SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:41 pm I wasnt aware of that limit; that makes sense now why some hosts are having trouble getting tasks, and of course the seriously small bunkers.
Hi Chris

I think that's just because lots of crunchers just re-allowed their PCs to download more SETI tasks...(once the WOW event started) !!
chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:41 pm BTW if anyone is running NVIDIA GPUs, you might find the CUDA apps are not worth running as they take substantially longer than the OpenCL version; at least on 1080/Tis, not sure about other GPUs.

If you just keep aborting them then SETI eventually only seems to send across the OpenCL ones (although you have to keep your eye on it as occasionally it will send some of the others).
Good advice - though see my previous posting above !

You shouldn't need to abort the CUDA tasks, if you use the Optimised program and it's settings - since installing it for the last Sprint, I've only received OpenCL GPU tasks.

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chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:49 pm Personally I am not running any external apps.. If they work, SETI should build them into BOINC apps.
Hi Chris

Fair enough.

I think the issue with the SETI project is that they don't want to spend time (or money) on developing new better programs compared to what they've developed previously. Trouble is that the SETI program isn't being updated to take into account the more specialist CPU functions that are now available.

It's been proved in the past, that the optimised app(s) (that have been created in the past by 3rd parties) provides just as good info for the project as their standard one. And if they didn't they wouldn't be validated.

Other projects have successfully introduced 3rd party optimised code into their standard code - I think Einstein@home was one of the first to do that :-)

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Hopefully at some point (funds permitting) SETI will do the same as Einstein.

I did take a look at the lunatics website but there was zero information about the app, or what, or how it works; and the website looked like a 12 year old had created it. I didn't really give me much confidence in downloading and installing any programs from it.
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chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 7:48 pm Hopefully at some point (funds permitting) SETI will do the same as Einstein.

I did take a look at the lunatics website but there was zero information about the app, or what, or how it works; and the website looked like a 12 year old had created it. I didn't really give me much confidence in downloading and installing any programs from it.
Hi Chris

The website I suggested has the basic v0.45 lunatics code.

So I assume you visited the link I gave and not this one:

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/

Although that does have some useful readme files on the "downloads" page

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I visited this one, which was linked from the SETI forum; I forgot to mention, it also tries to force download you a mp3 file (which in truth could be anything).

http://mikesworld.eu/download.html

What was your link? Let me have a look and take a read about these optimised apps.
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So I have been chatting to one of the largest SETI crunchers, Ian & Steve C, currently #1 Worldwide, about these optimised apps:
Aug. 15, 20:33 Ian: but its literally 4-5x slower than the optimized Linux app
Aug. 15, 20:33 Ian: just the SoG app + aggressive command line parameters
Aug. 15, 20:32 Spectator: No optimized apps for Win10?
Aug. 15, 20:32 Spectator: I hate linux.. I was running Linux mint, but everytime I moved from 1080 to 210 the drivers got all messed up..
Aug. 15, 20:30 Ian: you have to run Linux
Aug. 15, 20:30 Ian: yes we are
Aug. 15, 20:28 Spectator: Can anyone give any guidance on this?
Aug. 15, 20:28 Spectator: Are the bigger crunchers using the optimized SETI (external) apps? (NVIDIA)
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And..
Aug. 15, 20:51 Spectator: yeah very true.. for now I'll leave everything as is.. then setup a test host later to try out boinc.7z install
..
Aug. 15, 20:46 motqalden: http://www.arkayn.us/lunatics/BOINC.7z
Aug. 15, 20:45 motqalden: there is an optimzed app package that has the boinc client and everything. just extract it to home and run boincmgr. don't even need to install boinc first
Aug. 15, 20:43 motqalden: i installed linux mint and optimized apps yesterday for the first time and it was pretty straight forward.
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Aug. 15, 20:37 Spectator: Im a complete newbie on linux..
Aug. 15, 20:37 Spectator: Will the SETI optimized app for linux app run okay on Linux mint? Is there a link with full install/setup instructions anywhere?
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chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:24 pm I visited this one, which was linked from the SETI forum; I forgot to mention, it also tries to force download you a mp3 file (which in truth could be anything).

http://mikesworld.eu/download.html

What was your link? Let me have a look and take a read about these optimised apps.
Hi Chris

The "force download" mp3 is actually, I think, just a rather irritating background music file...it just plays while you are browsing the URL !!

And yes, it is that link that I used to download the installer (at the top of the page) in your choice of either x86 or 64bit.

