PrimeGrid Challenges 2022

[Skillz]

Maybe the right thing for me to do would be to give it up already and switch from the cable provider to an ADSL provider. I would trade an uncertain chance of better availability for even lower upload band"width" at same or higher costs. But believe it or not, there are plenty of regions here in Germany with even worse Internet connectivity.

I would prefer a stable internet connection that gives up a bit of bandwidth throughput over a higher throughput, but constant down times. That's just me though.

Then again, if I had that much trouble I'd probably have both Internet connections and configure my edge router for load-balancing dual WAN connections. Though if the speed differences are vastly different then I'd probably configure it for a fail-over on the slowest connection so I am guaranteed connectivity at all or near all times.

Back when I was in high school and ADSL first started rolling out I had two 1.5Mbps download ADSL connections using a Nexland dual WAN router to load-balance them. Then I used one of the phone lines for a 56k connection that I had setup on the router as a fail-over for just in-case both ADSL connections dropped. I didn't have the option for a cable connection at the time or I probably would have opted for an ADSL and Cable connection combo instead. The upload on those ADSL connections were horrible though. I can't remember the exact throughput. I want to say it was around 128Kbps. Man those were the days. lol

 

[Icecold]

You can also use something like a Pepwave Surf Soho and use either a 4G USB modem, or Wifi hotspot for failover - https://www.peplink.com/products/soho-series-surf/

You can even hotspot your phone and use that, but then it's not real time failover unless you were to have a phone dedicated to it. We've used those Pepwaves at work quite a bit and they work great - they support either a 4G USB modem or can be a wifi client for failover.

 

[Skillz]

I use my phone as a failover, but its rare that my Internet goes down. I think I've used it twice in the time I've lived here. (4 years)

 

[Ken g6]

Day 3 4 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______60365094___crashtech
5______44203006___Pokey
8______32867048___markfw
16_____22076362___mmonnin
18_____20654330___w a h
22_____18167716___[TA]Skillz
26_____14437325___cellarnoise2
27_____13918129___biodoc
38_____11135980___Orange Kid
43_____9701960____parsnip soup in a clay bowl
65_____6482748___10esseeTony
107____3060294____kiska
155____1705998____Lane42
168____1486489____mnelsonx
199____976740_____SlangNRox
214____954723_____Skivelitis2
239____735961_____Ken_g6
257____368037_____xii5ku
289____163941_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____263461890___TeAm AnandTech
2_____185062200___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____174172561___Czech National Team
4_____150084316___SETI.Germany

Thanks for herding the cats, Ken.

Oh, wait, do you mean...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11710552/useless-use-of-cat

I checked and my stats script contains no `cat`s.

 

[Ken g6]

Day 5 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______81009523___crashtech
5______56684181___Pokey
6______51950002___markfw
11_____36981224___[TA]Skillz
17_____29131475___mmonnin
21_____24071241___w a h
26_____19712823___biodoc
27_____19295834___cellarnoise2
37_____15540983___kiska
40_____14614188___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
42_____13944488___Orange Kid
66_____8393829___10esseeTony
147____2646241____Skivelitis2
182____1909795____Fardringle
187____1705998____Lane42
196____1486489____mnelsonx
209____1300247____SlangNRox
271____735961_____Ken_g6
292____368037_____xii5ku
324____163941_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____381646509___TeAm AnandTech
2_____244733230___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____234289575___Czech National Team
4_____216495990___SETI.Germany

If you're having upload issues, they might be IPV6 related.

Do you feel luckjy can't upload?

 

[Ken g6]

Day 6 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______104188557___crashtech
6______69271411___Pokey
7______66140788___markfw
8______64972718___[TA]Skillz
20_____34444212___mmonnin
21_____32184940___w a h
22_____30890268___kiska
27_____26025933___cellarnoise2
31_____24020490___biodoc
35_____21423942___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
41_____18738958___Orange Kid
66_____10334207___10esseeTony
144____3544326____Skivelitis2
166____2767024____Lane42
204____1909795____Fardringle
210____1784378____SlangNRox
219____1690880____Ken_g6
229____1486489____mnelsonx
305____552452_____xii5ku
347____166469_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____516538247___TeAm AnandTech
2_____315507830___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____298783461___Czech National Team
4_____272120629___SETI.Germany

I think a lot of big WUs are starting to come in now, including mine.

 

[Markfw]

Day 6 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______104188557___crashtech
6______69271411___Pokey
7______66140788___markfw
8______64972718___[TA]Skillz
20_____34444212___mmonnin
21_____32184940___w a h
22_____30890268___kiska
27_____26025933___cellarnoise2
31_____24020490___biodoc
35_____21423942___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
41_____18738958___Orange Kid
66_____10334207___10esseeTony
144____3544326____Skivelitis2
166____2767024____Lane42
204____1909795____Fardringle
210____1784378____SlangNRox
219____1690880____Ken_g6
229____1486489____mnelsonx
305____552452_____xii5ku
347____166469_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____516538247___TeAm AnandTech
2_____315507830___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____298783461___Czech National Team
4_____272120629___SETI.Germany

I think a lot of big WUs are starting to come in now, including mine.

I have had big WU's come in since 14 hours into days one ! But it is a slow race, as the units are big unless you have very fast hardware.

