A 3 day (72 hour) Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid’s 321 Prime Search LLR application.

To participate in the Challenge, please select only the 321 Prime Search project in your PrimeGrid preferences section.

The challenge will begin 22 August 2008 00:00 UTC and end 25 August 2008 00:00 UTC.



Welcome to the Dog Days of Summer Challenge

Currently Team BOINCstats is in 6th place in PrimeGrid's 2008 Challenge Series Official Standings.

All those who participated in the Lunar Landing Challenge well remember that we came on strong at the end, only to run out of time with 2K points [out of 125K] short to move us up a place.

Let's start like we finished in July.

2008-08-15 01:00 UTC

Look yonder in the hot summer sky and you can see the clouds building. A storm is brewing in the distance...a storm to end the Dog Days of Summer. Please come join us in a 3 day (22-24 August - 72 hour) Challenge to usher an end to the hot sweltering days of summer. PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search LLR application has been chosen. For more information, please see this forum thread.

A challenge is a short period of time, ranging from one day to several weeks. During this challenge, you crunch as much as you can for this (sub)project. At the end of the challenge there is a user and a team ranking. Stats are updated and exported very frequently, so stats sites like BOINCStats can keep very detailed statistics. The challenge concept has been developed by Rytis Slatkeviçius from PrimeGrid and Willy de Zutter from BOINCStats.

The"Dog Days of Summer Challenge" is part of Primegrid's "Challenge Series". There is a challenge every month and at the end of the year one user and one team are crowned "Challenge Series" winners. This challenge is PrimeGrids 5th challenge this year.


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Not completely true. It was developed by Rytis and John. The idea to push the statistics to stats sites every 15 minutes was conceived by me (as I was disappointed in the stats published at PrimeGrid, I kept refreshing the page but it didn't update as frequently as I wanted it).
It was then worked out by Rytis and me.

1 day, 7 hours . . .

12 hours, 39 minutes. . .

3 hours, 34 minutes. . . .

2 hours. . .

We're off and running. . .

The results of the PrimeGrid 'Dog Days of Summer Challenge' are official, and we finished in 4th place. . .

. . . and our 6th place in the overall competition has been improved.

Hoorah!