12th WCG Birthday Challenge

[Markfw]

And PLEASE let me know when I can turn them off, the house is an oven in winter ! (when the race is over)

 

[TennesseeTony]

Turn them off now. The race doesn't start until the 16th.

 

[Ken g6]

But I may turn my machine on to WCG in a day or two, because of pending credit. This isn't like a PrimeGrid race where you have to wait to start downloading work and building results.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just got a Sapphire badge for Mapping Cancer Markers, in WCG. At least, that's what BOINC told me. Should I trust the Notices? LOL.

 

[crashtech]

Hmm, maybe I should turn my new flock of GPUs towards this challenge.

 

[Markfw]

Hmm, maybe I should turn my new flock of GPUs towards this challenge.

Just make sure they go BACK to F@H by Dec 1st.

 

[TennesseeTony]

WCG hasn't had GPU apps for ages now, sadly. One sub-project used GPU for a while, but that's it as far as I know.

 

[TennesseeTony]

https://www.seti-germany.de/wcg/1_en_Welcome.html

Check here for the start time, it's coming up VERY soon. Currently 2 days and 6 hours. It's time to ask for 10 days of tasks, start crunching, but turn off the network communications until after the race starts, if you want to have a little cache/bunker ready to dump.

https://www.seti-germany.de/wcg/1_en_Welcome.html

 

[TennesseeTony]

Starts in 27 hours!!!

 

[Markfw]

Well, I have 44 cores crunching

"I'm given her all shes got captain"

 

[TennesseeTony]

BOINC let's you cheat a little for a race, you can disable network communications (assuming you have enough tasks to last 24 hours), and then re-enable the network once the race starts, giving you a cache of finished tasks to dump at the start of the race. 🙂

The setting is under "Activity" on the advance BOINC manager.

 

[Markfw]

BOINC let's you cheat a little for a race, you can disable network communications (assuming you have enough tasks to last 24 hours), and then re-enable the network once the race starts, giving you a cache of finished tasks to dump at the start of the race. 🙂

The setting is under "Activity" on the advance BOINC manager.

Well, since I can do the entire queue in less than 6 hours, I should wait until then. Right ? you can;t queue more than one entire "package" ?

 

[Ken g6]

I have about 140 WUs ready to flush on this computer, and more on my laptop.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Mark, I can't speak for the linux client, but in windows, go to BOINC manager/Options/Computing preferences, and in the lower section called Other, set your "Store at least:" to 10 days. They have a limit on tasks in progress, but I got enough for 2.5 days on all my rigs. You can set that back to 1 day or whatever, after the race starts.

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Well played Ken! 😀 I've got 1025 ready to flush, but I am only running the Zika sub-project, which only take about 2 hours each.

 

[waffleironhead]

Glad I checked in here. Totally forgot about this race. Switching over right now.

 

[Markfw]

I told it 3 days and 3 days for the 2 options, queueing now for 20 cores.

 

[Kiska]

I think I am submitting tasks as they finish, well better start bunking

 

[iwajabitw]

Incase I missed it, what's the actual start time for the contest and time zone. Don't want to dump these Wu's too soon. All tasks were completed this morning so I am idle until the show starts.

 

[Orange Kid]

Incase I missed it, what's the actual start time for the contest and time zone. Don't want to dump these Wu's too soon. All tasks were completed this morning so I am idle until the show starts.

I understand it as 00:00 Nov 16th UTC time. So for me in CST it is 6:00 pm today. Hope I have this right.

 

[iwajabitw]

I'm cst too, so good deal, ill just be getting home. Thanks

 

[crashtech]

Is there a cheat sheet for dummies like me that haven't made time to figure this out? I'll put some stuff to work on it, just been very busy.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Not really crashtech, just open the BOINC manager/Tools/Add Project and select World Community Grid (worldcommunitygrid.org), and sign up, making sure to join the TeAm Anandtech. There is a limited bit of customization, such as choosing a particular project to crunch. Some project tasks are upward of 12 hours, some, 2 hours. Zika is a 2 hour task, Tuberculosis is about 2 hours if you can get any of those (limited), mapping cancer markers is 2-4 hours I think.

http://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=950425&teamId=SHNW8R84S1 is supposed to get you joined up and directly link you to the team, but it also gives me credit for recruiting you, which I didn't realize when I posted that link earlier in this thread.

 

[Markfw]

and in 2 1/2 hours, or 4 PM PST, (a few minutes after to be sure) we let go all units stored up ? I have 50-60 last time I looked.

Here is my past distribution at 800k WCG points



Project Points
Generated Results Returned Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) Badges Earned
OpenZika 65,997 169 0:018:03:41:58

FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2 67,023 24 0:020:18:17:34

Outsmart Ebola Together 91,068 331 0:025:15:23:21

Mapping Cancer Markers 577,871 742 0:207:10:12:51

Uncovering Genome Mysteries 683 1 0:000:05:10:19

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yep, wait a few minutes after to flush the workunits. 4pm sounds correct for the west coast, 5pm mountain, 6pm Central and 7pm Eastern US.

 

[crashtech]

Flush the work units? Is there a how-to in this thread? I have too many things going at once...

BTW, Tony, I used the link you provided here in the office, and it loaded a customized version of BOINC, I think, with IBM branding. I assume other machines which have vanilla BOINC on them will work just as well, though the instructions for dumping the WUs might be different.