PrimeGrid Year of the Dragon Challenge Jan 23-28

[petrusbroder]

We have passed BOINCstats and are #12 again.
Still: we need more, More, MOre, MORe and MORE points!

 

[blckgrffn]

We have passed BOINCstats and are #12 again.
Still: we need more, More, MOre, MORe and MORE points!

It looks like that final x6 is allowing me to hold off your assault on my position, Peter... Even as we both climb the charts...

 

[Ken g6]

Day 3 stats, a little late:

Rank___Credits____Username
76_____232236_____Uppsala9496
94_____204375_____kimmyl
97_____195410_____blckgrffn
110____174094_____petrusbroder
159____130717_____filibusterman
190____112882_____zzuupp
201____107889_____Rudy Toody
225____98032______SlangNRox
230____94586______biodoc
242____89847______Larry
279____70005______geecee
302____63898______Ken_g6
311____60570______Joe
363____48716______Ryan
468____32634______Chokko
590____18613______waffleironhead
748____9173_______kludge2003
810____7373_______ludee

Rank__Credits____Team
9_____2542384____Aggie The Pew
10____2065837____Dutch Power Cows
11____1970405____Crunching@EVGA
12____1750722____TeAm AnandTech
13____1706663____BOINCstats
14____1518601____BOINC@Poland
15____1253834____Duke University

And I'll just pull in that image from page 2, since we passed one team and got passed by another:

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL, Ken_g6, you managed to post your stats just 7 minutes before me ... well since they are done, I'll post them anyway.

Individual stats as of January,26 18:35:45

Rank _____ Name ______________________ Points
076 ______ Uppsala9496 _____________ 232 236.58
094 ______ Kymmyl __________________ 204 375.10
097 ______ blckgrffn _______________ 195 410.47
110 ______ petrusbroder ____________ 174 094.98
159 ______ filibusterman ___________ 130 717.16
190 ______ zzuupp __________________ 112 882.00
201 ______ Rudy Toody ______________ 107 889.35
225 ______ SlangNRox ________________ 98 032.97
230 ______ biodoc ___________________ 94 586.82
242 ______ Larry ____________________ 89 847.90
279 ______ geecee ___________________ 70 005.19
302 ______ Ken_g6 ___________________ 63 898.61
311 ______ Joe ______________________ 60 570.00
363 ______ Ryan _____________________ 48 716.98
468 ______ Chokko ___________________ 32 634.92
590 ______ waffleironhead ___________ 18 613.04
748 ______ kludge2003 ________________ 9 173.42
810 ______ ludee _____________________ 7 373.99

2570 crunchers are priming.


Team stats as of January,26 18:32:52

Rank ____ Name ____________________ Points ________ to overtake
08 ______ Polish National Team ____ 3 104 870.62
09 ______ Aggie The Pew ___________ 2 542 384.03
10 ______ Dutch Power Cows ________ 2 065 837.42
11 ______ Crunching@EVGA __________ 1 970 405.83
12 ______ TeAm AnandTech __________ 1 750 722.06 __ +219 683.77
13 ______ BOINCstats ______________ 1 706 663.46 __ +188 061.89
14 ______ BOINC@Poland ____________ 1 518 601.57
15 ______ Duke University _________ 1 253 834.54
16 ______ team China ______________ 1 154 252.88
....
21 ______ The Knights Who Say Ni! ___ 961 105.47


379 teams are in the race.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, I'm at a friend's house, he is running BOINC for me on his AMD X4 640 3.0Ghz quad-core. I had a look at the projects, and WCG, PrimeGrid, and Correlizer are all set to 100 priority. Yet, looking at the tasks, he has no PrimeGrid tasks, all correlizer tasks, and one WCG task that isn't uploading.

 

[petrusbroder]

Correlizer has a tendency to hog resources - setting the dead lines so that the BOINC has to run those WUs first. Adjust the Correlizer tp 25 of the resources (25 priority) and set PrimeGrid (just now) to 1000.
Then ask your friend to join the TeAm or ask him to prime in jour name ...

