PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

This section is where you can post topics related to Challenges from other websites, such as Formula-BOINC, SETI-Germany and BOINCstats, as well as project challenges such as from WCG, PrimeGrid et al.

As a Team, we really want to engage as many team members with these challenges, as this gives us a great way of attracting more members to our Team...plus we get to show our strengths as a Team by (hopefully) doing well in each one.

PS: I have moved lots of topics into this section where they are relevant...as you can see, we've always been happy to take part in Challenges...and long may that continue ;-)
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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:14 pmI'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle :D
Might not be enough, I've woken my Xeons up :twisted:

Not sure what was wrong with them, no tasks running and soon as I did a manual refresh they downloaded work and started crunching :?
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Well, I’m pretty used to looking at your tailpipe, so get moving!!!!!

Richard - I’m mainly running Threadripper gear. Only a little bit of intel these days. I’m as shocked as anyone ... ha! Who would have thought ...
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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:46 pm
Might not be enough, I've woken my Xeons up :twisted:

Not sure what was wrong with them, no tasks running and soon as I did a manual refresh they downloaded work and started crunching :?
Hi Mark

Excellent stuff...glad you got them working... :-)

If it was your "old" Xeons (E5-2670's types) that had no work, then you may have had the same issue that I had as 2 of my 3 PCs use that CPU. However, my workhorse PC (using an older Quad core) also had the problem, so it may not be "Xeon-related" but some other factor?

In my case, I *KNOW* I changed and saved my PG preferences to allow the 321-Sieve tasks, but my PCs didn't recognise this change...and only by going back to the Preferences and switching them around and then back again, did it eventually result in tasks downloading. Maybe the PG server cache wasn't updating with the amended preferences, possibly due to lots of people making updates due to this Challenge?

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So Mark, 300k to close on my position, 4 hours left. Not sure even your Xeon farm is up to that task, but I would love to be proved wrong!!!!
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Hi Damien,

Probably not but I'll give it a try :)
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Hi Tim,

It was five of the dual Xeons (Linux) and an i7 (Windows) so no real pattern.

Confusing.
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Well, we're into #12th so far out of 108 registered. With Mark's monsoon 'tailwind' coming in, we've managed a 'League 1' global position at least, despite several mishaps of various descriptions ...
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Hi all

Team stats as of 8:45pm and with a shade over 3 hours to go:

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Rank	Name			Score		Tasks
1	Czech National Team	20 695 227.71	    33 933
2	Aggie The Pew		18 523 427.22	    30 372
3	[H]ard|OCP		13 503 463.79	    22 141
4	SETI.Germany		12 105 607.37	    19 849
5	The Scottish Boinc Team	11 509 139.84	    18 871
6	Sicituradastra.		8 084 025.67	    13 255
7	Crunching@EVGA		6 073 844.71	    9 959
8	Antarctic Crunchers	5 775 610.95	    9 470
9	TeAm AnandTech		4 872 371.27	    7 989
10	BOINC@MIXI		4 531 445.55	    7 430
11	Rechenkraft.net		3 796 534.13	    6 225

12	UK BOINC Team		3 552 580.13	    5 825

13	AMD Users		3 476 344.50	    5 700
14	Team 2ch		2 530 412.87	    4 149
15	BOINCstats		2 034 576.36	    3 336
16	Metal Archives		1 716 216.39	    2 814
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		1 685 722.14	    2 764
18	Ukraine			1 409 444.24	    2 311
19	Ultimate Chaos		1 399 076.19	    2 294
20	Alien Prime Cult	1 375 900.56	    2 256
21	Chinese Dream		1 373 461.02	    2 252
22	BOINC@Denmark		1 319 181.26	    2 163
23	Russia			1 238 066.55	    2 030
24	BOINC@Poland		1 237 456.67	    2 029
25	Noobs Of Kryta [NOOB]	1 141 704.72	    1 872
(Only teams with >1m credits shown)

UBT member stats:

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Rank	Name		Team		Score		Tasks
33	damienhealy	UK BOINC Team	1 170 979.20	    1 920
43	Homefarm	UK BOINC Team	931 904.28	    1 528
48	Woodles		UK BOINC Team	872 135.55	    1 430
96	UBT - Timbo	UK BOINC Team	376 299.05	    617
209	TroubledBunny	UK BOINC Team	131 735.16	    216
330	meddy2065	UK BOINC Team	40 252.41	    66
379	Rimmer161	UK BOINC Team	24 395.40	    40
481	alistair_porter	UK BOINC Team	4 879.08	    8
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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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Hi all

I've got 165 tasks in my "pending" section on the PG website...I doubt if all of those would be validated before midnight...esp as the quorum for these tasks is "2"...so, until a wingman completes and validates a task, then we're sort of "in limbo" on the credits side.

Perhaps they should have reduced the quorum to "1" but as we're all in the same boat, it's just chance as to who gets credits before the deadline.


Here are the stats direct from the PG website:
Challenge: International Education Day
App: 12 (321-Sieve)
(As of 2020-01-24 18:28:22 UTC)

328030 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 328030 (100%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

2171 (1%) were aborted. [2171 (1%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
694 (0%) came back with some kind of an error. [694 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
225407 (69%) have returned a successful result. [225413 (69%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
99787 (30%) are still in progress. [99787 (30%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

61165 (27%) are pending validation. [61171 (27%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
164234 (73%) have been successfully validated. [164234 (73%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
8 (0%) are inconclusive. [8 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

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Tim
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Hi

Have I missed something? Just wondering why this thread suddenly got longer...

Seems I'm fashionably late to the party... so late I may as well put out the empties and make a start on washing up!!

Oops!

