PrimeGrid Races 2017

[crashtech]

I've had a lot of work in my queue self-abort since we've been working on pogs and now PrimeGrid. I'm allowing some resources go towards some work that I like that has been patiently waiting, I don't feel like aborting too many more tasks, I was very aggressive on clearing the queue during the beginning of pogs. I feel bad now because the project didn't deserve it, it's been banished from all my machines now.

Maybe a bit of race burnout. Is there a short break coming up? i'd like to catch up on some pet projects.

 

[StefanR5R]

Next week is the next FB sprint, then 1.5 weeks pause, then two sprints back to back, another 1.5 weeks pause, then an FB sprint and a PG challenge in parallel.

 

[StefanR5R]

Race burnout?
Only at ranks 1 to 4, not here and at our Crunching friends.
Change of daily output, relative to previous day:

                        day 2   day 3   day 4
---------------------------------------------
1 Aggie The Pew         +37 %    +8 %    -6 %
2 Czech National Team   +69 %   +12 %    -2 %
3 SETI.Germany          +21 %   +13 %    -7 %
4 Sicituradastra.       +33 %   +11 %    -5 %
5 TeAm AnandTech        +41 %    +4 %    +6 %
6 Crunching@EVGA        +75 %   +12 %    +2 %

Numbers shamelessly copied from SETI.Ger's pschoefer (thread in German).

 

[bill1024]

I did not know they tracked it that close .

Der Schlusstag ist angebrochen, ein Blick auf den Zwischenstand nach vier Tagen (in Klammern die relative Veränderung des Tagesoutputs im Verhältnis zum Vortag):

1 Aggie The Pew 21524869.57 (-6%)
2 Czech National Team 14632837.45 (-2%)
3 SETI.Germany 12903674.18 (-7%)
4 Sicituradastra. 11014501.35 (-5%)
5 TeAm AnandTech 5679436.18 (+6%)
6 Crunching@EVGA 4400544.31 (+2%)

Da die Tagesoutputs aller Teams ungefähr gleich geblieben sind, haben sich auch heute nur alle Abstände etwas vergrößert. Die Ratten laufen ungefährdet dem Sieg entgegen und die Tschechen setzen sich weiter von uns ab, sodass wir uns am Ende sogar näher an #4 als an #2 wiederfinden könnten. Näher gekommen ist S* uns jedoch nicht, genau wie Crunching@EVGA den Rückstand auf TAAT kaum noch aufholen kann.

English

The closing day has begun, a look at the interval after four days (in brackets the relative change of the dayoutput in relation to the previous day):

1 Aggie The Pew 21524869.57 (-6%)
2 Czech National Team 14632837.45 (-2%)
3 SETI.Germany 12903674.18 (-7%)
4 Sicituradastra. 11014501.35 (-5%)
5 TeAm AnandTech 5679436.18 (+ 6%)
6 Crunching @ EVGA 4400544.31 (+ 2%)

Since the daily outputs of all teams remained roughly the same, today only all distances have increased. The rats are running towards the victory, and the Czechs are still farther from us, so that we could finally get closer to # 4 than to # 2. However, S * has not approached us, just like Crunching @ EVGA can hardly catch up with TAAT.

Congrats on 5th again.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Holy crap, they called another team "rats"? How rude!......I like these guys, lol!

 

[crashtech]

Holy crap, they called another team "rats"? How rude!......I like these guys, lol!

Might be their mascot...?

https://twitter.com/aggiethepew

 

[TennesseeTony]

Well that takes all the fun out of it.

 

[Orange Kid]

Sweet, I'm ahead of Tony in something
Thanks for the stats, I'm done in this race as I can't finish anything else in time

 

[TennesseeTony]

Go ahead and switch to MindModeling.org then, Kid.

 

[Orange Kid]

Any particular app better or just let it run?

 

[TennesseeTony]

I think only one or two apps have tasks at the moment. So just let 'er run.

 

[zzuupp]

zee Germans, tracking things that close.

Who wuhdda thunk it ???

Thanks Bill1024 for the 'veeerrrrrryyy innnnnterrresstttinggg ' update

I don't think I can finish a full round of eight, but I'll certainly have six more.


fixin the arte Johnson joke

 

[StefanR5R]

The Czechs are tracking things closely too, and they have a graph.
http://stats.czechnationalteam.cz/index.php?akce=turnajpg2017#detuzi

I believe we will win the contest for the straightest line.