 

[petrusbroder]

It looks like that final x6 is allowing me to hold off your assault on my position, Peter... Even as we both climb the charts...

Good: just because you posted, I have added - just 10 minutes ago - 8 more cores running stably @ 3.5GHz. Lets see if that does something ...

I love racing!

PS. I may add more cores later ... it is getting quite cold outside and I can use the energy from the computers ...

 

[blckgrffn]

Correlizer has a tendency to hog resources - setting the dead lines so that the BOINC has to run those WUs first. Adjust the Correlizer tp 25 of the resources (25 priority) and set PrimeGrid (just now) to 1000.
Then ask your friend to join the TeAm or ask him to prime in jour name ...

Join the TeAm, update his preferences, then have him update the project. He could simply suspend Correlizer for the next two days... He shouldn't miss deadlines that way, I believe...

Good: just because you posted, I have added - just 10 minutes ago - 8 more cores running stably @ 3.5GHz. Lets see if that does something ...

I love racing!

PS. I may add more cores later ... it is getting quite cold outside and I can use the energy from the computers ...

Uh-oh. Hmmm...

 

[petrusbroder]

That would work too ... and while he is at it, ask him to suspend all the other projects too.

 

[blckgrffn]

I see your eight core raise with an OC'd i5 2500k w/AVX enabled

We'll see how it does... compared to my thubans it should rock. Good thing I set up RDP into my Dad's rig...

Yep, task time in the 900 to sub 900 second range. Worth about 7 thuban cores @ 3.4 Ghz... we'll see if it can hold you off It's going to come down to point values for the work completed...

 

[petrusbroder]

I have added 8 more cores ... lets see if we can get the team higher - it may be hard, but let us try.
My personal goal is to get among the top-100 to get at least some few challenge points ...

 

[ZipSpeed]

I added 6 cores into the race. I'll borg/assimilate my wife's laptop tonight and add that into the mix. I have a Pentium M 2.16 GHz in my old XPS M170 laptop but not sure if that grandpa of a CPU is worth it.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks, ZipSpeed! I look forward to do the stats tomorrow and see you climbing the ranks and adding points to the TeAm's score!

 

[Rudy Toody]

Watching all this effort has caused my Tattoo to start Dragon!

 

[zzuupp]

ruhro!

I can't seem to be able to connect to primegrid.

 

[ZipSpeed]

ruhro!

I can't seem to be able to connect to primegrid.

Neither can I. Was trying to add my wife's laptop into the race but says project is unavailable.

 

[blckgrffn]

Hah, I knew that I should have set deeper work queues! Right now they are all at .25 days... Hopefully its an issue quickly resolved...

Glad to see you on the thread, Zip. I will be good wcg all next week

 

[ZipSpeed]

Hah, I knew that I should have set deeper work queues! Right now they are all at .25 days... Hopefully its an issue quickly resolved...

Glad to see you on the thread, Zip. I will be good wcg all next week

Good to be here! Hopefully my small contribution will be meaningful in some way. Looking forward to seeing you on WCG. :biggrin:

 

[ZipSpeed]

PG back up and running. Added my wife's laptop for a total of 8 cores.

 

[VirtualLarry]

OT: Can you run more than one WCG WU at once? At least for me, I've only ever seen a single WU processing at once. I'm joined to the Clean Energy Project sub-project on WCG.
I would be willing to put one of my machines on WCG exclusively, if I could run four WUs on it.
Edit: (After this race, I mean.)

 

[ZipSpeed]

OT: Can you run more than one WCG WU at once? At least for me, I've only ever seen a single WU processing at once. I'm joined to the Clean Energy Project sub-project on WCG.
I would be willing to put one of my machines on WCG exclusively, if I could run four WUs on it.

Yup, you should be able to run more than one WU at a time. For example, my i7 970 is running 12 instances at a time. Did you set BOINC to use 100% of the processors?

