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?
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
Dearie Me is that the Date?
Where does the time go? A shameful seven weeks since I last updated my blog. In my defense I've not been idle.
There's been a fair bit of action on the forum: The name change campaign is in full swing with "The Scottish Boinc Team" currently leading "Scotland's Boinc" & nobody at all opting to keep "Scotland's Seti" which even as a proponent of change I think is a little sad.
I've made a few changes to the website although keeping up with the number of project teams (26 at the last count) to be detailed on the Statistics Page is the sort of challenge that I'm inclined to just avoid.
I've also extended the Boinc Farm by bringing back from retirement an old Athlon XP 3000+ which just needed a PSU & HD to make it useful again. This might slow my decline down the ranks for a little while until I replace everything with Conroes! This gives me 3 cased, & 4 caseless rigs in the main bit of the farm. Just ridiculous - especially in the recent heatwave.
According to Boincstats we lost a great heap of members but I think that this is an accounting artefact. In fact we've gained a few (Hello to Marcus & Dalyplanet) and some long retired members have started crunching again. Particularly welcome was the return after illness of Ian (Buster) Gunn whom I for one had assumed was gone for ever.
Here's how we're doing. Quite well really.
Last update 23:45 6th July 2006
This update 00:05 29th August 2006
Total Active Members 192 (not comparable, something funny on BoincStats)
Recent Active Members 85 (ditto)
Total Credit 15,659,225 ((+1,738,206 =32.7 K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 72nd (+1 and further gains likely)
There's been a fair bit of action on the forum: The name change campaign is in full swing with "The Scottish Boinc Team" currently leading "Scotland's Boinc" & nobody at all opting to keep "Scotland's Seti" which even as a proponent of change I think is a little sad.
I've made a few changes to the website although keeping up with the number of project teams (26 at the last count) to be detailed on the Statistics Page is the sort of challenge that I'm inclined to just avoid.
I've also extended the Boinc Farm by bringing back from retirement an old Athlon XP 3000+ which just needed a PSU & HD to make it useful again. This might slow my decline down the ranks for a little while until I replace everything with Conroes! This gives me 3 cased, & 4 caseless rigs in the main bit of the farm. Just ridiculous - especially in the recent heatwave.
According to Boincstats we lost a great heap of members but I think that this is an accounting artefact. In fact we've gained a few (Hello to Marcus & Dalyplanet) and some long retired members have started crunching again. Particularly welcome was the return after illness of Ian (Buster) Gunn whom I for one had assumed was gone for ever.
Here's how we're doing. Quite well really.
Last update 23:45 6th July 2006
This update 00:05 29th August 2006
Total Active Members 192 (not comparable, something funny on BoincStats)
Recent Active Members 85 (ditto)
Total Credit 15,659,225 ((+1,738,206 =32.7 K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 72nd (+1 and further gains likely)
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Merger Off
After a promising start, when a fair head of enthusiasm for a merger built up, Scotland got cold feet: I think a wish to retain identity and autonomy lay behind it rather than the previous mistrust. So the merger is off and we've to work out how to grow on our own. At least we're all back home and our BBC CCE team is up to 35th in the world.
Now the question is what to call ourselves? "Scotland's Boinc" is the early favourite but I quite like the sound of "The Scottish Boinc Team"
Last update 21:00 24th June 2006
This update 23:45 6th July 2006
Total Active Members 206 (+1)
Recent Active Members 101 (static)
Total Credit 13,921,019 ((+507,670)=41.9K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (static, but World Wide Seti & DPRGI Team Italy are just ahead)
Now the question is what to call ourselves? "Scotland's Boinc" is the early favourite but I quite like the sound of "The Scottish Boinc Team"
Last update 21:00 24th June 2006
This update 23:45 6th July 2006
Total Active Members 206 (+1)
Recent Active Members 101 (static)
Total Credit 13,921,019 ((+507,670)=41.9K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (static, but World Wide Seti & DPRGI Team Italy are just ahead)
Saturday, June 24, 2006
24th June Update - The Merger Begins?
Rowpie's been nagging me to update this so here goes.
Merger negotiations are starting in earnest with Scotland, with our opening gambit being 4 of us moving from the SS BBC CCE team to the Scotland one. This practical demonstration of the benefits of merger has been much better received than any earlier abstract discussion ever was. Maybe in a month or so we will have a single unified Scottish team, with nearly 15 Million credits in the bank and earning about 60,000 per day. If it could be done then we would be a top 50 contender in no time at all.
