PrimeGrid Summer Solstice Challenge - keeping cool

[Ken g6]

Early AM stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
28_____575435_____petrusbroder
62_____338920_____biodoc
152____136661_____Ken_g6
186____103133_____kimmyl
210____78716______Robert Everly
217____69241______GLeeM
278____34256______Rudy Toody
281____32798______rabrittain
292____29154______filibusterman
432____4373_______Joe

Rank__Credits____Team
12____1674192____Dutch Power Cows
13____1537167____Keep The Fire Alive!
14____1490519____Crunching Family
15____1402692____TeAm AnandTech
16____1396132____BOINC@Poland
17____1346205____BOINC@MIXI
18____1271861____BOINC@AUSTRALIA

With just three hours left, we're pulling ahead of all the BOINC@'s!

 

[Ken g6]

The race is over! Stats to follow shortly...

Rank___Credits____Username
29_____664720_____petrusbroder
64_____399780_____biodoc
155____159620_____Ken_g6
190____113337_____kimmyl
213____91472______Robert Everly
220____80903______GLeeM
283____38994______Rudy Toody
287____35714______filibusterman
296____32798______rabrittain
433____6559_______Joe

Rank__Credits____Team
12____1932938____Dutch Power Cows
13____1742341____Keep The Fire Alive!
14____1714280____Crunching Family
15____1623901____TeAm AnandTech
16____1586729____BOINC@MIXI
17____1573245____BOINC@Poland
18____1514207____Team China

Not a top 10 finish, but a good race. We beat the Poles and their BOINC@ allies, and I came in third of 10 racers.

 

[filibusterman]

The only nvidia card I had was a 210 so i guess I didn't do too bad considering I just had to leave the boxes on and crunching since I wasn't home for the weekend or half of monday...I didn't have time to install cuda drivers on my ubuntu rig that has a 9800gt. Is there an easy way to do this? I know someone has described how to do it before but I never got around to it. I don't know if this would help though as I saw no option in the boinc client on that rig for graphics card properties.

 

[Ken g6]

Ever worked with the command line? With one of the virtual terminals? Here's how to install nVIDIA drivers using them:

1. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a virtual terminal. (Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back if you get lost.)
2. Log in.
3. Run "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop". (After this you can't use Ctrl-Alt-F7 for awhile.)
4. Run the nVIDIA installer with sudo. It should guide you through the installation process.
5. Run "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start". Your graphical desktop should reappear.

Oh, and to get BOINC updated to see the GPU, download and run the latest version in a temp directory; then stop boinc (/etc/init.d/boinc-client), copy the executables over the ones in /usr/bin with sudo, and start boinc again.

 

[rabrittain]

Thanks for the stats!! It was a fun race. I look forward to the next one.

:thumbsup



(why did the thumbs up not work?)

 

[rabrittain]

ok -- I see that the thumbs up is in the advanced options. Did I not express it correctly?

>:\~

What happened to all the emoticons??!!!

 

[Ken g6]

Thanks for the stats!! It was a fun race. I look forward to the next one.

:thumbsup



(why did the thumbs up not work?)

:thumbsup: It takes two colons.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, Ken_g6! Yeah, it was a good race, but my 4-core 8 threads computers could not help ... Let us see what the stats will be when all is validated!

 

[Ken g6]

All is validated. This was a sieve race.

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL, you are right! Forgot that ...