PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread; Current: May 20-28

[Ken g6]

Yikes!

This is tomorrow

Yeah, I can't seem to change the title name. :\ But I've got two or three machines ready. (Depending on how hot the weather gets.)

 

[Ken g6]

And we're off! (Starting half an hour ago.)

Edit: A couple of things I notice:

- This makes my Sandy Bridge laptop really hot! 5C hotter than PPSE LLR did! So watch your temperatures.
- At this rate, my Sandy Bridge laptop (with 2 cores) may do as much as my two older computers (with a total of 6 cores) combined! I guess AVX really helps in this race.

 

[Ken g6]

Who's first on the board for the TeAm?

Rank___Credits____Username
76_____682________Ken_g6

Rank__Credits____Team
25____1876_______boo7kg
26____1351_______U.S. Army
27____682________Norberts Hundeschule Hundeschule Bottrop
28____682________TeAm AnandTech
29____515________Planet 3DNow!

I am!

Oh, wait, that means nobody else on the TeAm is running anything faster than a ~2.6GHz Sandy Bridge laptop.

Did everybody miss that the race has started because I can't change the thread title? Are you all saving power because it's too hot to crunch?

 

[biodoc]

Just got back from work and am now all in.

Congrats on #1 Ken_g6! :thumbsup:

 

[GLeeM]

Oh, wait, that means nobody else on the TeAm is running anything faster than a ~2.6GHz Sandy Bridge laptop.

I got started on time, about 1:10.

But I forgot how much more vcore I needed to add to the lowered down to 4.0 overclock. The comp BSODed and I lost 2 hours 20 minutes
Also, I left HT on (for the video cards) so WUs will take twice as long. Should turn in seven in about two hours!

 

[zzuupp]

Better nate than lever.

I had lowered my queue last night, but I am guilty of horrible math this morning. The c2q started kinda close to on time at least.

 

[Ken g6]

12-hour stats would be too late for me, so here's 10-hour stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
131____5510_______GLeeM
141____4743_______Ken_g6
145____4246_______geecee
158____3335_______Joe
229____612________VirtualLarry
234____515________Icecold-Team Anandtech

Rank__Credits____Team
20____35910______BOINCstats
21____32574______L'Alliance Francophone
22____21171______BOINC@Latvia
23____18963______TeAm AnandTech
24____14990______SETI.USA
25____14895______Clifford Welding Systems
26____14553______Russia

A special welcome to Joe, who I haven't seen in these races before.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had a PrimeGrid "Prime Serpinkski Problem" WU that was crunching before the race, which I suspended after the race started. I was able to get a few race WUs, but then as they were finishing, it won't get more, unless I manually un-suspend that prior WU, then it fetches new work, then I have to suspend it again.

BOINC bug, or just coincidence? Is there a shortage of the race WUs?

Twice I've woken up the monitor, and found BOINC crunching a single race WU, with no more fetched. I have NCPUS = 2, on an i3-3240, which means that the other core is idle.

 

[Ken g6]

That's just the way BOINC works. You can't fetch work for a project while any of its tasks are suspended. I suggest you set your buffer for a few days, unsuspend that task, and then suspend it again once you have enough work. (For the rest of the race, I mean.)

 

[GLeeM]

That's just the way BOINC works.

That's the way BOINC works for most projects.

There are some projects that will get WUs even if you have suspended WUs from that same project!

There is even at least one project that can't decide how to behave - sometimes it will and sometimes it won't

 

[Ken g6]

Day 1 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
58_____53564______biodoc
91_____30008______GLeeM
135____20180______Icecold-Team Anandtech
163____16550______Ken_g6
171____15039______geecee
205____10137______Joe
225____8079_______zzuupp
254____5328_______VirtualLarry

Rank__Credits____Team
17____186716_____USA
18____185006_____L'Alliance Francophone
19____162906_____BOINCstats
20____158889_____TeAm AnandTech
21____117451_____BOINC.Italy
22____103521_____Canada
23____101805_____Planet 3DNow!

Well, 20th isn't great, but we're getting close to BOINCstats at least. Welcome to Zzuupp, and a big welcome to Biodoc, who jumped from nothing into the lead in the past 14 hours!

 

[Ken g6]

Almost-halfway stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
61_____80741______biodoc
101____40729______GLeeM
106____39244______Icecold-Team Anandtech
171____24265______Ken_g6
177____22443______geecee
193____18864______Joe
194____18621______zzuupp
258____8967_______VirtualLarry

Rank__Credits____Team
16____313150_____L'Alliance Francophone
17____292871_____USA
18____281901_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
19____253876_____TeAm AnandTech
20____253171_____BOINCstats
21____201703_____BOINC.Italy
22____159686_____Planet 3DNow!

