The Scottish Boinc Team: September 2006

Blurb

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, September 12, 2006

Hello The Scottish Boinc Team

Well we did it. All but one team - QMC -has been renamed. & BoincStats has got all but 600K of the credit gathered together under the new name. Nobody has left in protest.
So that's a good result so far. Hurrah!

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Goodbye Scotland's Seti

The poll closes in about 22 hrs (I really should be asleep) and with no votes so far for the old name it seems sure that tomorrow we will be called something else - almost certainly The Scottish Boinc Team.

Still it feels like evolution not revolution. After all "only" 9 of our 16 millions have been crunched for Seti. We need to acknowledge that other 7 million in the name.

The switch over might be messy so I will note the eve of change stats:

Last update 00:05 29th August 2006
This update 01:50 10th September 2006
Total Active Members 194 (+2)
Recent Active Members 97 (+12!!! all that emailing paid off)
Total Credit 16,455,612 ((+796,387 =72.4 K/day helped by a CPDN/BBC credit recalculation)
Overall Boinc Place 72nd (static but watch out hungarian dudes!)

Scotland's Seti isn't going, just changing and updating but I'll still miss the old name. I feel like a bride on the eve of her marriage - but I'll never find one at this time of night so why bother to think such disgusting thoughts?

Statistics

TSBT Stats by Temujin. Our friends & rivals United Kingdom Boinc Team have kindly set up a excellent stats site for us. It updates hourly and is the only option if you want to follow your or the team's progress in real time. If you want comparisons of us with other teams or members with other Boincers you need:

Boincstats. This is the best of the many Combined Boinc Statistics sites for comparing the performance of Teams & Individuals in, either Boinc overall, or in particular projects. Also it will give you the performance of individual hosts. The only snag is that it only fully updates once a day.

Both sites are full of info and well worth a good look around.

Also each project has their own stats pages which you can get to from the projects tab on your Boinc Manager.