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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.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

A Pentathlon & a mystery solved (Maybe).

It's the annual SETI Germany Boinc Pentathalon and we are struggling to make an impact. So far we are the lowliest of the 28 teams with points which is better than being one of the 8 pointless teams. All the same it's a reminder that we are a rather small team punching above our weight by using a disproportionate number of top end GPUs to crunch some of the more generous projects.

in particular we are indebted to Merlyn who was once the top cruncher in the world by RAC and who, even though he suddenly stopped crunching in April 2011 is still #52 by total credit and accounts for over a quarter of our credit.

I think I may have solved the mystery of why he stopped. http://www.ecurie-cymraeg.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=278&page=2 The forename & surname are the same, the part of the UK is right, Merlyn was into motorsports, and most conclusively Merlyn stopped crunching the same week that this poor fellow stopped everything.

This post is dedicated to the memory of Merlyn/Steve Sandles.