 

[lane42]

Anyone ever watch an upload of one.
Takes a bit.

 

[StefanR5R]

One 128 MB file and another small file per result, right?

That's tiny. ;-) Just before this challenge I struggled with 1.72 GB per result, split into 123 files per result, with each CPU core delivering a result every 17h. (That was CPDN.)

 

[cellarnoise]

I noticed that sometimes the upload speed was around a 100K to 200 Kilobytes a second and then on other task uploads sometimes over 2,000 Kbs. Maybe just how busy the server was at the time?

 

[Ken g6]

Day 7 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______122461218___crashtech
4______121145761___[TA]Skillz
7______83770934___Pokey
8______80056055___markfw
16_____45285310___kiska
18_____43316083___mmonnin
26_____32184940___w a h
27_____31740458___biodoc
32_____28690529___cellarnoise2
34_____27398209___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
43_____22708205___Orange Kid
67_____12260872___10esseeTony
135____4663971____Skivelitis2
185____2864797____Fardringle
189____2767024____Lane42
195____2589280____Ken_g6
207____2222493____mnelsonx
212____2110262____SlangNRox
328____552452_____xii5ku
346____327887_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____669116748___TeAm AnandTech
2_____383279611___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____360709753___Czech National Team
4_____331283487___SETI.Germany

I noticed that sometimes the upload speed was around a 100K to 200 Kilobytes a second and then on other task uploads sometimes over 2,000 Kbs. Maybe just how busy the server was at the time?

If it's on different computers, note that BOINC has a bandwidth limiter, which you can configure or turn off on each instance. I've found new instances get it turned on by default.

 

[Skillz]

I think we might hit 1B points in this challenge.

 

[Ken g6]

Day 8 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
1______198047415___[TA]Skillz
3______146451793___crashtech
7______97227728___Pokey
8______97121528___markfw
17_____50211226___mmonnin
19_____49108967___kiska
26_____38229234___biodoc
28_____35284888___cellarnoise2
30_____33163204___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
32_____32184940___w a h
44_____24903343___Orange Kid
71_____13216952___10esseeTony
147____4986953____Skivelitis2
155____4567992____Lane42
186____3026505____Fardringle
188____2991046____mnelsonx
210____2594646____SlangNRox
211____2589280____Ken_g6
346____552452_____xii5ku
349____489626_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
0_____870634422___Antarctic Crunchers + Czech National Team
1_____836949725___TeAm AnandTech
2_____455690829___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____414943593___Czech National Team
4_____381107967___SETI.Germany

We're doing well enough that I thought I'd bring back a virtual target.

Also, @Markfw and @Pokey are really close!

 

[StefanR5R]

The Czech part of your virtual target may be lowballing a bit, but I'm not sure.

 

[Skillz]

The Czech part of your virtual target may be lowballing a bit, but I'm not sure.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

 

[lane42]

1​

[TA]Skillz

TeAm AnandTech

260 780 674.64​

882​

Congrats on the #1 spot Skillz

 

[Ken g6]

More-or-less final stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
1______263253701___[TA]Skillz
3______218622889___crashtech
6______130749231___markfw
7______123491909___Pokey
9______117211078___xii5ku
19_____61316594___mmonnin
27_____52470924___biodoc
28_____51344496___kiska
29_____47707008___w a h
31_____44155610___cellarnoise2
32_____43873394___parsnip soup in a clay bowl
42_____33652695___Orange Kid
72_____17397706___10esseeTony
134____7637270____Skivelitis2
171____5053205____Lane42
183____4663357____Fardringle
185____4386347____Ken_g6
198____3889232____mnelsonx
219____3079903____SlangNRox
380____489626_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____1233475052___TeAm AnandTech
2_____606973325___Antarctic Crunchers
3_____549655952___Czech National Team
4_____531278631___SETI.Germany

We got mentioned on PG's Discord for passing 1B points!

 

[StefanR5R]

@Ken g6, thank you for all the stats.

Also, congratulations to the TeAm for the top spot in the 2022 season! Quite some team work there.

And congrats to @Skillz for 1st individually in the season! And to @crashtech, @Markfw, and @my other self for scoring in the top 10 of the season too. :-)

 

[Orange Kid]

Great year all.
Thanks for all the stats. 🙂

 

[Skillz]

@Ken g6, thank you for all the stats.

Also, congratulations to the TeAm for the top spot in the 2022 season! Quite some team work there.

And congrats to @Skillz for 1st individually in the season! And to @crashtech, @Markfw, and @my other self for scoring in the top 10 of the season too. :-)

Congrats to you on making #6 also. How many years have you been in the top 10?

 

[StefanR5R]

It's the fourth time now:
– right when I started participating, in 2017: 5th
– similar to 2017 when multithreading was still new and not yet picked up by many, in 2018: 3rd
– not sure who I managed this in 2021: 3rd (many top scorers had uneven showings that year)

Distracted by other contests: 2019: 37th, 2020: 53th.

Oh, all of my previous rankings are prime. :-D I should have been more careful this year (went in 6th) and let wareyore (7th) overtake me… Or I simply put the blame for my blunder on @crashtech (5th). ;-)
OTOH making it to 6th in the 6th year of participation is fitting too.