Christmas/December Crunch idea ??

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:02 pm

Hi all,

I'd like to take a sounding for a UBT "Christmas (or Yuletide/December/Pagan) Crunch" where the team makes a big effort for one main project (and another as a backup, in case we drain the main project of WU's

) and try and generate loads of credits.

It's a bit late in the day I know, but if we ran this during some period (say) from 1st until 31st December, then we could give a big boost to a worthy project. I'm open to any idea anyone would like to suggest for the actual dates....starting on 1st Dec might be too short notice for some.....esp if they have a stock of WU's waiting to be processed

As to "which" project ???? That's maybe where we need to put together a short list of candidates....and maybe take a vote once we've got maybe half a dozen options....

regards
Tim

PS Earlier today, I used MailChimp to send out a newsletter to lots of UBT members about this idea - but the 2nd set of emails went out incorrectly....a corrected email will be sent out tomorrow (as MailChimp only allows upto 2000 emails to be sent per day and I've already used up my quotient for today )

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:01 pm

Good idea Tim. I`m running WCG at the moment, so to start things off, I propose WCG as a project.

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:41 pm

Well, I'm with you on that. I'll go along with any project, but will propose Primegrid.

david · Post by **david** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:51 am

My 2bob's worth Poem it doesn't run on graphics cards and thus does not skew results and it is a worthy in the medical research field

David

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:09 pm

Hi all,

Thanks for those suggestions - WCG, PrimeGrid and Poem are now on the list....

Can we get maybe another 2-3 projects proposed by say this Saturday night and then it's vote time....

regards
Tim

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:14 pm

Hi All :D

I'm with David on this, and for the same reasons.

Poem would be my choice for a Team Crunch

whitecrow · Post by **whitecrow** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:02 pm

I add Einstein@home to the vote. WCG and Poem@home good as well.

don't mind :D

Post by **Jeffers** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:01 am

I've not run POEM yet, so I'd be happy to give it some support. Already running Primegrid so that'd get some WUs done anyway.

PS. Just checked Primegrid and it's not giving out work at the moment so an alternate reserve project might be needed.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:08 pm

PG is still giving out work for GPUs.

Post by **Jeffers** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:57 pm

It's not giving me any.... just checked my preferences etc and done an update, still nothing.

Update... also tried a project reset, then another update, still nothing. This is odd as the stats page shows that I've had credits added in the last 24 hours....

whitecrow · Post by **whitecrow** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:21 pm

I am not around tonight vote.

I like choose Poem@home.

It's reason i came back this year to crunch with UK Boinc team.
After my Grandma died cancer this year.
Also my dads friend died this year and when i was 12 years old boy class died cancer as well.

I would like do this project to dedicate it to all lost family and friends of such deadly cancer over the years in this country.

Seems all most everyone knows someone who had cancer or died cancer.

+ i am all rdy Crunching it

:P

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:23 pm

I suppose that we ought to consider those projects where our output could do with a bit of a boost, like say Ibercivis or maybe RNA World (that said, I haven't run either of these projects in a long time and so I've no idea how much work these two projects produce or how stable they are).

I guess my vote will have to go to WCG (partly because of it's worthiness, but mainly cos I'm already running it

), although I'm happy to join in with whatever project the rest of the team picks.

jubba · Post by **jubba** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:28 pm

Hi all,
i vote einstein but mainly because im crunching it anyway hehe.
But any worthy cause is fine

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:20 am

Jeffers wrote:It's not giving me any.... just checked my preferences etc and done an update, still nothing.

I`m definitely still getting new work for PPS sieve for gpu.
Not sure if other sub-projects are running, but I suspect they are.

Rick.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:36 am

As I have not crunched for a while, I will go with the teams choice, happy to change from my 2 projects I'm on at the moment, eg. PG and Collatz.

Post by **Jeffers** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:08 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
Jeffers wrote:It's not giving me any.... just checked my preferences etc and done an update, still nothing.
I`m definitely still getting new work for PPS sieve for gpu.
Not sure if other sub-projects are running, but I suspect they are.

Rick.

Got work now, dunno what was happening earlier.... :?

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:15 pm

Hi all,

The Crunchathon POLL is now up and awaiting YOUR vote !!

http://forum.ukboincteam.com/viewtopic.php?t=5385

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:23 pm

Hi all,

Please see the poll result here: http://forum.ukboincteam.com/viewtopic. ... 8464#88464

regards
Tim

david · Post by **david** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:38 pm

And yer wouldn't believe it one of my M/C's on POEM has decided to throw the trotters up in the air :evil: not sure yet if it is hardware or software,think software Hmmm!!!! i nearly swore

most unlike me

David

whitecrow · Post by **whitecrow** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:58 pm

I set my PC and my laptop carry on Crunching pom@home and WCG as second now.

I recommend everyone makes sure you got WCG set up as i do for your second.

If you have graphics card you gone make sure you got WCG set up as Pom@home is mainly CPU work based WU there is shortage of CPU-graphics card units out there.

If you get one it uses a whole CPU and graphics card. And there worth lot points.

I always had Einstein@home before for my graphics cards as back up but changed to WCG for team Crunch.

Einstein@home only used 0.5 of a CPU and Graphics card so need less CPU power for that.

not done WCG so interested to see how that runs.

i go Holiday for over week so if Electric cut or something i be out for week sorry

:x hope they do ok with out me.

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:54 pm

My two working machines need to run down their stock of WCG units, but hopefully it won't take too long before I'm crunching Poem with the rest of you.