TAS-member thread for July: MalariaControl.net

[GLeeM]

The WUs are short deadline because MC is still beta.

What annoys me is that I can't get more WUs until what I have is all done (or almost all done anyway). I am not connected all the time and if there are two or three WUs still to crunch, I cannot get more before sleeping or going to work.

 

[petrusbroder]

Ahhh, that is the problem - I have been wondering about that.
So MalariaControl is monopolistic: crunch them only otherwise you get very few WUs.

Well - I got to see what I will do ... I am also engaged in the SETI-race and do not want to stop that ... :Q

 

[Fardringle]

I have 27 projects attached on my home computer. About 10 of them (mostly test projects) are allowed to get work. I don't have any problem with that computer receiving Malaria work units when I let it get new work (I turn it off sometimes to make sure my test projects get extra CPU time) and it doesn't seem to interfere with the other projects at all unless I get jobs from some of the test projects that put 24 hour - or higher - estimated processing times on their work units so the client thinks it is overcommitted, even though most of those test work units take 10 minutes or less to finish.

I have noticed that the Malaria client seems to get very unhappy and won't download new work for me when there are any QMC work units queued. I'm not sure why but it's probably because of the relatively long processing time on the QMC jobs. I don't run QMC much so it's not a problem for me but since TAS just finished running QMC I thought I'd mention it in case you still have work in queue from that project.

 

[caferace]

Hey Johan, done let kb3edk too far out there now. You have a rep to maintain.

-jim

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the MalariaControl-Stats as of July 7.


TAS-mini-team-stats:
____ Credits _____ RAC ______ Credits __________ RAC _____ Production
____ July 1 _____ July 1 ______ July 7 __________ July 7 _____ in July
__ 32 256,05 __ 1 664,25 ___ 70 193,68 _______ 4 876,24 ___ 37 937,63


TAS-member's stats: Climbers:
Change in
Team Rank ___ Name
+5,00 _______ Liz
+4,00 _______ kb3edk
+4,00 _______ cooper76
+2,00 _______ caferace
+2,00 _______ GLeeM
+2,00 _______ Strates


The Team Anandtech-stats:
Sorted according to credits:
Rank ___ Members ______ RAC _________ Credits _____ credits added in July ____ Name
_5 _______ 17 _______ 5 579,53 ____ 398 419,51 ________ 41 051,33 ___________ The Final Front Ear
_6 ________ 9 _______ 4 482,74 ____ 390 466,42 ________ 31 664,26 ___________ SETI@Netherlands
_7 _______ 16 _______ 2 275,71 ____ 314 609,48 ________ 14 606,63 ___________ USA
_8 _______ 29 _______ 5 548,49 ____ 309 798,08 ________ 52 289,27 ___________ Team Anandtech
_9 _______ 13 _______ 1 718,59 ____ 274 856,82 ________ 14 737,54 ___________ Free-DC
10 _______ 44 _______ 9 332,23 ____ 233 727,28 ________ 85 873,63 ___________ AMD Users
11 _______ 62 _______ 3 576,38 ____ 144 954,20 ________ 27 433,86 ___________ Czech National team


Sorted according to RAC:
Rank __ Members _____ RAC ________ Credits ______ Name
1 _______ 98 _____ 9 903,74 _____ 920 317,19 _____ L' Alliance Francophone
2 _______ 44 _____ 9 479,96 _____ 236 783,80 _____ AMD Users
3 ______ 103 _____ 5 661,18 _____ 530 616,85 _____ BOINC Synergy
4 _______ 29 _____ 5 625,84 _____ 311 504,62 _____ Team Anandtech (+4)
5 _______ 17 _____ 5 619,81 _____ 399 765,62 _____ The Final Front Ear
7 ________ 9 _____ 4 500,09 _____ 391 390,98 _____ SETI@Netherlands
8 _______ 62 _____ 3 627,53 _____ 146 078,35 _____ Czech National Team
9 ________ 9 _____ 3 150,71 ______ 59 129,57 _____ FaDBeens

 

[petrusbroder]

Just saw this: If we continue to crunch as we do now we will pass the USA-team within 26 - 32 hours ... :sun:

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the sTAtS, Peter

 

[petrusbroder]

The TeAm has passed USA and is now in ...

