FB Sprint 2026 Notifications

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

The admins for the chosen Sprint project have now confirmed that they will have tasks available for this weekends event, starting on 8th October at 15:00 UTC.

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

I am awaiting confirmation from the selected project admin to confirm that they are ready and able to support the next Sprint that runs from:

2026-10-22 22:00 UTC - 2026-10-25 22:00 UTC

Project admins have confirmed that plenty of tasks will be available

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

I am awaiting confirmation from the selected project admin to confirm that they are ready and able to support the next Sprint that runs from:

2026-10-29 22:00 UTC - 2026-11-01 22:00 UTC

The Eternity II project admins have confirmed that they have ensured that lots of tasks will be available

And their NEW GPU application (for NVidia chipsets) is also available - so no need to change your Project Preferences as by default, you will be able to download GPU tasks straight away - but make sure you have the latest NVidia driver installed !

Click here to join in or see their latest news:

https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/

And there's some fascinating stats on display here:

https://stats.eternityathome.org/dashboard

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all,

I've had some great feedback from the Eternity admin concerning the "stress testing" that we are helping the Eternity II project with.

So, prior to the Sprint starting, there were about 250 hosts returning results each hour. Right after the Sprint started it was about 310, and by Friday evening it was over 420.

Uploaded results received per hour went from about 4,800 to 7,000–9,000

A further 99 new hosts joined on Friday alone, versus around 10–25 per day last week

From a FB perspective, there are 56 Registered Members taking part (out of approx 80 who are regular contributors) and thus far 20 Teams (out of 35) have earned some BOINC credits.

Hopefully by Sunday evening these might have increased a little?

regards and thanks to everyone taking part !
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

Some feedback from the Eternity project admin:

It seems that there is an issue with the GPU app as per this:

On our forum the main topic is GPU tasks with long endings. It's an app issue I can't fix during the sprint, and it's on my list for right after.

There's more details starting from about here (though this issue has been noted before):

https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eterni ... postid=481

So, if you have an issue with GPU tasks appearing to be "stuck", please advise the Eternity admin ("benjamin") as he is very much a "hands on" admin

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

I've just seen this on the Eternity II message board:

https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eterni ... postid=513

so I'm quoting it here:

Posted: 1 Nov 2026, 20:53:27 UTC

The Formula BOINC sprint ends tonight at 22:00 UTC, so there's still time to crunch, but I already want to say thank you to everyone.

This sprint was a real test for me, with very little sleep for the past four days. Originally, Eternity II was only planned for CPUs. I worked like crazy to offer you GPU computing as well, and you answered with incredible power.

What you've achieved in three days (as of 20:00 UTC)
• 3.38 trillion positions per second at the peak: a new project record, almost double the previous one
• 14,827 threads working at the same time: another new record
• 777 quadrillion positions explored: nearly a third of everything the project has computed since it began
• 88,923 boards scoring 463 or more: about 1 in 5 of all the boards of that level the project has ever found
• among them, 3,553 at 464 and 90 at 465, just one point below our best

Unfortunately, we didn't break the score record: our best is still 466 with the five official clues. But finding so many high-scoring boards in three days is still extraordinary.

I'm also very happy that the server held for the whole sprint, at about twice its usual load.

Because GPU support came late, there were cases I hadn't planned for, and some of you ran into them. I'm sorry about that. Every one of them has been written down, and I'll do everything I can to fix them.

Thank you to Formula BOINC for giving me this opportunity. And thank you to all the participants for your commitment, for the enormous power you brought, and for your feedback, which keeps the project moving forward.

We're really happy with this great experience, and we hope to do it again soon!

Benjamin

So, WELL DONE to every FB member who took part.

In total 19 (out of 35 registered) teams took part as well as 61 (out of approx 80) active volunteers.

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

I am awaiting confirmation from the selected project admin to confirm that they are ready and able to support the next Sprint that runs from:

2026-11-05 19:00 UTC - 2026-11-08 19:00 UTC

Project admins have confirmed that plenty of tasks will be available

regards
Tim