A Bit of Fun

The UK BOINC Team "Crunches"


To crunch or not to crunch? - that is the question !!
The "Crunch sessions" involve nothing more than allowing your PC to earn credits for specific BOINC projects, (as nominated by the Team), by adjusting your BOINC client software. This usually happens a few times a year as the Team is keen to generate increased participation in BOINC. We have found that one way of achieving this is by developing a "Team spirit", that makes members feel as though they are part of something bigger !!

By the way - you can join in, without being a member of our Team - the Crunch is free to anyone to join in !!
And at the end of the period, we publish our Team results, so that you can see how effective we've been in helping the chosen project....!

What is a "Crunch"?
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The purpose of the Crunch is to have just a little bit of fun!
Basically, we ask team members to voluntarily dedicate themselves to a "Crunch" whereby as many of the team members dedicate their "PC crunching power" to just one (or more) chosen projects for a specific period of time.

We first tried this at the end of February 2006: many members accepted the challenge and crunched solely for SETI@home for a weekend. The results were spectacular - our daily credit of work returned to SETI went up by around 37% - a fantastic result.

(Within BOINC Manager, you can manually disable projects and hence crunch just for a chosen project for a period of time that you choose - it's this function that you can use to join in with our "Crunch").

So, all we ask that you consider is whether you can spare a few hours to participate in the "Crunch"

These are the results of the previous Crunches we've already held.

** Click here details on our WCG Crunch (WCG) **
** Click here details on our Mega-Mini-Summer Crunch (Rosetta) **
** Click here to view information about the 1st Crunchathon **
** Click here to view results from the 4th Weekend Crunch (XtremLab) **
** Click here to view results from the 3rd Weekend Crunch (World Community Grid) **
** Click here to view results from the 2nd Weekend Crunch (Einstein/Rosetta) **
** Click here to view results from our 1st Weekend Crunch (SETI) **

Instructions if you do want to take part:
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1) Sometime (two or three days before the START date), make sure you are already a member of the chosen project - visit our website to see what's been chosen by the team members.

2) Then set all your other projects to "No new work" as well as "suspending" them from actually doing any "crunching" during the specified period.
3) Set the chosen project as the only one able to download any new work.

4) On/after the END date, you can switch each of your other projects back to "Allow new work" and "Resume".
If you need further help or you're not sure, please feel free to get in touch via the Team forum, where specific instructions concerning these "Crunches" are covered in the section named "Announcements"

BTW: You don't *have* to participate - if you crunch for a different project(s), then you need do nothing more. If you crunch for another project, then you may wish to get involved or not, depending on your mood. There's no need to register your participation.

There's no obligation - it's just a bit of fun to see if we can "pull together" just for a while.
In future months, we'll be featuring other projects.
If Team members would like to vote for a project to feature in a Crunch - please see the Team forum.

All comments/suggestions welcome !
send the team founder an email

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