Hey, we're ahead of BOINCstats! By about one WU! Every one counts, after all.

Myself I'm barely staying ahead of Geecee. No new racers, but everyone seems to be racing well.

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stats Ken_g6! :thumbsup:

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Ken_g6

Go TeAm Go!

 

[Ken g6]

Day 2 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
58_____126908_____biodoc
101____64259______GLeeM
103____61251______Icecold-Team Anandtech
169____37692______Joe
176____34589______zzuupp
178____34196______Ken_g6
179____33911______geecee
269____13418______VirtualLarry

Rank__Credits____Team
16____450921_____Nemesis Germany
17____426547_____USA
18____412691_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
19____406227_____TeAm AnandTech
20____392820_____BOINCstats
21____371318_____BOINC.Italy
22____251628_____BOINC@AUSTRALIA

It's looking like quite a battle for fourth place on the TeAm. I've stayed ahead of geecee, but not Joe or zzuupp.

We've passed BOINCstats and we're now creeping closer to The Knights Who Say Ni! Can we make them The Knights Who Say Nooooooo! again?

Edit: I just took my laptop down to the basement. It's cool enough down there that it can run 300MHz faster! So the race for fourth goes on!

 

[Ken g6]

Almost-60-hour stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
55_____158443_____biodoc
103____76653______GLeeM
111____72087______Icecold-Team Anandtech
165____47117______Joe
176____43252______zzuupp
178____43074______Ken_g6
188____39801______geecee
265____17646______VirtualLarry
351____5628_______SlangNRox

Rank__Credits____Team
15____571579_____L'Alliance Francophone
16____546253_____Nemesis Germany
17____529801_____USA
18____503704_____TeAm AnandTech
19____501073_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
20____481607_____BOINCstats
21____473682_____BOINC.Italy

A little dump from zzuupp and just like that we're in 18th place. And I'm back in 6th. :\ Well, I don't think I'm catching Joe, but we'll see who winds up in fifth. :sneaky:

 

[Ken g6]

Wow, that was a long forum outage! But no work seems to have been lost since the final stats earlier today:

Rank___Credits____Username
54_____206443_____biodoc
101____104933_____GLeeM
114____93547______Icecold-Team Anandtech
166____57939______Joe
175____54465______zzuupp
177____54067______Ken_g6
187____51664______geecee
265____24035______VirtualLarry
296____15322______SlangNRox

Rank__Credits____Team
14____842055_____Dutch Power Cows
15____719384_____L'Alliance Francophone
16____670295_____USA
17____662418_____TeAm AnandTech
18____661741_____Nemesis Germany
19____629198_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
20____616099_____BOINC.Italy

We beat Nemesis Germany by one WU!

And zzuupp beat me by the same one WU! I juggled one place and gained one or two WUs; juggled another and lost one. These WU lengths were hard to predict. But at least now I know how to run my laptop optimally.

The next race will be a sieve, so I'll start a new thread for it, in August. Until then I'll let you know if any adjustments change scoring positions in this race in this thread.

 

[biodoc]

It's cool that we slipped into 17th place.

Nice racing all and thanks for the stats Ken_g6! :thumbsup:

 

[GLeeM]

WTG TeAm!

Thanks for the stats, Ken_g6

 

[zzuupp]

WTG all. Thanks for the stats Ken!

 

[Ken g6]

We're back to LLR races! I was going to make a new thread, but work has been crazy the last couple of weeks. Both for me and, separately, for the PrimeGrid admins! Hopefully, that's all over for the PrimeGrid admins and the race will go smoothly. My work may continue to be crazy for a couple of weeks. :\

 

[waffleironhead]

Thanks for bumping this ken. Winter heating season is back here in northern wi, so I can turn my cruncher/ space heater back on. I'll crack it open, clean out the heat sink and be ready for some llc.

 

[waffleironhead]

Thanks for bumping this ken. Winter heating season is back here in northern wi, so I can turn my cruncher/ space heater back on. I'll crack it open, clean out the heat sink and be ready for some llc.

Well it fired right up and I queued up some ppse to fill the time till the race. unfortunately we had a storm here last and after a power loss the system isn't turning on.

 

[GLeeM]

We start in three hours

 

[Ken g6]

And we're off!

waffleironhead, hope you can get something going.