Rank ____ Name ______________ RAC ____________ credits
7 ______ TeAm AnandTech ____ 6 388.56 _______ 327,625.35

 

[networkman]

RE: Thought on the Malaria client as relates to QMC...

I'm not running QMC at all, but the new E@H client does have much longer workunits possible than before, so it could be that's the issue I was encountering, ie. different project but an issue for the same reason.

In any event, once the current E@H workunits are cleared out, I'm sure my MC production will pick up a bit.

 

[amdxborg]

The stats are looking great thanx Peter!! Oh and TAS is as always showing what we're made of! :beer:

I've always had a problem with MC not getting or sending work on some crunchers. I have to manually hit update to get them going. I run 2 projects on all my machines, so maybe the problem is with that then..

 

[GLeeM]

I'm guessing that because MC has short deadlines they get crunched before the second project and then waits to get more WUs until the second project makes up its time to get even.

 

[Fardringle]

That makes sense, Gleem. The scheduler doesn't appear to react very well when projects take more (or less) time to complete work than expected.

Stop making sense, you're making my brain hurt!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

I'm back from my trip and fired up the fleet again!

:beer::evil::beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome back - and Congrats to the soccer team's bronze medal!

 

[caferace]

Welcome back, BMC! I'm busy chasing (unsuccessfully) kb3edk. It's tough when he has the powerhouses he does in his fleet. He's even sporting the top machine!

http://www.malariacontrol.net/top_hosts.php

-jim

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for the congrats Peter; indeed I've never seen anybody celebrate #3 as if they were world champion :laugh:

 

[petrusbroder]

Well - what did the newspapers report when Chrushtew (a passed sovjet chairman) and Kennedy had a race in their cars around the red scare?:

Sovjet paperr: Comrade Chairman Chrushtew came to a honorable second place while the Capitalist President Kennedy only came second last.
US-papers: President Kennedy won and "the shoe" Chrushtew came last.

The real story: there were only two racers...

So being in the third place is not too bad - Gemany did not loose in the finals! and wan the in the fight for the bronze medal!

 

[caferace]

If you believe Free-DC stats, TA is #1 today in production for Malaria Control. Go TeAm(S).

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=aah&team=TeAm+AnandTech

-jim

 

[networkman]

Okay, my PC just finished up the last of the E@H units.. so it's 100% MC now.

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: caferace
If you believe Free-DC stats, TA is #1 today in production for Malaria Control. Go TeAm(S).

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=aah&team=TeAm+AnandTech

-jim

Well, we are the top producing team today, and we were the top-producing team yesterday and the day before that ... and for the passed week we were second most producing team ...

Looks very good, doesn't it?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Yip, it does!

Brought another Pentium M 1,5 GHz to Malaria today :evil:




EDIT:

You need to crunch faster guys, I have over 800 creds pending already! :evil:

 

[petrusbroder]

Yepp, you have some catching up to do. I would be very happy if you passed me! - but it should take some doing ...

Petrus has more than 600 pending ...

/Provocative post - is BMC fishing for a mini race?/

 

[BlackMountainCow]

:evil:

Hmmm .... you lead me by 8,000 points ... and I know I have less crunching power than you have ... and you want to race ???

:evil:


Hell yeah, I'm up for it! :laugh:

The race is on!

:beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Great!
I have committed quite a few comps to the Seti-race - see Rattledagger's posts. My total capacity is about 3000 credits a day or something like that ... and sharing that between seti, malariacontrol, SIMAP and Rectilinear Crossing Numbers ... that makes it a race because malariacontrol is so finnikey - won't give you any WUs if you have WUs in your comp that get close to the deadline of malariacontrol.
I think you have a really good chance.

Ha, petrus is crazy: running two races at a time -

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the starting stats:

Team
Rank ____ Credits _______ RAC ______ Name
7 ______ 16,729.75 _____ 242.54 ____ petrusbroder
9 _______ 8,979.94 _____ 336.78 ____ Christian Diepold (a.k.a BlackMountainCow)

Christian, do you agree that these are reasonable starting values?
We crunch on until the end of the month - OK?