FormulaBOINC

[StefanR5R]

Proudly graduating from one-trick pony to Pony Engine.

 

[ocukguest]

evga are clearly not impressed with you guys. lol

 

[StefanR5R]

But we just meant well, keeping traffic to the server to a bare minimum during the first days of the race, while the server was hit so hard by everyone.

 

[GLeeM]

Good, then the ones I have pending should finally validate............

Me too! 🙂

 

[ocukguest]

But we just meant well, keeping traffic to the server to a bare minimum during the first days of the race, while the server was hit so hard by everyone.

that's a fair comment, weather true or not haha
given the sever wobbles, maybe OcUK should drop there bunkers now aswell 😱 if anybody has any that is...

 

[Orange Kid]

Day two and hanging in fourth.
Looks like everyone has about the same output as yesterday except OcUK has toned it down a bit.
On to the final day............😱

CSG.......................Sprint...............Day One +
1 OcUK - Overclockers UK ......25 .................30,158,827
2 Overclock.net ........................18 ..................6,845,575
3 Crunching@EVGA ................15 ..................6,634,572
4 TeAm AnandTech .................12 ..................5,426,943
5 AMD Users ............................10 .....................205,858
6 meisterkuehler.de Team .........8 ......................197,315
7 Ars Technica ...........................6 ......................193,018
8 Hungary ..................................4 ......................148,784
9 Sicituradastra. .........................2 ......................110,445
10 Boinc UK ...............................1 ........................58,752

CSG...............Sprint.....................Day Two
1 OcUK - Overclockers UK ........25 ..................37,784,646
2 Overclock.net ..........................18 ..................12,721,180
3 Crunching@EVGA ..................15 ..................12,534,831
4 TeAm AnandTech ...................12 ...................11,246,746
5 meisterkuehler.de Team .........10 ......................499,330
6 Ars Technica ............................8 .......................331,270
7 AMD Users ...............................6 ......................284,729
8 Hungary ....................................4 ......................214,407
9 Sicituradastra. ..........................2 .......................161,753
10 Boinc UK ................................1 .......................117,590

 

[bill1024]

evga are clearly not impressed with you guys. lol

We are always impressed!!!

 

[TennesseeTony]

But it would be funny if 4 days of dedication, hard work, energy/money, and SCIENCE result in no valid results?

 

[StefanR5R]

That silly person among us is actually more calculating and risk-averse than some are assuming.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Bam! Thank you for another heart-attack moment.

That's quite a jump.

 

[crashtech]

Oh, wow. Bravo, TeAm!

 

[StefanR5R]

That's quite a jump.

That's not exactly from a jump, but from a sprint-within-a-sprint going on while it was night at your and my place.

 

[StefanR5R]

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.

But more often we learn by following the advice of the experienced. I am here since about a year now and am glad to have learned a lot already from my TeAm mates. I also found good advice in project forums and some other team forums, among them some from @bill1024 at the Crunching@EVGA forum. Thanks for that.

And another thing, with all the issues they are having with their severs as it is, with the huge bunkers coming from several people all at once, it would be your own fault. Then how would you feel taking down their servers,

To calm any concerns that you may have, a good part of my downloads, and all my uploads so far, happened outside the period during which the networking stack of the server was overloaded.

...his extra-hard working-around-the-server-limits...

I'm not keen on creating an account at the EVGA forum, so maybe an EVGA member can explain to Punchy how the quota of tasks in progress are calibrated towards average or slower-than-average hosts, and how it is a necessity to work around these limits on large and fast hosts in a credits-based sprint on a quorum=2 project, just in order to level the playing field. (Primegrid challenges excepted.) Even with the number of queues with which I ran this and the previous sprint, I probably still have more than average hardware threads per queue, hence am still at a slight disadvantage. All what Punchy can observe is that this gives me more flexibility in timing the reporting of results, but this is really only just one aspect of several.

 

[ao_ika_red]

That's not exactly from a jump, but from a sprint-within-a-sprint going on while it was night at your and my place.

There's nothing better than waking up in the morning and knowing somebody out there doing their magic while I'm still sleeping. Thanks guys.

 

[Skillz]

Where is the popcorn?

 

[StefanR5R]

You still haven't answered how your teammate's excessive bunkering, sometimes including working around project limits with extra virtual machines or disk images, benefits those projects.

For starters, think about whether or not contests help the projects. The rest has been explained previously.

Edit,
PS, 3.5 days bunkering isn't really that much. Also, neither VMs nor disk images are involved.

Edit 2,
@bill1024, don't worry; my hosts are shown to the project server exactly as they are.

 

[Skillz]

If the work is returned before the deadline then it's helping the project. Period.

Some people HAVE to "bunker" because they're limited by their Internet activity. Are those people hurting the projects because they're can't stay connected to the 'net 24/7? I think not.

