rhetorical otherwise there would be a long list of members saying they were interested and making the thread very unwieldy.

OK then - as there's a bit of interest, I'll update it tonight.

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 6 PROGRESS

More terrific progress - it gets better and better. This is already the best crunch we've ever had! We'll hit 100,000 credits later this morning and might take world 28th place before the evening update.

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UK position as at 07:30 25th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,926 (265,147)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   772,779      

Total gain of 96,238

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World position as at 07:30 25th April 2007    Difference                 RAC                    

28       Nordlichter                  777,777 (  4,998) Gained 63,225    5,473
29       UK BOINC TEAM                772,779                            9,663 (+6,009)
30       SaR Hessen                   742,737 (-30,042) Gained 93,973      554 
31       BOINC@Denmark                730,597 (-42,182) Gained 85,960    1,820

Credits over 5.5 days = 97,191 

[UBT-mark3346]

And another one bites the dust
Nordlichter 781,026.50
UK BOINC Team 782,521.03

[Rockinfroggi]

Makes it worth the effort when you can see a few teams disappear in your rear view mirror.  :D


Gary.

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 6 PROGRESS

Multiple milestones today!
Clicked up another world position to 28th.
Clocked up over 100,000 credits.
Increased the RAC to over 10,000.
Decreased the difference between UK 1 and 2 by over 100,000
and I've had to add 2 more target teams!
If we could get TKWSN that would be one heck of a scalp!

Quite honestly I'm gobsmacked by how well everyone is doing and how this is going!

And....

no-ones complained about the project which has to be a bonus!

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UK position as at 20:00 25th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,926 (253,254)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   784,672      

Total gain of 108,131

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World position as at 20:00 25th April 2007    Difference                  RAC 
                   
26       The Knights Who Say Ni!      836,290 ( 51,618) Gained  75,848    4,712
27       RoCa                         803,422 ( 18,750) Gained 104,766      613
28       UK BOINC TEAM                784,672                            10,338 (+6,684)
29       Nordlichter                  781,325 (- 3,347) Gained  63,225    5,553

Credits over 6 days = 109,084 

League table available here.

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

no-ones complained about the project which has to be a bonus!

Its amazing you haven't said anything bad as yet  :lol:

[UBT - Mikee]

no-ones complained about the project which has to be a bonus!

Its amazing you haven't said anything bad as yet  :lol:

Well I'll make up for it now then.

Bit of a blip on the graphs. BOINCStats hadn't updated last night when I was doing them so I took the data direct from QMC. As QMC was more up to date this meant that there was about 28 hours worth of data rather than 24 so it looked like the output was better than it actually was (22000 rather that 17000). It's corrected now and today's was the best ever!

[Timby]

Has any one given a thought to continue with this crunch till we take #1 ???
Mike could probably predict how much longer we need to go to reach this target?

Only a thought as the project seems to be stable and no one has complained as David said, normally I will be winging away but no complaints from me!!

[UBT - Mikee]

I had thought about it but it's going to take around 3 weeks at our current rate. It's a bit much to ask members to crunch continually for that amount of time.

However, there's nothing stopping anyone from continuing anyway and I suspect there might be a 'Sneaky Club' mission nearer the time!

[Rockinfroggi]

I'd be happy to go on with this if there are enough others willing that we would reach our goal, but I really must request a short break as a week without a shower is one thing but four weeks?  :oops: Even the rats would move out, plus I need to empty the porta loo and get something to eat, maybe eat first

Those willing to go on say YAY, those not interested ignore me as usual  :shock:


Smelly Frog.

[Timby]

Wow Mike just found the league table, thats very informative, looks like some serious crunching going on there!!!

[RodEllery]

League table available here

Not bad Mike. Especially like the fact I'm in both 9th and 10th place

[UBT - Terry]

Yeah i'll keep going no probs  :)


  Terry

[UBT - Mikee]

DAY 7 PROGRESS

Still increasing!
Nordlichter RAC has increased so we're not pulling away as quick as before but as the crunch is coming to a close soon it doesn't really matter too much as the main target was always to close the gap on BOINC@Hull.

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UK position as at 07:00 26th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,926 (243,785)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   794,141      

Total gain of 117,600

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World position as at 07:00 26th April 2007    Difference                  RAC                    
26       The Knights Who Say Ni!      839,387 ( 45,246) Gained  82,220    4,796
27       RoCa                         803,973 (  9,832) Gained 113,684      662
28       UK BOINC TEAM                794,141                            10,975 (+7,321)
29       Nordlichter                  800,683 (- 6,542) Gained  75,293    7,165

Credits over 6.5 days = 118,553 

[UBT - Mikee]

League table available here

Not bad Mike. Especially like the fact I'm in both 9th and 10th place

Darn! I blame you then
I've changed it here but I can't access the site to change it there at the moment.

It'll be sorted the next time I update it - maybe tonight.

[UBT - NyeD]

I had thought about it but it's going to take around 3 weeks at our current rate. It's a bit much to ask members to crunch continually for that amount of time.