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chriscambridge wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:06 pm To put this in context, Ian is running 10x2070, 1x1080ti, and if I remember rightly a couple of 2060s. His hourly output on SETI is well over 1 million credit.

I am running 8x1080Ti, 1x1080, plus around 200 vCores. My hourly output is around 6K!

So I think its clear this optimized NVIDIA SETI Linux app is how everyone is doing these insane numbers..
Hi Chris

Ah - that could be true...(about the Optimised Linux app).

Well, I too am not a Linux devotee, having tried it a few times and always coming a cropper...plus for most of my needs, (work and play) I do rather prefer Windows, which despite it's failings, it allows me to earn a living and have some "leisure" time too...

Maybe one day, if/when the Windows/Linux merger goes ahead (as it seems to be at present), then there is a good chance I'll jump on that bandwagon...but for now, as much as I want to compete with the "big boys" in terms of some decent credits from SETI, I'll just toodle along, as I cannot justify multiple NVidia 10x0 Series GPUs...it took me long enough to stump up for some GTX970s as it was ;-)

If your Linux Mint trial goes OK, let us know how you get on?

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Hi all

WOW Team scores after 4 hours:

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Member		Group		Credits
ncoded.com	Aquarius	71,496
UBT - Timbo	Cancer		25,433
rimmer66	Gemini		6,412
UBT - PennyQ	Leo		1,936
Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	714
UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	344
Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	159
Team is now in 18th place with 106,484 credits:

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Posn	Team		Credits
16	Australia	143,827
17	Sicituradastra.	117,967
18	UBT		106,484
19	Space Quest	79,235
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I have now pulled a host offline, built a Linux Mint install USB, and am now installing LM; its a hard thing to watch people with a couple of GPUs hammering you even though you have many more cards :twisted:

Linux mint installed, about to install that BOINC.7z file now; will give you an update if and when done.
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All setup and running!

In case any wants to try it also:

1) download BOINC.7z and unpack to /home
2) doubleclick boincmngr
3) close add project
4) go into advanced view
5) add SETI
6) check event manager to make sure GPUs have CUDA and OpenCL

BENCHMARK:

CUDA tasks on 1080Ti normally takes over 10 mins.. On Linux Opt App tasks are taking around 50 seconds!

Still waiting for some OpenCL tasks. Normally these take around 5 mins to complete.
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Aug. 16, 00:16 Keith Myers: You are running anonymous platform now using an app_info.xml file to define applications
Aug. 16, 00:15 Keith Myers: The only OpenCL tasks are Astropulse. The Multiband gpu tasks are all CUDA90 or CUDA101
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Anonymous_platform
Aug. 16, 00:25 Keith Myers: The app is the product of one of our GPUUG Team developers and package is from another Team member
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Aug. 16, 00:29 Keith Myers: The Windows volunteer developer still hasn't been able to wrangle Petri's CUDA90 code into a working Windows app yet
Aug. 16, 00:28 Keith Myers: The Windows app get compiled automatically by an offsite program, there is no equivalent for Linux.
Aug. 16, 00:27 Keith Myers: Seti does not have any Linux developers So any development falls to volunteer developers. The scientists don't have the skills or time
Aug. 16, 00:26 Spectator: how come these apps don't get built into the seti project at BOINC? copyright? developer time?
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Aug. 16, 00:32 Keith Myers: The BOINC code is at https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
Aug. 16, 00:32 Keith Myers: The code is all open source published under the GPL as usual for LInux. The code is at https://setisvn.ssl.berkeley.edu/trac/browse
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Aug. 16, 00:36 Keith Myers: It just needs to be edited into the app_info.xml with the Find and Replace function of the Text Editor. You need to stop BOINC to edit the file
Aug. 16, 00:34 Keith Myers: It is about 5-10 seconds faster than the default CUDA90 application on the newer hardware
Aug. 16, 00:33 Keith Myers: If you have a more recent Nvidia card like a Turing and running 418 drivers or better, then there is the CUDA101 application included in the project directory
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Hi all

WOW Team scores after 24 hours:

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Member		sub-Team	Credits
ncoded.com	Aquarius	250,197
UBT - Timbo	Cancer		33,660
rimmer66	Gemini		25,727
UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	7,721
UBT - PennyQ	Leo		4,552
Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	3,686
Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	386

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Posn	Team		Credits
15	USA		391,892
16	UBT		325,929
17	Gridcoin	321,642
18	Ukraine		318,542
19	Space Quest	301,906
Looks like we might have a battle with the three teams beneath us...

I'm not sure what's happening on the SETI website as my PCs are not uploading results...anyone else having problems?