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Hiya Mikee,

don't worry, you've been around longer than me and know that we've been invited to a bespoke crunch. Nothing too serious, a 1-day thing, and we've been doing whatever works. Glad you checked in. Homefarm,(Richard) is putting us to shame on CPU anyway, and he's more of a GPU cruncher!!!

The sprint series gets more serious later in the FB sprints, but would want Tim to confirm what we should do thereabouts. I just like crunching, and ideally for a good cause
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Pfft, call yourself a team leader? :D

Put the kettle on before you start the washing up!
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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:57 pm Pfft, call yourself a team leader? :D

Put the kettle on before you start the washing up!
Erm, who are you referring to??
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20:45
damienhealy 1 170 979.20
Woodles 872 135.55
Lead - 298,844

22:00
damienhealy 1 258 802.64
Woodles 995 332.32
Lead - 263,470

So another eight and a half hours and I'll catch you :(

I should have started earlier :)
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Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:07 pm Erm, who are you referring to??
Mikee, UBT team leader at PrimeGrid :)

You commented while I was typing (I'm a lot slower on a 'phone)
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UBT - Mikee wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:27 pm Hi

Have I missed something? Just wondering why this thread suddenly got longer...

Seems I'm fashionably late to the party... so late I may as well put out the empties and make a start on washing up!!

Oops!

Mike
Hi Mikee

Where you bin?

It was your original post that got us involved in this, in the first place ;-)

But you are forgiven, and it's been a bit of fun for a day ;-)

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From PG website:
At the Conclusion of the Challenge

When the challenge completes, we would prefer users "moving on" to finish those tasks they have downloaded, if not then please ABORT the WU's (and then UPDATE the PrimeGrid project) instead of DETACHING, RESETTING, or PAUSING.

ABORTING WU's allows them to be recycled immediately; thus a much faster "clean up" to the end of a Challenge. DETACHING, RESETTING, and PAUSING WU's causes them to remain in limbo until they EXPIRE. Therefore, we must wait until WU's expire to send them out to be completed.

Likewise, if you're shutting down the computer for an extended period of time, or deleting the VM (Virtual Machine), please ABORT all remaining tasks first. Also, be aware that merely shutting off a cloud server doesn't stop the billing. You have to destroy/delete the server if you don't want to continue to be charged for it.
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I'll finish the ones I already have but I've switched to no new work from now. They wouldn't finish in time.
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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:42 pm I'll finish the ones I already have but I've switched to no new work from now. They wouldn't finish in time.
Hi Mark

I switched PG to "no new work" about 10pm, as I had just enough tasks to get me to midnight - and I then re-allowed T.Brada tasks, which are set on resource=0, so BM just downloads tasks as it needs them.

I was going to do a final PG Challenge stats summary, but I'll leave it to mid-Saturday morning.

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Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:54 pm Well, I’m pretty used to looking at your tailpipe, so get moving!!!!!

Richard - I’m mainly running Threadripper gear. Only a little bit of intel these days. I’m as shocked as anyone ... ha! Who would have thought ...
Great stuff, loads of cores and fast too. Pity TRs don't have AVX capabilities to match Intel extremes. If they did they would the Bee's Knees. Congratulations on the score!
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Do they not? I’ve not really looked closely at AVX but, yes, lots of cores. I don’t have a ton of space so need to keep a high number of cores per machine. They seem to work very well, and keep on getting better ... as of 7th Feb they offer a 64 core!! :shock:

Anyway, good run all. Definitely not our smoothest effort, but a good bit of fun and a respectable result.

I’m back on TN-Grid and then will probably do the WCG run to map cancer markers 1st - 7th Feb. I think Chris C (Richard - Chris C is ‘ncoded’ on BOINC) is crunching WCG too, so that will help.
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Hi all

A bit late, but here's the final stats for this Challenge:

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Rank	Name			Score			Tasks
1	Czech National Team	24 659 480.21	    40 433
2	Aggie The Pew		21 720 444.39	    35 614
3	[H]ard|OCP		15 894 212.99	    26 061
4	SETI.Germany		14 440 857.03	    23 678
5	The Scottish Boinc Team	13 589 457.57	    22 282
6	Sicituradastra.		9 408 086.01	    15 426
7	Crunching@EVGA		7 267 999.54	    11 917
8	Antarctic Crunchers	6 781 311.32	    11 119
9	TeAm AnandTech		5 696 325.90	    9 340
10	BOINC@MIXI		5 406 630.53	    8 865
11	Rechenkraft.net		4 679 037.72	    7 672

12	UK BOINC Team		4 477 775.67	    7 342

13	AMD Users		4 045 977.09	    6 634
14	Team 2ch		3 153 715.34	    5 171
15	BOINCstats		2 377 941.62	    3 899
16	Metal Archives		2 033 356.59	    3 334
(113 teams took part, but I've only listed those that have credits> 2m).

12th place which is pretty good going esp considering Mark and Damien had issues getting tasks to begin with. :o

Team member stats:

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Rank	Name		Team		Score			Tasks
30	damienhealy	UK BOINC Team	1 483 240.32	    2 432
37	Woodles		UK BOINC Team	1 227 698.51	    2 013
44	Homefarm	UK BOINC Team	1 086 205.19	    1 781
98	UBT - Timbo	UK BOINC Team	434 848.01	    713
217	TroubledBunny	UK BOINC Team	146 372.40	    240
339	meddy2065	UK BOINC Team	46 351.26	    76
388	Rimmer161	UK BOINC Team	29 884.37	    49
431	UBT - Mikeejones UK BOINC Team	17 076.78	    28
498	alistair_porter	UK BOINC Team	6 098.85	    10
(610 BOINCers crunched 321-Sieve tasks over the 24 hour period - so a Top 50 position for 3 UBT members is pretty good. :-) )

Well done to all who took part...and here's to the next Challenge.

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