Good evening everyone! The 17th annual BOINC Pentathlon hosted by SETI Germany is now complete! It's time to celebrate!!! 🎉🎉
I'm going to be going over the top ten in each project's final ranks as well as the team journey as a whole. We also ought to talk about prizes... Wait! Before we get too far into the blog, can I ask you for a small favor? Can you please fill out the event feedback form? It is super short and helps me know what to focus on and improve for future events! Link: https://
Strategy for the last 24 hours:
Full CPU power on NFS@home for the sprint! Give it all you're got! Don't let them catch up!
Good evening laddies and gentlespoons! Only 24 hours remain in the 2026 BOINC Pentathlon. Over the last two days we have put ourselves in a solid position. In the sprint the team is in first and in the marathon the team is in fourth. Thanks to this we currently sit in second place overall. In the sprint we have been the top producing team nearly every hour
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Keep your CPUs on NFS@home for the Sprint and run! It may look like we are in first, but that is only because we have dropped our bunkers. TAAT and Ukraine still have loaded bunkers.
- The City Run is over so your GPU can stop running Einstein@Home.
Hah, now look at them credits, that's the way you do it
You crunch the WUs on the 'ol PC
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Crunching for nothing except victory!
Alri
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- The sprint is now underway! All CPUs to NFS@home and run! Drop the bunkers.
- Keep your GPU running Einstein@Home for the City run.
Guest blogger @Lightwreather has written the blog for today!
So there I was. Just sitting there, hunched over my desk, quill in paw, scribbling away at whatever had caught my attention at that moment (I feel it might’ve had to do with either dragon sightings or that sandwich f
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
The plan remains the same as yesterday:
- If you can know how, move your CPU power to NFS@home and BUNKER! If you need more tasks, spin up an additional instance. Quick Start Guide - NFS@Home
- Keep your GPU running Einstein@Home for the City run.
Good evening everyone! The javelin throw is now complete! The plan went flawlessly. We strategically earned 10,341 200 credits. This was just enough credits to secure second. That way our hardw
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- If you can know how, move your CPU power to NFS@home and BUNKER for the sprint!
- Keep your GPU running Einstein@Home for the City run.
- We are throwing this Jav but no need to switch to SRBase. @leadeater will throw just enough to secure us second. No need to put more compute than necessary.
Hello again folks! It is once again I, @TheLANguy. Unfortunately the planned guest blogger wasn't able to blog today. Double unfortunately, I di
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Keep your CPU power to MilkyWay@home. Let's get back on the podium!
- Keep your GPU running Einstein@Home for the City run.
- We are throwing this Jav but no need to switch to SRBase. @leadeater has some big bunkers ready to drop! If we end up needing more power on the Jav I'll let you know!
Good evening ladies and gentlespoons! How's it going? Did you like @HoldSquat's blog yesterday? I sure did. My apologies for the delayed stats ye
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Keep your CPU power to MilkyWay@home. Let's get back on the podium!
- Drop your Einstein@Home bunkers and keep your GPU running Einstein@Home for the City run.
- We are throwing the next Jav throw but no need to switch to SRBase. Since @leadeater threw a nearly all of the credits for the last Jav throw, he will begin bunkering for the next one while we work on the marathon.
Good evening boys and girls! HoldSquat here with your daily up
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Move your CPU power to MilkyWay@home. Let's get back on the podium!
- Use only your GPU to bunker Einstein@Home for the City run. If your MilkyWay@home WUs are also bunkered, that is fine. Make sure your settings are the same as the ones in the Quick Start Guide.
- We are skipping this Jav throw so do not switch to SRBase. Since @leadeater threw a nearly all of the credits for the last Jav throw, he will begin bunkering for the next one while we
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- It's a 50% bonus day for Steeplechase!!! Move all your hardware to PrimeGrid full power! Abort SRBase tasks.
- We are skipping the next Jav throw so no need to bunker.
- Optional: Create another BOINC instance and use it to bunker Einstein@Home.
Good evening everyone! I'd like to start off with giving a huge round of applause to everyone here. We had an excellent first jav throw and threw 27,152,550 credits! Now we just have to do th
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- It's Javelin throw time! Move your machines to SRBase and drop your bunkers! Please check the guide to make sure you are configured correctly.
Good evening everyone! It is jav throw time! Sharpen up those spears and throw, throw throw! You may be asking, "Why throw on the second throw? Many other teams are waiting until the third!" There are a few reasons. First, the javelin throw has five throws and our third best counts as our final score. It
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- It's a 20% bonus day! Focus on PrimeGrid (only subproject SR5 Sieve) for the Steeplechase. Drop your bunkers!
- We are skipping the first Javelin Throw, but will be throwing on the second Javelin Throw if the project comes back online soon.
Good evening everyone! We have certainly had an eventful 24 hours! Team LTT remains in first for the steeplechase, however this is quite deceptive since the other teams have been bunkering for the bonus
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Focus on PrimeGrid (only subproject SR5 Sieve) for the Steeplechase. If you know how to bunker, save your completed WUs for the multiplier day. Check the due date of your bunkers and submit them if you need to. If you are out of tasks, drop the bunker and grab more tasks. Every machine should be working!
- We are skipping the first Javelin Throw.
Hey everyone! @HoldSquat here filling in quickly for tonight’s blog! @TheLANguy has a girlfrien
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Focus on PrimeGrid (only subproject SR5 Sieve) for the Steeplechase. If you know how to bunker, save your completed WUs for the multiplier day.
Good evening everyone! I must say we have had a good first day. We are currently in first for both the Marathon and the Steeplechase. This is the best position we have ever started with! It looks like the bunkers paid off. Great job! My biggest concern is that the other teams have not yet shown their tr
Strategy for the Next 24 hours:
- Release all MilkyWay@home bunkers for the Marathon
- Focus on PrimeGrid (only subproject SR5 Sieve) for the Steeplechase. If you know how to bunker, save your completed WUs for the multiplier day.
Good evening folks! I'd like to welcome you all to the 2026 BOINC Pentathlon hosted by Seti Germany. This is the seventeenth year of the event and the eighth year of Team LTT participating. I am TheLANguy, leader of team LTT. Whether this is your f
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Out of the 50 folks who signed up, 46 met the minimum participation requirements of 19 Days with activity and 25,000 credits.
Good evening crunchmatics! WE ONLY HAVE 24 HOURS LEFT!!! This is your last chance to hit a personal milestone, gain a rank, and help the team have a stellar final day. Give it all you've got! Do it for science! Do it for glory!
I'm of course listening to "The Final Countdown" by Europe in honor of this. Besides that, I'm not listening to anything, however I did watch the new episode of a YouTube show called "Jet Lag: The Game" earlier today. It's quite neat.
Today the tea
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Good evening! There are only three days left in the event! This is your last chance to claim a higher rank or keep hold of your current one! How about a fun fact about today in history? I haven't done one of those recently. On this day (3/27) in 1933 polyethylene (plastic) was discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric Fawcett. This led to polyethylene becoming the most popular plastic. Polyethylene has had a MASSIVE affect on much of our daily lives. Take a looks at the keyboard an mouse you are us
