Formula Boinc Sprints 2018

[StefanR5R]

The first thirteen hours:

 

[StefanR5R]

The first twenty-four hours:

If we compare CNT's vs. SUSA's results so far with the Amicable Numbers sprint, then maybe the ratio of installed AMD GPUs vs. Nvidia GPUs is higher at CNT than at SUSA. Or CNT are trying harder this time. Or SUSA are bunkering harder.

 

[Orange Kid]

Enigma@ home
Day one and we have the silver leaning our way. I think we may have awoken a Czech monster. They slept through the last sprint and concentrated on the pentathlon. This time around they may be a bit more formidable.
Gridcoin is Gridcoin and does what they do.
Keep on looking for that secret message!

1 Gridcoin ..................…...…….25 ...….....59,177,276
2 TeAm AnandTech ............…..18 ...........28,246,720
3 Czech National Team ......…...15 ......…..22,490,448
4 SETI.USA ...........................….12 ......….15,892,341
5 Rechenkraft.net ......................10 ...........11,600,607
6 Overclock.net .........…..............8 ......…...10,890,138
7 L'Alliance Francophone ......….6 ......……..8,723,047
8 UK BOINC Team ....................4 ............…3,885,010
9 Planet 3DNow! ........................2 ..............2,763,660
10 BOINC@Poland .........…...….1 ..............1,414,170

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 2, 1st half. Are SETI.USA reconsidering their technique?

 

[GLeeM]

Are SETI.USA reconsidering their technique?

And then they lost Silver in the Marathon.

 

[Orange Kid]

Enigma@home
Day two and still hanging on to the silver spot. We have also picked up a spot and 2 points in the Marathon.
The race between 3rd and 4th seems to be heating up though. Will SUSA have enough to pass CNT?
Meanwhile in League 2 the [H]ard one's are taking it to the Xtreme

1 Gridcoin ................................25 ............120,399,564
2 TeAm AnandTech ............….18 ......…….50,850,158
3 Czech National Team ...........15 ......….....37,589,230
4 SETI.USA ..................……….12 .........….33,369,758
5 Rechenkraft.net .....................10 ..............23,273,243
6 Overclock.net .....................….8 ..........….18,397,087
7 L'Alliance Francophone ......….6 ..........….17,875,285
8 UK BOINC Team ...............…..4 ................8,642,834
9 Planet 3DNow! ........................2 ................7,286,607
10 BOINC@Poland ......…......….1 .......….....2,152,616

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 2, all 24 hours. Look at the move that L'AF made.

 

[TennesseeTony]

L'AF made a move? Oh, yeah, I see it now, I found my bi-focal glasses....kinda small, isn't it?

Thanks for the graphs Stefan!

 

[zzuupp]

Thanks for all of the stats & gra

I left the barn door open for CPU units, too. I haven't had much til this evening.

Wow , I just got a bunch. They'll be finished overnight, but I'll give every little bit o' help that I can

 

[StefanR5R]

Meanwhile in League 2 the [H]ard one's are taking it to the Xtreme

day 3, 09:00 UTC — Gridcoin 147.5 million, [H]ard|OCP 145.8 million...

And it shows:

https://stats3.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=eni

Yesterday and the day before yesterday have been the days with the most credits at Enigma, by far:

Date . . . . . . . . . . . . Credit
2018-05-26 . . . 284,851,310
2018-05-25 . . . 206,020,029
2018-01-19 . . . 120,693,539
2018-03-03 . . . 117,719,542
2018-03-24 . . . 117,314,680
2018-03-05 . . . 115,517,397
2018-01-17 . . . 115,277,110
2018-02-20 . . . 113,987,560
2018-02-22 . . . 113,704,716
2018-03-04 . . . 113,332,842

https://www.rechenkraft.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=16857&start=206

 

[StefanR5R]

The dawn of day 3. CNT are not liking how the green line develops.

 

[TennesseeTony]

It looked like Poland had flat-lined, but thank goodness they have a bit of life left, with that little heart-beat there at the end.

 

[biodoc]

I think Boinc@Poland noticed we are on their tail in the marathon and moving up fast.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Ooops, someone hit the warp-speed button at Stefan's house.

 

[StefanR5R]

XtremeSystems is at 2nd in League 2, and they are out scoring us by quite a large margin so far, so let's be glad those two are in league 2 this year.

