Impact of theBOINC Pentathlon 2017

Patrick Schöfer07 Sep 2017

About me

• BOINC enthusiast since 2004

• Co-Administrator of SETI.Germany

• Member of the Pentathlon Organizing Group

• PhD student (stellar astrophysics)

What is the BOINC Pentathlon?

• 14-day multi-project Volunteer Computing team competition

• 5 ‘disciplines’ with different durations at different BOINC projects

• Teams may choose to concentrate on single disciplines, but need a coordinated effort in all disciplines to win the overall crown

• Short-term boost and new volunteers for the projects

• More information athttps://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/

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Other observations

• many participants were unhappy with vbox projects

• for projects with unpredictable WU runtimes, CreditNew is not onlykind of a lottery, but also can be cheated

Future ideas

• improve project preselection and communication with project admins

• possibility to count only one subproject (already possible at WCG)

• we still have more ideas to make the competition more exciting ☺