PrimeGrid Challenges 2021

[Ken g6]

Day 4 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
12_____3741357____crashtech
14_____3651899____xii5ku
17_____3057167____Icecold
34_____1628451___10esseeTony
43_____1380003____biodoc
48_____1282890____emoga
72_____812444_____Orange Kid
75_____765579_____Ken_g6
80_____689432_____The Great Cornholio
99_____521952_____markfw
117____457881_____Lane42
169____271607_____SlangNRox
224____175069_____Howdy
232____156545_____VirtualLarry
265____110606_____waffleironhead
270____104195_____Skillz
455____10058______geecee



Rank__Credits____Team
3_____25733634___Aggie The Pew
4_____23753216___SETI.Germany
5_____20427504___Ultimate Chaos
6_____18815526___TeAm AnandTech
7_____17165314___AMD Users
8_____10825870___Storm
9_____6386585____Crunching@EVGA



One day left! I threw on five more cloud cores.

 

[Markfw]

OK, ken, don't get mad... Since its one more day, I will put a dual 7601 EPYC system on it, just for the day,

I stopped it... Even with only 64 tasks running it was going to take 24 hours per task !!! EPYC 7001 series SUCKS at primegrid.....

 

[Ken g6]

OK, ken, don't get mad... Since its one more day, I will put a dual 7601 EPYC system on it, just for the day,

I stopped it... Even with only 64 tasks running it was going to take 24 hours per task !!! EPYC 7001 series SUCKS at primegrid.....

You could try setting up your Primegrid preferences to run one task with 64 threads. Though a balance is probably better.

Edit: But no pressure. I'm still amazed you joined at all!

 

[crashtech]

Looks like xii5ku has lit the afterburners!

 

[StefanR5R]

Oh, I arrived at rank 10 now… But I guess 11th is where I'll end up, since user Venec of CNT should unload more bunkers over the day.

 

[lane42]

1​	Antarctic Crunchers	121 147 017.29​	136 284​
2​	Aggie The Pew	29 976 369.03​	33 474​
3​	Czech National Team	29 751 323.45​	35 311​
4​	SETI.Germany	27 600 682.10​	34 944​
5​	TeAm AnandTech	23 032 720.73​	33 944​

5TH

 

[TennesseeTony]

It must be EXTREMELY "cloudy" in Antarctica, GELLY has more points than 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th combined. Did JPFranklin change his name and team?

I have often wondered if there are any open positions for 'fat, old, half-crippled, balding dudes, with little to no skills, in the US's Antarctic base....Maybe just a 3 to 6 month tenure.... I find the place fascinating!

 

[Icecold]

It must be EXTREMELY "cloudy" in Antarctica, GELLY has more points than 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th combined.

Cloudy indeed.

 

[Markfw]

Well, I made it up to the top 100 in this competition. Pretty good for just 3 3900x's and not all the time with all of them. And 10th in the team ! Will be going back to medical after this.

 

[Ken g6]

And I thought I was having a "cloudy" day!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yeah! 5th place, does this mean we found a prime!?

 

[Orange Kid]

I think it means we are prime.

 

[Ken g6]

Preliminary final stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
10_____5646302____xii5ku
14_____4737013____crashtech
16_____4039712____Icecold
28_____2764782___10esseeTony
46_____1782325____biodoc
51_____1590487____emoga
72_____1048938____Orange Kid
76_____1032997____Ken_g6
84_____874723_____The Great Cornholio
97_____751997_____markfw
106____632662_____Lane42
175____339144_____SlangNRox
193____283507_____VirtualLarry
199____270207_____Howdy
221____236958_____waffleironhead
229____218526_____Skillz
428____22152______geecee

Rank__Credits____Team
2_____33636292___Czech National Team
3_____32545069___Aggie The Pew
4_____30902217___SETI.Germany
5_____26272439___TeAm AnandTech
6_____24315848___Ultimate Chaos
7_____22018610___AMD Users
8_____13368359___Storm

Yes, we got a fifth! Enjoy it! 🥃

 

[StefanR5R]

Just saw a post at PrimeGrid that work units with 512k FFT size have started to appear.

Ultimate Chaos' PPD went down by 3 % on day 4, and by 20 % on day 5. The latter is mainly because their 2 smaller producers stopped half a day early, but their dominant producer's output was gradually going down all the time. He ran single-threaded tasks on 3-threaded VMs on Xeon Gold hardware. It is likely that he wasted much of the processor capability this way, and some of the processor efficincy too. (Depends on how many more VMs with the same workload happened to run on the same physical servers.)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yay, does this mean that I can turn off PrimeGrid for the time being? We got Fifth? Pretty decent showing, I think.

 

[Ken g6]

Just thought I should bump this to point out: The Tour de Primes has started. 🚴

 

[Ken g6]

Teams are now listed in the Tour de Primes stats. But we're not listed there yet.

 

[Ken g6]

Congrats to @Tejas_2 on finding a prime!

(I found one too.)

 

[Tejas_2]

Many Thanks and Congrats to you Ken. At the very least the team is now listed in the stats.

 

[crashtech]

Huh, so I always thought the Tour de Primes was an individual event, not a team one...

 

[Tejas_2]

You are correct. it is an individual contest. However they are for what I believe to be the first time listing the prime finders team on the list.

 

[Ken g6]

Congrats to @lane42 for his GFN!

 

[Ken g6]

I just checked the Discord prime bot. @emoga, so close!

 

[emoga]

Yeah, I made the Loser List

Can't help but wonder if that 3090 is running 2 tasks at a time.
Or perhaps the CPU is too overloaded to feed it properly.
Because that's some pretty poor performance coming from a 3090 (But apparently good enough to beat me )

 

[lane42]

I saw one of ]KidDoesCrunch from Seti Germany's RTX2080
with faster times then a 3090 on a GFN16.