BOINC Pentathlon

[crille]

Dear members of XtremeSystems,

From the 5th to 19th May 2010 SETI.Germany is arranging a completely new competition: the BOINC Pentathlon. This new cross-project competition is inspired by the Pentathlon of the ancient world.

Like in the ancient Greece we'll also perform this BOINC Pentathlon by running 5 different disciplines. This means within 2 weeks the participants will need to crunch 5 different projects, each for 5 days.

Each team that wants to participate in the BOINC Pentathlon needs to sign up here (possible until 1st of May).

More information regarding the BOINC Pentathlon can be found here.

Your participation is very much appreciated.
crille

[crille]

No reply here. Anyhow, I hope you'll participate!

[=[PULSAR]=]

Sounds interesting, no postings on what projects are going to be ran?

[Paladin]

The project with the largest number of suggestions will be crunched...

From reading the link, it's a little upside down -- they wont disclose the projects until 7 days prior to the start. This also only leaves 2 days to register for groups that want to see the "pig in the poke" before committing.

[crille]

Hi Paladin!

You're right. The registration will close on /05/01, the first project will start on /05/05. We can't announce the first project a week before it starts, because the registration will still be open. That's something, we didn't consider.
There are 2 possilbe solutions: 1. the first project doesn't have long pendings 2. the first project will start on /05/07.

Nevertheless, I hope you'll sign up like these teams did so far...

Best regards from germany
crille

[crille]

SETI.Germany continues it's new invented challenge and invites all BOINC-Teams to participate in the 2nd BOINC-Pentathlon, following the ideals of the ancient Pentathlon.

It will start May the 5th 2011 (00:00 UTC) and will end May the 18th 2011 (23:59 UTC).

Like in the ancient Greece, the Pentathlon will be held in 5 disciplines. That means within 14 days the participants will have to crunch 5 different projects, all of them for a period of 5 days. That said, you can easily see that some projects will have to be crunched at the same time.

Each team that would like to participate has to sign up until April the 27th. Like in the last year the favourites in the different disciplines can be chosen by every team on their own. The project that gaines the most voices will be crunched.

A list of the projects that can be chosen from can be found here, but you can also suggest other projects. (But before suggesting other projects, please check if the project and/or their servers would be able to withstand the combined BOINC forces. We do not want to bring any project server down.)

More information can be found here.
Teams can sign up here.

In the last year it was very exciting until the end.

crille
SETI.Germany