Formula BOINC Sprints 2021

Icecold · Mar 18, 2021

Sprint challenge was just announced - it's SiDock@home.

StefanR5R · Mar 18, 2021

Research progress
Target: corona_RdRp_v1 (%) 83.603

Let's see how long the remaining 16.397 % will last.

The project was notified by a user after FB's open announcement. I don't know if admins were notified in advance by the organizer or his new helpers.

Fardringle · Mar 18, 2021

Icecold said:
Sprint challenge was just announced - it's SiDock@home.

Planet3DNow has been producing quite a bit in this project for a while, so it will take a good push to keep up with them (and the coalition teams) for the sprint. Bunkering in this project is really difficult since the project limits the number of tasks in progress to 2x the CPU cores. I'm planning to switch my computers over to SiDock as soon as they run out of their current tasks in other projects so they'll be up and going when the sprint starts at 11:00 AM UTC (6 AM EST).

Icecold · Mar 18, 2021

Fardringle said:
Planet3DNow has been producing quite a bit in this project for a while, so it will take a good push to keep up with them (and the coalition teams) for the sprint. Bunkering in this project is really difficult since the project limits the number of tasks in progress to 2x the CPU cores. I'm planning to switch my computers over to SiDock as soon as they run out of their current tasks in other projects so they'll be up and going when the sprint starts at 11:00 AM UTC (6 AM EST).

It should be 7AM EST unless I'm messing up something with daylight savings.

StefanR5R · Mar 18, 2021

11:00 UTC = 7AM EDT (UTC -4) = 4AM PDT (UTC -7)

Fardringle · Mar 18, 2021

Yep, I counted wrong. Math is hard!

TennesseeTony · Mar 18, 2021

"For account creation please use a Crunch_4Science invitation code. It is not needed when registering by BOINC Manager."

Further, they only allow 2x your thread count tasks at a time without jumping through the hoops to fake that. It happens to be my current project anyway, so, yeah!

StefanR5R · Mar 18, 2021

TennesseeTony said:
they only allow 2x your thread count tasks at a time

...but no more than 2x64 = 128, last time I checked.
Reporting deadline is 86,400 seconds.

Icecold · Mar 19, 2021

Starting stats. I don't know if I'll be able to post stats throughout, but wanted to at least post stats, from the Sidock website at 7AM ET.

Name	Total credit
10esseetony	8,650,675
biodoc	2,677,866
emoga	1,191,689
Icecold	782,977
crashtech	2,063,931
hca	113,418
Fardringle	1,015,883
The Great Cornholio	362,196
xii5ku	4,247,974
Orange Kid	514,065
geecee	57,109
phoenicis	1,004,995
tony marklew	11,586
zzuupp	117,980
Anitya	0
TAC [Founder]	0
Joseph S Jones	0

Fardringle · Mar 19, 2021

I grabbed the starting stats. I'll attempt to get daily updates during the sprint.

edit: IceCold beat me to it..

Icecold · Mar 19, 2021

Fardringle said:
I grabbed the starting stats. I'll attempt to get daily updates during the sprint.

edit: IceCold beat me to it..

If you're able to do daily updates that'd be great. I can jump in with stats as needed as well if it seems like they haven't been posted in awhile, but I figured at least publicly posting the starting numbers would be a good start.

Fardringle · Mar 19, 2021

Icecold said:
If you're able to do daily updates that'd be great. I can jump in with stats as needed as well if it seems like they haven't been posted in awhile, but I figured at least publicly posting the starting numbers would be a good start.

The daily update is at 5 AM my local time. If I'm awake then, I can grab the numbers, but since it's the weekend I'm definitely not going to make any promises..

Icecold · Mar 19, 2021

12 Hours In-

Name	Sprint Points
crashtech	275,535
xii5ku	192,705
10esseetony	166,954
Icecold	134,881
biodoc	66,472
Fardringle	37,245
The Great Cornholio	27,130
hca	3,742
emoga	1,216
geecee	831
Anitya	124

StefanR5R · Mar 20, 2021

On Thursday StefanR5R said:
server_status.php says now:

Research progress
Target: corona_RdRp_v1 (%) 83.603

Click to expand...

Let's see how long the remaining 16.397 % will last.

Now, on Saturday past 07:00 UTC, the project progressed another 10 %. IOW 6 % of the work towards the 4th target remain to be done.

The fifth target has been announced yesterday, called "SARS-CoV-2 EProtein" (envelope protein). ~~Its workunits have not been loaded onto the server yet.~~

Edit: The 5th target is listed at server_status.php now too. I suppose its workunits will be available right away when the remaining corona_RdRp_v1 tasks were sent.

Kiska · Mar 20, 2021

It looks like someone's server decided to ~~die~~commit suicide:

StefanR5R · Mar 20, 2021

server_status.php and other pages are slow, but at least not single-board-computer-slow.

Icecold · Mar 20, 2021

26 hour stats-

Stats in Sega Genesis form(sorry for the super old logo it was the only one I could find)-

Name	Sprint Points
crashtech	444,194
xii5ku	437,420
10esseetony	314,898
Icecold	281,509
biodoc	131,443
Fardringle	79,391
The Great Cornholio	56,976
cellarnoise2	6,456
hca	6,268
emoga	3,104
geecee	1,907
Orange Kid	853
Howdy	736
Anitya	124

@cellarnoise and @Howdy are new additions to the stats since yesterday - thanks for joining in the sprint! It's a close race between us and TSBT for third place.

Here's a screenshot of league 2 also. It doesn't affect our standing, but the very close race between Crunching@evga and Boinc.Italy for position 2 will be interesting to watch. OCUK has a significant lead in first place.

Markfw · Mar 20, 2021

I joined with a few cores.

Kiska · Mar 20, 2021

Argh another server_status being slow execution time

Time to increase timeout to 10 seconds....
EDIT:

Code:

root@vultr:/usr/share/munin/plugins# time ./sidock
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/XML/Simple.pm line 980.
File does not exist: Can't connect to www.sidock.si:443

at ./sidock line 106.

real    0m7.435s
user    0m0.128s
sys     0m0.016s

EDIT2:

Oh wow... Even 10 seconds doesn't help

Code:

root@vultr:/usr/share/munin/plugins# time ./sidock
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/XML/Simple.pm line 980.
File does not exist: Can't connect to www.sidock.si:443

at ./sidock line 106.

real    0m13.996s
user    0m0.132s
sys     0m0.012s

EDIT3:

I finally got a response!

Code:

root@vultr:/usr/share/munin/plugins# time ./sidock
multigraph results_sidock
rts.value 33122
inProgress.value 55765
multigraph workunits_sidock
validation.value 0
assimilation.value 9
deletion.value 22
deletion_result.value 44
multigraph transitioner_sidock
backlog.value 0.0011111111111111

real    0m18.443s
user    0m0.188s
sys     0m0.024s

18 bloody seconds...

Markfw · Mar 20, 2021

We are now in 3rd by 30k points. Not sure if we have enough to get 2nd. 24 hours from now my 503 cores will either get us closer or not.

Icecold · Mar 20, 2021

Markfw · Mar 20, 2021

Icecold said:
View attachment 41506

And since I last posted, our lead went from 30k to 43k. Thats a 12k gain in less than an hour.

We have 1,285,976 to catch 2nd. I will check the difference in an hour. Not hopeful, but....

Markfw · Mar 20, 2021

we are loosing 21k/hour to 2nd, so I added 304 more cores.

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