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Hi Tim.

According to the WOW shoutbox, everyone is having problems uploading work.

And one of the admins on SETI has posted:
Some scheduled manteinance outside of the SETI verse to change a router by Berkeley ITS.
Slowly returning the services.
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Credits have been reduced slightly:
Aug. 16, 17:36 kleines grünes Männel: FYI: I had to correct a few values due to overlapping cronjobs at 13/14/15 UTC (did not get timeouts of the scripts). Total credits from 57830703 to 57021247.
6 out of 8 hosts now running optimized SETI linux install; will do the other 2 when SETI comes back online fully.
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hi
and a warm welcome to Gav The Hat , who has joined us in the WOW challenge
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rimmer66 wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:22 pm hi
and a warm welcome to Gav The Hat , who has joined us in the WOW challenge
That might be partly my "doing" as I pinged out a message via the SETI@home website to advise members that we were participating in the WOW! event.

So, maybe Gav responded upon seeing that?

And in the meantime, it looks like you and I are fighting it out for 2nd place in the WOW! stats for UBT:

https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/t ... INC%20Team

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chriscambridge wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:52 pm
6 out of 8 hosts now running optimized SETI linux install; will do the other 2 when SETI comes back online fully.
WOW !! quite literally ;-) Very well done !!

I'm really hoping this works out well for you and you give a few other SETI members a run for their money :-)

You're already up to 24th (out of 530) particpants and their website reckons you can overtake at least 7 others, in the next 67 hours...

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Hi all

And now 9 members on our WOW! team - with Chris Oliver now coming onboard...

Welcome to the forum too, Chris :-)

(Chris is currently our #1 ranked SETI@home cruncher ;-) (by total number of credits) ).

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hi
now we are up and running ,
yes tim i did notice i am yapping at your heels,
and it looks like we will overtake the french
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You're already up to 24th (out of 530) participants and their website reckons you can overtake at least 7 others, in the next 67 hours...
and it looks like we will overtake the french
I would not give too much credence to the 'over/under take stats' as the pending situation is jumping people about all over the place. My hourly figure jumps from around 15K to 75K depending on validated pendings. I currently have over 6K tasks pending verification and its increasing by about 80% of my crunching every hour.
and a warm welcome to Gav The Hat , who has joined us in the WOW challenge
And now 9 members on our WOW! team - with Chris Oliver now coming onboard...
Great to see extra SETI crunchers coming onboard the challenge, especially SETI giants such as Chris O; 119 Million, thats some crunching.
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Hi all

WOW Team scores after 48 hours and now with 12 members taking part:

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Member		Group		Credits
ncoded.com	Aquarius	870,396
rimmer66	Gemini		55,696
UBT - Timbo	Cancer		52,240
UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	26,020
Chris Oliver	Capricornus	16,481
UBT - PennyQ	Leo		9,706
Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	8,339
Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	1,098
Jason		Aquarius	660
SI-TRON		Aquarius	641
Robert M Swift	Virgo		146
GavTheHat	Scorpio		0
Team is now in 14th place with 1,041,423 credits:

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Posn	Team		Credits
12	SETI.USA	1,475,410
13	Hungary.	1,404,395
14	UBT		1,041,423
15	Gridcoin	874,674
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Hi all

Just a quick posting...

We now have 17 members participating in this years WOW! event.

So, welcome one and all...and let's hope we can generate some good credits between now and the end of the month.

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Just as a heads up, in just over 2.5 days the team has now done more than the largest UBT team did in 2012.

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Hi all

Even better - now 19 members joined in !!

Enjoy some SETI crunching everybody...there's plenty of time for us to make a really good Team effort :-)

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chriscambridge wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:27 am Just as a heads up, in just over 2.5 days the team has now done more than the largest UBT team did in 2012.

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Hi Chris

I think we're benefitting from the fact that you've got lots of processing power and have contributed 1,477,880 out of the 1,834,890 total...which is 80% of the total... :-)

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hi
it also looks like the WOW event total is at the moment about double the 2012 total
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Yeah the optimized SETI app is putting out some good numbers.
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Hi all

5pm Sunday stats after 72 hours and now 19 members:

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Posn	Name		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	1,626,153
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	117,800
3	rimmer66	Gemini		81,961
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		80,514
5	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	44,034
6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		20,834
7	SI-TRON		Aquarius	15,875
8	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		14,967
9	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	14,310
10	Jason		Aquarius	6,505
11	Foghorn62	Scorpio		4,175
12	Graham		Sagittarius	4,069
13	Robert M Swift	Virgo		1,931
14	will6789	Libra		1,598
15	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	1,467
16	sentinel	Leo		240
17	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		0
17	Dan Gates	Scorpio		0
17	GavTheHat	Scorpio		0
UBT in 13th place - maybe we have a chance to be Top 10 ??

