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.
I've just had this invitation to join the above Challenge, if anyone is interested ? I've joined the team to this challenge, so the rest is up to you - just crunch some WCG WU's during the period and your credits will be included on our teams total during the challenge
For Nov 16th to Nov 22th 2015 SETI.Germany is arranging a challenge at World Community Grid on the occasion of the grids 11th birthday:
We would like to invite UK BOINC Team to participate in the challenge and hope that your team and many members of your team will be joining and participating this event.
Then just go to BOINC Manager and "Add" the WCG project. Simples
edit: The Cruncathon lasts just ONE week, from Monday 16th Nov until the following Sunday. Some WCG work units are quite long, so it might be a good idea to start 2-3 days before hand, in order to build up a head of steam !!
regards
Tim
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UBT - Rick Horn wrote:Yes, count me in. It`s some time since I did any WCG.
Hi Rick
Thanks for your support as well.
I've just done a few WCG WU's as I've not done any for a while either...and they all crunched very nicely...so, I'll be putting a wee bit of effort into WCG during the time-frame of the Crunchathon
I did a quick "direct email" via the WCG website over the weekend. Sadly, only approx 150 of the nearly 500 members "allow" Founders to contact them. So, if you didn't receive the email, then feel free to change your preferences on your WCG account
The idea of the email was to hopefully get a few more members involved, on the Crunchathon and/or on the forum.
Will have to see how it pans out - it's a big shame that the standard BOINC project software doesn't allow Founders to contact their members directly....as it would help, I think, if people could be given regular updates on specific projects as to what's going on, within the team and relating to the team participation on the project.
Just over a week to go to the WCG 11th birthday Crunch !!
As mentioned I've already signed the team up to it, so to get involved all you need do is crunch some WCG workunits, between the aforementioned dates....and any credits you earn will automatically be included in the stats
I'm going to be starting "early", maybe around this coming Thursday (12th) so, that we can get a good start !!
regards
Tim
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Please join in, if you can - it would be nice if we can do some "good" on the WCG project, as it's one of the few projects that actually can bring benefits to humankind, as most of the sub-projects relate to resolving medical conditions.
EDIT: The latest stats for this challenge can be found here:
