PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread 2016

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, thanks for the stats, Ken. That was fun.

 

[geecee]

Yes, thanks as always, Ken g6. Sorry, I was about 14 hrs late to the party. Didn't realize it started so early. Happy St. Pat's day to you all.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the stats and updates

I has one bad one... so far

 

[TennesseeTony]

Ah...missed the top 100. Dang it. That was FUN, Ken, good job!

Well done guys, glad to see some newer/additional hardware for some of you also.

In other news, LHC has a few thousand tasks available as of this moment.

 

[Ken g6]

^^^ Bumpage, since the next race starts in 6 days.

@Tony, I had fun too. I had expected to come in just behind you by one WU. I hadn't noticed that I left one last WU running on my Core 2 quad. I didn't expect it to return in time, but without other work on that machine it just barely made it in on time!

 

[QuietDad]

I've got an old Q600 running Windows 10 (32bit) and a dual Xeon (two quads) running Winn 64 doiong about 8500 RAC in Seti I can throw in to this. I can start draining the queues now

 

[VirtualLarry]

Fun, another race. I'll set my NF@Home to not do more WUs, so my PCs can finish up.

Hope my i3-6100 is stable. Asus has yet to release a microcode update for that board to fix the Skylake AVX + HT bug that affects i3s.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is starting today, correct? Who's in?

 

[QuietDad]

Seti ques drained. Just waiting for 2pm EST to fire it up

 

[waffleironhead]

I'll be in. Little over 3 hours to go.

 

[VirtualLarry]

4 minutes to go. On my i3-6100 rig (non-overclocked), should I be running two CPU cores (50%), or four CPU cores (100%), for maximum efficiency with PrimeGrid? (I had heard that HT was unhelpful for PrimeGrid.)

 

[Ken g6]

I'm running 2 cores on my i3-6100. I tried turning off HT on it once, but the difference was negligible. So I'd say just set 50%.

On older models with HT, turning off HT makes a significant difference. It certainly does on my Sandy Bridge laptop. I don't know where the change happened.

 

[QuietDad]

7 out of 8 cores on my twin Xeon 2.6ghz X5355 rig and 3 on 4 on the 3.3 ghz q6600. Gonna watch for the afternoon and maybe go 100% of the processors later. Had another sub project selected from races past but I think I got it fixed.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I can toss in some WU's from the twins, after they finish some other tasks.

Still can't run AVX tasks on Mjolnir. The motherboard seems to overclock some even when I ask it nicely not to, and feeds 300 watts (motherboard's max capacity) to the CPU.

 

[zzuupp]

My timing was very poor. I think I had a few tasks start this afternoon

 

[Ken g6]

Day 1 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______22992______Ken_g6

Rank__Credits____Team
1_____80473______Aggie The Pew
2_____22992______TeAm AnandTech

Well, that's a good rank! I don't expect it to last, though. :\

 

[TennesseeTony]

Judging by the times my comps say these tasks will take, I expected perhaps ONE person to have completed a task by now, but wow, 4 people are now ranked, and our very own Ken_g6 is one of them! Well done, Sir! (sorry but you're in 4th now)

 

[somethingsketchy]

Late to the party, but I threw in six cores to help out.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hopefully I'm in the next stats. I think my i3-6100 completed two WUs thus far. My G4400 OCed rigs, are a bit over halfway through a couple pairs of WUs.

Still not sure how Ken's i3-6100 is faster than my i3-6100. *shrug*
(Edit: I'm still on Win7 64-bit. Ken, are you in Linux or Win10?)

Edit: Oh yeah, antonline has i5-6600K for $219.99 shipped on ebay, right now. Contemplating.

 

[Ken g6]

Day 2 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
50_____46143______Ken_g6
69_____24035______VirtualLarry

Rank__Credits____Team
9_____108406_____Team 2ch
10____100481_____Russia
11____96180______Nemesis Germany
12____70178______TeAm AnandTech
13____50239______BOINC@Latvia
14____50183______U.S. Army
15____50157______Special: Off-Topic

I guess it takes awhile for people without new Skylake processors to finish these WUs.

(Edit: I'm still on Win7 64-bit. Ken, are you in Linux or Win10?)

Linux: Xubuntu.

 

[QuietDad]

ETAs here range from 2-8 days at this point

 

[TennesseeTony]

ETAs here range from 2-8 days at this point

WUSS is running Cullen's at an estimated 70ish hours, Bee is running Woodall's at an estimated 90ish hours.

I did allow Mjolnir to run 2 tasks at a time, power at the wall increased 16 watts is all. Cullen WU is est at 30 hours, Woodall is est at 33+ hours.

 

[waffleironhead]

Finally have some in. (lets hope they validate and this new ram from dell fixes the issue from last race)
I ran a couple before the race to see times. Only loading 2 cores of four they were 37.5 hours apiece. Loading all four cores caused them to be 52 hours. They are definitly finding some bottleneck.

 

[Ken g6]

Day 3 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
63_____92327______Ken_g6
80_____71179______VirtualLarry
115____46184______waffleironhead
149____24158___10esseeTony

Rank__Credits____Team
10____335285_____[H]ard|OCP
11____308485_____Team 2ch
12____269099_____Ukraine
13____233849_____TeAm AnandTech
14____227390_____BOINC@Latvia
15____215512_____Nemesis Germany
16____209444_____Russia

 

[TennesseeTony]

Just checked the scores before bed and thought it appropriate to say: