Team Phoenix Rising - Distributed Computing Evolved.
Distributed computing projects just would not be right without a "Phoenix Rising" team, and we have representation in nearly every distributed computing project currently running. So if you want to help find a cure for cancer, find the aliens, bash particles together at high speed there is a project for you to participate in.
All these project allocate points or credit based upon the time you spend helping with your computer and the power of you hardware. This points allocation makes a second part to "crunching", races! We are in a race at some point on a project somewhere all the time. Sometimes these are between other teams of crunchers and TPR, and sometimes we race each other. In all races there is the same winner - the projects, all teams recognise this, so although there is a lot of banter between teams. It is all done in good humour.
TPR History
Team Phoenix Rising was started from a few like minded people who had a vision of equality. All members have the same "ranking", regardless of forum post counts or numbers of points in any given project. The team participated very strongly in the original Seti project, now affectionately known as "Seti Classic". One of the founder members, Millhouse, provided stats that made for great reading and great racing. The virtual team statistics provided great internal racing. The TPR forums quickly grew, and so did the crunching power, the final TPR Seti Classic stats can be found here.
The way forward
TPR and the Future
The team is working hard to move into the Boinc platform and match the high quality statistics we became accustomed to the Millhouse "Stattomatic". The Stattomatic is coming back, at the moment we have a stattomatic running for Seti Boinc and hope to get this extended to other projects.
The TPR Community
The
team forums are the heart of TPR where you can drop in for a beer and recant wild stories filled with wondrous SETI or other project exploits, or slide into the Mos Eisley Cantina to talk about total... well, whatever you want really. The project forums are the places to find news on project "stomps", progress of projects science and news on our progress as a team in any races that TPR are involved in.
The rules on the forums are simple common sense and no user is above this. The forum moderators do a difficult job keeping off the spam bots and watching over to make sure the forums remain family suitable and friendly. All the moderators have been voted into the positions they have, diplomacy is at the core of TPR.
...and finally
The founding rules for TPR
1. Have fun
2. see 1
Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 10/01/2006 07:51 PM by DoubleTop
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