WCG bunny race

yoyo · Post by **yoyo** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:58 pm

Hello folks!

Last december, our team launched the "christmas race" at world community grid. With more than 100 active teams, this competition became much more successfull than we had ever thought before. Nevertheless, many teams were not able to join the race because of different reasons (ongoing matches against other teams, problems contacting an inactive team-captain and so on).

Christmas is gone and with easter ahead of us, we decided to take this opportunity and again launch a competition: the bunny race. It will take place at WCG from March 1st to March 23rd (easter monday).

You are cordially invited to join us on this competition!

Here is the link to the race: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... engeId=821

yoyo

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:55 pm

Are we in or not ???

Won a few last time :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lots of teams i never seen before , Might be a laugh :roll:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:06 am

A few 'big hitters' among that list, if I remember from the Chrimbo Crunch!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:09 am

Tiss nothing but a scratch :o

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:32 am

The bigger the team, the better their their computers are when we Boinc em on the the head and run off with them....

I got some more nicorette patches from the chemist yesterday.
but I don't think they sell TSP patches, And NaRyan wuvs his TSP

Although with Micky talking about scratching I think he might have fleas.

So it could be a laugh to join in and though Micky amounst the other teams and watch them run about in a blind panic

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:10 am

I`m up for it if anyone else is.

Purplepixii · Post by **Purplepixii** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:41 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:I`m up for it if anyone else is.

I'm in too - I'm new but just point me in the right direction

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:47 pm

Somewhere :arrow: way :lol:

Purplepixii · Post by **Purplepixii** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:01 pm

Ben wrote:Somewhere :arrow: way :lol:

/spank!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:22 pm

Ok, who's jealous? :lol: :shock:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:50 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :arrow:

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:21 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote: Are we in or not ??? Won a few last time :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lots of teams i never seen before , Might be a laugh :roll:

Hi,

We are MOST DEFINITELY "IN"...

regards

Tim

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:32 pm

OK so all other work now running down, is there any particular project we are going to run for WCG or is it a free for all ?

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:14 pm

Timby wrote:OK so all other work now running down, is there any particular project we are going to run for WCG or is it a free for all ?

It is a points race, the average points per hour are

AfricanClimate@Home 72
Discovering Dengue Drugs 68
FightAIDS@Home 36
Help Conquer Cancer 70
Human Proteome Folding 2 49

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:49 pm

Being as I'm a credit hog I'll go for the Africa project for a few days.

Anyone want to keep tabs on the progress? I'd do it, but it's time someone else had a go for a change. (Don't all rush at once!)

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:56 pm

8 more hours and Im 100% WCG :D

Ive took FAAH out of the list for now, will re-instate once the hop is won :wav:

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:50 am

just a few more PG wu's to run down, then ime in for this...

will be 100% and 24/7 before the start time...

ime deaf so did not hear the starting gun...

lets go kick some butt :roll:

b.

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:19 am

7 wu's to report all lined up

gettin a bit of a 'jump' start on the bunny hop :D

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:28 am

Put 3 chips on this and should put another 1 on A.S.A.P
(Waiting for new PSU ) :lol:

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:31 am

just added my new dell lappy...

AND ... its a proper dual core 1.9

... bonus

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:54 am

RUnning down last few SHA, then will be WCG only, for a while....

Post by **UBT - PennyQ** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:07 pm

Oops - forgot completely about this! I've set everything except WCG to 'no new tasks', so it'll start picking up in a day or so.
:bunny: :bunny: :bunny: :bunny: :bunny: :bunny:

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:27 am

Its 1st March, did you all remember to start bunny hopping ? :lol:

Purplepixii · Post by **Purplepixii** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:04 pm

Ok I'm running WCG but is it me or are the files huuuuuuuge? Seems to take much longer to run WCG than Seti (for example).

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:06 pm

ime hopping along quite nice 24/7

b.

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:09 pm

Ive seen work units from 2 hours to 14 on my home pc ..

Some are listed as 19 on the laptop DOH :?

:shock:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:23 pm

Yup moi remembered

And yeah some of these workunits are long

The drug related one seems to be the quickest (42mins and a 1 hour one), and the Proteome folding one is the longest (one took 19 hours, on my sempron 2800+)

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:11 pm

DDD are the quickest ones ,You can select what you want to run on the project profile page .

I now have 4 chips running WCG so should do about 600 credits a day :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:23 pm

I take it the Africa ones are the longest?

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:54 pm

hmm.. manager set to 1 day, only 4 hours left on the 2 wu's .. and nothing is downloading ready :S ..

Ive tried a reboot ..

My laptop has enough for 8 days even on a 3 day seting :S

the minute I re-enable rosetta .. 5 tasks ..

SO although we are mid crunch, Ive let Ros run, as I don't want an unused cpu all night ..

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:08 pm

Boinc can be a bit thick at times.
If it's the 1st time you have run the project (on that boinc install), it can get a bit mixed up with it's times, you can set to 1 day, but with Boinc's working out of how long stuff is going to take, those 4 hours (cpu time), after Boinc's working out can look like 27 hours (wall clock time)

So boinc thinks 4 = 27, cache = 24, 27-24=3, Boinc don't ask for work for another 3 hours (to keep 24 hours of work...)
It gets a bit smarter after a few days.

