FormulaBOINC

[crashtech]

I hope I have the time right, because I'm off to the races as of 15 minutes ago!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yep, the race is on! You can flush your bunkers now.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Wow, what a great start! First hour's results are in. Link is here.

Special shout out to Orange Kid for bringing these new races to our attention!

EDIT: Interestingly enough, we are very far ahead of the other two leagues as well at the 2nd hour (330,177) . League one's leader only has 162,832 and League 3 only has 65,321.

 

[Kiska]

Urgh, I decided to add yoyo on 1 server. I look away for about 2 minutes, BOINC has decided to grab 120 days worth of tasks

Also my new build is coming together nicely, just got my $500 motherboard

 

[TennesseeTony]

I know you were looking at many options once and don't recall what you decided upon. What was the deciding factor that favored the standard 2011 over the V3, cost of the CPUs?

 

[Kiska]

I know you were looking at many options once and don't recall what you decided upon. What was the deciding factor that favored the standard 2011 over the V3, cost of the CPUs?

Yes, and that after races, I'll probably be doing CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics), FEA(Finite Element Analysis) and general CAD work, cause I can't afford a high end or even cheap Quadro's or FirePros

Here is my build if you were interested: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/YLXxPs

 

[crashtech]

Wow, what a great start! First hour's results are in. Link is here.

Special shout out to Orange Kid for bringing these new races to our attention!

EDIT: Interestingly enough, we are very far ahead of the other two leagues as well at the 2nd hour (330,177) . League one's leader only has 162,832 and League 3 only has 65,321.

Woohoo! Not bad, not bad at all! I might be able to bring another hexacore into the mix in time to help. Is there any way to break that stat down into individual contributions?

 

[Ken g6]

Is there any way to break that stat down into individual contributions?

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=yoy&team=116 ?

 

[crashtech]

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=yoy&team=116 ?

Oh, yeah, but stats just for the competition might be a little hard to figure out? Mine aren't, since I started from zero.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Some interesting notes from this project, or more correctly, from the ECM subproject:

• Haswell-E Core i7-5820K@3.4GHz takes 20,000 seconds per task.
• Haswell-E Xeon e5-2683-v3@2.5GHz--- 3 of them are taking 30,000 seconds per task. The last one is only taking 29,000 seconds. Not sure why, all the memories are locked by the CPU to 1066/2133. All systems are peaking at 98% CPU utilization (single thread available). The only other difference being the faster system is running AMD cards instead of Nvidia, on Einstein.
• And last, I've seen some tasks "waiting on available memory." This one is my fault. Don't forget to go into your BOINC client, choose Options/Computing Preferences/Memory and Disk usage tab and set the percent of memory you'd like to be available to BOINC. I set mine to 90%, having 16GB of RAM, and cured that issue. It's set much lower by default.

 

[Orange Kid]

Have a before on the Formula Boinc to see the change on the Marathon chart but didn't do individual stats my bad.
Something I'll do on the next one.

 

[StefanR5R]

TennesseeTony,
on E5-2690v4@3.2GHz (HT on; fully on Yoyo) I see ECM tasks in three flavors:
...... 3,700 s ...... 93.72 credits = 91 credits/hour/thread
.... 12,000 s .... 208.22 credits = 62 credits/hour/thread
.... 18,500 s .... 364.36 credits = 71 credits/hour/thread

On my i7-6950X@4.0GHz (HT on; 17x Yoyo + 3x F@H-GPU) I only spotted the shorter ECM tasks:
...... 2,800 s ...... 93.72 credits = 120 credits/hour/thread

E3-1245v3@3.6GHz (HT on, 8x Yoyo + background load):
...... 3,900 s ...... 93.72 credits = 87 credits/hour/thread
.... 12,500 s .... 208.22 credits = 60 credits/hour/thread
.... 20,000 s .... 364.36 credits = 66 credits/hour/thread

(Besides ECM I also have all other subprojects enabled. Inconveniently, Yoyo's personal results list lacks the filtering options of PrimeGrid's and MilkyWay's corresponding lists.)

Edit: 5960->6950

Edit 2:
i7-4960X@4.5 GHz (doing only 2...6 Yoyo threads at a time, hence little or no HT'ing going on):
...... 1,800 s ...... 93.72 credits = 190 credits/hour/thread

 

[StefanR5R]

I now evaluated 20 OGR results on E5-2690v4:
CPU time: ...................... min 1,900 s .... max 12,500 s .... avg 5,500 s
granted credit: .............. min 24.1 ......... max 157.1 ......... avg 69.7
credits/hour/thread: .... min 45.2 ......... max 47.2 ........... avg 46.2

So indeed, ECM > OGR.

 

[crashtech]

Well, the Czechs are beating us! I better get that old hexacore going.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Fortunately for us, CNT is in the 'big leagues' and we aren't really competing with them...this year. They have definitely released the hounds though, and made up much ground.

Whoa. Overclock just dumped some bunkers for sure, and jumped within striking distance of us!

 

[StefanR5R]

Right at this moment, we are once again a hair ahead of Czech National Team, current leader of League 1. Plus, we moved from rank 9 to 8 at the overall Season 2017 Results of League 2.

 

[crashtech]

Fortunately for us, CNT is in the 'big leagues' and we aren't really competing with them...this year. They have definitely released the hounds though, and made up much ground.

Whoa. Overclock just dumped some bunkers for sure, and jumped within striking distance of us!

Wow. Overclock was really sandbagging there!

 

[crashtech]

Okay, got the hexacore (W3670) going, it's sitting on my desk next to me using a PSU out of the junk pile, hope it makes through! That makes 30 Nehalem cores, four 8 Haswell cores, and 4 Skylake cores, 72 76 threads in all. (I'm givin' her all she's got, captain!)

Edit: My wife has agreed to participate with her i5-4590, so that makes 8 Haswell cores and 76 threads!

 

[TennesseeTony]

.....Plus, we moved from rank 9 to 8 at the overall Season 2017 Results of League 2.

I noticed that but wasn't really paying enough attention to be sure of it. It is interesting...we have been awarded 25 points already for the Sprint, but that's not enough to have passed the previous team, we picked up another 4+ points somewhere. We do get to double dip on Yoyo points though, 25 points for leading the Sprint, and also gained points for the whole year (Marathon). That's neat. Maybe that's where the other 4+ points came from.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Woohoo! Top 10 as a team. We are all internet famous for a day!

 

[Kiska]

Ummm.... This is embarrassing, I forgot to add about (7+7+4+4) 22 cores into the race

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I have to download ~30MB of BOINC logs, my Linux machines haven't been restarted for about 72 days. And this Australian internet isn't the best for doing such a thing

 

[StefanR5R]

Observed on i7-6950X:
ECM:

many tasks done
CPU time/task = 2,600...17,000 s
credits/hour/thread = 123...525​

Evolution@home:

5 tasks done
CPU time/task = 28,000...35,000 s
credits/hour/thread = 52...55​

Muon:

3 tasks done
CPU time/task = 4,400...41,000 s
credits/hour/thread = 64...67​

On an i7-4900MQ, Evo and Muon are consistently lower yielding than ECM as well.

 

[Orange Kid]

The Start
1 Overclock.net................... 25 ........... 9,573,188
2 XtremeSystems ............... 18 ............ 2,189,004
3 AMD Users ...................... 15 ............ 1,751,334
4 Ars Technica ........ ........... 12 ........... 1,685,996
5 meisterkuehler.de Team .. 10 ........... 1,134,844
6 The Scottish Boinc Team .. 8 ............... 859,399
7 team.se ............................. 6 ................ 627,370
8 TeAm AnandTech ............. 4 ................ 621,026
9 Sicituradastra. ................... 2 ................ 556,376
10 Team Norway ................. 1 ................. 510,937

Day One
1 Overclock.net................. ..25 ..............10,432,940
2 XtremeSystems ...............18 ...............2,189,004
3 AMD Users ......................15 ...............1,776,897
4 Ars Technica ...................12 ...............1,726,447
5 TeAm AnandTech ...........10 ...............1,648,561
6 meisterkuehler.de Team ..8 .................1,444,511
7 The Scottish Boinc Team .6 ..................861,159
8 team.se .............................4 .................642,232
9 Sicituradastra. ...................2 .................557,696
10 Team Norway .................1 ..................530,117

 

[Kiska]

@StefanR5R You can analyse my host results
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vjSdPk-RaCdR3V3jVE6wzfrGhKQsciEZmXc9Sho_B7I/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Kiska]

The Start
1 Overclock.net................... 25 ........... 9,573,188
2 XtremeSystems ............... 18 ............ 2,189,004
3 AMD Users ...................... 15 ............ 1,751,334
4 Ars Technica ........ ........... 12 ........... 1,685,996
5 meisterkuehler.de Team .. 10 ........... 1,134,844
6 The Scottish Boinc Team .. 8 ............... 859,399
7 team.se ............................. 6 ................ 627,370
8 TeAm AnandTech ............. 4 ................ 621,026
9 Sicituradastra. ................... 2 ................ 556,376
10 Team Norway ................. 1 ................. 510,937

Day One
1 Overclock.net................. ..25 ..............10,432,940
2 XtremeSystems ...............18 ...............2,189,004
3 AMD Users ......................15 ...............1,776,897
4 Ars Technica ...................12 ...............1,726,447
5 TeAm AnandTech ...........10 ...............1,648,561
6 meisterkuehler.de Team ..8 .................1,444,511
7 The Scottish Boinc Team .6 ..................861,159
8 team.se .............................4 .................642,232
9 Sicituradastra. ...................2 .................557,696
10 Team Norway .................1 ..................530,117

Where do you find that info? Cause I can't on FB's thing