FB Sprint 2026 Notifications

[UBT - Timbo]

Yes no worry Tim, I perfectly understand, and on top of all that we must consider that individual behaviour of each member (= involvement) may also greatly vary from one year to another, so there is no magic wand to make the perfect mix ! I just hope I go back to L3 next year

Hi - Thanks for your understanding.

I have tried to ensure that Teams (and Members) who earn similar BOINC credits on the Sprints, (over the entire season), are matched together as best as possible. This is done to try to help everyone in each League being able to compete on as close to a level playing field as possible.

But there will always be variables and events that will skew the league tables, either in favour (or against) specific Teams (and Members).

The only way around this is to have multiple Leagues, with far fewer participants in each one...and then the competitive element is lost if you are always competing against 3 or 4 other Teams (or Members). It's a juggling act for which there is no perfect solution, so we just have to try to keep it simple and straight forward.

And if you are lucky, then the "League table gods" might grant you your wish But do you really want to be "competing" against Members who have far less desire (or enough host machines) than you, to be #1 in League 3? That's seems like a rather shallow option...

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

The next Sprint starts tomorrow !!

2026-05-21 21:00 UTC - 2026-05-24 21:00 UTC

And the project has now been confirmed that there are no planned maintenance periods for the above dates and plenty of tasks will be available, so we are good to go !

Good luck everyone !

regards
Tim

[JeromeC]

But do you really want to be "competing" against Members who have far less desire (or enough host machines) than you, to be #1 in League 3? That's seems like a rather shallow option...

Well here I think the term "competition" does not apply anymore

I was not #1 at all last year... and remember the words of Julius : "better #1 in my village than #2 in Rome"

[UBT - Timbo]

Well here I think the term "competition" does not apply anymore

I was not #1 at all last year... and remember the words of Julius : "better #1 in my village than #2 in Rome"

I think in an "ideal" world, FB should be a competition between individual hosts...as then it will be a more even spread of contributions - while at present, anyone can host multiple hosts on the same CPID - so one basic PC might be compared to a member who buys time on a cloud server, with multiple CPUs.

As it is, all I can do to try and "level this up", is to make a Grand Total for all the credits each Member (and Team) has earned in all of the Sprints and to then work out an average, based on the number of Sprints they actually participated in.

Then compare the averages and then promote (or relegate) Members (and Teams) into the relevant League where the averages are about the same.

Then each Member (and Team) has a better chance of earning FB points in their respective League.

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

The randomly selected project for the forthcoming Sprint, which starts at 16:00 UTC on 4th June has been selected and the admin for the project has advised that tasks will be available.

Hopefully all should go well...

regards
Tim

[csbyseti]

Next time the same not working project.

The Asteroids admins do nothing against the faulty configured server.
So why support this project?

It makes no sense if a faulty project is selected again and again.

I think it will be my last year at Formula Boinc.

[UBT - Timbo]

Next time the same not working project.

The Asteroids admins do nothing against the faulty configured server.
So why support this project?

It makes no sense if a faulty project is selected again and again.

I think it will be my last year at Formula Boinc.

Hi

Thanks for your feedback.

However please note that:
a) I informed the Asteroids admin of the previous problems and I expected them to ensure the same thing did not happen again
b) I was advised that plenty of tasks would be available - when I last checked a short while after the Sprint started there were over 4 million tasks available

Even as of: "Task data as of 5 Jun 2026, 0:52:25 UTC"

There are:
Tasks ready to send 4,041,824
Tasks in progress 378,866

You should also be aware that the choice of Sprint project is now very, very limited due to many projects being offline or having very few tasks available - so ultimately, there is in some cases, just a handful of projects that are possible candidates.

So, I would suggest you aim your complaints directly at the Asteroid admins, if for some reason you have issues with their project.

regards
Tim

[Tamagoch]

Hi everyone,

we all know that there are plenty of tasks available. Project admin knows it as well. But the server thinks a bit different
So, I have still some hosts idling because of that.

The strategy for Asteroid sprint is looking like that:

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Start of the sprint: activating task loading, waiting for tasks
Day 1 and 2 of the sprint: still waiting for tasks...
Day 3: crunching like hell
End of sprint: aborting uncrunched packs of tasks
Week 1, 2 and more after the sprint: validating the most of Day 3 crunch

Sad but true. I go know to push idling hosts once more.

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi everyone,

we all know that there are plenty of tasks available. Project admin knows it as well. But the server thinks a bit different
So, I have still some hosts idling because of that.

The strategy for Asteroid sprint is looking like that:

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Start of the sprint: activating task loading, waiting for tasks
Day 1 and 2 of the sprint: still waiting for tasks...
Day 3: crunching like hell
End of sprint: aborting uncrunched packs of tasks
Week 1, 2 and more after the sprint: validating the most of Day 3 crunch

Sad but true. I go know to push idling hosts once more.

Hi

Thanks for the feedback.

All I can say is that the issue you are experiencing is not the same for me !

I allowed tasks to be downloaded from Asteroids last night and it took maybe an hour or so, and then tasks were being sent. I had set the two "buffers" as 0.5 days and thus far, I have a sufficient (but not huge) number of tasks sitting in my buffer.

Maybe you should increase the buffer so that you can receive more tasks, and once you have enough, then lower the buffer to a more reasonable number a few hours later?

My completed work units are being validated fairly, quickly, but as the "quorum" is 2, and with many tasks "in progress", so it will take a little while for your wingman to report their matching task. And this is one of the negative sides, if a project has a lot of tasks - that within the Sprint window some tasks may not be reported and validated within the period.

But the opposite is also true - if the project does not have enough tasks, then it might take some time for you to download a task that someone else has already completed...esp if a task "times out" and is returned to the pool to be issued again.

regards
Tim

[ubt - mikee]

I allowed tasks to be downloaded from Asteroids last night and it took maybe an hour or so, and then tasks were being sent. I had set the two "buffers" as 0.5 days and thus far, I have a sufficient (but not huge) number of tasks sitting in my buffer.

Maybe you should increase the buffer so that you can receive more tasks, and once you have enough, then lower the buffer to a more reasonable number a few hours later?

regards
Tim

Hi

I had same problem, then Tim reminded me about buffers. I've had mine set to 0 for months as I don't do as much as I used to - just set to 1 day and no additional - now got 50 in progress. Now just got to wait for wingman to do theirs.

Mike