What do you mean by they are outscoring us?
You mean they are keeping up with us pretty well?

 

[TennesseeTony]

I chose those words carefully, outscoring us....so far.

 

[Orange Kid]

Not quite the final, but have to go before the end.
I'm going to predict that the silver is ours along with a gain of two places and 4 points in the marathon.
SUSA came on strong and has edged out CNT for the #3 spot.
Over all it looks to be a third place for us. [H]ardOCP couldn't quite muster enough for first, but put in quite the showing at first in their league and second overall.

1    Gridcoin    25    178,297,172
2    TeAm AnandTech    18    100,720,987
3    SETI.USA    15    60,909,056
4    Czech National Team    12    53,428,358
5    Rechenkraft.net    10    40,936,979
6    Overclock.net    8    25,606,112
7    L'Alliance Francophone    6    23,695,217
8    Planet 3DNow!    4    12,545,768
9    UK BOINC Team    2    11,903,204
10    BOINC@Poland    1    4,054,027

….and of course the F1 final
May 27: Monaco Grand Prix
1. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull
2. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari
3. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 3 complete: Yes, Silver it is!

There was some curiously synchronized bunker opening going on between 13h and 14h, from us, SETI.USA, and Rechenkraft.net. The last few hours still had some late bunkers from SETI.USA, Rechenkraft.net, and L'Alliance Francophone.

Extrapolating from the previous GPU sprint outside the Pentathlon, the Amicable Numbers sprint, it was not too much of a surprise to see SETI.USA overtaking Czech National Team. But it made a bit of a stir in CNT's forum.

Good job from Overclock.net going super steady and remaining in front of L'AF.

Planet 3DNow! apparently began to get a grip on Enigma@home's quirks late in the game, and maneuvered themselves in front of UK BOINC Team over the course of several hours.

League 2: [H]ard|OCP are virtually tied with league 1's #1, Gridcoin.
League 3: Impressive job from LITOMYSL Boinc Team Czech Republic, with an output almost the same as league 1's #7, L'AF.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Now we have 1 bronze, 1 gold, and 1 silver from this year's sprints. Not bad at all for rookie, is it?
Well done TeAm!

*I fell asleep when watching MonacoGP, but fortunate enough to see Tom Brady and Princess Charlene.

 

[StefanR5R]

Now we have 1 bronze, 1 gold, and 1 silver from this year's sprints. Not bad at all for rookie, is it?

Merely 6 sprints into this season, and already 3 medals...
These were GPU sprints though. We will have our work cut out in the upcoming CPU sprints.

 

[Orange Kid]

Enigma@ home
Final stats for the sprint

1    Gridcoin    25    181,139,799
2    TeAm AnandTech    18    101,674,185
3    SETI.USA     15    61,878,016
4    Czech National Team    12    54,015,533
5    Rechenkraft.net    10    41,506,814
6    Overclock.net    8    25,976,366
7    L'Alliance Francophone    6    23,899,478
8    Planet 3DNow!    4    12,780,240
9    UK BOINC Team    2    12,063,635
10    BOINC@Poland    1    4,079,685

 

[GLeeM]

Great job TeAm!

Thanks for the stats, Orange Kid & StefanR5R

 

[StefanR5R]

Sunday was again a record-breaking day for Enigma@home:

Of course this competition brought new users to the project.

In addition, these new users certainly received crash courses on the technical quirks of Enigma@home by their more experienced team mates, enabling the n00bs to run it effectively (or at all) in a matter of hours or of a day. On many configs, it certainly isn't a project which you just add and it just works.

(I am one of the n00bs myself. I joined the project after 24:00 local time — way past the time of day at which my mental capacity is at its peak — but got it to work right away, among else because one of the very first steps which I did was to allow test applications. I believe I did this because I remembered posts from @iwajabitw from 2017, talking about experimental GPU support at Enigma. Thanks!)

(graphs from https://stats3.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=eni)

 

[Ken g6]

I hate this MOD_PYTHON project. When it's selected it's always ERRORing out.

 

[GLeeM]

I hate this MOD_PYTHON project. When it's selected it's always ERRORing out.

Is this problem a difficult time consuming thing to fix? If not, you would think there would be a number of race fans willing to volunteer to do it right on a timely basis. Maybe the monkeys over at GoofyxGrid could help?