Who's up for *another* one-day race? (PrimeGrid, Friday)

[Ken g6]

A 24 hour Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's Prime Sierpinski Problem (Sieve) application. This application sieves (looks for prime factors more quickly than a standard LLR test can find them) for both the Seventeen or Bust project and for its sister search, the Prime Sierpinski Problem. (The Seventeen or Bust client only performs LLR tests; by participating in this challenge you'll help avoid pointless LLR tests over there, too.)

To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Prime Sierpinski Problem (Sieve) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section. The challenge will begin 13 November 2009 18:00 UTC and end 14 November 2009 18:00 UTC. While application builds are available for Linux 32 bit and Windows 32 bit, 64 bit clients have a significant speed advantage. If you want to use a 64-bit client, but only have 32-bit Windows, take a look at the Wubi installer for Ubuntu.

Good luck!

 

[waffleironhead]

thanks for the heads up, the last one race was enjoyable. Count me in(as long as I remember).

 

[Ken g6]

Thanks, WaffleIronHead! Hopefully we can get more participants since the SETI race is over. (To anyone reading this, you're welcome to join. )

PrimeGrid has also made the official announcement of the challenge. I'll also put a link in the OP.

 

[waffleironhead]

and we're off!

 

[Ken g6]

And the forums are back up!

Remember, abort anything that was downloaded before the start of the race - it won't count.

 

[Ken g6]

Whoops, I forgot to do the 6-hour stats! So here are the 7.5 hour stats:

Stats for team TeAm AnandTech
Rank__Credits___Username
111___2453______Ken_g6 - TeAm Anandtech
171___1330______waffleironhead
196___1004______SlangNRox
390___118_______Slatz
556___29________Alyx

Rank__Credits___Team
26____5999______Solar Extreme
27____5970______SETI.USA
28____5467______Calm Chaos
29____5142______TeAm AnandTech
30____4403______Team Norway
31____3103______Free-DC
32____2896______Team niconico

Looks like the usual suspects are trickling in. That's good, because 29th is close to not getting any team race points at all!

 

[Ken g6]

Well, the race finished before the forums came back up. Here's the final stats:

Rank__Credits___Username
144___8660______Ken_g6 - TeAm Anandtech
191___5822______waffleironhead
203___5231______SlangNRox
356___1182______Slatz
430___679_______Alyx

Rank__Credits___Team
26____22906_____SETI.USA
27____22758_____B2S
28____22108_____Solar Extreme
29____21576_____TeAm AnandTech
30____20748_____Team Norway
31____20068_____Canada
32____19330_____Calm Chaos

The good news is we're in the top 30, so we get some credit. What surprised me is that nobody beat what I did with just 6 cores over 2 machines. Either nobody installed any 64-bit OS with 64-bit BOINC, or we need more heavy hitters in here. (Or both! )

I consider this a practice run for the last race of the year, the AP26 Winter Solstice Challenge, a 3-day race December 18-21. The AP26 app can be run on PS3s, Macs, Solaris, and may even be ready to run on some NVidia GPUs by the time the challenge gets here. So since I have neither a PS3 nor a good GPU, I'm hoping somebody on the TeAm beats me!