PrimeGrid Sophie Germain Challenge April 1-3

[blckgrffn]

It's not too late to change your CPU preferences in primegrid. :ninja:

Even now, it would be both effective and useful to have Sophie Germain as your one PrimeGrid CPU project...

Looks like we might hold EVGA off, eh? I just brought my 1090t back online...

 

[petrusbroder]

13 hours and 54 minutes before the finish.

Individual stats
Rank _____ Name ______________________ Points
0025 ______ petrusbroder ____________ 65 573.40
0033 ______ biodoc __________________ 52 532.17
0034 ______ blckgrffn _______________ 52 233.26
0064 ______ Uppsala9496 _____________ 35 485.48
0081 ______ Kymmyl __________________ 28 917.89
0134 ______ filibusterman ___________ 18 823.10
0192 ______ zzuupp __________________ 13 673.22
0267 ______ Ken_g6 ___________________ 8 301.30
0325 ______ Ryan _____________________ 5 927.06
0443 ______ geecee ___________________ 2 553.59
0454 ______ waffleironhead ___________ 2 416.94
0470 ______ wayliff __________________ 2 203.43
0545 ______ kludge2003 _______________ 1 281.06
0830 ______ SlangNRox __________________ 204.97
0899 ______ jalaram ____________________ 153.73
1687 ______ Larry ________________________ 8.54

1 774 crunchers are priming.

Team stats
Rank ____ Name ____________________ Points
05 ______ Team_2ch ______________ 507 412.43
06 ______ PrimeSearchTeam _______ 481 859.47
07 ______ TeAm AnandTech ________ 294 414.16 __ +16 090.16
08 ______ Crunching@EVGA ________ 278 324.00
09 ______ Polish National Team __ 266 000.17
10 ______ BOINC@Poland __________ 247 066.03

279 teams are in the race.

 

[jalaram]

Thx for the individual stats. I had changed my settings, but I wasn't getting any of Sophie WUs until this morning. Hopefully, my little 2500k can make up for lost time.

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stat Peter. Looks like my 1090T went down several hours back. Unfortunately, I'm out of town and won't be back for another 24 hours. :hmm:

 

[blckgrffn]

Thanks for the stat Peter. Looks like my 1090T went down several hours back. Unfortunately, I'm out of town and won't be back for another 24 hours. :hmm:

My Phenom 2 840 was starved out this morning, I had to tell it to get with the program and it downloaded a couple WU's...

I knew something was up when I passed you

This is one reason I like having RDP setup back to my WHS server, then having the crunchers run ESXi, I can quickly see a dashboard of what is going on and even if the client OS takes a crap you can reset the VM, etc. Of course that has a ton of drawbacks too...

But if you haven't dropped $50 on WHS 2011, I really recommend it, even if just for the remote console capability.

Installing Windows Live Mesh can also get you into a host and then you can use RDP from there, that is how I access the 2500k at my parents house...

Thanks for the stats, Peter It looks like we have stabilized our lead, no?

 

[wayliff]

.1 or .25 (my usual cache depth)

Seems slow at first, but I just got a big shot of WUs after changing my ESXi 5 box over to Hyper-V for Class (and likely the rest of the race, depending on performance...)

Good I have mine set to .1.
Unfortunately one of the boxes, a quad core, will simply not get any work.
It always says no work.

I am going to put that to crunch something else. I've tried reboot and manually requesting but nada.

 

[biodoc]

There's tasks in the que and it was running at "stock" settings. Hopefully it's not a hardware problem. that's the second MB in that rig and the Ethernet controller has died on that board.

 

[blckgrffn]

Good I have mine set to .1.
Unfortunately one of the boxes, a quad core, will simply not get any work.
It always says no work.

I am going to put that to crunch something else. I've tried reboot and manually requesting but nada.

Very annoying, I'd say. At least the project seems to have held up reasonably well under the load...

Sim1 still needs some TeAm love I'll be putting things back on that later today until we break the 1M barrier...

There's tasks in the que and it was running at "stock" settings. Hopefully it's not a hardware problem. that's the second MB in that rig and the Ethernet controller has died on that board.

Jeeze, that's a bummer What motherboard is it? Sounds like one I should avoid!

At stock, things should just work...

 

[biodoc]

Jeeze, that's a bummer What motherboard is it? Sounds like one I should avoid!

At stock, things should just work...

GA-990fx-ud5, I think. I'll be back on sim1 in about 22 hours.

 

[jalaram]

I'm only getting 6 units at a time and it's not auto updating. What settings should I change to fix that? Sorry for the n00b question. I guess I don't understand BOINC enough.

 

[blckgrffn]

GA-990fx-ud5, I think. I'll be back on sim1 in about 22 hours.

Man, really? I like (I mean, really like) Gigabyte boards... That's a shame. Was the first board a GA one as well?

I'm only getting 6 units at a time and it's not auto updating. What settings should I change to fix that? Sorry for the n00b question. I guess I don't understand BOINC enough.

Under Tools --> Computing Preferences --> Network Usage I have it set to connect about every .1 days and have a queue of .25 days. Maybe not the nicest settings for the projects, but it keeps the WU's moving upstream and keeps my queue filled relatively nicely...