I can see a lot of emailing and forum posting being involved. So far there has been no serious opposition to the idea of a name change on the forum. The wider membership might be more conservative.
The current team position is
Last update 23:45 25 th May 2006
This update 21:00 24th June 2006
Total Active Members 205 (+5)
Recent Active Members 101 (-14) A bit worrying!
Total Credit 13,413,349 ((+742,581)=24.8K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (-2)
Obviously lending 172,ooo credits to another team doesn't help the accounts in the short-term!
On the personal crunching front I've set myself the following priorities (don't ask why I just have):
1.Concentrate on BBC CCE. I've got myself in 41st place overall for it and would hope I could maybe make the top 25.
2.Run LHC@Home for 50% of my capacity if work is available.
3. Run Einstein on my slower PCs until my TC for this matches my CPDN TC and the team breaks 1 million.
4.Then run SETI on the slower PCs to see if I can at least make it to the top 20,000.
Overall I'm holding steady at about 540th, which is still top 0.1%.
Merger negotiations are starting in earnest with Scotland, with our opening gambit being 4 of us moving from the SS BBC CCE team to the Scotland one. This practical demonstration of the benefits of merger has been much better received than any earlier abstract discussion ever was. Maybe in a month or so we will have a single unified Scottish team, with nearly 15 Million credits in the bank and earning about 60,000 per day. If it could be done then we would be a top 50 contender in no time at all.
I can see a lot of emailing and forum posting being involved. So far there has been no serious opposition to the idea of a name change on the forum. The wider membership might be more conservative.
The current team position is
Last update 23:45 25 th May 2006
This update 21:00 24th June 2006
Total Active Members 205 (+5)
Recent Active Members 101 (-14) A bit worrying!
Total Credit 13,413,349 ((+742,581)=24.8K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (-2)
Obviously lending 172,ooo credits to another team doesn't help the accounts in the short-term!
On the personal crunching front I've set myself the following priorities (don't ask why I just have):
1.Concentrate on BBC CCE. I've got myself in 41st place overall for it and would hope I could maybe make the top 25.
2.Run LHC@Home for 50% of my capacity if work is available.
3. Run Einstein on my slower PCs until my TC for this matches my CPDN TC and the team breaks 1 million.
4.Then run SETI on the slower PCs to see if I can at least make it to the top 20,000.
Overall I'm holding steady at about 540th, which is still top 0.1%.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
May 25th Update
Over a month since my last post tsk, tsk!
Anyhow , in that time I upgraded my Boinc Farm with the addition of an AMD Athlon64 Dual Core 4400+! Nice. This has helped halt my decline down the ranks and I'm now dropping about 2 places per week rather than a place per day. I reckon I can keep top 600 for the rest of the year and top 1000 for ever.
The team's doing nicely, holding its own, while not quite managing any major breakthru.
The details are:
Last update 23:55 24 th April 2006
This update 23:45 25th May 2006
Total Active Members 200 (+6)
Recent Active Members 115 (+4)
Total Credit 12,670,768 ((+1,026,042)=33.1K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 71st (-1)
Something that might produce a breakthru would be a merger with the Scotland BBC CCE team. Friendly communication has been established with their leader Ian, who seems to be refreshingly free of the desperate paranoia that afflicts some of his team members.
Snowdog has initiated discussions and a poll on the forum which so far shows that of the few people expressing an interest most of us are broad minded about the prospect of a name change and would like to work with Scotland.
We'll see what happens.
Anyhow , in that time I upgraded my Boinc Farm with the addition of an AMD Athlon64 Dual Core 4400+! Nice. This has helped halt my decline down the ranks and I'm now dropping about 2 places per week rather than a place per day. I reckon I can keep top 600 for the rest of the year and top 1000 for ever.
The team's doing nicely, holding its own, while not quite managing any major breakthru.
The details are:
Last update 23:55 24 th April 2006
This update 23:45 25th May 2006
Total Active Members 200 (+6)
Recent Active Members 115 (+4)
Total Credit 12,670,768 ((+1,026,042)=33.1K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 71st (-1)
Something that might produce a breakthru would be a merger with the Scotland BBC CCE team. Friendly communication has been established with their leader Ian, who seems to be refreshingly free of the desperate paranoia that afflicts some of his team members.
Snowdog has initiated discussions and a poll on the forum which so far shows that of the few people expressing an interest most of us are broad minded about the prospect of a name change and would like to work with Scotland.
We'll see what happens.
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