The only time it "hurts" a project is when you abort a lot of tasks and they have to be resent. Even then, the work will get completed.

Some people are just sore losers. *shrug*

 

[crashtech]

Well, it would appear that EVGA's fight is with OCN now, not us.

Next year we will be a small fish in the big pond, and EVGA won't have to worry about us at all. If we were in league 1, we'd be in fourth now.

 

[Skillz]

We get to play with them next year. 😀

 

[crashtech]

We get to play with them next year. 😀

Have fun, hope you guys kick butt! 😀

 

[phoenicis]

That silly person among us is actually more calculating and risk-averse than some are assuming.

Just ignore them. Worrying as it was during the WCG challenge, bunkering is not only within the rules, TAAT bunkering makes the competition downright fun.

It's clear to outsiders to league 2 who the adults in the room are.

 

[GLeeM]

The only time it "hurts" a project is when you abort a lot of tasks and they have to be resent.

It can't "hurt" too much as project admins would rather have you abort than let them time out. Which EVGA team must have known as many WUs have been aborted by them today.

 

[StefanR5R]

[H]Skillz, [H]phoenicis, thanks for coming by.
BTW, great how you turned your lone stay in league 3 into a duel against Gridcoin. One more month to go, but so far so good!

 

[Skillz]

Gridcoin doesn't want any of the [H] train. lol...

 

[Orange Kid]

Another wild and crazy finish.😱😀
Second in the Sprint and we also gained a spot and 3 points in the marathon. Quite the surprise there.
This was fun. Thanks to all who knowingly or unknowingly contributed to our successes.
xii5ku, the bunker master.
crashtech, has amassed an armada to rival Tony's
Tony,Statsman, who was plagued by real life (O.T.King not by choice) and a last minute hardware malfunction.
Ken g6, our script master.
Markfw, Master Folder and major cpu force on call.
The new guys, indydude345, pandemonium, ao_ika_red, IEC, iwajabitw, Kiska. (Sorry if I missed someone.)
The old guys, you know who you are with your selfless years of dedication here. ( I don't think I could mention everyone by name.)
your the best.

Formula Boinc.......................Top Five
1

Overclock.net .......................890
2

OcUK - Overclockers UK .....812
3

TeAm AnandTech ................786
4

Crunching@EVGA ...............510
5

Sicituradastra. ......................448

CSG........................Marathon
1 Overclock.net .......................25 ...............345,756,576
2 OcUK - Overclockers UK .....18 ...............186,413,637
3 TeAm AnandTech ................15 ...............150,233,822
4 Ars Technica .........................12 ..............142,187,807
5 meisterkuehler.de Team .......10 ................97,311,100
6 XtremeSystems ......................8 ................70,078,672
7 The Scottish Boinc Team .......6 .................65,658,730
8 Crunching@EVGA .................4 .................53,682,393
9 AMD Users .............................2 .................33,309,763
10 Portugal@Home ...................1 .................24,457,564



CSG.......................Sprint...............Day One +
1 OcUK - Overclockers UK ......25 .................30,158,827
2 Overclock.net ........................18 ..................6,845,575
3 Crunching@EVGA ................15 ..................6,634,572
4 TeAm AnandTech .................12 ..................5,426,943
5 AMD Users ............................10 .....................205,858
6 meisterkuehler.de Team .........8 ......................197,315
7 Ars Technica ...........................6 ......................193,018
8 Hungary ..................................4 ......................148,784
9 Sicituradastra. .........................2 ......................110,445
10 Boinc UK ...............................1 ........................58,752

CSG...............Sprint.....................Day Two
1 OcUK - Overclockers UK ........25 ..................37,784,646
2 Overclock.net ..........................18 ..................12,721,180
3 Crunching@EVGA ..................15 ..................12,534,831
4 TeAm AnandTech ...................12 ...................11,246,746
5 meisterkuehler.de Team .........10 ......................499,330
6 Ars Technica ............................8 .......................331,270
7 AMD Users ...............................6 ......................284,729
8 Hungary ....................................4 ......................214,407
9 Sicituradastra. ..........................2 .......................161,753
10 Boinc UK ................................1 .......................117,590

CSG...............Sprint....................Final
1 OcUK - Overclockers UK .........25 ..................47,711,397
2 TeAm AnandTech ....................18 ..................27,808,992
3 Overclock.net ...........................15 ..................21,211,607
4 Crunching@EVGA ...................12 ..................20,801,613
5 meisterkuehler.de Team ...........10 ...................1,543,069
6 Ars Technica ..............................8 ......................427,647
7 AMD Users .................................6 ......................396,809
8 Hungary .....................................4 .......................290,312
9 Sicituradastra. ............................2 .......................227,366
10 Team Norway ...........................1 ......................154,161