 

[blckgrffn]

Rank Name Score
1 Sicituradastra. 1744476.41
2 SETI.Germany 1378971.70
3 Ukraine 1202611.87
4 Czech National Team 848858.78
5 Team 2ch 737585.55
6 PrimeSearchTeam 682764.54
7 TeAm AnandTech 429814.13
8 Polish National Team 411264.33
9 Crunching@EVGA 405661.81
10 BOINC@Poland 362020.21

w00t! We did it! 7th is pretty locked up unless we have a *lot* of invalid WU's out there...

 

[blckgrffn]

Great showing team!


If only I could have had Larry's points...

Back to Sim1, WCG and Malaria Control for me!

 

[petrusbroder]

Individual stats
Rank _____ Name ______________________ Points
0025 ______ petrusbroder ____________ 94 175.30
0033 ______ blckgrffn _______________ 77 034.66
0034 ______ biodoc __________________ 72 995.04
0068 ______ Uppsala9496 _____________ 48 236.34
0075 ______ Kymmyl __________________ 44 034.45
0113 ______ filibusterman ___________ 32 462.17
0184 ______ zzuupp __________________ 20 676.38
0271 ______ Ken_g6 __________________ 11 948.06
0349 ______ wayliff __________________ 7 515.58
0354 ______ Ryan _____________________ 7 233.74
0422 ______ geecee ___________________ 4 825.34
0356 ______ kludge2003 _______________ 3 843.19
0501 ______ waffleironhead ___________ 2 869.58
0620 ______ jalaram __________________ 1 289.60
0728 ______ SlangNRox __________________ 649.07
1405 ______ Larry _______________________ 42.70

2 091 crunchers are priming.

Team stats
Rank ____ Name ____________________ Points
05 ______ Team_2ch ______________ 737 585.55
06 ______ PrimeSearchTeam _______ 682 764.54
07 ______ TeAm AnandTech ________ 429 814.13
08 ______ Polish National Team __ 411 264.33
09 ______ Crunching@EVGA ________ 405 661.81
10 ______ BOINC@Poland __________ 362 020.21

316 teams are in the race.

 

[Ken g6]

Wow, I completely forgot about the end of the race until just now! :$ Fortunately, every machine except my slowest laptop flushed on time or close to on time.

 

[Uppsala9496]

That was a rough race for me. My Fx8120 went down for 6 hours one night for some unknown reason (log said core failure - I even backed off my OC for the race). My 960T went down for about 12 hours. Suddenly boinc showed no projects, etc. Took a restart to get it back. That is on a fresh install of Ubuntu too.
Oh and one of my X6's sat there idle because it refused to upload/download tasks. I think it was idle for some 6+ hours. That machine is one of the few that is NOT wireless. No idea why, but this race made a mess of my machines.

I'll have a better showing next race I hope.

 

[filibusterman]

That was a rough race for me. My Fx8120 went down for 6 hours one night for some unknown reason (log said core failure - I even backed off my OC for the race). My 960T went down for about 12 hours. Suddenly boinc showed no projects, etc. Took a restart to get it back. That is on a fresh install of Ubuntu too.
Oh and one of my X6's sat there idle because it refused to upload/download tasks. I think it was idle for some 6+ hours. That machine is one of the few that is NOT wireless. No idea why, but this race made a mess of my machines.

I'll have a better showing next race I hope.

Well at least the TeAm did about is good as we could without maybe 4 more crunchers like Petrus. I haven't looked ahead but with the amount of races that incorporate nvidia crunching I think this race will probably be my best.

 

[blckgrffn]

Well at least the TeAm did about is good as we could without maybe 4 more crunchers like Petrus. I haven't looked ahead but with the amount of races that incorporate nvidia crunching I think this race will probably be my best.

I agree.

These WU's certainly were taxing (not nice to hardware...) My Q6700 couldn't take it even with the CPU fan full and only running three tasks, I just had to reset it as it was frozen...

 

[petrusbroder]

We did a very good race. We have the best starting position ever: 12th position in the first race, 7th in the third, the second not counting ...

We should be proud and happy: we are not so many crunchers - only 16 - and we have done well.

If we could get more people to race, we would do better. 30 crunchers each producing 10 000 points, which is very much possible, would make 300 000 points in this race. Each core counts. One core @ 15 minutes/wu = 4 WUs/hour, = 48 WUs/12 hours = 667 points/12 hours. With 8 cores that is 5 336 points in 12 hours, or, if the cores run 24 hours/day, 21K points in this race.

Team 2ch had 85 members crunching, SETI.Germany 86 crunchers. It is not the power of one or two crunchers that decide, but also the number of people donating their computer time.
SETI.Germany had a median production of 16 000 points per cruncher, Team 2ch produced 8600 points per cruncher.

Looking behind us BOINC@Poland had more than 70 crunchers, and we beat them soundly.

 

[zzuupp]

It's also nice to look in the rearview mirror to see the rats and cows.

 

[zzuupp]

Workunits waiting for validation 991,988

This number was close to 1.1M at the end of the race.

 

[biodoc]

Great job all!

Looks like I'll be helping with the clean up until I get home in about 8 hours.

@blckgrffn, the first MB was an asus (failed memory Channel). I've had good luck with both gigabyte and asus boards in general but bad luck with those 990fx boards.

 

[zzuupp]

Workunits waiting for validation 809,934

 

[zzuupp]

Workunits waiting for validation 584,470

 

[blckgrffn]

The guy in 32nd lost a WU! Now we are tied! Come on, lose one more....

32 KotSemen Ukraine 77034.66
33 blckgrffn TeAm AnandTech 77034.66

Thanks for the updates, zzuupp!