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Posn	Team			Credits
11	SETI.USA		2,289,844
12	L'Alliance Francophone	2,202,160
13	UBT			2,078,800
14	Hungary			2,056,646
Next update Monday 5pm :-)

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Hi all

We now have 21 members involved with the WOW! event.

We're now up to 12th place overall...having overtaken Hungary and L'AF...and SETI.USA are just 30,000 points ahead at present.

With the event lasting another 10 days, there's still a chance more members will join in and we can climb up higher.

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Hi all

7pm Monday stats after 98 hours and now 21 members:

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Posn	Name		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	2,636,685
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	215,962
3	rimmer66	Gemini		113,751
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		111,885
5	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	60,979
6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		46,266
7	SI-TRON		Aquarius	38,725
8	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	20,815
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		20,624
10	Graham		Sagittarius	15,308
11	Jason		Aquarius	13,140
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		10,861
13	will6789	Libra		4,454
14	Robert M Swift	Virgo		2,475
15	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	2,141
16	REKIT		Aquarius	1,080
17	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		877
18	sentinel	Leo		409
19	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		0
19	Dan Gates	Scorpio		0
19	GavTheHat	Scorpio		0
Easily went past SETI.USA and UBT up to 11th place - the Top 10 beckons ??

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Posn	Team			Credits
9	Czech National Team	4,114,020
10	The Knights Who Say Ni!	3,604,111
11	UBT			3,367,789
12	SETI.USA		3,316,784
Next update Tuesday 5pm :-)

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There might be a bit of a delay as one of my host decided to use up 500GB of storage in 12 hours (due to PCIE errors); seems if you run lunatics on a Asus mobo (X79-X99) you need make a Grub modification for the Kernel. That is done now so hopefully stats will be back on track.

On the flipside I just added another 1080, plus turned on all CPU cores (90%) so hopefully that will help make up the numbers.

At this rate I will be expecting dividends from British Gas as well as an invite to the next AGM. :?
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chriscambridge wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:53 pm There might be a bit of a delay as one of my host decided to use up 500GB of storage in 12 hours (due to PCIE errors); seems if you run lunatics on a Asus mobo (X79-X99) you need make a Grub modification for the Kernel. That is done now so hopefully stats will be back on track.

On the flipside I just added another 1080, plus turned on all CPU cores (90%) so hopefully that will help make up the numbers.
Hi Chris

Yup - hope you get it sorted out - I've seen a few msgs on the WOW! shoutbox and can see that a few SETI members have been offering useful tips and advise with regards to your setup.

Hope you've managed to work your way through the minefield and get it sorted out.

The SETI GPU app seems to only take 0.04 CPU, so it is possible that you could run 100% CPU and not affect the GPU. (Although if you are running multiple GPUs on one mobo, then it might be different). ;-)
chriscambridge wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:53 pm At this rate I will be expecting dividends from British Gas as well as an invite to the next AGM. :?
Now I'd like to see how you can use GAS to power your rigs ;-) Maybe a pipeline into a gas burner, heating some water that turns to steam, that makes a turbine rotate, that runs a generator, that produces some DC voltages that feed an inverter that powers all your rigs :oops:

:clap: :dance: :pray:

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To be honest the GPU Users Group were very helpful and in the end it was quite simple to get it sorted with help; it just involved running a few Linux commands.
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Hi all

YAY !!!!

UBT is now #10 on the team charts and we have 23 members supporting this event.

CNT are the next team above, but their daily RAC is a bit higher than ours (currently) so we'll have to see what happens over the next 9 days - as they could reduce their RAC or we could increase ours ;-)

CNT also have 51 members of their team, but they don't have a "NCODED" ;-)

https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/teams/2019

More actual stats later ;-)

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I think the message you sent out Tim has had a really good effort in bringing in UBT members.

Seems that there is a lot of support for SETI within the team.

With 9 days left who knows what will happen; even in the last day or so we have seen a number of other crunchers drop their output numbers.

What we really need is a Woodles :cry:
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chriscambridge wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:19 pmWhat we really need is a Woodles :cry:
Unfortunately, Woodles doesn't do SETI any more :hand:
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Woodles doesn't do SETI any more :hand:
I know Mark, Im only jesting with you.

Pity though, as I think we could have really made a mark across all stats using this optimised app.

I have 8 years of SETI crunching to catch up on so Im quite happy about this challenge.
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chriscambridge wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:38 pmI know Mark, Im only jesting with you.
I know you were, no worries.
chriscambridge wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:38 pmPity though, as I think we could have really made a mark across all stats using this optimised app.
I think we could have done ... since I'm an Aquarian as well :D There's always other projects, PrimeGrid do a few challenges through the year, no optimised app though?
chriscambridge wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:38 pmI have 8 years of SETI crunching to catch up on so Im quite happy about this challenge as its given a chance to go in all barrels loaded.
And you certainly are! Doing well there Chris, very impressive.

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PrimeGrid is an excellent suggestion as its one of the only projects that you can actually see the results (or lack of results) pretty quickly.

Its a bit of a pity that SETI WOW don't let all the other challenges use their site/stats system as its clearly something to behold; no other event (FB, PG, or whoever) collates and cross-references stats in the way SETI Germany has done.

In case anyone didn't notice, SETI Germany just updated the graphs in each user page to show historic positions (from this event).

We are in good company then, along with Francis Bacon, John Napier, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Robert Boyle, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Charles Lindbergh, Ernest Shackleton, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Burns, ...
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chriscambridge wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:43 pm
Its a bit of a pity that SETI WOW don't let all the other challenges use their site/stats system as its clearly something to behold; no other event (FB, PG, or whoever) collates and cross-references stats in the way SETI Germany has done.

In case anyone didn't notice, SETI Germany just updated the graphs in each user page to show historic positions (from this event).
Hi Chris

Talk about "coincidences" and how certain brains "think alike" - as I've already emailed SETI.Germany with a question as to whether I could licence their code, in order to help build a new UBT-centred stats website...

I've also contacted Neil Munday, who is a UBT member, and who produces his own stats website here:

https://boinc.mundayweb.com/html/stats.php

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Hi all

5pm Tuesday stats from 23 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	3,644,133
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	288,609
3	rimmer66	Gemini		144,668
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		136,853
5	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	80,286
6	SI-TRON		Aquarius	59,472
7	Cyber Nerd	Leo		53,008
8	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	27,577
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		25,515
10	Graham		Sagittarius	22,391
11	Jason	 	Aquarius	20,110
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		16,418
13	will6789	Libra		5,820
14	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		4,691
15	REKiT		Sagittarius	4,491
16	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	3,648
17	Robert M Swift	Virgo		2,907
18	sentinel	Leo		580
19	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		377
20	UBT - Francis	Leo		150
21	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	95
22	Dan Gates	Scorpio		0
22	GavTheHat	Scorpio		0
And the Team is now in 10th place:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	6,001,266
9	CNT		5,132,707
10	UBT		4,541,799
11	TKWSN		4,413,236
Looking good chaps and chapesses ;-)

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Normal Tuesday outage, which will probably take longer than normal due to the larger amount of crunching that has happened this week.
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I'm going to lose some crunching time, as I'm going away and need to shut down my PC.
Hopefully I'll get some more done before the end of the challenge.....
I'd been assuming that it runs until the end of the month but I see that it finishes on the 29th, so that'll limit how much more I can do, pity.
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Jeffers wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:32 am I'm going to lose some crunching time, as I'm going away and need to shut down my PC.
Hopefully I'll get some more done before the end of the challenge.....
I'd been assuming that it runs until the end of the month but I see that it finishes on the 29th, so that'll limit how much more I can do, pity.
Hi Jeff

No worries, but thanks for the heads up and your contribution thus far.

Have a nice holiday/break :-)

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Hi all

And now we have 25 members participating :-)

Team still in 10th place and slowly reeling in CNT :-)

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The UK has now moved into 4th Place; we are now battling with France for 3rd position.
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chriscambridge wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:11 pm The UK has now moved into 4th Place; we are now battling with France for 3rd position.
Hi Chris

Good shout !!

Members can see the on-going tussle here:

https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/countries/2019

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Phoenicis just dropped a 3+M bunker, .. twice.

https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/u ... /phoenicis

UK now in Position 3.

