I've never understood the concept of calling these 'disciplines'  we are such an unruly bunch!
 

OMG  BUNKERING ????
Darn, I'm such a noob. I'm had.
If I knew about this I'd have quite some wu's ready for monday. Oh well... sorry team.
(Mr.B, I'm actually on my way to Germany/ Kiel today)
 
 

Anyone got their bunker full?  If so, what was your min/max work buffer set to in BOINC manager?  
 
I've tried a few combinations to try and get from 2.5 up to 4 days worth of tasks and can't get additional work.  When I update with the POGS project, the event log says "Not requesting tasks: don't need".
 
Maybe I need to wait a day and try again using lower numbers.

Which project can operate  for non 24/7 and help team guys ? 

RHMash
I got it set to 7/7....  downloaded 603 tasks....
675....

Thanks RH, I got it figured out.  My resource share for POGS was still set to 0 (zero) in BOINC manager.  Once I reset it, the tasks started downloading.  I now have enough to keep busy.  I've cut my network to the POGS server to avoid sending tasks back for now.

I had set Boinc to .5/3.0 and it looks like about 2 days were dl'd.
If I finish them and there's a lull before the race, I'll work on 2nd tier folding.
 
Thanks for the heads-up on Collatz  Mr.B
 
NerdGZ, just suspend as needed. We don't know what all the projects are yet. You could start bunkering Skynet Pogs if you want.

Skynet/Pogs account done now crunching with net activity suspended and put a 2 days buffer advise me to send the tasks to the pentathlon ;)
I will run POGS more than a pair of hours maybe half a day but power costs at spain are like a direct shot to your wallet  for 24/7 so i will help as i can :) 

Here is the write up from last year 10th - 15th place. We got some big boys to push past. I'd be happy with a top ten this year.
 
10th place: Electronic Sports League (9,8,10,12,7)
A solid increase in power ensured that they crunched their way into the TOP10 this year. The Silver medal winners of 2010 seem to have found their way again. There is, however, quite a lot of work to be done for the E-sports team. ESL might be able to further promote distributed computing within their ranks. They have laid the foundations at this Pentathlon.
11th place: BOINCstats (8,12,11,8,12)
A solid performance was not enough for the TOP10 this year. In order to return there, an increase will be required next year. It might be better thinking about concentrating on a single discipline, surely much more could be achieved then.
12th place: Russia (12,7,13,13,10)
At first glance they appear to have gone downhill by 4 places and they will surely be dissatisfied with that result. Russia was also a casualty of the split of resources in Russia as quite important crunchers had left the team just for the Pentathlon and changed over to DC Russian Union. Lots of potential and places were squandered.
13th place: Rechenkraft.net (13,15,16,11,16)
RKN were again able to improve performance this year and were thus rewarded with #13. Results at yoyo showed, however, that they are capable of more.
14th place: Crunching@EVGA (16,13,12,17,14)
They held their place and were not far off from #13. They were only pushed back to #14 in the last few hours. The individual results are encouraging and suggest that there might be improvement next year.
15th place: Ukraine (14,16,19,19,13)
This year, they banked on stability and did not engage in experiments. There was no place in the TOP10 for them this time round but they achieved great, solid results. Good tactics were rewarded with a good standing.

Thanks for the update sajinor
I don´t think they will go away from Collatz, as this time it was the participating teams choice, but then who knows.
Go team!

NerdGZ
I wonder if we can suggest to invite some heavy hitters from [H] crunchers to ride this pentathlon with us if they did not join the contest with his help we can boost some nice numbers  the answer could be no or yes but if you don´t ask you don´t know.

I'm not sure this would sit well with me.  While there are some heavy hitters over there which could help our team in this contest, other Pentathlon teams could view our guest crunchers as "ringers".  Ringers was one of the reasons the Chimp Challenge over on the folding side fell apart and lost its fun.
 
Besides, I think it's fun to see where we rank in the crunching universe as a team.  There are enough teams competing to find some peers and keep it entertaining even if we're not in the top ranks.

Anyone interested in individual stats for our team? I think I could re-purpose the TZC setup to put out the numbers each person is getting. It would be limited to just the project(s) going on at each time. It wouldn't be 100% accurate, as they probably use some other way to collect stats, but it would be close.
 
Just an offer as my stats box needs something to do.
 

well the good news is that i'm not having near the heat issues with the amd rig that i had with primegrid :) so far so good. still looking like 3 hours a task tho, does this seem right to yall guys? I'll set up the i7 hear after the kiddo gets done watchin spongebob ;) and see what its times look like. any suggestions on strat would be great, i just wanna help the team over this challenge. I'll likely just keep the amd rig on the pog task through the whole thing and maybe switch the other to sprint tasks as i am able to.

For reference, my i-5 (no ht) at 4.0 Ghz takes between 1:05 and 1:40. My 1-7 (with ht)at 4.3 Ghz took between 1:30 and 2:00. And some pogs tasks take way longer than others.
 
I guess we're stuck with pogs for the first 3 days anyway. I have about 500 finished and stored. Still working on more. On the i5, I dual boot w7 and w8 and I put about 30 on my Mint-on-a-stick.
 
It should be fun.

So those time sound about right.
 
For Rosetta, if you leave it at the default settings, tasks should last 3h or less. For longer tasks you need to change your settings.
 
My 2p is still chugging through its 1100 tasks. May have to look into getting one of my old G34 installs with Mint in case I run out of tasks.

I´was trying to build up a bunker on Rosetta, but never really got past half a day or so.
 
Iirc from last year: the Marathon was brutal. I had my complete G34 fleet (~90 cores) running SIMAP almost exclusively and we came in 16th... However, that doesn´t mean anything for this year.
 
So I´d say put one on Rosetta already, and the other one on  pogs (SkyNet) for the initial dump. Then decide on whether you want to switch to Rosetta or continue with pogs until the final disciplie is announced.
 
In case anybody wants to have a look at the results from last year:
http://www.seti-germany.de/wiki/BOINC-Pentathlon_2013
 
Sorry, its in German, but the tables should speak forthemselves