PrimeGrid Leonids Challenge Nov 17

[biodoc]

Ah, well your AMD X6 is listed twice.
My mistake.

I wish you had two tho....

Go TeAm AnandTech!

Looks like this app does well on Intel CPUs. My Q6600s@3GHz are just as fast as my x6@3.6GHz.

We're neck and neck with KWSN again! Go TeAm!!:biggrin:

 

[filibusterman]

Well I'm about to go home so I can add 12-14 more cores depending on stability issues and outside temperature ^^.

 

[Ken g6]

Six-hour stats update:

Rank___Credits____Username
21_____8822_______petrusbroder
41_____5423_______BlackBox
50_____4577_______biodoc
63_____3638_______kimmyl
118____2075_______SlangNRox
150____1494_______Robert Everly
194____1204_______Ken_g6
330____614________waffleironhead
380____409________Tom Philippart
476____153________filibusterman
583____42_________GLeeM

Rank__Credits____Team
8_____39277______Czech National Team
9_____38354______PrimeSearchTeam
10____30446______The Knights Who Say Ni!
11____28447______TeAm AnandTech
12____25928______Ukraine
13____23887______BOINC@Poland
14____23340______Crunching Family

With 1/4 of the race already behind us, we're holding 11th place behind KWSN, the same team we barely passed in the last challenge. Most of us are in our customary TeAm ranks ; but I haven't seen zzuupp yet.

 

[biodoc]

Well I'm about to go home so I can add 12-14 more cores depending on stability issues and outside temperature ^^.

:thumbsup:

 

[zzuupp]

grr...

despite all the nice reminders, everything else conspired to keep me from crunching these tasks until now.

 

[filibusterman]

my one rig has had a hard drive failure. I have tried runing ubuntu via cd but for some reason i get the ole "sophie germain prime search not available for your type of computer message. I have another rig on 64 bit ubuntu running fine via hard drive so I assume this is an issue with running the os off the optical drive?

 

[djdave404]

Zzuupp.......

Better late than never.

we are 5000 behind 10th place.

get us caught up and all is forgiven.........LOL



Go TeAm AnandTech!

 

[djdave404]

my one rig has had a hard drive failure. I have tried runing ubuntu via cd but for some reason i get the ole "sophie germain prime search not available for your type of computer message. I have another rig on 64 bit ubuntu running fine via hard drive so I assume this is an issue with running the os off the optical drive?

You could try a Boot cd from the hard drive maker
Sometimes you can get a bit more life out of them by useing the repair option.

WD and Seagate i have used before and some will come back, and others not so much.

 

[zzuupp]

thx.

 

[Ken g6]

Filibusterman, try Wubi. It installs Ubuntu on a Windows machine without requiring a new partition. (Though it does take disk space.)

 

[djdave404]

I'm far from a linux expert, But:

Bonic needs space to store it's WU's

So if you can boot from a USB stick, or external hard drive
something with a bit of space for bonic to have a little room, it should run.

 

[petrusbroder]

Ten-hour stats update:

Rank___Credits____Username
20_____17687______petrusbroder
45_____10359______BlackBox
52_____8856_______biodoc
58_____7788_______kimmyl
117____4099_______SlangNRox
159____2912_______Robert Everly
204____2425_______filibusterman
227____2211_______Ken_g6
345____1178_______waffleironhead
385____392________Tom Philippart
617____102________GLeeM
775____26_________zzuupp
780____26_________BRIAN

Rank__Credits____Team
8_____75966______Czech National Team
9_____75052______PrimeSearchTeam
10____64471______The Knights Who Say Ni!
11____58049______TeAm AnandTech
12____52438______Ukraine
13____48040______BOINC@Poland
14____45042______Crunching Family

Welcome, zzuupp and BRIAN, to the race!

 

[filibusterman]

thx for the suggestions i am using a usb hard drive for the time being see if that works untill i can find a new cheep hard drive. I will also check out Wubi.

 

[Ken g6]

my one rig has had a hard drive failure

I missed this. :$ Must be time to go to bed.

 

[biodoc]

It looks like Ukraine is about to pass us. Anyone else like to join us?

 

[petrusbroder]

Ukraine have passed us.
We can hope that some comps/crunchers/racers have many WUs to report ... just before deadline ...

 

[filibusterman]

Looks like this app does well on Intel CPUs. My Q6600s@3GHz are just as fast as my x6@3.6GHz.

We're neck and neck with KWSN again! Go TeAm!!:biggrin:

Yea I also noted the large advantage to intel cpus!

 

[djdave404]

thx for the suggestions i am using a usb hard drive for the time being see if that works untill i can find a new cheep hard drive. I will also check out Wubi.

Did this work for you?

 

[filibusterman]

Did this work for you?

I tried once to install on an external 120 gig WD elements usb hard drive and it seemed to work but the install corrupted or maybe I set up the partitions incorrectly. As it was late and I was getting nagged by the Gf I couldn't get that rig up and running although it was only an opteron 1210 1.8ghz. I just need to find an el cheepo hard drive for that rig that is reliable. Come on black friday!

 

[Ken g6]

One hour left!