 

[petrusbroder]

Individual stats as of January,27 06:06:25

Rank _____ Name ______________________ Points
0082 ______ Uppsala9496 _____________ 271 289.25
0093 ______ blckgrffn _______________ 251 984.55
0098 ______ Kymmyl __________________ 237 181.98
0101 ______ petrusbroder ____________ 230 387.59
0164 ______ filibusterman ___________ 152 428.12
0182 ______ biodoc __________________ 141 088.45
0195 ______ zzuupp __________________ 131 167.15
0211 ______ Rudy Toody ______________ 124 100.90
0226 ______ Larry ___________________ 115 889.81
0227 ______ SlangNRox _______________ 115 859.84
0260 ______ geecee ___________________ 94 458.10
0307 ______ Ken_g6 ___________________ 73 621.33
0314 ______ Joe ______________________ 71 782.39
0380 ______ Ryan _____________________ 53 979.59
0463 ______ Chokko ___________________ 39 718.70
0593 ______ waffleironhead ___________ 22 378.78
0659 ______ kludge2003 _______________ 17 252.61
0835 ______ ludee _____________________ 8 059.28
0948 ______ ZipSpeed __________________ 4 979.29
2331 ______ captain howdy _______________ 172.29

Welcome ZipSpeed and captain howdy to the race! Thanks for pitching in!
2776 crunchers are priming.


Team stats as of January,27 06:03:08

Rank ____ Name ____________________ Points ________ to overtake
08 ______ Polish National Team ____ 3 740 669.39
09 ______ Aggie The Pew ___________ 2 991 389.71
10 ______ Crunching@EVGA __________ 2 464 473.40
11 ______ Dutch Power Cows ________ 2 446 542.89
12 ______ TeAm AnandTech __________ 2 156 845.08 __ +289 697.81
13 ______ BOINCstats ______________ 2 062 925.47 __ + 93 919,61
14 ______ BOINC@Poland ____________ 1 788 065.59
15 ______ Duke University _________ 1 468 684.42
16 ______ Team China ______________ 1 361 461.12
....
21 ______ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 1 135 993.12

379 teams are in the race.

BOINCstats have produced more than 90K more points than the TeAm and are on the werge of overhauling.
Could we have some more crunchers? More computers, more TeAm-mates;
more, More, MOre, MORe, MORE!

 

[petrusbroder]

Hmmm, now I regret not starting at once. Had I crunched from the start, I would have hade 75 - 95K more points and I would have been approx #45 - 50 now.
The CPU-dependent challenges are not as good as the GPU-dependent challenges for me.
I think I'll be in the next challenges from the start ...

 

[zzuupp]

Hah, I knew that I should have set deeper work queues! Right now they are all at .25 days... Hopefully its an issue quickly resolved...

Glad to see you on the thread, Zip. I will be good wcg all next week

That would have had less impact that usual. There is a hard limit of 48 WU per host for the challenge.

 

[blckgrffn]

Hmmm, now I regret not starting at once. Had I crunched from the start, I would have hade 75 - 95K more points and I would have been approx #45 - 50 now.
The CPU-dependent challenges are not as good as the GPU-dependent challenges for me.
I think I'll be in the next challenges from the start ...

Hah. I've been increasing my resources over the week as well. I guess for me, the building/scavenging/recruiting is part of the fun. It always seems like there will be more time before the race starts...

That said, people who know me well would expect me to be this punctual and would know my effort would peak the closer to the due date I need to re-imagine the start of the race as when to have the full effort on tap.

I do think we must have turned the tide against BOINC Stats, as the gap has widened to ~140k points now.

That would have had less impact that usual. There is a hard limit of 48 WU per host for the challenge.

Ah, good to know. That does make sense as it would keep someone from intentionally sucking the pool of WU's dry at this point of the race.

That said, holy pending credit Batman! Through the first couple days I was consistently under 1 page of Pending WU's per host, now one has 180+ pending WU's!