If Phoenicis continues at this rate the UK may take World #2 spot
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Hi all

9pm Wednesday stats from 25 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	4,909,717
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	386,378
3	rimmer66	Gemini		183,021
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		178,663
5	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	105,587

6	SI-TRON		Aquarius	92,406
7	Cyber Nerd	Leo		70,386
8	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	36,906
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		32,236
10	Graham		Sagittarius	30,585

11	Jason	 	Aquarius	28,332
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		22,778
13	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		9,285
14	REKiT		Sagittarius	9,068
15	will6789	Libra		7,798

16	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	7,737
17	Robert M Swift	Virgo		5,415
18	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	4,910
19	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		1,790

20	UBT - Francis	Leo		988
21	sentinel	Leo		769
22	CaroleB		Taurus		407
23	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	181
24	Dan Gates	Scorpio		0
24	GavTheHat	Scorpio		0
And the Team is now in 10th place:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	8,038,913
9	CNT		6,634,383
10	UBT		6,176,652
11	TKWSN		5,654,032
So, nearly half way through this Challenge...and still looking good.

No update from me tomorrow as I'll be away. But will do a morning update on Friday.

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I can't guarantee that I will continue at 100% GPUs + CPUs for the rest of the event, as today the inside temp was 26c with the aircon on full - and the rest of the week is going to be even warmer.

But I'll probably just stop the CPUs to begin with and then see how that changes the inside temp.
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chriscambridge wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:23 pm I can't guarantee that I will continue at 100% GPUs + CPUs for the rest of the event, as today inside temp was 26c with the aircon on full - and the rest of the week is going to be even warmer.

But I'll probably just stop the CPUs to begin with and then see how that changes the inside temp.
Hi Chris

Not a problem - you've already done more than enough to help push the Team to a very creditable position.

So, if you need to back off, then so be it....we can't have you getting "hot under the collar" due to your CPUs ;-)

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Hi all

Now we have 26 members crunching on the WOW! event ;-)

https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/t ... INC%20Team

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Hi all

11am Friday stats from 26 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,262,899
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	529,887
3	rimmer66	Gemini		229,673
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		226,581
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	142,023

6	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	136,979
7	Cyber Nerd	Leo		97,196
8	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		40,657
9	Graham		Sagittarius	39,866
10	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	37,822

11	Jason	 	Aquarius	37,180
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		27,318
13	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	19,310
14	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		15,997
15	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	13,368

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	12,038
17	will6789	Libra		9,682
18	Robert M Swift	Virgo		8,333
19	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	5,575
20	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		2,793

21	UBT - Francis	Leo		2,662
22	CaroleB		Taurus		2,370
23	sentinel	Leo		1,548
24	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	255
25	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
26	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
So, every member has now got some credits :-)

And the Team is holding onto 10th place:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	10,284,805
9	CNT		8,351,464
10	UBT		7,902,163
11	TKWSN		7,057,405
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Hi all

6pm Friday stats from 26 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,381,804
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	557,548
3	rimmer66	Gemini		239,391
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		232,930
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	150,987

6	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	141,737
7	Cyber Nerd	Leo		103,659
8	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		41,899
9	Graham		Sagittarius	41,575
10	Jason	 	Aquarius	39,226

11	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	38,031
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		27,488
13	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	21,503
14	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	17,630
15	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		16,858

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	12,332
17	will6789	Libra		10,555
18	Robert M Swift	Virgo		9,203
19	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	5,886
20	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		3,256

21	UBT - Francis	Leo		3,091
22	CaroleB		Taurus		2,462
23	sentinel	Leo		1,548
24	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	255
25	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
26	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
Still moving forwards :-)

And the Team is holding onto 10th place:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	10,673,047
9	CNT		8,671,642
10	UBT		8,101,005
11	TKWSN		7,337,851
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rimmer66 wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2019 1:19 pm hi
now we are up and running ,
yes tim i did notice i am yapping at your heels,
and it looks like we will overtake the french
Well, you overtook me a day or so ago...and I thought "that's fine", I'm sure I can retake my lead, (once the bloomin' Yafu tasks complete).

And so it would have been, but there was a power outage at my office yesterday morning so, I've lost about 36 hours worth of SETI crunching...worth about 18,000 credits. (16 cores, taking 2 hours each and earning say 60 credits per task).

Fortunately, I had to go shopping today so I stopped off and restarted the PC...plus I've now tweaked the BIOS and the Windows settings, so in the event of another power outage, when the juice comes back on so should the PC and it should restart crunching again.

The only "fly in ointment", is if the office router drops out and DHCP gives me a new IP address...but I'll counter that but ensuring I have a big cache so, the crunching will happen offline, until I'm next in the office. :-)

And now, back to some useful crunching and with luck I can pull back some of the 14,000+ credits gap.

