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8/15 - 8/29 - SETI-Wow Event -
This one is obviously not going to happen anymore. :-(

The hosts thought about bringing the final Wow!-Event forward into the last two weeks of March, but then dropped the idea in face of the project's current struggles. (Source, in German. They designated the last two weeks as an internal event of their team though.)
 

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This one is obviously not going to happen anymore. :-(

The hosts thought about bringing the final Wow!-Event forward into the last two weeks of March, but then dropped the idea in face of the project's current struggles. (Source, in German. They designated the last two weeks as an internal event of their team though.)
I'm struggling getting new task from seti as well. Sad days ahead.
 

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For your copying and pasting pleasure:

January
  • 1/14 - 1/19 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Good Riddance 2020! Challenge (CPUs: PPS-DIV, 5 days)

February
  • 2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Tour de Primes (CPUs and GPUs, whole month)

March
  • 3/14 - 3/24 (12:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Sier"pi"nski's Birthday Challenge (CPUs: SoB-LLR, 10 days)

April
  • 4/11 - 4/14 (18:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Yuri's Night Challenge (GPUs and CPUs: WW, 3 days)

May

June
  • 6/12 - 6/17 (13:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - PrimeGrid's 16th Birthday Challenge (CPUs: ESP-LLR, 5 days)

July
  • 7/17 - 7/20 (22:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - World Emoji Day Challenge (GPUs and CPUs: GFN-17-Low, 3 days)

August
  • 8/12 - 8/22 (20:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Once In a Blue Moon Challenge (CPUs: PSP-LLR, 10 days)

September

October

  • 10/21 - 10/28 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Martin Gardner's Birthday Challenge (CPUs: GCW-LLR, 7 days)

November
  • 11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid - 17th Birthday Challenge (7 days)
  • 11/23 - 11/26 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Euler's Constant Challenge (GPUs: AP27, 3 days)

December
  • (tentative) TeAm AnandTech's 16th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
  • 12/7 - 12/17 (07:00 UTC) PrimeGrid - Geminids Shower Challenge (GPUs: GFN-21, GFN-22, DYFL, 10 days)
 
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There is a schedule up for the 2022 PrimeGrid challenge season:
https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2022_challenge.php
(These schedules always say that they are tentative, but never how tentative.)

The 8th challenge overlaps with the WCG Birthday challenge (Nov 16–23, 00:00UTC) and its bunkering period.

Overlap with the Pentathlon (May 5–19, 00:00UTC) was avoided though, as usual.
 

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Here is a copy of the previous calendar for future reference.

== 2021 ==

January
1/14 - 1/19 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Good Riddance 2020! Challenge: PPS-DIV (5 days)
1/23 - 1/30 (12:00 UTC) Folding@home bigadv EOL 2nd Anniversary Challenge (7 days) - anandtech.com - hardforum.com

February
2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Tour de Primes (whole month)

March
3/14 - 3/24 (12:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Sier"pi"nski's Birthday Challenge: SoB-LLR (10 days)

April
4/4 - 4/11 (05:00 UTC) TeAm AnandTech's monthly challenge - World Community Grid
4/11 - 4/14 (18:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Yuri's Night Challenge: WW (3 days)

May
5/5 - 5/19 (00:00 UTC) XIIth BOINC Pentathlon (14 days)

June
6/12 - 6/17 (13:00 UTC) PrimeGrid's 16th Birthday Challenge: ESP-LLR (5 days)

July
7/17 - 7/20 (22:00 UTC) PrimeGrid World Emoji Day Challenge: GFN-17-Low (3 days)

August
8/12 - 8/22 (20:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Once In a Blue Moon Challenge: PSP-LLR (10 days)

September

October
10/21 - 10/28 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Martin Gardner's Birthday Challenge: GCW-LLR (7 days)

November
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 17th Birthday Challenge (7 days)
11/23 - 11/26 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Euler's Constant Challenge: AP27 (3 days)

December
12/1 - 1/1 (12:00 UTC) TeAm AnandTech's 16th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
12/7 - 12/17 (07:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Geminids Shower Challenge: GFN-21, GFN-22, DYFL (10 days)
 

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== 2022 ==

January
1/17 - 1/20 (17:17 UTC) PrimeGrid Heptadecagenarian Challenge: GFN-17-LOW, GFN-17-MEGA (3 days)
1/17 - 1/20 (17:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
1/23 - 1/30 (12:00 UTC) Folding@Home bigadv EOL 3rd Anniversary Challenge (7 days) - anandtech.com - hardforum.com

February
2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Tour de Primes
2/12 - 2/15 (08:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

March
3/21 - 3/26 (03:21 UTC) PrimeGrid World Water Day Challenge: 321-LLR (5 days)

April

May
5/2 - 5/5 (10:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
5/5 - 5/19 (00:00 UTC) XIIIth BOINC Pentathlon (14 days)
5/25 - 5/30 (18:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Geek Pride Day Challenge: GFN-19 (5 days)

