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Welcome, Failte, & Fit Like? to the biggest, oldest (established in 1999 as Scotland's Seti) and best Scottish Boinc team around!
We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you're Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you've no link at all with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome. The most important part of the site is our Forum . Even if you're not a member of any of our teams we'd be delighted to have you visit.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Bitcoin Utopia Revolution

Eeeck!
A game changer!
Just as the advent of GPU crunching a few years back challenged us to adapt or vanish so too has the sudden take off of  Bitcoin Utopia forced us to decide whether to cry foul to or join in the uses/abuses of the credit system by a new project.
Fortunately Alez and scole250 have been aggressive  enough users of dedicated hardware to keep TSBT in contention. Despite having an AMD 6 core board which has somehow managed to crunch  11 million credits in 2 days I have dropped from 67th to 89th in about a week!
Game on!
Let's adapt!

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

New Glories & a Glorious New Homepage.

Despite no major crunch-ware purchases in the last year, I have by deploying my resources wisely, mainly pointing them at Collatz with optimized settings (thanks Alez!),  got my RAC up to nearly 3.8Million  [45th in the world] and my total credit past 2 billion [74th in the world by this measure].

This leaves me UK #4, and rising, and Team #1!  I've finally prised the TSBT crown from the long cold dead fingers of Merlyn. This had to be done but wasn't an unqualified feel-good triumph. 

Enough of my achievements, much more importantly PinkPenguin and Janos have updated the forums so that they look splendid and have the functionality that makes the forum index page fit to be the TSBT  home page.  So that is what it will become. I've pointed tsbt.co.uk and thescottishboincteam.co.uk domains towards the forum.

This humble blog will continue, but probably won't be updated any more frequently.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Upgrade Successful!

The forum is back up & is now phpBB3.

The reversion to a bog-standard skin makes it look rather bland but the developmental brakes are off & we'll soon get it looking and working much better.

And deleting the bogus accounts is much easier than before.

Rejoice!
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Another Outage & Hopefully Another Upgrade

Finally, I got my hosting package updated. So I should be able to upgrade to phpBB3.

I don't want to do this on a school night. Accordingly, I'll take the forum off-line at 11:30 BST on Friday 11th October. I'll make the necessary back-ups and hopefully effect a hassle free upgrade over the next couple of hours. This blog and the stats will remain available. [Probably, unless some unforeseen disaster coincides.] 
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Forum back but not upgraded.

Friday's outage was all for nothing. Easyspace tried to upgrade the webspace but, for reasons which they have yet to explain properly, failed. Maybe next time!
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