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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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:20 am
Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:52 amNot often I beat you Mark :P I need to try harder :D
Yes, yes you do :P
Oooh, well, I seem to have closed the gap massively and am on the move. Watch out :D :D :lol: :lol: :lol:

Richard is still UBT #1 though - solid throughput from him.
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Teams

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Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		9,820,368.27	16,102
 2	Aggie The Pew			9,617,886.45	15,770
 3	[H]ard|OCP			6,751,426.95	11,070
 4	The Scottish Boinc Team		6,104,948.85	10,010
 5	SETI.Germany			6,051,888.86	 9,923
 6	Sicituradastra			4,214,915.23	 6,911
 7	Antarctic Crunchers		3,025,639.49	 4,961
 8	Crunching@EVGA			2,835,355.37	 4,649
 9	TeAm AnandTech			2,494,429.65	 4,090
10	BOINC@MIXI			2,130,328.31	 3,493
11	AMD Users			1,788,792.71	 2,933
12	Rechenkraft.net			1,524,712.50	 2,500

13	UK BOINC Team			1,377,120.33	 2,258

14	Team 2ch			1,227,088.62	 2,012
15	BOINCstats			1,046,562.66	 1,716
16	Metal Archives			  883,723.37	 1,449
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			  831,883.14	 1,364
18	Alien Prime Cult		  764,795.79	 1,254
19	Ultimate Chaos			  737,960.85	 1,210
20	Ukraine				  722,713.73	 1,185
UBT up another place to thirteenth, making steady progress.

Individuals

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Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
 42	Homefarm	489,127.77	802
 62	Woodles		325,068.71	533
 69	damienhealy	302,502.96	496
 94	UBT - Timbo	201,871.94	331
270	TroubledBunny	 29,274.48	 48
324	meddy2065	 15,247.13	 25
332	Rimmer161	 14,027.36	 23
Damien shooting up the ranks and TroubledBunny joins in the fun.
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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 11:36 amOooh, well, I seem to have closed the gap massively and am on the move. Watch out :D :D :lol: :lol: :lol:
For some reason my Xeons haven't contacted PrimeGrid since last night, hopefully they're just off the network and still crunching away ... :?
Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:36 amRichard is still UBT #1 though - solid throughput from him.
Indeed he is, a very impressive showing.
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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:19 am Hi Tim,

I had my usual projects set to resource share of zero and PrimeGrid set to 1,000 but with no projects selected.

The usual tasks continued with zero cache until I enabled 321 Sieve on the PrimeGrid profile at around 10 PM. PrimeGrid 321 tasks downloaded from about 10:15 PM so I'm not sure why you didn't get any tasks during the day?
Hi Mark

As my lack of tasks affected 3 different PC's I assumed there might be an issue with my PG Preferences so I went back to their website and unchecked and then re-checked the specific task and made sure I saved it - then did an "update" on each PC and the tasks then started downloading.

As least I was around when the Challenge started to be able to do this, else they would have been doing nothing until later on. And losing about 12+ hours of crunching on 3 PCs (when they should have been crunching PF tasks early, even though they wouldn't count) isn't the end of the world.
Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:19 am Still, you're heading up the individual charts nicely now.

Looks like Richard is doing a good job for UBT :handgestures-thumbup:
But Damien has now got his farm crunching, so he's passed me now.

And nice work from Richard too...!!

I think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe Top 10 ?

regards and thanks for posting some stats updates too :-)
Tim
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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:55 am For some reason my Xeons haven't contacted PrimeGrid since last night, hopefully they're just off the network and still crunching away ... :?
That makes sense. Even after all of my upgrades, I shouldn’t be pacing this well in comparison to you.

Hopefully you drop a big bunker later???
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UBT - Timbo wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pm
I think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe top 10?
I hope so. The good thing is that we don’t need to wait long to find out!
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Teams

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Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		12,558,751.92	20,592
 2	Aggie The Pew			11,964,114.05	19,617
 3	[H]ard|OCP			 8,537,170.23	13,998
 4	SETI.Germany			 7,640,639.28	12,528
 5	The Scottish Boinc Team		 7,614,414.23	12,485
 6	Sicituradastra			 5,271,236.05	 8,643
 7	Antarctic Crunchers		 3,759,941.03	 6,165
 8	Crunching@EVGA			 3,672,727.47	 6,022
 9	TeAm AnandTech			 3,145,176.95	 5,157
10	BOINC@MIXI			 2,729,235.38	 4,475
11	AMD Users			 2,274,261.17	 3,729
12	Rechenkraft.net			 2,119,350.38	 3,475

13	UK BOINC Team			 1,892,473.16	 3,103

14	Team 2ch			 1,508,855.49	 2,474
15	BOINCstats			 1,311,862.64	 2,151
16	Metal Archives			 1,103,281.97	 1,809
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			 1,049,002.20	 1,720
18	Alien Prime Cult		   942,882.21	 1,546
19	Ultimate Chaos			   908,728.65	 1,490
20	Chinese Dream			   907,508.88	 1,488
UBT holding steady in thirteenth place, a big gap to fourteenth and a smaller one to twelfth (although they are pulling away)

Individuals

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Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
 42	Homefarm	608,055.35	997
 50	damienhealy	526,940.64	864
 63	Woodles		408,622.95	670
 96	UBT - Timbo	250,052.85	410
235	TroubledBunny	 57,939.08	 95
320	meddy2065	 23,785.52	 39
341	Rimmer161	 17,076.78	 28
Damien closing fast on Richard.
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UBT - Timbo wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmAs my lack of tasks affected 3 different PC's I assumed there might be an issue with my PG Preferences so I went back to their website and unchecked and then re-checked the specific task and made sure I saved it - then did an "update" on each PC and the tasks then started downloading.
All good in the end.
UBT - Timbo wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmAs least I was around when the Challenge started to be able to do this, else they would have been doing nothing until later on. And losing about 12+ hours of crunching on 3 PCs (when they should have been crunching PF tasks early, even though they wouldn't count) isn't the end of the world.
I think i should have checked at the start as well :( My Xeons have been reporting in to WUProp so they're running but no tasks downloaded from PrimeGrid. Looks like I'm going to miss three quarters of this sprint.
UBT - Timbo wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmBut Damien has now got his farm crunching, so he's passed me now.
And me too :lol:
UBT - Timbo wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmI think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe Top 10 ?
We'll give it a go, at least we're trying.
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Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:51 pmHopefully you drop a big bunker later???
It's not looking promising, they've contacted WUProp today but haven't downloaded anything from PrimeGrid since last night (before the start) :(

It's beginning to look like I got some setting wrong and they've not been crunching. I'll have to sort them when I get home but that means they've been idle for most of the day.
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Oh well, not ideal, but this is just a bit of a warm up Sprint anyway. Nothing to get too hot & bothered about. Between you & I we just about did 100% of a sprint :lol:

We are still on the board and somewhere near the top rather than the bottom. Respectable enough I’d say.

Of course, we should get a nice tail wind once you’re live again, so that’s something to look forward to :)
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Woodles wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:21 pm
It's not looking promising, they've contacted WUProp today but haven't downloaded anything from PrimeGrid since last night (before the start) :(

It's beginning to look like I got some setting wrong and they've not been crunching. I'll have to sort them when I get home but that means they've been idle for most of the day.
Hi Mark

In the PG Preferences have you set:

Use CPU
You must also select CPU apps below.
If you do not, 321-Sieve will be automatically selected for you. >>> yes
Enforced by version 6.10+

(and obviously deselect any other PG sub-projects for CPU).

and also:

321 Sieve (321-Sieve) >>> CPU

There are also 13 "other" Preferences (home, school, work and others) so make sure your attached PCs are set to whichever Preference is as per above...you need to go to:

Your account > Computers on this account > Details for each PC.

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I must say, in my rush this morning, I initially just ticked the sieve project but not ‘use CPU’. Luckily I noticed in time ...
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Hi Damien,

Oh I'm not too worried about it, it doesn't really count for anything important and we're going to make a decent showing anyway.

Teamwork! :lol:

This could all go wrong though, I'm away this weekend so I was going to set things to automatically go back to Gerasim and WEP after midnight .... they may stay on PrimeGrid or stop completely! :o
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Hi Tim,

All my hosts are using the same PrimeGrid profile (Pluto) and some of them are working so the settings are correct.

The issue appears to be that the Xeons haven't even contacted PrimeGrid to ask for work, never mind not had any supplied.

I don't think it's a PrimeGrid setting, I think I've messed up somewhere on the local configuration and either set CPU usage to 0% or not enabled the PrimeGrid project (although I think that unlikely to have happened on all of them) I'll know more in an hour or so.
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Hi

I'm in with my PCs running all cores and hyperthreads. 84 total threads, as it's not using the AVX instructions heat is not an issue and the hyperthreads keep the CPUs at 100%.

The I9 9900K is the fastest, but the Extreme cpus have so many more cores that the compensating effect if more credit per second. I seem to be getting just on 13 credits per second.
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Teams

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Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		14,729,942.52	24,152
 2	Aggie The Pew			13,913,306.51	22,813
 3	[H]ard|OCP			10,038,707.10	16,460
 4	SETI.Germany			 8,953,111.80	14,680
 5	The Scottish Boinc Team		 8,803,080.09	14,434
 6	Sicituradastra			 6,086,652.30	 9,980
 7	Crunching@EVGA			 4,373,485.34	 7,171
 8	Antarctic Crunchers		 4,349,699.82	 7,132
 9	TeAm AnandTech			 3,619,057.59	 5,934
10	BOINC@MIXI			 3,220,802.69	 5,281
11	AMD Users			 2,633,483.43	 4,318
12	Rechenkraft.net			 2,623,115.39	 4,301
13	UK BOINC Team			 2,315,123.46	 3,796
14	Team 2ch			 1,758,298.46	 2,883
15	BOINCstats			 1,508,855.49	 2,474
16	Metal Archives			 1,258,192.76	 2,063
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			 1,241,725.86	 2,036
18	Ukraine				 1,067,298.75	 1,750
18	Alien Prime Cult		 1,067,298.75	 1,750
20	Ultimate Chaos			 1,054,491.17	 1,729
UBT still in thirteenth place.

Individuals

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Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
41	Homefarm	710,516.03	1,165
42	damienhealy	702,587.52	1,152
63	Woodles		484,858.58	  795
94	UBT - Timbo	289,085.49	  474
218	TroubledBunny	 79,894.94	  131
318	meddy2065	 29,884.37	   49
358	Rimmer161	 18,296.55	   30
Very close between Richard and Damien now!
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Hi Richard,

That's an impressive number of threads, explains your placing in the UBT team this sprint :)

Good to know that a large number of slow(er) threads do well, I have a few older Xeons that aren't the fastest but do have quite a few cores.

Welcome to the delights of sprinting :D

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Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter :lol:
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homefarm wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter :lol:
Ha ha ha ha ... I'm doing my best to get to that level :lol: :lol: :lol: Maybe one day ...

I'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle :D

Good to see you in the sprint - a very fine effort from you indeed!!
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Damien Healy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:14 pm
homefarm wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter :lol:
Ha ha ha ha ... I'm doing my best to get to that level :lol: :lol: :lol: Maybe one day ...

I'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle :D

Good to see you in the sprint - a very fine effort from you indeed!!
144 threads, Umm maybe 4 x 36 thread 7980xe or something Xeon?? Sounds good.
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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Re: PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

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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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Tim
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