June
6/2 - 6/8 (16:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
6/17 - 6/22 (13:00 UTC) PrimeGrid M.C. Escher's Birthday Challenge: SR5-LLR (5 days)

July
7/22 - 7/25 (22:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Pi Approximation Day Challenge: PPS-LLR (3 days)

August
8/16 - 8/20 (23:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

September
9/17 - 9/20 (20:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Riemann's Birthday Challenge: WW (3 days)

October
10/4 - 10/11 (12:00 UTC) PrimeGrid World Space Week Challenge: TRP-LLR (7 days)

November
11/1 - 11/11 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Prime Meridian Day Challenge: CUL-LLR, WOO-LLR (10 days)
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 18th Birthday Challenge (7 days)
11/21 - 11/24 (12:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

December
12/1 - 01/1 (12:00 UTC) (tentative) TeAm AnandTech's 17th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
12/7 - 12/17 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Great Internet Fermat Prime Search Challenge: GFN-21, GFN-22, DYFL (10 days)


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Edit January 21: link to Tour de Primes message board
 
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November
11/1 - 11/11 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Prime Meridian Day Challenge: CUL-LLR, WOO-LLR (10 days)
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 18th Birthday Challenge (7 days)
11/21 - 11/24 (12:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
The 18th Birthday will be skipped, or perhaps just delayed:
https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/c...unity-Grid-18th-Birthday-Challenge-faellt-aus

Dear fellow crunchers,

16 November 2022 marks the 18th anniversary of the World Community Grid going live. Ever since the project's 5th birthday in 2009, SETI.Germany has celebrated this occasion with the annual World Community Grid Birthday Challenge. Unfortunately, this tradition will take a break this year.

The project has still not been officially restarted after the handover from IBM to Krembil Research Institute and the resulting longer break for moving to a new server infrastructure, and is currently in test mode. At this time, neither a continuous task availability nor a constant accessibility of the project website is guaranteed, and often the network bandwidth seems to be at capacity. Although there has been some improvement in the last few weeks, we do not feel that running a challenge under these circumstances would be a good idea, as it would probably neither bring much joy to the participants nor provide the project team with any additional insight.

The 18th Birthday Challenge will therefore not take place.

We hope that the project will soon be able to fix its problems and officially resume normal operation. Maybe there will be an opportunity for a delayed challenge to celebrate the project's 18th birthday, otherwise the tradition can perhaps be revived for the 19th birthday.
 
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For future reference:

2022

January
1/17 - 1/20 (17:17 UTC) PrimeGrid Heptadecagenarian Challenge: GFN-17-LOW, GFN-17-MEGA (3 days) [1st]
1/17 - 1/20 (17:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
1/23 - 1/30 (12:00 UTC) Folding@Home bigadv EOL 3rd Anniversary Challenge (7 days) [2nd] - anandtech.com - hardforum.com

February
2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Tour de Primes
2/12 - 2/15 (08:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

March
3/21 - 3/26 (03:21 UTC) PrimeGrid World Water Day Challenge: 321-LLR (5 days) [2nd]

April

May

5/2 - 5/5 (10:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
5/5 - 5/19 (00:00 UTC) XIIIth BOINC Pentathlon (14 days) [1st in each of the disciplines]
5/25 - 5/30 (18:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Geek Pride Day Challenge: GFN-19 (5 days) [1st]

June
6/2 - 6/8 (16:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint
6/17 - 6/22 (13:00 UTC) PrimeGrid M.C. Escher's Birthday Challenge: SR5-LLR (5 days) [2nd]

July
7/22 - 7/25 (22:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Pi Approximation Day Challenge: PPS-LLR (3 days) [1st]

August
8/16 - 8/20 (23:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

September
9/17 - 9/20 (20:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Riemann's Birthday Challenge: WW (3 days) [1st]

October
10/4 - 10/11 (12:00 UTC) PrimeGrid World Space Week Challenge: TRP-LLR (7 days) [1st]

November
11/1 - 11/11 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Prime Meridian Day Challenge: CUL-LLR, WOO-LLR (10 days) [1st]
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 18th Birthday Challenge (7 days) - canceled
11/21 - 11/24 (12:00 UTC) Boinc Games sprint

December
12/1 - 01/1 (12:00 UTC) TeAm AnandTech's 17th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race - deferred to January 2023
12/7 - 12/17 (05:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Great Internet Fermat Prime Search Challenge: GFN-21, GFN-22, DYFL (10 days) [1st]
 

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(Sources: PrimeGrid, Boinc Games, SETI.Germany)

