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[ZipSpeed]

Just today we passed Sweden in the team's list and are now #101.
Only two more rungs to climb to be among the top-99!

Great job TeAm!

 

[wayliff]

Just today we passed Sweden in the team's list and are now #101.
Only two more rungs to climb to be among the top-99!

Awesome - congrats TA!

 

[petrusbroder]

Only 73K points more than the TeAm is #100!

 

[petrusbroder]

30K points until rank 100!
It will be today!

 

[petrusbroder]

We have reached our goal: to be among the top-100. Congrats all!
I am taking a break for the primeGrid race and will then crunch WCG until the Seti-Gauntlet.
After the Seti-Gauntlet I'll see what is needed - we should get a healthy margin to those teams who are following us ...

 

[ZipSpeed]

I've been busy with packing for our move and haven't had much of a chance to track our progress. Great job TeAm!

Currently no Internet at home so the only access I have is through my iPhone. 3 rigs down as well so will take a PPD hit. In the meantime, the rest of my rigs will continue to build a lead in WCG.

 

[ZipSpeed]

So the upgrade that was suppose to happen back in early March is happening right now. I forgot to increase my work queue so hopefully it will come back on early!

Extended Outage: Upgrading Filesystem Software on April 5th from 14:45 UTC - 19:00 UTC

We will be installing the latest updates for the IBM General Parallel File System software that we use. During this time, the World Community Grid (BOINC) clients will not be able to upload or download files nor will they be able to report completed results or fetch new work.

The website and forums will be available during this work.

We apologize for the disruption.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Servers upgraded and back to normal. New batch of betas out too with a limited quanity of 1000. Managed to nab one.

 

[petrusbroder]

Since approx. 12 hours we are #99 when looking at the points and # 50 when looking at RAC.
#57 when looking at the past week's production and # 49 when looking at the past month's production.
Well done, TeAm!

Since I am travelling for the next 10 days (from tomorrow) I am switching my comps to seti@home for the Seti@Home Gauntlet.
Please consider to join, you have time to do that until April 15 - the Gauntlet starts April 16.

 

[ikachu]

Just joined the TeAm! Although I just have a single 4-core machine so I won't be affecting the numbers too much...

 

[blckgrffn]

Just joined the TeAm! Although I just have a single 4-core machine so I won't be affecting the numbers too much...

Welcome!

Every core is very much welcome here, and it's all done in the name of science

You'll still be earning some badges in no time, however! Each day you crunch, you are putting in four days of CPU time... if badges/achievements are important to you, I'd recommend choosing just one or two sub projects at a time. If you don't care so much, don't worry about it

Glad to have you on board :thumbsup:

 

[petrusbroder]

Don't say that ... each core counts. You can start with 2 cores (as I did) and soon you'll have 80 cores running ... this is fun and addictive! Makes also for great races ...

Very welcome!

 

[ZipSpeed]

Welcome to the team Ikachu! And congrats to everyone who helped move us to rank 99! Looks like there's quite a few opportunities this month for some movement too.

Still settling into our new home but I have my Internet services finally restored. The place is a freaking mess but hopefully I can get my three offline rigs crunching soon.

 

[wayliff]

For those people that like to collect WCG batches, here is a useful chart.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q210/Sekerob/WCGYearsPi1Project.png

It tells you when projects are estimated to be finished.
Based on the current projections, C4CW will end before others and possibly followed by HFCC.

 

[ZipSpeed]

For those people that like to collect WCG batches, here is a useful chart.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q210/Sekerob/WCGYearsPi1Project.png

It tells you when projects are estimated to be finished.
Based on the current projections, C4CW will end before others and possibly followed by HFCC.

Thanks for the heads up! Switching all my rigs on to Computing Clean Water and then Fight Childhood Cancer after.

 

[wayliff]

Thanks for the heads up! Switching all my rigs on to Computing Clean Water and then Fight Childhood Cancer after.

Here is the link to the WCG supplemental charts.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=18277

The one I posted above is also part of this list.

 

[ZipSpeed]

New batch of betas! Badge hunters better grab them while they're fresh!

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=32966

 

[ZipSpeed]

Computing for Sustainable Water project has officially launched today. A quick blurb from one of the scientists on the project:

Dear World Community Grid members,

Welcome to the Computing for Sustainable Water (CFSW) project. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Virginia in the United States. We will use the resources of the World Community Grid to assess how we might restore and sustain the health of the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the continental United States, covering over 64,000 square miles.

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed covers parts of six Eastern states and the District of Columbia, our nation’s capital, and is home to nearly 17 million persons. As the population of the watershed has increased over the years and become more urbanized, there has been great stress placed on the health of the Bay and its aquatic species. A principal cause of the stress is human activity including agricultural practices, land development, and population growth.

There have been many proposals put forward to reverse this trend and restore the health of the Bay, but we do not fully understand how these proposals might work individually or in combination in so large a region. So to understand how these proposals might work, we developed a large-scale simulation model of the Chesapeake Bay where we explore their potential impacts over a 20 year time horizon. The goal is to inform policy makers as to which proposals will be most effective. This understanding, we believe, will be easily transferred to other areas of the world where watersheds, catchments, bays, and river systems are under similar stress.

If you would like more information about this project, please join us on April 20, 2012 at noon, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, (16:00 UTC) for a live webcast to hear an overview of the Computing for Sustainable Water project. Details for the webcast may be found here http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=199.

We very much appreciate your participation in this project by the donation of spare capacity on your computer!

Sincerely,
The UVa Bay Game Team

And the badges:

 

[ZipSpeed]

Sometime during the weekend, the TeAm climbed to #98. In less than a day, looks like we'll move up another spot!

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the table, ZipSpeed!

 

[ZipSpeed]

Number 97! Another opportunity to move up another spot in less than a week.

The top 20 producers based on yesterday's data:

 

[Uppsala9496]

Thanks for the stats. Nice to see we are passing some teams.
Congrats everyone.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Rank #96! Rank #95 in approximately one week.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Crunching exclusively WCG on my main hex-core. Not using the GPUs for anything right now.

 

[petrusbroder]

Have added quite a few cores to WCG again. Not as much as before (we have already reached our first goal, to get among the top-100), but quite a few ...