Re: Formula BOINC 2025

Post by **rimmer66** » Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:52 pm

looks like we will win the second sprint ,

Post by **wbiz** » Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:32 am

rimmer66 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:52 pm looks like we will win the second sprint ,

Easily, nobody can catch us now.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:47 pm

Hi both

Looks like UBT did pretty well:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.p ... printid=28

Mind you: League 3 is made up of the weakest FB teams (from 2024) that have expressed a willingness to take part in the 2025 season.

And UBT might not do so well, once the mid-season promotions/relegations take place as the new Team for 2025, Atlantis, is doing pretty well in League 4. But then again they might be promoted to League 2, along with UBT, *IF* they continue on an upwards trajectory...AND assuming some teams in either of the higher leagues fail to support FB and they get relegated.

regards
Tim

Post by **wbiz** » Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:26 pm

With the existing members of League 2, we would have come 7th in the first sprint and 6th in the second which a fair position, we would be 7th in the overall L2 sprints but yes it probably will get tougher if the leagues are updated.

Difficult to tell where we would be at the moment in L2, there is a different spread of projects in different leagues, when we changed from one league to multiple leagues, my position in L2 was initially the same (6th) as the overall position was, I still trying to get my head round that, it is very counterintuitive.

I'm hoping einstein doesn't pop up in the sprints, its usually one of our weakest sprint projects.

We have a very wide spread of marathon projects which reduces risk of getting wiped out, this is pretty much my strategy at the moment, I've learnt from past mistakes it doesn't pay to put your eggs in only a few baskets.

We are 10th overall on boincgames out of 28 active teams, which is very good. None of our team did any tasks on their first sprint (milkyway), partly a mistake on my part, I meant to do one or two tasks just to get the bare minimum 200-ish points for the team and myself. This will probably cost us a couple of places shortly.

Post by **wbiz** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:07 am

Current sprint is NFS, ends on Monday 7th April 0700 UTC (0800 BST)

Post by **wbiz** » Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:44 am

wbiz wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:07 am Current sprint is NFS, ends on Monday 7th April 0700 UTC (0800 BST)

Team came first again!

Post by **wbiz** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 6:43 pm

Current sprint is Asteroids, finishes Sunday 13th April at 1700 UTC (1800 BST)

Post by **rimmer66** » Fri Apr 11, 2025 5:15 pm

looks like we will run away with this one as well .

Post by **wbiz** » Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:38 pm

rimmer66 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 5:15 pm looks like we will run away with this one as well .

Aye, we have now come first in all four sprints so far.

I struggled with this one, I eventually threw the kitchen sink at it, 62 cores 98 threads, I was doing ok for 24 hours or more, peaked at 2nd but then got overtaken many times.

Post by **wbiz** » Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:08 pm

Current sprint is Einstein which ends Sunday 20th April 19:00 UTC (20:00 BST).

Not one for me unfortunately.

Post by **wbiz** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:27 am

We came third in the last sprint but we are still a very comfortable first overall. Next sprint is the 1st May at 22:00 UTC (23:00 BST)

Post by **rimmer66** » Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:20 pm

lets hope its something you can crunch , we were a very close third.

Post by **wbiz** » Sun Apr 27, 2025 9:04 pm

rimmer66 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:20 pm lets hope its something you can crunch , we were a very close third.

Whoops! Normally my contribution to Einstein sprints make no difference, this time it may have done but I suspect if I'd joined in then TFF would have upped their games so the UBT result would be unaffected.

TBH I can't remember the exact reason for my aversion to Einstein, possibly the accumulation of it being predominantly GPU, ridiculously long tasks, two user validation, validations taking forever (just had one take 16 days!) and a non-standard website.

3 days out would have cost me some places on marathon projects so I only feel a little bit guilty