And of course Boinc being Boinc it can get that in reverse and send you 27 hours work, when you only wanted 4, or in your laptops case 8 days instead of 3

There is work ok, as I just got a load of Drug and cancer ones

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:12 pm

I just got a cancer wu on me p3 800 40 hrs ffs

I got my amd xp2000 working today (new 350w psu from ebay £2.99)
Seems faster than my intel chips,Early days yet claimed 45 credits for 5 hrs but still pending .

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:25 pm

45 credits for 5 hours?
err both of mine were in the 5 hour, and I got 113.2 & 105.2

Mind you WCG falls into my will not do work for rules.
I don't like projects that punnish slower computers.

Out of the 4 results that have credit, I have lost about 70 between 3 of them, due to the fact the credits were awarded based on the faster computer.

So why should I do work for the project, when my slower pootas get punished for being slower, they still done the same work as the faster one.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:07 am

Probs cuss the credits for nice chips is cack .so i don't bother

:lol: :lol:
Looks like me 3 gig p4's do best on cosmology and the x64 does great on ABC
WCG credits are poor. :shock:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:05 am

Weird way of doing it too.
Boinc credits are *7, just to make them equal to the UD prog, err ok

I wonder what would happen to all these "punnish the slow" projects, if all the peeps that owned "slow" pc's left em.
Probably wave bye bye to 75% of their peeps

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:51 am

Grabbed more WCG wu's overnight, so Ive set Ros to no new again

Seems the points have started showing up

all graphs for UBT WCG here http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph. ... cg&id=6429

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:25 am

Stumbed across a way to make it get more wu's ...

I tried the update button, no joy ...

Changed the time " switch between applications " to 20 minutes , and it took a lot of new wu's in. .. :S ..

Odd, but it worked lol

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:20 pm

heh don't think we will win this one

The team ranked #1 at the mo does 11 milion credits per day :shock:
Mind you they got over 6000+ members

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:40 pm

11 million a day ?

We might make second then ehh ? :lol: :D

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:47 pm

Last i heard we got a million every few days or so :shock:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:22 pm

11 million toy town credits ? Or are they real boinc ???

Just had a look yeh they are silly WCG points so 1.5 mill aint that good for 6000 japs
24th place for us at the moment .

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:23 pm

TSBT are beating us though, waaaaaaaa
And are BUK even doing the WCG thing?
Could not see em on the list

Mind you I'm that doped up on painkillers and antibiotics at the mo, I have problems seeing the door

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:32 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:11 million toy town credits ? Or are they real boinc ???
Just had a look yeh they are silly WCG points so 1.5 mill aint that good for 6000 japs
24th place for us at the moment .

You`re right about WCG toy town points Micky.
1 BOINC credit is worth 7 WCG points.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:12 am

So that's...umm...err...carry the six and 23 remainder...roughly...1571428.5714285714285714285714286 BOINC credits per day!

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:17 am

well....were making a nice slow movement up the listings

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1

now in number 23 slot a gain of one (1) place :)

still it is only the start of day three.....

lets keep hopping along.....

b.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:51 pm

Need sunglasses to see these stats!

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum ... read=18803

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:32 pm

wowoowo thats nasty lol

we are doing pretty good now the points are hitting ..

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:09 pm

FFS what stupid colours to use.
I can't read any of that!

Oh well least I got my "cancer badge" today

Great eh "Cancer badge" and chicken pox in one day

Seriously which ever one of you peeps I annoyed, me is sorry!!!
You can take this curse off me now, PWEASE!!!!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:39 pm

Sorry to hear you're poorly, mate!

How do you get from a bad tooth to chicken pox?

I'd blame voodoo, but no one knows what you look like to make a little doll!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:45 pm

How do you get from a bad tooth to chicken pox?

It's called "Ian's Law"
Starting to wonder if I should change my name, but then again Mum would kill me!!! :roll:

You know since I gave up smoking my health has been terrible! :pukeright:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:02 pm

NaRyan wrote:You know since I gave up smoking my health has been terrible! :pukeright:

I'm not saying a word!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:22 pm

It is like that sometimes (as with certain family members i know) but give it a month or 2 and you should start being able to hold your breath for 30 seconds :lol: And hopefully get over the colds etc

Dr. B

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:28 pm

:D :D :D
Im fine ta

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:48 pm

Bet ya can't hold your breath for 30 seconds though?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:28 pm

Last time i tried ...got up to about 80 seconds :lol:
I know im a freak ...

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:45 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote: :D :D :D
Im fine ta

Famous last words that is....

Purplepixii · Post by **Purplepixii** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:16 pm

NaRyan wrote:You know since I gave up smoking my health has been terrible! :pukeright:

ROFL so many times I have heard that!!
Funny thing at work at the mo - me and my mate both eat healthy cereal breakfasts, none of the others do, yet we are both ill at the moment.

Blow being healthy - I'm gonna just do what I like when I like and enjoy life!!

*goes outside for a smoke*

Post by **UBT - PennyQ** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:10 pm

Just one more week to go on the Bunny Race and it looks like we're probably going to stick at 23rd. TSBT are 25th :)

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:46 pm

Well we are down to 24th now, TSBT are 23rd.

Post by **UBT - PennyQ** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:19 pm

Oh pooh! Shoulda kept my mouth shut...

:oops: