CONTENTS:

* Upcoming Challenges
* BOINC News
* Project of the Month
* BOINC Standings
* Trivia Winners for January
* Computer of the Month
* Quote of the Month
* Personal Milestones
* Users of the Day
* DIMES Update
* Request for Guest Articles
* Other Projects of interest
* SETI.USA Cluster Update
* Member of the Month Interview

Upcoming Challenges -SargeD

World Community Grid is sponsoring a "Bunny Race" which will run from March 1 thru March 23. Team SETI.USA has entered into this race even though the credits are not very good. We won the last WCG challenges hands down and would like to add this one to our list of wins. For more information please check this thread at our forums.

Poem@Home is sponsoring a mini-race of sorts which will run immediately after the WCG "Bunny Race" in March (March 24-31). The intent of this race is to boost production and test the limits of their new server. Although there has been no official announcement that we will participate, there has been some general interest expressed and we will most likely have members participating. Check out the discussion in this thread.

BOINC News: --SargeD

BOINC 1 Billion Update:

We are now less than two months from our goal of reaching 1 billion BOINC credits. This is a major milestone for our team and one that many of us have been looking forward to. Our current BOINC daily production is 2,729,047 and the closest team to us is SETI.Germany with a daily production of 2,374,111. Germany is a little over 96 million credits behind us in BOINC total, so we will definitely reach the billion mark well ahead of them. Keep on crunching and recruiting new members and we will remain at the top!!

Project of the Month: -DrBob

SETI.USA encourages its members to participate in the project of their choice. Now that we have accomplished the team's original goal of being #1 in SETI@home credit in ALL BOINC projects is valuable to the team's future success.

Some members have asked for direction as to which projects they should allocate their resources to. Therefore we have decided to designate a “Team Project of the Month”. The chosen project typically will be one in which our team currently has a poor showing in that projects standings.

LHC@home has been chosen for the Team Project of the Month for February.

Our team is currently ranked 11th in BOINC standings on the project but due to the projects intermittent release of work it has been difficult for us to advance the team's position.
As a constant work flow cannot be expected from this project we have decided to try something new this month and have a backup project or two for times when LHC@home does not have work available.
The chosen backup projects are malariacontrol.net and Pirates@Home

We are currently in 29th place in Malariacontrol and 2nd in Pirates@home.
For those members participating we are suggesting you attach to all three projects with the following “resource shares”;
LHC – 2000
Malaria – 100
Pirates – 2000
The “Resource share” can be set for each project from the projects preference setting found on “Your Account” page for the project.
These shares should insure BOINC will give priority to LHC & Pirates and download the scarce but valuable work when available but still keep you machine crunching Malaria.net during times when the main POTM is out of work.

LHC@home – Resource share 2000
Project URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
Create an Account: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/crea ... t_form.php
Join Our Team: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team ... eamid=1164

malariacontrol.net – Resource share 100
Project URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/
Create an Account: http://www.malariacontrol.net/create_account_form.php
Join Our Team: http://www.malariacontrol.net/team_disp ... ?teamid=60

Pirates@Home – Resource share 2000
Project URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/
Create an Account: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/create_account_form.php
Join Our Team: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/team_display.php?teamid=424

LHC@home was nominated for Project of The Month by gregk & Crazybob's Son.
Malariacontrol was nominated for Project of The Month by zedd2000.

Boinc Standings -DrBob

Computer of the Month:

It is the goal of your newsletter staff to provide information and articles of interest to our members. The Computer of the month article will be discontinued in future newsletter issues due to lack of entries. Should we start receiving entries from members again we will consider reinstating the article.

Quote of the Month:

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

-Harvey Fierstein-

January UoTDs -SargeD

We set a new record in the month of January with a total of 58 UoTDs! We also passed Rechenkraft and took over the #8 position. We are currently 34 ahead of Rechenkraft and 94 behind #9 BOINC@Heidelberg. Keep up the good work and remember to update those project profiles occassionally!

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Other Projects of interest -SargeD

SETI.USA encourages it's members to crunch whatever project most interests them. However, there are a few projects that we run that do not interfere with our primary projects, yet help us to increase our overall numbers in BOINC. Two of these projects are Pirates@Home and Depspid. Depspid is a non-cpu intensive project that uses some of your bandwidth. Pirates@Home uses the CPU but the WUs are so short (usually less than a minute) that they never interfere with production on other projects. Work for these projects is very sporadic, so we encourage our members to connect and stay connected so that when work is released we can grab our share. Please consider connecting to these projects if you have not already.

SETI.USA Cluster Update

We have lost 3 of our nodes and are now down to 20. If you have any spare parts laying around, especially motherboards and CPUs, that you do not need please post them here. If you want to add your name to the host volunteer list post here. You can also donate money to the cause which will be used to buy needed parts for new nodes or to upgrade existing nodes.

Member of the Month Interview -SargeD

Two months into the new year and one month from our second year anniversary as a team. We are still surprisng ourselves and other teams with our ability to reach our goals and continue to grow as a team. We feel it is important that we get to know each other and that is the purpose of this article. So please welcome.......

Beerdrinker!

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