PrimeGrid Year of the Horse Races Jan 3-18

[deerslayer]

I don't think either of my ponies running right now will make it in before the end of the race

 

[Icecold]

I don't think either of my ponies running right now will make it in before the end of the race

Yeah I've got a bunch running that will report ~2 hours after the race ends.

Also have 1 Stallion WU still running that won't make it until maybe 10 hours after the race. It has been running since the beginning on a GTX 460, which should have ended in time just fine, but I didn't realize until yesterday that at some point it must have rebooted or something which caused Folding@Home to startup and was using the GPU. I corrected the issue but it's only at 96% so I really don't think it will finish in time.

VirtualLarry- it definitely sounds like your PC may have been overheating and rebooting. I also know at least with GPU WU's if it encounters an error it pauses for several minutes(I think 10) to allow your GPU to cool down, so it may do that with CPU WU's as well. My 1090t at stock which is not much faster than your 1045t turned in the WU's a couple days ago.

 

[Plimogz]

And my 3.2 GHz Phenom II (X3 unlocked X4) took 240-some hours to complete its WUs.

That 1045 should've been able to complete at least 6.

 

[Ken g6]

About 30 minutes left. Flush 'em if you got 'em.

And, remember, after the race all results will need to be verified before the scores are final. So if they're not done, please either complete them or abort them so that someone else can complete them.

 

[Ken g6]

The race is over! (It was over an hour ago, but I was too busy to notice. :$)

Stallion:
Rank___Credits____Username
28_____2718672____plimogz
45_____1952954____zzuupp
46_____1948135____Icecold
51_____1935098____biodoc
99_____775128_____GLeeM
165____385930_____Ken_g6

Rank__Credits____Team
6_____14361012___BOINC@MIXI
7_____11238277___Ukraine
8_____10061389___Dutch Power Cows
9_____9715920____TeAm AnandTech
10____9354195____Overclock.net
11____7383790____BOINC.Italy
12____6970582____PrimeSearchTeam

Well, we didn't wind up 7th, but without any of our WUs, we would have been 10th! Furthermore, if none of our WUs are invalidated, and just one DPC WU is, we'll be 8th! But I'm a little worried because I saw one of Icecold's pony WUs get invalidated the other day. :\

Pony:
Rank___Credits____Username
9______6407558____Lane42
45_____2323037____biodoc
72_____1537059____GLeeM
92_____1235471____Icecold
95_____1174080____plimogz
98_____1117767____zzuupp
124____843578_____deerslayer_TA
137____751986_____geecee
153____632659_____SlangNRox
245____300668_____Ken_g6
287____210606_____Ryan
361____120481_____VirtualLarry

Rank__Credits____Team
4_____33542319___Team 2ch
5_____27186382___BOINC@MIXI
6_____25968073___Aggie The Pew
7_____16654955___TeAm AnandTech
8_____15350578___Crunching@EVGA
9_____15082447___Russia
10____13338807___Dutch Power Cows

We're much more secure in 7th place here. It'll be interesting who gets 8th and who gets 9th, though.

Also, all users who rank 300th or better get some personal race credit this year. So everyone who participated in either race this time will probably get credit ...except VirtualLarry.

 

[Icecold]

Well, we didn't wind up 7th, but without any of our WUs, we would have been 10th! Furthermore, if none of our WUs are invalidated, and just one DPC WU is, we'll be 8th! But I'm a little worried because I saw one of Icecold's pony WUs get invalidated the other day. :\

That's definitely a valid concern, I've had 2 of the Pony WUs marked invalid. Nothing was overclocked(in fact had all the video cards underclocked a bit), but these GFN WU's seem pretty brutal on hardware.

 

[zzuupp]

I held onto to the top 100 on the pony list.

Thanks for the stats!

 

[biodoc]

Great job all!

Thanks for all the stats Ken_g6 and zzuupp!

Looks like our friends at EVGA held off the Russians! :thumbsup:

 

[deerslayer]

My 7770 is breathing a sigh of relief. Poor lil guy.

 

[Plimogz]

Aw shucks, for a minute there I thought that 7th spot in the WR race was ours. Oh well, it was good fun regardless.

Thanks for keeping stats throughout, Ken_g6.

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, ken_g6

The double/dual race made for double the fun!

PS: the next race is in 41+ days, March 1-16 "Double Top Secret Mystery Challenge" and is CPU only ... doing SoB ... long WUs.

 

[deerslayer]

Thanks for the stats, ken_g6

The double/dual race made for double the fun!

PS: the next race is in 41+ days, March 1-16 "Double Top Secret Mystery Challenge" and is CPU only ... doing SoB ... long WUs.

SoB = http://www.seventeenorbust.com/ ??????

I don't feel like I'm accomplishing much with these long WUs.

 

[geecee]

Thanks for the stats ken_g6, as well as getting the team organized for all of these PG challenges.

 

[GLeeM]

SoB = http://www.seventeenorbust.com/ ?????? I don't feel like I'm accomplishing much with these long WUs.

PrimeGrid has SoB WUs you can choose in Preferences.

And I know what you mean about the long WUs. But I'll bite the bullet for the TeAm and run them for the race and then go back to my BOINC Milestone plan

 

[VirtualLarry]

Also, all users who rank 300th or better get some personal race credit this year. So everyone who participated in either race this time will probably get credit ...except VirtualLarry.

I guess at this point in time, the only proper thing to do if I want to continue in races, is to ditch all of my slow, crappy, buggy, AMD gear.

 

[Icecold]

Any idea how fast of a machine will be needed to complete the SoB WU's within the duration of the challenge?

I'm hoping Core2Quad / Phenom II era machines will, but with 41 days until that challenge I suppose I can run some and find out.

