Hello,

there will be a week-long challenge (A), already 14 teams signed up.

I: WU availability:

Can the SETI admins please check if there will be enough WUs available for the challenge time ?
(Or mods: can you contact the admin with this or move my post to an appropriate section? Merci)


II. BOINC users: please participate
- 1. tell your teamfounder to join the challenge on boincstats
- 2. the users just have to crunch the WUs in that time period. nothing more


Erkan

(A) http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/853

12h since the challenge started:

3412 users from 17 teams are participating

current top5 teams are:
#1 SETI.USA
#2 GPU Users Group
#3 SETI.Germany
#4 Gridcoin
#5 L'Alliance Francophone

"heat your home"?

That's what my machines do in the winter.

1 more machine and it'll be complete computer heating except the -5 and below Celsius days.

How does the challenge tell if the team members actually heated their homes with only computers?

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I have no electrical ovens in my house, and use two heatpumps and a nice fireplace for heating. I only run seti in the winter half and the computer heats the room and surroundings. I do not have sufficent cooling for the second GPU (they will be too narrow) but on extra cold days I can open the cabinet and put the extra GPU in. My power amplifiers is a 250W monster that works as a oven in the livingroom.

Living far north one does not pay for cooling but heating... (electricity is anyway quite cheap here).

A electric oven is the ultimate waste of high energy, nice to do something useful on the way instead.

1 day left in this challenge. Currently 5478 users from 18 teams are participating...

How will the top5 teams list be then ?

now:
#1 SETI.USA
#2 GPU Users Group
#3 SETI.Germany
#4 Gridcoin
#5 L'Alliance Francophone

The same.
Not too much of a challenge when all membes of every team are entered by default.
If each and every team member had to get off their asrse and register, THAT might be a challenge then.
The GPUUG has more ACTIVE members than many teams out there.

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