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Hi all

5pm Saturday stats from 26 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,608,465
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	617,678
3	rimmer66	Gemini		264,470
4	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		253,145
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	167,774

6	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	152,579
7	Cyber Nerd	Leo		126,295
8	Graham		Sagittarius	49,299
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		46,181
10	Jason	 	Aquarius	44,488

11	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	38,277
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		29,107
13	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	28,250
14	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	28,056
15	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		20,258

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	14,094
17	will6789	Libra		12,754
18	Robert M Swift	Virgo		10,215
19	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	6,792
20	UBT - Francis	Leo		4,390

21	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		4,194
22	CaroleB		Taurus		2,990
23	sentinel	Leo		1,944
24	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	453
25	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
26	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
Still moving forwards :-)

UBT is just holding onto 10th place as TKWSN are putting on a charge:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	11,951,261
9	CNT		9,664,826
10	UBT		8,532,299
11	TKWSN		8,265,736
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Hi all

7pm Sunday stats from 26 members:

Various team member movements and now battles for 3rd/4th, 6th/7th, 9th/10th and 11th/12th/13th :-)

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,717,789
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	635,213
3	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		295,611
4	rimmer66	Gemini		294,106
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	188,695

6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		157,152
7	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	157,116
8	Graham		Sagittarius	57,477
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		50,467
10	Jason	 	Aquarius	49,259

11	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	44,536
12	Foghorn62	Scorpio		42,806
13	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	40,226
14	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	35,785
15	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		24,626

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	16,035
17	will6789	Libra		14,175
18	Robert M Swift	Virgo		10,936
19	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	8,591
20	UBT - Francis	Leo		6,291

21	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		5,121
22	CaroleB		Taurus		3,485
23	sentinel	Leo		2,010
24	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	654
25	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
26	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
UBT have lost TWO places and are now in 12th place after TKWSN and SETI.USA put in some big numbers:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	13,389,566
9	CNT		10,727,097
10	TKWSN		9,111,705
11	SETI.USA	9,031,974
12	UBT		8,858,313 **
13	L'AF		7,022,985
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Hi all

12 noon Tuesday stats from 26 members:

Various team member movements and now battles for 5th/6th, 9th/10th/11th and 12th/13th/14th :-)

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,866,571
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	654,428
3	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		379,689
4	rimmer66	Gemini		332,579
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	209,667

6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		203,354
7	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	161,814
8	Graham		Sagittarius	71,612
9	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		59,562
10	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	58,728

11	Foghorn62	Scorpio		58,419
12	Jason	 	Aquarius	57,658
13	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	53,632
14	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	49,878
15	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		30,564

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	18,817
17	will6789	Libra		14,891
18	Robert M Swift	Virgo		13,150
19	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	10,095
20	UBT - Francis	Leo		9,192

21	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		6,398
22	CaroleB		Taurus		3,485
23	sentinel	Leo		2,210
24	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	1,238
25	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
26	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
UBT still in 12th place after TKWSN and SETI.USA put in some big numbers for the last 2 days:

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	15,688,409
9	CNT		12,498,623
10	SETI.USA	10,586,697
11	TKWSN		10,488,181
12	UBT		9,327,782 **
13	L'AF		8,047,976
Just 2 days 4 hours and abt 30 mins to go now...with the WOW! event finishing at 5pm BST on Thursday...and then that'll be it for another year ;-)

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Better late than never?

I've registered and pointed the rig at SETI, for what it's worth .. !
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Damien Healy wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:09 am Better late than never?

I've registered and pointed the rig at SETI, for what it's worth .. !
Hi Damien

Great stuff - welcome to the WOW! event.

It'll be interesting to see how many credits you can amass in the short time left. ;-)

Of course, the fact that some tasks will require a wingman to "validate" your returned work, might mean that some credits will not be awarded prior to the closing deadline.

So, the full power of your Titans might not be totally unleashed ;-)

regards
Tim
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Re: SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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Hi all

5pm Wednesday stats from 27 members:

Various team member movements and now battles for 8th/9th and 11th/12th :-)

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	6,957,321
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	660,751
3	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		415,441
4	rimmer66	Gemini		353,939
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	246,025

6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		220,833
7	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	164,594
8	Graham		Sagittarius	82,440
9	Foghorn62	Scorpio		82,390
10	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	73,563

11	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		66,052
12	Jason	 	Aquarius	64,226
13	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	60,313
14	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	54,045
15	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		35,191

16	REKiT		Sagittarius	20,785
17	Robert M Smith	Virgo		16,658
18	will6789	Libra		15,168
19	UBT - Francis	Leo		11,383
20	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		10,455

21	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	10,170
22	Damien Healy	Virgo		5,789
23	CaroleB		Taurus		4,069
24	sentinel	Leo		2,359
25	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	1,329
26	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
27	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
UBT still in 12th place and C@EVGA now on our tail... :-(

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	17,547,443
9	CNT		13,800,501
10	SETI.USA	11,797,115
11	TKWSN		11,648,306
12	UBT		9,635,440 **
13	C@EVGA		9,018,301
Slightly less than 24 hours to go now...as the WOW! event finishes tomorrow at 5pm BST. ;-)

regards
Tim
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Re: SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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UBT - Timbo wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 12:01 pm
Hi Damien

Great stuff - welcome to the WOW! event.