I guess at this point in time, the only proper thing to do if I want to continue in races, is to ditch all of my slow, crappy, buggy, AMD gear.

If you can get it to run stable that 1045t you have is still a decent processor. My 4770k(which I only have due to getting a great deal, I normally run older tech) managed to do 8 WU's total in the race, my 1090t did 6 and probably would have done 8 or 9 if I had 'juggled' the WU's.

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you can get it to run stable that 1045t you have is still a decent processor.
my 1090t did 6 and probably would have done 8 or 9 if I had 'juggled' the WU's.

The low clock speed of the 1045T makes it useless for races with long WU. Your 1090T, and someones Phenom II @ 3.2 are both clocked significantly higher than the 2.7 mine is clocked at.

Btw, it was running stable, running the CPU WUs it never rebooted.

Edit: I think the CPU fan has been stopping, for some reason. I had HWMonitor open, and all 6 cores had a max of 85C, and CPU fan RPM had a min of 0. So I think the fan stops, sometimes.

Edit: I took the cooler off. The cooler is an OCZ Vendetta. The fan was "stiff" to turn with my fingers. Guess the bearing was either dried out, or caked with dust. The fins had some dust on them, but it wasn't entirely clogged. I changed out for a stock AMD heatsink for now, and took the Thuban rig out of service.

 

[Icecold]

The low clock speed of the 1045T makes it useless for races with long WU. Your 1090T, and someones Phenom II @ 3.2 are both clocked significantly higher than the 2.7 mine is clocked at.

Btw, it was running stable, running the CPU WUs it never rebooted.

There must be some other factor then, maybe ram speed?

My machine that had the GTX 460 in it has a stock speed(1.6GHz) Celeron E1200 and DDR2 ram in it, and I ran a CPU WU on it during the race and it ended right after the race(within a few hours). Had I started that machine when the race began, it would have finished during the race.

My 1090t took 1,009,662.05 seconds(280.46 hours) to finish a WU(the other 5 WU's were about the same) while also running GPU WU's. Even accounting for a 20% clock speed difference by adding 20% on top of that, it would have taken 336.5 hours which would have been done well before the race finished.

I'm about to run a SoB WU on a few machines to see what is viable for the next race and will keep everybody informed.

 

[Plimogz]

8 Dutch Power Cows_____10061389.78
9 Overclock.net_________9354195.08
10 TeAm AnandTech ____9328774.24

 

[Ken g6]

I finally found my bad WUs tracking spreadsheet, so I can now do cleanup stats, day 3:

Stallion:
6_____14361012___BOINC@MIXI (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
7_____11238277___Ukraine (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
8_____10061389___Dutch Power Cows (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
9_____9354195____Overclock.net (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
10____9328774____TeAm AnandTech (-387146, ~1 bad WUs)
11____7383790____BOINC.Italy (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
12____6970582____PrimeSearchTeam (-0, ~0 bad WUs)

As noted by Plimogz, we lost one, and thus one rank. But we're not likely to drop past 10th, and OCN could lose some too.

Pony:
4_____33391742___Team 2ch (-150577, ~5 bad WUs)
5_____27126295___BOINC@MIXI (-60087, ~2 bad WUs)
6_____25937959___Aggie The Pew (-30114, ~1 bad WUs)
7_____16594655___TeAm AnandTech (-60300, ~2 bad WUs)
8_____15290094___Crunching@EVGA (-60484, ~2 bad WUs)
9_____15082447___Russia (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
10____13308647___Dutch Power Cows (-30160, ~1 bad WUs)

We lost some, but we're about average. I guess those cold Russian winters help. So far, we're not in much danger here. If this rate holds for the Stallion work, though - and it might because verification for the Stallion work takes a lot longer - I expect more shakeups to come there.

 

[GLeeM]

Looks like the two bad Pony WUs were mine, sorry
I had it underclocked by 50 at 750 with temps around 60C (I usually run it at 880 with temps up to 80C on some projects)

The worse news is that I still have six more WUs from that GPU that are not validated yet! It might be a long while until they get validated ... I looked at them and they each have like at least a dozen "Error while computing" results from other users.
Good new is there are 24 validated good WUs from that GPU.

 

[Ken g6]

I hear the cleanup is probably going to take a few months, so I'm going to pace myself to trying to do stats just once a week.

Stallion:
6_____14337366___Keep The Fire Alive! (-386543, ~1 bad WUs)
7_____11238277___Ukraine (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
8_____10061389___Dutch Power Cows (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
9_____9354195____Overclock.net (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
10____9328774____TeAm AnandTech (-387146, ~1 bad WUs)
11____7383790____BOINC.Italy (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
12____6970582____PrimeSearchTeam (-0, ~0 bad WUs)

Well, we aren't the only ones who have fallen. Keep The Fire Alive! has fallen from an unknown position edit: 5th - at least on my browser-cached copy of the stats on the 21st - to behind BOINC@MIXI. I expect more surprises.

4_____33301671___Team 2ch (-240648, ~8 bad WUs)
5_____27126295___BOINC@MIXI (-60087, ~2 bad WUs)
6_____25937959___Aggie The Pew (-30114, ~1 bad WUs)
7_____16534355___TeAm AnandTech (-120600, ~4 bad WUs)
8_____15259870___Crunching@EVGA (-90708, ~3 bad WUs)
9_____15082447___Russia (-0, ~0 bad WUs)
10____13248040___Dutch Power Cows (-90767, ~3 bad WUs)

Russia's perfect streak continues! But aside from maybe EVGA, I don't expect anyone to lose enough WUs to lose a position here.

 

[GLeeM]

I still have six more WUs from that GPU that are not validated yet!

Of those six - one bad, two good and three yet to validate.

 

[deerslayer]

Thanks for the update Ken!

 

[deerslayer]

Phew, all of my pony wus were validated