Avast there ye Scurvy dogs!!! Thar be points out there to be pillage and cures to be found!!! Now put down those flagons of Rum and get yon systems busy!
 

 
This will be a trial run of my idea detailed below
 

In short I just want do projects and have fun. But my fun is tied to the rankings as a team then my ranking in the team. Not as a way to say I am better than any one else, on or off the team, but as a way to say I took the time to run the project and amassed the points/rank in a attempt to help make a discovery or a cure. Chances are no breakthrough will be made, as we all know, but the effort was put forth.

In the same view of things I would like to see the team work together and try to get our team ranks in the top 75 for all the projects, then the top 50 or 25 or 10. Not as a bragging right but as a representation of our work in pursuit of discoveries. Should we aim for each and every project, probably not. But we could pick out 5 or so in each sub group(Medical, Mathematics, Astronomy, etc) and work on them until we hit a goal.

I suggested MM simply because it is not one of the more popular projects and we could make a quick impact and thus bring our rank up a lot faster than other projects. If people found it to be fun we could do something a bit more challenging the next time.
 

With that idea in mind here is what I propose. We as a team run Mind Modeling from March 16th through to the end of the month and see just were we end up with our team ranking for the project. With the hardware our team members have on hand I suspect we can blow past 50 and probably get close to 25 or better. In the last week a few of us have already made a big change in our team rank. We started out at 194 and now are ranked 86 as a team.
 
If everyone has fun and we make a large improvement in our team rank we can look to do this again only planed and executed a bit better.
 
Now for the theme. We have the EVGA Strike Force that shows up when called and they help out with Folding@Home and Crunching projects. While this Point Pillaging idea is similar there is a difference. I see the Pirates only making a appearance four to six times a year with the goal of improving the teams ranks in a Boinc project that we tend not to pay much attention to. Just what projects can be decided by the team as a whole. It has been suggested we focus on projects tracked by the DC Vault.
 
Guess it would help if I added in the MindModeling@Home web page.
 
http://mindmodeling.org/
 

Oh, I like it. Maybe have a few variations. I think one with a full skeleton with a sexy pirate babe hanging off each arm would be neat.

I've switched over to MM, finishing a group of tasks from another project that were downloaded before the PrimeGrid challenge, as well....  8 threads at 4.4 ghz ready to go!
 

Viper97
I can't do sexy... I'm an old guy... two sexy skeletons...   

Pfft, your only as old as you think you are. Even if you are not up to doing anything with a sexy woman you can still look and get some enjoyment out of that.

After the Double Top Secret challange, it is quite releifing to see WU's blast off in 20-40 mins.
 
 

tanner2
Arrrr matey's, jumpin on the ship for a while.

Oh.. Have mercy on Our competitors...... NOT

Still MM'ing... but the real question is... plain or peanut?

RHMash
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=min
good job guys....
Anyone else have any issues with tasks hanging and never finishing?

They all hang at one point or another. In most cases its just a problem with what Boinc displays for percentage completed and it not updating. The tasks will hang like that for a while then presto they are done. 33% and 50% seem to be the favorite hang spots on my system.
 
Go take a look at your Your Tasks page over at MM and look for Error's. If there are no error I would not worry about it. If there are errors its most likely the ACT-R tasks. Just opt out of running ACT-R's via the project preferences settings.
 

Arrrrrg 

bcavnaugh
Took a bit on my part but got up and running now on MM.
Could not find the link to set my account but http://mindmodeling.org/home.phpworked, Arrrr
 
Mindboggling

HA HA HA, Welcome
 
I find MM quite nice to crunch, I like dem wu's thundering away, ship ohoi
I see you found the screen saver he he, I've had some comments on that one.

bcavnaugh

Orange_1050

bcavnaugh
Took a bit on my part but got up and running now on MM.
Could not find the link to set my account but http://mindmodeling.org/home.phpworked, Arrrr
 
Mindboggling

HA HA HA, Welcome
 
I find MM quite nice to crunch, I like dem wu's thundering away, ship ohoi
I see you found the screen saver he he, I've had some comments on that one.

 
Not really the screen saver but the project graphics for the current project running.
I find some of the graphics for BOINC are strange as compared to ****, and cool.
 
Note:
**** = F A H not sure why the Forum is doing this. It is not like the F-Word.

Maybe the EVGA Forum got banned by the thought police over at the F@H forums and considers anything to do with folding a dirty word?

I vote Docking....  It's two-fold as it's in the vault (worth about 8 points a position) and we're not doing too terrible in it over at formula boinc....
http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang=en&team=101326&year=2014
there's a few easy ranks to be gained there, but since we're already sub-50, we won't see much of a gain in rank for the amount of work required....

I'm going to start another post where we can discuss where we want to go with the Point Pillaging project. Maybe get a few others involved.

Khalifrio
I'm going to start another post where we can discuss where we want to go with the Point Pillaging project. Maybe get a few others involved.

Good idea

RHMash
I vote Docking....  It's two-fold as it's in the vault (worth about 8 points a position) and we're not doing too terrible in it over at formula boinc....
http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang=en&team=101326&year=2014
there's a few easy ranks to be gained there, but since we're already sub-50, we won't see much of a gain in rank for the amount of work required....

I vote Docking as well, also thanks for the link to http://formula-boinc.org