March Update

As a new month, and a new season if you believe the Met Office, dawns the team stands as follows:

Last update 23:00hrs 24th Feb 2006
This update 23:55hrs 1st March 2006
Total Active Members 170 (+1)
Recent Active Members 87 (-3)
Total Credit 9,121,583 ((+104,796)=21K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 70th (static)

So, healthy enough. We still have a trickle of new members and are holding our own in 70th.

Without a recruitment drive, people and machines, we might expect to slip a little over the next few months, maybe to about 80th. This is because by and large we were early switchers from Seti Classic to Boinc. Now the big hitting teams have been forced to make the switch they are beginning to overtake us.

It's a bit like my own crunching rankings: I bailed out of S@H in about 1970th place, then quickly rose to 214th for Boinc but since then I have, despite gradually increasing my productivity, sank to 450th. My RAC placing is 919th (and that's with my friends' Sempron doing it's "burn in test") so my long term goal is to hold on to a top 1000 placing.

As regards uFluids, I finally made the top 100 (98th) and the team (all 2 of us) are 42nd. One for Hitch-hiker's Guide fans to savour.

The message of the post is RECRUIT!! Scotland's Seti Needs You. I'm off to find the e-mail addresses of inactive members to bully them into getting going again. You do what you can.