This month I included projects that only give work once in a while, we are low in the standings on them so if they are voted we run all 4 of them and run the second place project as a backup when the 4 don't give us work.



And once again, don't forget to run Depspid for your bonus points.

Voting will end 29 days from this post.

For those of you who don't know about the 4 projects in choice 1, I personally run all 4 of them on a lot of my rigs so heres a little summary of them:

BURP - Graphics rendering; currently still has over 215,000 wus from it's last big work input from several months ago (well over 1M wus at it's peak) so get them while there here! The wus range in size, but my personal experience is that it used to slow my PC down considerable (must have been a lot of I/O writes or something, although I honestly never checked). Since I only run it on my "dedicated" crunchers now I don't know if this has been fixed or not yet.

LHC - particle acceleration; nice project, currently has a little more steady work than previously (it had no work for the longest time as it was relocated/changed maintainers), although we're still talking only a handful of days a month here.

Pirates - now called Primates (?); does screensaver testing currently, very rare to get work from this one - I've been running it full time on at least 30 PCs for well over a year and still only have 5300 credits...

RALPH - Rosetta ALPHa project (i.e. protein prediction stuff); occassional work

I also read last year that LHC should have a steady flow of work this summer.

They are a good bunch of projects, the 4 smaller projects have sporadic work though, I tried Burp and was surprised to find that if you run it with other projects it runs in high priority all the time because of its very short deadlines, did anyone else notice this too? I also found some very good desktop images on the Burp site that the project has rendered

I also noticed BURP has a short deadline, but because of the deficit it'll run a unit then allow other projects to run units before it downloads another.

It's usually in the 24-36 hour range for deadline, so I usually let longterm debt take care of this problem as well...

LHC's site has been the last few days but are still processing wus. I don't know if their supposed lawsuite has anything to do with it.
http://www.lhcdefense.org/

I was reading the above site and its a bit heavy, some scientists believe that black holes can be created in the collider and they will be uncontrollable and the world could be sucked into oblivion ! If I dont wake up in the morning I can blame the Swiss

Not many voters so far, maybe there will be a mad rush at the end of the month

I believe they throttle it to something like a 20 or 30 wu a day limit. It has a very high user demand. I've yet to get enough for a full day's work.

I have been running all the small projects in this poll and when I ran Pirates a message came up



I checked on their forums and they are currently testing their workunits on the 6.x series of Boinc

I think 6.x is too risky to run at the moment so if the smaller projects are chosen in the poll I will skip the Pirate project

Most of my systems are running v6.x of Boinc.
Whatever team decides.

I think we'll go with voluntary on Pirates, if you want to run v6 and Pirates then by all means do so, if not just run the other projects.

I have an old AMD Sempron that I was just going to run BURP on for next month on its own, I will upgrade the Sempron to 6.x and run BURP and Pirates on that rig

That is if they are picked for PotM

You may want to include LHC and RALPH, those two projects may not have enough work.

I will stick them on as well

I went with Sudoku too. It needs a boost, since it has the lowest team rank. I like BURP, so I'll run that regardless, but I've only been getting a couple from ralph and I keep getting lhc workunits that are only a couple seconds to a minute long and aren't worth any credits. I'm not on Pirates yet, but if we crunch the first four, I'll join it. It'll be my 50th project I've joined!

It looks like the small projects are gonna win the day but I wonder what will come second

I like RCN this time around.

I can't decide which to pick

So I'm going to run all of them

I'll be a few days behind, spring cleaning time got to get rid of the winter dust bunnies.
I can hear at one fan struggling

Me too. Speedfan has jumped another degree this past week, 2 since last cleaning. It could be the warmer weather, but it's time anyway. It was before Christmas when I hoovered it last.

POTM RAC'S

RALPH PIRATES

LHC BURP

Good news for Pirates crunchers, they are once again accepting boinc 5.x versions for crunching, they were just doing a short test run on the 6.x version

Lets just hope we get some work from them

Hey guys. Are we going with 'Sudoku' this month?