I have no problem with carrying on for another 3 weeks. That number 1 spot is ours  

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

I have no problem with carrying on for another 3 weeks. That number 1 spot is ours  

I may well keep going for that amount of time, we can keep a close eye out on the other projects and if needs be break out the Sneaky Club to set upon other tasks

[UBT - Terry]

So are we gonna keep going on this till that top place is ours or no???


 Terry

[UBT - Timbo]

So are we gonna keep going on this till that top place is ours or no???


 Terry

Entirely at your discretion....of course, if we have a current RAC on QMC of around 20,000+ per day, then the gap to becoming #1 UK Team on QMC is around 12 days....(at current rates) so it's well within our grasp....

Of course, the main task has been accomplished, in that we've cut down the gap between us and the #1 UK ranking position....making it an easier task to become UK #1 if we resumed normal crunching rates...

But it would be nice to be #1 sooner rather than later....so if you have no other project that needs your help, then why not keep going for a wee bit longer?

regards,

Tim

[UBT - Terry]

Well i dunno about the rest of you most of whom have faster set up's than i but i think we should go for it and take what is ours NUMBER 1


  Terry

[Rockinfroggi]

OK, that's settled then, I'll keep going for now.


Gary.

[UBT-mark3346]

I need to resume WCG as we have just slipped out of the top 100 over there (a few teams from lower down the rankings started doing as much in a week as we do a month so came flying past but there are still teams above us we will overtake). Still have some QMC wu's to finish but they will have to be the last for now.  

[UBT - Timbo]

I need to resume WCG as we have just slipped out of the top 100 over there (a few teams from lower down the rankings started doing as much in a week as we do a month so came flying past but there are still teams above us we will overtake). Still have some QMC WUs to finish but they will have to be the last for now.  

No worries  8)

And besides, we mustn't start falling back on ANY other project...so thanks for keeping our WCG end up...!

regards,

Tim

[UBT-mark3346]

Didn't realise how much QMC I still had-will actually be going till the original crunch end on most machines anyway.

[Timby]

Well I am in guys if you still want to push for the #1 spot, I don't mind pushing on to hit the 50k credits on this project, all for the teams sake of course.

Any way PG looks like its going to be out for a few days so what the h**l

[UBT - Mikee]

Last day tomorrow - officially ends 23:59 but I'll update the stats as long as I can remember!




DAY 7 PROGRESS

Something has gone weird with the stats today - but I can only report what's there. TKWSN increased their lead and Nordlichter added 34,000 and went up to 27th place, our output only went up by 12,000 (only?) but we have overtaken RoCa. So I think there's a bit of a lag on our stats going on and should correct tomorrow.

Graphs show output from yesterday via BOINCStats

Today's milestones...
World RAC up to 6th

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UK position as at 20:00 26th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,926 (231,525)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   806,401      

Total gain of 129,826

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World position as at 20:00 26th April 2007    Difference                  RAC                    
26       The Knights Who Say Ni!      843,401 ( 37,000) Gained  90,466    
27       Nordlichter                  834,043 ( 27,642) Gained  40,581    
28       UK BOINC TEAM                806,401                            11,398 (+7,744)
29       RoCa                         804,678 ( -1,723) Gained 125,239    

Credits over 7 days = 130,813 

League table here

[UBT - Mikee]

Last day today - officially ends 23:59

DAY 8 PROGRESS - Final 'Official' Position

Stats will be updated occasionally from now on.

I'm sure the team leader will have a few words to say later!

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UK position as at 23:00 27th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,926 (218,635)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   819,291      

Total gain of 142,750

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World position as at 23:00 27th April 2007    Difference                  RAC                    
25       The Knights Who Say Ni!      846,786 ( 27,495) Gained  99,971
26       Nordlichter                  843,976 ( 24,685) Gained  43,538 
27       BOINC.BE                     842,246 ( 22,955) Gained 125,853  
28       UK BOINC TEAM                819,291                            11,943 (+8,289)
29       RoCa                         804,905 (-14,386) Gained 137,902    

Credits over 7 days = 143,703 

Latest League Table here Most of the Up/down positions are wrong but I'm not faffing about with it again!

[Timby]

Well done Mike on producing the great running stats!

No doubt Tim will get those rarest of rare Hobnobs off to you in the mornings post ??

[UBT - Terry]

Yeah i'm with Timby nice 1  8)

[Rockinfroggi]

Thanks for all the updates Mike, much appreciated.


Gary.

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

Well done to all, hopefully some will stick at it to get those last credits we need, if not well it won't be too long now anyway.

Thread now unstickied

Edit: its also god to see our other projects did not really suffer too much at all

[UBT - Mikee]

Thanks for all the updates Mike, much appreciated.


Gary.

Thanks all. Glad they were of interest.

[UBT-mark3346]

Good job!  :occasion5:

[UBT - Mikee]

QMC PROGRESS (Endex +1)

Stats will be updated occasionally from now on.
(Just had a bit of time before Doctor Who started!)