 

[Ken g6]

The race is over, but no stats today. My Internet is down, and my only access is with my phone. I managed to upload all but one of my WUs through it.

 

[Ken g6]

Now, of course, the Internet comes back. Too late to flush that last WU, but I can post final stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
3______5354366____xii5ku
17_____1404216____crashtech
124____208229_____Ken_g6
170____135037_____zzuupp
200____94904______Orange Kid
267____40677___10esseeTony

Rank__Credits____Team
2_____19265711___Czech National Team
3_____16373341___SETI.Germany
4_____13944261___Sicituradastra.
5_____7237431____TeAm AnandTech
6_____6004238____Crunching@EVGA
7_____3770045____BOINC@Poland
8_____2811371____US Navy

And another 5th place!

 

[petrusbroder]

Well done, TeAm! Congrats to the 5th!

 

[StefanR5R]

My last two tasks went in a few minutes before the end, after I switched them to 22 threads each as soon as their host had completed its other tasks.

Nice work everyone, even though we had to jump right in from the prior FB sprint.

Only @TennesseeTony missed out on much of the mathematical fun. I heard he had to mind a business related to... noodles?

Also, TeAm : EVGA = 1.59 last time, 1.21 this time. @bill1024, @yodap, will you get your spot back next time?

PS, change of PPD relative to the day before (source):

                        day 2   day 3   day 4   day 5
-----------------------------------------------------
1 Aggie The Pew         +37 %    +8 %    -6 %    +4 %
2 Czech National Team   +69 %   +12 %    -2 %   +10 %
3 SETI.Germany          +21 %   +13 %    -7 %    +3 %
4 Sicituradastra.       +33 %   +11 %    -5 %    -2 %
5 TeAm AnandTech        +41 %    +4 %    +6 %    -4 %
6 Crunching@EVGA        +75 %   +12 %    +2 %   +22 %

For the first time this year, Czech National Team is following the unsurprisingly victorious rat pack; we [SETI.Germany] could not keep up with their pace. In the end we are even closer to rank 4 than to rank 2, but S* couldn't really endanger us. Crunching@EVGA had a strong final day; they could narrow down (but not close) the gap to TAAT.

 

[TennesseeTony]

.....Nice work everyone, .....

Only @TennesseeTony missed out on much of the mathematical fun. I heard he had to mind a business related to... noodles? .......

Lol!

 

[Ken g6]

Just a few days until the next race.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Looking forward to siccing my i3-8100 on it. Currently burning in with Einstein@H and NumberFields.

Btw, is there something going on with collatz? I tried joining that project on that box (already have account), and it basically silently failed, and said it couldn't. I know that they instituted a password, to prevent spammers. Is that my problem? Haven't crunched it in a while.

 

[StefanR5R]

@VirtualLarry, replying in the Collatz thread.

 

[Ken g6]

I started an hour early by accident. So the real start is in about 40 minutes.

 

[Orange Kid]

Now its time

 

[crashtech]

I started turning Primegrid back on at about 6:08 MDT, going to put as many cores on it as I can.

 

[StefanR5R]

The results of the Solar Eclipse Challenge (August 20 - 23, GCW-LLR) became final on September 9.
pschoefer of SETI.Germany posted the differences between provisional and final results:

1  Aggie The Pew        14,735,673.31   (  -3,811.96)
2  SETI.Germany         11,707,995.05   ( -70,198.60)
3  Czech National Team  10,650,084.39   (-105,425.40)
4  Sicituradastra.       7,931,333.17   ( -77,019.12)
5  TeAm AnandTech        5,169,043.30   (  -4,443.70)
6  Crunching@EVGA        3,260,279.73   ( -20,131.23)
7  BOINC@Poland          2,552,410.42   (       0   )

Results of Number Theory Week Challenge (September 3-8, 321-LLR) became final on September 22.
Differences between provisional and final results, again from pschoefer:

1 Aggie The Pew        27,472,270.07   (-13,590.35)
2 Czech National Team  19,202,908.47   (-62,803.43)
3 SETI.Germany         16,337,450.72   (-35,891.05)
4 Sicituradastra.      13,899,338.82   (-44,922.61)
5 TeAm AnandTech        7,237,431.70   (      0   )
6 Crunching@EVGA        5,990,465.95   (-13,772.20)

The negative numbers in parentheses are of course due to results marked as invalid after the challenge was over.