Canada has been entered in the Christmas Race 2008 as requested!

This WCG team challenge runs from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24, 2008.

Last year we were in a see-saw battle for first place with the Dutch Power Cows. The Cows managed to win the challenge over a weekend when our business and institutional computers were shut down.

Last year's results:

1. Dutch Power Cows 16,549,567
2. Canada 16,345,827
3. Rechenkraft.net 12,684,111
4. Special: Off-Topic 7,416,338
5. Christians 5,724,520

The SEXY Canadian Beavers will kill those cows this year!!!

Sorry guys that I have been AWOL with the US NAVY team, our team has not entered the WCG challenge so would anyone be upset if I put a box on your team for the race?

I dont speek for everyone but as off me. your more then welcome to join the race.

Since when has anyone complained about getting more credits for the team? I'd be glad to have you on board anyway...

Any help is appreciated, indeed. That'll be my first race, I'm happy to be on board.

As some of you know I am a US NAVY team cruncher but I used to crunch for Canada's PotM all the time until we started our own PotM, so its good to be back helping you guys again even for a little while

Is it me being at odds, or has WCG changed it's credit policy? I currently have 20 rigs running WCG with only 1 X2 using 1 core as the other is running the last seti ap wu, which should be complete by 08:00 Mon morning. That's 33 cores crunching away merrily & I've noticed that since switching over to WCG, I'm only averaging about 4k per day.

Travelling to London later this morning to complete 2 more rigs (both X2's) & hopefully a better board to upgrade server, & then hopefully by Sun night have another rig ready using the board/cpu & ram from current server.

Including the above, will have a total of 46 cores in farm, but 2 won't be active until owners return from vacation in about 10 days time. If the credit for WCG is normal, then all I can say is that I've been spoilt by Ramsey/3x1/ABC

Don't panic, I'm in for the duration regardless

WCG has always been a little lower than "normal". They had their own credit system prior to migrating to the BOINC world and they haven't kept up with the "credit creep" of other projects. Regardless, I think their science is among the best of the projects out there and that's why it's my #2 project. As such, I've ensured all my hosts are attached to it and raised my resource share to 1000 in preparation for the Christmas Race. I'm still attached to my current apps I have goals for, but at least it has a better than fighting chance of getting some work on each box. If the race is tight I'll switch them to full throttle to give us a bit more of a boost.

Mine are all actively crunching WCG. It's just that when I only had 10 cores, it seemed like I was hitting between 5/7k per day & now with 44 currently active, I'm only hitting 4k. That works out at 91 per core per day - That's bad

Permission to come aboard .......... Granted!
Welcome and just in time for Christmas. lol
But I miss your old !

Check out http://boincstats.com/stats/project_cpcs.php for project comparisions. The second chart is more accurate as it compares averages of the same computer on the different projects. Keep in mind some of the stats are a little wacky due to odd credit grantings in the past little while (Ramsey or FreeHAL anyone?). You'll see it's one of the lowest credit granting projects out there.

One thing to keep in mind with WCG is to check out how much pending credit you've got - with a lot of people "stocking up" for the race a lot of wus will sit in pending until they report their results. I only switched over most of my farm yesterday and I have just under 1000 BOINC credits pending and most of my hosts haven't reported any of their wus yet.

The race is now begun!

Well, not really, but in 7 hours it will, so the WUs that are on the way right now should get points actually granted into the race.

Let's go for a 25-day WCG boost!

Let's make Santa goes ''Oh Oh Oh Canada!''

I believe points will only be granted if the WUs are submitted after tonight's update (Midnight GMT). That's when the race starts.

BB

Is it submission time or credit granting time that's important? I always thought it was the time the last wu was uploaded in a task and credit was granted that counted, not when a particular wu was reported.

Well, the WUs I.m crunching will finish after the midnight GMT update, that's why I think they'll count in the race.

I got 4 WUs of 8-10 hours, approximately. I think WCG has a lot of these 8-12 hour WUs, right?

Still, I'm just guessing.

Yes, as long as they finish after midnight GMT I'm sure they'll count.

Go raibh maith agat Pawly

Ok am slinging some boxes on WCG tonight, it wont be a huge total in credit but every little counts

It sure does, considering we're less than 100K ahead from a team that has twice the members we have.

Last update: they took the lead by 33K!

Hope we'll bounce back!

I've thrown a few more cores on WCG now so hopefully that'll make a bit of difference.

You're the man!

Ooops, I miscounted..... with the 3 new X2's added last weekend..total now stands at 50 (if P4HT's count as 2)..

1x X4, 15x X2's, 12x X1's & 2x P4HT's.

Going back down to London at the weekend, looking for new server board & will also pick up another X2. If successful in getting the board I want, will also get another quad & have them built by Sun night giving 10 days of the race for them.

We seem to be going downhill and fast. Here's the stats so far.


L'Alliance Francophone 9,713,858
Canada 9,114,797
Dutch Power Cows 7,868,991

I think we'll have to dock you half a core each for those P4HT's to put you at 49. You need some incentive to buy hardware don't you?