It seems we haven't slowed down at all - or is everyone just running down their stockpile?

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UK position as at 17:45 28th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,927 (199,627)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   838,300                            

Total gain of 161,758

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World position as at 17:45 28th April 2007    Difference                  RAC               

25       Nordlichter                  857,165 ( 18,865) Gained  49,886   
26       The Knights Who Say Ni!      852,063 ( 13,763) Gained 113,703
27       BOINC.BE                     844,847 (  6,547) Gained 142,261  
28       UK BOINC TEAM                838,300                            12,620 (+8,966)
29       RoCa                         805,381 (-32,919) Gained 156,435    

Credits over 9 days = 162,712 

[UBT - Mikee]

No stats today but to make up for it...

[UBT - Mikee]

QMC PROGRESS (Endex +3)

I dunno - miss out a couple of days and we go up 3 world places! Russia weren't even in the running last time!

We have now acehieved 53% of the required amount to catch up with BOINC@Hull. That all you say? Well let's put it another way - in 10 days we've increased the total credits by 29% - that's an increase of nearly 1/3 in ten days of the TOTAL TIME QMC has been running - that's one helluva rise!

Daily output graph is showing a decrease which is to be expected but it's not going down as quick as others have once a crunch has finished which is great.

Anyway, we should catch Nordlicher (again) in a few hours. Then it's a bit of a slog to AMD Users.

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UK position as at 19:00 30th April 2007         Difference

1      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,986 (166,629)     
2      UK BOINC TEAM                   871,357                            

Total gain of 194,756

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World position as at 19:00 30th April 2007    Difference                  RAC               

23       AMD Users                    946,977 ( 75,818) Gained 163,443
24       Nordlichter                  873,159 (  1,802) Gained  66,949 
25       UK BOINC TEAM                871,357                           13,007 (+9,353)
26       Russia                       864,734 (- 6,623) Gained 176,716
27       The Knights Who Say Ni!      861,387 (- 9,970) Gained 137,436
28       BOINC.BE                     848,703 (-22,654) Gained 171,462  

    

Credits over 10ish days = 195,769 

[UBT - NyeD]

We have now acehieved 53% of the required amount to catch up with BOINC@Hull. That all you say? Well let's put it another way - in 10 days we've increased the total credits by 29% - that's an increase of nearly 1/3 in ten days of the TOTAL TIME QMC has been running - that's one helluva rise!

Well done everyone, a great effort  :D

And thanks again to Mike for the continued updates. :thumbright:

[Timby]

Just a heads up on this project, I have run out of work on some of my PC's, looking at the message log on the Boinc manager it says there is work but my PC has insufficient memory!!!!!!  I have WU's on all PC's that are in excess of 50hrs so unless there is only the later WU's available I will be stopping QMC shortly.

[Rockinfroggi]

Most of mine are between 20 and 40 hours but I do have one waiting to start at 74 hours  :shock:

I'll keep slogging away as long as there is work.


Gary.

[UBT - Mikee]

QMC PROGRESS (Endex +7)

For graphs - see above post.

As to be expected, output has dropped over the week, but excellent progress is still being made in that we're still producing nearly 3 times what we were before the crunch and we should hit 1/4 million over the 16 days later today.

Nordlichter are proving to be a right pain to overtake in that there is at least one person over there who only outputs once a week - but does it in style with around 30,000 a go!

BOINC@Hull have virtually switched off - producing only 100 in the last 10 days and are dropping down the World position chart to meet us!

If your main project is usually SETI now's as good a time as any to temporarily switch over as it seems they won't be back on-line until Monday at the earliest.

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UK position as at 11:10 5th May 2007           Difference

1(21)      BOINC@Hull                    1,037,986 (116,525)     
2(25)      UK BOINC TEAM                   921,461                            

Total gain of 244,860

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World position as at 11:10 5th May 2007      Difference                  RAC               

23       AMD Users                    968,305 ( 46,844) Gained 192,417
24       Nordlichter                  944,250 ( 22,789) Gained  45,962 
25       UK BOINC TEAM                921,461                           12,314 (+9,353)
26       The Knights Who Say Ni!      881,106 (-40,355) Gained 167,871
27       Russia                       875,262 (-46,199) Gained 216,292

Credits over 16ish days = 245,873 

[Rockinfroggi]

There are a few of us who suddenly went deaf when the end of crunch whistle was blown  :?


Quiet Mildmannered Crunching Frog

[UBT - Mikee]

I just go with the flow - when it suits me anyway!

Today I am mostly crunching QMC with a bit of PrimeGrid thrown in

[ajh]

Yep, still keeping going on QMC but I have fired a few other projects back up as well.

[UBT - Rick Horn]

I`m still running QMC too, mainly because you get `instant credit`, and it`s quite generous.

[UBT - Terry]

I`m still running QMC too, mainly because you get `instant credit`, and it`s quite generous.

Yeah same as that better credits than some projects i quite like it just doing this ABC, Neuron and CPDN with the odd bit of Zivis