2023

January
1/1 - 1/21 (12:00 UTC) TeAm AnandTech's Folding@Home New Year's Race (20 days) [Mark's Marauders 3,564 M, Moonshot Gang 3,451 M]
1/22 - 1/25 (12:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "A Prime Chinese New Year" challenge (PPS-Mega and GFN-17, 3 days) [1st]
1/26 - 2/2 Folding@Home bigadv EOL 4th Anniversary challenge between [H]ard|OCP and TeAm AnandTech (7 days) [[H] 3,486 M, TAAT 2,273 M]
1/27 - 1/29 (01:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Extreme Sports Winter X Games" sprint (SRBase, 2 days) [3rd]

February
2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Tour de Primes (28 days) [9th by prime count, 12th by score]
2/15 - 2/19 (14:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Skiing Alpine World Ski Championships" sprint (SiDock, 4 days) [2nd]

March
3/8 - 3/9 (15:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "International Women's Day" challenge (SGS-LLR, 1 day) [1st]

April
4/6 - 4/9 (12:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Golf Masters" sprint (MilkyWay, 3 days) [1st]
4/16 - 4/23 (16:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Gotthold Eisenstein's Birthday" challenge (PSP-LLR, 7 days) [1st]

May
5/5 - 5/19 (00:00 UTC) XIVth BOINC Pentathlon (14 days) [2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st -> 1st]

June
6/19 - 6/24 (20:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Blaise Pascal's Birthday" challenge (321-LLR, 5 days) [1st]

July
7/8 - 7/15 (21:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Math 2.0 Day" challenge (CW-Sieve, 7 days) [1st]
7/10 - 7/16 (20:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Tennis Wimbledon" sprint (NumberFields, 6 days) [2nd]

August
8/15 - 8/18 (02:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Chant at the Moon Day Challenge" (AP-27, 3 days) [1st]
8/16 - 8/20 (05:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Sailing World Championships" sprint (Asteroids, 4 days) [3rd]

September
9/13 - 9/23 (11:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "World Peace Day" challenge (SoB-LLR, 10 days) [1st]

October
10/24 - 10/28 (19:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Rugby World Cup" sprint (Universe, 4 days) [3rd]
10/31 - 11/5 (13:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Christmas" challenge because oct31 = dec25 (ESP-LLR, 5 days) [1st]

November
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 19th Birthday Challenge (7 days) — canceled

December
12/10 - 12/20 (19:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Chris Caldwell Honorary Challenge" (GFN-18/19/20, 10 days) [1st]
 
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(Please cross-check. Sources: PrimeGrid, Boinc Games, SETI.Germany)

2024

January
1/1 - 2/1 (06:00 UTC) TeAm AnandTech's Folding@Home New Year's Race (31 days)
1/23 - 1/26 (01:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "Hilbert's Birthday" challenge (PPSE-LLR, 3 days)
1/24 - 1/31 (12:00 UTC) 5th Anniversary FAH bigadv eol anniversary challenge (7 days)

February
2/1 - 3/1 (00:00 UTC) PrimeGrid Tour de Primes (29 days)
2/10 - 2/13 (12:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Super Bowl" sprint (3 days)

March
3/20 - 3/25 (03:14 UTC) PrimeGrid "`Einstein´ Anniversary" challenge (ESP-LLR, 5 days)

April
4/5 - 4/9 (02:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Final Four" sprint (4 days)
4/14 - 4/21 (12:14 UTC) PrimeGrid "JUICE's Birthday" challenge (TRP-LLR, 7 days)

May
5/5 - 5/19 (00:00 UTC) XVth BOINC Pentathlon (14 days)

June
6/4 - 6/9 (18:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Canadian Grand Prix" sprint (5 days)
6/12 - 6/19 (19:00 UTC) "PrimeGrid's 19th Birthday" challenge (GFN-19, 7 days)

July
7/15 - 7/18 (08:00 UTC) Boinc Games "MLB All-Star" sprint (3 days)

August
tentative: 8/8 - 8/13 (08:08 UTC) PrimeGrid "International Cat Day" challenge (Factorial Primorial, 5 days)

September
9/22 - 9/29 (12:44 UTC) PrimeGrid "Autumnal Equinox" challenge (GCW-LLR, 7 days)

October
10/25 - 10/30 (06:12 UTC) PrimeGrid "Cascade Day" challenge (SR5-LLR, 5 days)
10/27 - 11/01 (20:00 UTC) Boinc Games "World Series" sprint (5 days)

November
11/13 - 11/20 (07:00 UTC) PrimeGrid "World Kindness Day" challenge (PSP-LLR, 7 days)
11/16 - 11/23 (00:00 UTC) World Community Grid 20th Birthday Challenge (7 days) — probably not happening

December
12/06 - 12/08 (22:00 UTC) Boinc Games "Abu Dhabi Grand Prix" sprint (2 days)
12/10 - 12/20 (18:15 UTC) PrimeGrid "Ada Lovelace's Birthday" challenge (GFN-21, 10 days)
 
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