This thread is for discussion about the 2020 Pentathlon. I've sent team-wide messages on our top projects, hopefully most of you have received it at least once. Our participation depends on the survey results; I'll post that here and the discussion can continue at that time. PM me here or on almost any BOINC project if you have any questions.
2020 Pentathlon
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The results are in!
I was looking for something definitive, like 65-70% Yes to enter us, but this doesn't come close. It surprised me a little to see the No vote actually carried the majority. The Pentathlon requires a a lot of communication and willingness to juggle projects, and these numbers mean it's unlikely we could get a good result. Based on that I've decided not to enter us this year, and while I'm not ruling it out completely I'll be reluctant to enter us in any other event in the near future.
If I had it to do over I'd add some questions to get better detail on whether the No voters just didn't care for this particular event; maybe the duration or complexity was too much, or they just don't care about competition in general. If you voted no feel free to elaborate here if you want.
Thanks everyone who voted, I appreciate you taking the time. Now, it's time to.....CRUNCH ON!
Answer | Count | Gross percentage |
|---|---|---|
Yes! I love competition - let's go USA! (01) | 26 | 33.77% |
Yes, if there's a lot of team interest. (02) | 19 | 24.68% |
No, I'd rather keep crunching my preferred projects at my own pace and schedule. (03) | 30 | 38.96% |
I'm on a team? (04) | 2 | 2.60% |
Total(gross) | 77 | 100.00% |
I was looking for something definitive, like 65-70% Yes to enter us, but this doesn't come close. It surprised me a little to see the No vote actually carried the majority. The Pentathlon requires a a lot of communication and willingness to juggle projects, and these numbers mean it's unlikely we could get a good result. Based on that I've decided not to enter us this year, and while I'm not ruling it out completely I'll be reluctant to enter us in any other event in the near future.
If I had it to do over I'd add some questions to get better detail on whether the No voters just didn't care for this particular event; maybe the duration or complexity was too much, or they just don't care about competition in general. If you voted no feel free to elaborate here if you want.
Thanks everyone who voted, I appreciate you taking the time. Now, it's time to.....CRUNCH ON!
It's started! Even though we're not participating it's still fun following the stats and daily updates.
I voted no but only because I am new at this. I only started boinc back in march for seti. When seti shut down switched to Einstein and Universe. I joined the team only april 13th. I am still learning a lot, and figuring out how to get my computers dialed in. Plus some of my computers aren't mine. I moved back in with my mother to help take care of her (several severe medical and mobility issues). just getting her 2 desktops ready for boinc was a chore. opened them up so much dust and cobwebs I swear was a fire hazard. Not to mention fans burnt out or others still working but bearing beginning to go out. lucky all she uses them for is to go online and print out food recipes 
. otherwise would be fried already. so cleaned them up replaced couple fans. not to mention put on a better heat sink and repaste jobs. still trying to work out a couple other issues. then perhaps I will get some gpu cards for them. Also got a 10 year old Toshiba laptop and a couple old android phones that I now have a use for them. My real work horse though is my 2 year old Alienware 17 inch R4 laptop which has done over 90% of my credit. Luckily I already worked out extreme cooling measures for it so my nephew can play VR for hours on end. Needles to say I am competitive! its just right now I am still learning to swim and getting my hardware in order. Another factor is I just want to get some numbers up on these projects that I like. Some of you have been at this for over a decade, I am just out of the starting gate
. otherwise would be fried already. so cleaned them up replaced couple fans. not to mention put on a better heat sink and repaste jobs. still trying to work out a couple other issues. then perhaps I will get some gpu cards for them. Also got a 10 year old Toshiba laptop and a couple old android phones that I now have a use for them. My real work horse though is my 2 year old Alienware 17 inch R4 laptop which has done over 90% of my credit. Luckily I already worked out extreme cooling measures for it so my nephew can play VR for hours on end. Needles to say I am competitive! its just right now I am still learning to swim and getting my hardware in order. Another factor is I just want to get some numbers up on these projects that I like. Some of you have been at this for over a decade, I am just out of the starting gateGuilty as charged.
Hard to believe it's been that long.I appreciate the feedback. Don't feel that just because you don't have a server or GPU farm your contribution isn't important.
We haven't been doing competitions very long, only in the last three years or so, and there's some inertia to overcome. One of the main reasons we started doing them, besides the fun factor, was to improve the visibility of the team and help it grow. We've been growing a lot lately so the competitions probably aren't as important to growth as I thought they might be.
Guys, first of all, I would like to remind you that: "the future doesn't belong to the faint hearted; it belongs to the brave".
And now, please, if this newbie may, let me ask some questions:
1) When was the last time our team won a competition? And when this happened what was the strategy adopted?
2) When our team was generating more points per day in the past, were we doing anything different from what we are doing now?
3) If there are more than 300 hundred million people living in our beloved country why there are so little people crunching in our team? What could we start to attract more people?
4) Not competing in any challenge right now, are we?
5) Like I've commented elsewhere, in the future operating systems (for mobile devices or not) could came with Boinc software (or F@H) installed by default (and the user could choose to configure it, stop it or uninstall it). Wouldn't it be great? Is there something we can do to push forward this idea?
6) Is it possible to create a coalition with other teams as to become more competitive in a specific challenge? If it is, have we ever tried it? What about trying it again (or for the first time)?
Thank you all and let's keep crunching!
And now, please, if this newbie may, let me ask some questions:
1) When was the last time our team won a competition? And when this happened what was the strategy adopted?
2) When our team was generating more points per day in the past, were we doing anything different from what we are doing now?
3) If there are more than 300 hundred million people living in our beloved country why there are so little people crunching in our team? What could we start to attract more people?
4) Not competing in any challenge right now, are we?
5) Like I've commented elsewhere, in the future operating systems (for mobile devices or not) could came with Boinc software (or F@H) installed by default (and the user could choose to configure it, stop it or uninstall it). Wouldn't it be great? Is there something we can do to push forward this idea?
6) Is it possible to create a coalition with other teams as to become more competitive in a specific challenge? If it is, have we ever tried it? What about trying it again (or for the first time)?
Thank you all and let's keep crunching!
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