PrimeGrid Challenges 2021

[Markfw]

It won't download a unit until the challenge starts ? I have done everything I can think of the enable GPU, Nvidia to be exact.

Finally... Its going. 3 /12 minutes ?

 

[Skillz]

Anything you download BEFORE the event starts will not count.

This is not a typical challenge. Only tasks that are downloaded AFTER the event starts and returned BEFORE the event ends will be counted in the challenge.

So tasks you downloaded just now, will not count.

 

[Markfw]

OK, it starts in an hour. My question is, 3 1/2 minutes per task ???? Thats what its doing.

 

[Ken g6]

OK, it starts in an hour. My question is, 3 1/2 minutes per task ???? Thats what its doing.

If you have a 3080 Ti, maybe.

For me they take around 45 minutes, but that's (still) on a 1060 3GB.

 

[Markfw]

If you have a 3080 Ti, maybe.

For me they take around 45 minutes, but that's (still) on a 1060 3GB.

Actually, I do, thats why I was wondering...

 

[pututu]

I think you guys can repeat the performance that you had achieved back in 2018 AP27 challenge. Go TAAT!

Edit: Should be easy to beat the old credit mark.

 

[Markfw]

So its running now ???? Where are the stats for it. ?

 

[StefanR5R]

PrimeGrid's own stats (updated every 15 minutes), just tables:

• https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2021_8/top_teams.html
• https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2021_8/top_users.html

Semi-official stats with some graphs:

• https://statsgr.id/challenge.php?challenge_id=2021_8

Third-party stats with better graphs:

• https://www.seti-germany.de/pg_challenge/stats/teams/202108
• https://www.seti-germany.de/pg_challenge/stats/users/202108

 

[lane42]

Looks like Marks AP27 on a 3080ti take 3 and a half min.
woops, didn't see post 576

 

[Fardringle]

That's weird for sure.

All my stuff is setup, just gotta click the start button in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

Yep, very weird. On the bright side, an OS reinstall this morning seems to have fixed the problem and the GPU is happily crunching away now, along with my regular (wimpy) desktop GPUs. I'm definitely not going to be producing big numbers, but everything counts. And so far it looks like the Quadro RTX might out-produce everything else that I have combined, at about 17 minutes per task, so that's definitely a nice bonus.

I'm very jealous of the 3.5 minute run times on Mark's 3080 ti!!

 

[Markfw]

Yep, very weird. On the bright side, an OS reinstall this morning seems to have fixed the problem and the GPU is happily crunching away now, along with my regular (wimpy) desktop GPUs. I'm definitely not going to be producing big numbers, but everything counts. And so far it looks like the Quadro RTX might out-produce everything else that I have combined, at about 17 minutes per task, so that's definitely a nice bonus.

I'm very jealous of the 3.5 minute run times on Mark's 3080 ti!!

Thats a year of waiting , watching and entering the newegg shuffle, and $1600

 

[VirtualLarry]

OK, I'm in with various machines and GPUs.

Edit: Specifically, 4 out of 10 of my rigs, with 11 GPUs. I might be able to do more, but I'm down to 50% of my mining revenue already.

 

[Markfw]

I added a 1080TI (15 min) and a 2080TI (8 min)

Nothing can touch that 3080TI, at least in my house.

 

[lane42]

Nothing can touch that 3080TI,

Thats like 6x faster then my GTX1080

 

[StefanR5R]

My garbage cable modem worked with WCG MCM, but is incompatible with PG AP27. It was down for four hours today. Luckily I had set the work buffers large enough. — Or rather: "Luckily", the clients went nuts again on the GPU equipped computers and kept requesting work until they have 1000 runnable tasks each.

I went to the PrimeGrid prefs page now and configured a somewhat saner limit on tasks in progress.

 

[Markfw]

I just added a 3070. Looks like 6 minutes, faster than a 2080ti at 8 minutes. So, I have the below:

1 - 3080ti 3.5 minutes
1 - 3070 6 minutes
1 - 2080ti 8 minutes
2 - 1080ti 15 minutes

 

[lane42]

Ya see mark, you can do other projects and still have fun

 

[Markfw]

Ya see mark, you can do other projects and still have fun

Well, doing F@H @ 20 mil ppd, WCG at 700k ppd, primegrid @ 7th place in the team, and soon to start Rosetta for 3 7742's.

 

[Skillz]

Okay guys, are we trying to beat 2nd and 3rd place combined in this race too?

Rank	Name	Score	Tasks
1​	TeAm AnandTech	50 521 328.00​	12 496​
2​	Antarctic Crunchers	24 993 826.00​	6 182​
3​	Czech National Team	23 724 324.00​	5 868​
4​	AMD Users	23 408 970.00​	5 790​
5​	SETI.Germany	21 314 696.00​	5 272​

While it's still very early, it's also not that long of a Challenge @ 3 days.

We're currently out producing antarctic crunchers and Czech National Team combined.

Team AnAndTech : 50,521,328
Fused AC & CNT : 48,718,150

Perhaps we should try to include AMD Users in this one?

 

[Fardringle]

Okay guys, are we trying to beat 2nd and 3rd place combined in this race too?

Rank	Name	Score	Tasks
1​	TeAm AnandTech	50 521 328.00​	12 496​
2​	Antarctic Crunchers	24 993 826.00​	6 182​
3​	Czech National Team	23 724 324.00​	5 868​
4​	AMD Users	23 408 970.00​	5 790​
5​	SETI.Germany	21 314 696.00​	5 272​

While it's still very early, it's also not that long of a Challenge @ 3 days.

We're currently out producing antarctic crunchers and Czech National Team combined.

Team AnAndTech : 50,521,328
Fused AC & CNT : 48,718,150

Perhaps we should try to include AMD Users in this one?

You would currently be #5 on the team rankings just by yourself.

Some people could be bunkering tasks from the start and waiting to dump them at the end, so it's entirely possible we'll might see some big movement tomorrow. We should definitely keep adding GPUs if possible. I added that Quadro RTX 4000 this morning, and Markfw added several even better GPUs recently. Anybody else have more to throw in?

While unlikely, it would be really amazing to out-produce three other teams!

 

[Markfw]

Does anybody know who galumpkis is ?

 

[Icecold]

 

[Skillz]

You would currently be #5 on the team rankings just by yourself.

Some people could be bunkering tasks from the start and waiting to dump them at the end, so it's entirely possible we'll might see some big movement tomorrow. We should definitely keep adding GPUs if possible. I added that Quadro RTX 4000 this morning, and Markfw added several even better GPUs recently. Anybody else have more to throw in?

While unlikely, it would be really amazing to out-produce three other teams!

I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!

 

[StefanR5R]

i7-7700K + dual GTX 1080Ti, running OCL_cuda_AP27 only:
........ ~209 tasks per day ........ ~570 W at the wall ........ ~0.37 tpd/W (~1480 PPD/W)

dual Epyc 7452@180W, running 8x16t cpu_AP27mt:
........ ~119 tasks per day ........ ~340 W at the wall ........ ~0.35 tpd/W (~1410 PPD/W)

 

[Icecold]

1​	TeAm AnandTech	60, 115, 367​	​
2​	Antarctic Crunchers and Czech National Team hypothetically fused	54,321,748​	​