It'll be interesting to see how many credits you can amass in the short time left. ;-)

Of course, the fact that some tasks will require a wingman to "validate" your returned work, might mean that some credits will not be awarded prior to the closing deadline.

So, the full power of your Titans might not be totally unleashed ;-)

regards
Tim
Yes, validation will be a killer. Let's see how it goes!
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Re: SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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Hi all

FINAL stats from 27 members:

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Posn	Member		Group		Credits
1	ncoded.com	Aquarius	7,014,847
2	Chris Oliver	Capricornus	676,993
3	UBT - Timbo	Cancer		427,530
4	rimmer66	Gemini		375,648
5	SI-TRON		Aquarius	276,973

6	Cyber Nerd	Leo		235,811
7	UBT - Mikeejones Sagittarius	172,490
8	Foghorn62	Scorpio		106,861
9	Graham		Sagittarius	90,751
10	Sid Seton	Sagittarius	86,979

11	UBT - PennyQ	Leo		70,619
12	Jason	 	Aquarius	70,541
13	Suzuki	 	Aquarius	68,110
14	Damien Healy	Virgo		66,038
15	Jeffers2112	Sagittarius	54,081

16	KEVSPARK	Scorpio		40,776
17	REKiT		Sagittarius	22,750
18	Robert M Smith	Virgo		19,145
19	will6789	Libra		15,447
20	UBT - Francis	Leo		13,180

21	~ Daniel ~	Taurus		11,179
22	Darphnet Seti	Aquarius	10,444
23	CaroleB		Taurus		5,127
24	sentinel	Leo		2,436
25	Jonathan Didymus Sagittarius	1,809
26	GavTheHat	Scorpio		80
27	Dan Gates	Scorpio		71
A great Team effort from all concerned...ncoded gains our #1 place (for our Team) with just over 7 million credits and also gets to #28 (out of 696) in the overall Wow! Participant standings !! So, well done to ncoded for his supreme efforts !!

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Posn	Team		Credits
8	Raccoon Lovers	19,210,860
9	CNT		14,927,404
10	SETI.USA	12,889,306
11	TKWSN		12,715,232
12	C@EVGA		10,311,929
13	UBT		9,936,716 **
So, 13th (out of 88) teams this year, which is an exceptionally good result, though if we didn't have ncodeds superb effort, we'd have only 2,921,869 credits, putting us down in about 26th place.

And BIG thanks to everyone who contributed to the effort and maybe next year we can do better ;-)

regards
Tim

PS:

In other results:

The UK registered members came 3rd (out of 37) countries:

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1	United States 	(156)	351,720,600
2	Germany 	(208)	121,676,037
3	United Kingdom 	(44)	77,906,783
4	France 		(24)	61,073,659
And for the groups:

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1	Taurus 		(67)	162,702,653
2	Pisces 		(39)	111,335,477
3	Capricornus 	(67)	108,497,445
So. congrats to ~ Daniel ~ and CaroleB for helping your group become the #1 Group in 2019. Also congrats to Chris Oliver for helping Capricornus achieve 3rd place.

(Figures in brackets denote number of members in each country/group).
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Re: SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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Damien Healy wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:54 pm
Yes, validation will be a killer. Let's see how it goes!
Hi Damien

Well, you did pretty good:

28 Aug 2019 - 18,666 credits (11:00 to 24:00 UTC = 13 hours) = 1,435 credits per hour
29 Aug 2019 - 46,547 credits (00:00 to 16:00 UTC = 16 hours) = 2,909 credits per hour

So, over the 14 day (336 hour) period, you might have got close to around 1 million credits (and based on the likelihood that your 2nd days worth of credits included some credits that were crunched on the 1st day before and then validated on the 2nd day).

That's well worth the effort ;-)

So, thanks for joining in :-)

regards
Tim
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Re: SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

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Cool - thanks. It was a bit of fun :)
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