Rank___Credits____Username
21_____38363______petrusbroder
49_____22153______BlackBox
55_____19130______biodoc
61_____17516______kimmyl
125____9180_______filibusterman
136____8292_______SlangNRox
181____6311_______Robert Everly
232____4833_______Ken_g6
359____2562_______waffleironhead
377____2280_______Tom Philippart
503____982________zzuupp
742____153________GLeeM
1062___34_________BRIAN

Rank__Credits____Team
9_____161105_____Czech National Team
10____154460_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
11____150634_____Ukraine
12____131666_____TeAm AnandTech
13____118710_____BOINC@Poland
14____97308______Team China
15____97300______Crunching Family

Don't forget to flush all your computers before the end. I'm sure BOINC@Poland won't forget!

 

[djdave404]

Yea I also noted the large advantage to intel cpus!

My stock AMD AM2 940 quad @3.0 is doing a WU in 13:15 to 14:30

My intel Q9450 OC @3.0 11:30

so yes 2 to 3 Min differance.

 

[djdave404]

With only 13 of us representing the TeAm, I don't think we have done bad at all.

I don't know the number of active members of TeAm AnandTech, but i am guessing that 13 is way less than 20% of the Active membership.

Maybe the fault is ours, not preping better for the race, asking other members to join for the sence of team pride.

Or they just don't care.

The Ukraine seemed to be sandbagging a bit, there very close to getting 10th place now. They went by us like the Road Runner/Coyote in the Cartoons.

My guess of OC virtual cores helping, was misplaced.
Physical cores make the differance. Tho i am up with 4 machines raceing with guys that have 10 to 16 machines. I was slowly looseing Spots all race long.

My wife complains about the 4 running, They all must be bachelor's....LOL

Thus ends my rambling of various thoughs about this race.......

Go TeAm AnandTech!

 

[filibusterman]

With only 13 of us representing the TeAm, I don't think we have done bad at all.

I don't know the number of active members of TeAm AnandTech, but i am guessing that 13 is way less than 20% of the Active membership.

Maybe the fault is ours, not preping better for the race, asking other members to join for the sence of team pride.

Or they just don't care.

The Ukraine seemed to be sandbagging a bit, there very close to getting 10th place now. They went by us like the Road Runner/Coyote in the Cartoons.

My guess of OC virtual cores helping, was misplaced.
Physical cores make the differance. Tho i am up with 4 machines raceing with guys that have 10 to 16 machines. I was slowly looseing Spots all race long.

My wife complains about the 4 running, They all must be bachelor's....LOL

Thus ends my rambling of various thoughs about this race.......

Go TeAm AnandTech!

I agree with the virtual core or HT issue. Ill have to do the math but my i5 661 which is OC to 4.2 or so was doing ~16min and change per wu (4 units with dual core HT) while this mac with an E7600@3GHz was doing 2 wu at 11.30min per core. I would have to down clock the 661 to around stock to see how the two compare but I am guessing the gains from virtual cores is pretty small. However for gaming I would rather have my dual core i5 than a slower quad so its always a compromise.

 

[djdave404]

Last WU in with 40 seconds to spair.

I'm going to run out my cash of WU's and not abort them.

 

[Ken g6]

And thus ends the race....

Rank___Credits____Username
21_____39738______petrusbroder
50_____23178______BlackBox
55_____19992______biodoc
61_____17670______kimmyl
125____9795_______filibusterman
141____8446_______SlangNRox
180____6610_______Robert Everly
234____5047_______Ken_g6
361____2647_______waffleironhead
370____2451_______Tom Philippart
500____1059_______zzuupp
728____179________GLeeM
1038___42_________BRIAN

Rank__Credits____Team
9_____168697_____Czech National Team
10____162010_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
11____159679_____Ukraine
12____136859_____TeAm AnandTech
13____125321_____BOINC@Poland
14____102535_____Team China
15____101707_____Crunching Family

I'm going to run out my cash of WU's and not abort them.

Good for you! As this is a race where work needs to be verified, everyone should do one or the other. This also means that the stats above aren't final; though the work goes so fast that this race should be finalized in a few days.

Well, we got sandbagged, and some of us got a late start; but 12th place ain't bad! And, hey, we beat all of China!

If you liked this race, please consider donating to the PrimeGrid Donation Drive 2010 Fall, so we can have more races like it next year. 'Tis the season!

If you didn't like this race, just wait - the next race is going to be very different! The Winter Solstice Challenge, as always, is the last race of the year. As it's the last chance to get challenge points, it's often the most frenetic. This year we'll be running the Proth Prime Search Sieve app (or Proth/Riesel Prime Search Sieve as it may be known by then.) In this app, 32-bit CPUs run fast; 64-bit CPUs run only about 30% faster; ATI GPUs run even faster; and nVIDIA GPUs run the fastest of all! Fermi-based GPUs can get almost as many points with this app as they can get in Collatz! So this is going to be mostly a GPU shootout; especially interesting considering that the 5th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race will be going at the same time. Hopefully most of you will take a break from folding, at least with your GPUs, December 18th through the 21st. And may the best TeAm win!