Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid 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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UBT - Mikee
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Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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PrimeGrid's 2021 Challenge Series
Good Riddance 2020! Challenge
Jan 14 00:00:00 to Jan 18 23:59:59 (UTC)

Hi

Being as no ones mentioned it I thought I better had!

This started this morning and runs for 5 days.

Just Homefarm and I in it at the moment.

If you want in make sure you just have Fermat Divisor Search LLR (PPS-DIV) Good Riddance 2020! Challenge project - easy to find as it says "Focus project". CPU only. Don't forget to deselect any others.

There seems to be 2 versions, short (900 CPU seconds for me) for 24 credits and long (55000 CPU seconds for around 1550 credits.

Why CPU seconds? You can select how many cores per work unit - I'm current using 6 cores so it actually takes 10000 seconds to finish a WU but 60000 actual CPU time. Plain as mud?

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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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Hiya,

Sorry, some complications at work distracted me here. I've paused WCG and pointed the machines at this challenge.

One of my large rigs is offline currently, but I'll still get into it.

Cheers.
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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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Hi

Nice to see a few more members contributing.

42(ish) hours in, 78 hours to go.

Team Position.

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16	BOINC@AUSTRALIA	1 187 394.31
17	UK BOINC Team	 939 845.23
18	BOINCstats	 890 320.39
Members Positions

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Pos     Name                Total       # of Tasks

25	Homefarm	 825 136.49	    936
248	UBT - Timbo	  44 755.35	     62
255	UBT - Mikeejones  42 972.13	     54
348	meddy2065	  12 865.21	     26
395	Ben Atkins	   4 716.69	      4
399	Jason	           4 667.63	      3
427	damienh    	   3 077.07	    125
441	Legoman	           1 654.65	      5

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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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UBT - Mikee wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:50 pm Hi

Nice to see a few more members contributing.

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Mike
Hi Mike

Yup - I'm in ;-)

Don't know what you are finding, but some tasks are really short ( taking maybe 15 mins each) and which seem to be the "Main task" and get 24 credits each and others takes ages (taking between 6 and 12 hours each) - these are the Proof tasks and earn about 1568 credit each....

And yet there doesn't seem to be different names of the tasks, they are called pretty much the same thing...just luck of the draw as to which one's you get handed.

Edit:

Link to Individuals stats (including UBT members):

http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2021 ... users.html

Link to Team stats:

http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2021 ... teams.html

regards
Tim
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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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I had a look to see how things are going on my machines. Not much movement on my points as yet; it looks like most of the tasks I have, have been running for over a day and are showing over a day more to go.

Good to see Richard smashing it up the top of the charts there.
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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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Hi

9 hours to go. 10 members competing (though some might not realise!)

Team Position.

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16	Rechenkraft.net	 3 896 903.91
17	UK BOINC Team	 3 890 081.09
18	BOINCstats	 2 871 832.98
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Pos     Name                Total       # of Tasks

 32	Homefarm	 2 227 087.39	    2 496
 59     damienh		 1 212 521.77	    1 104
248	UBT - Timbo	  232 688.54	     343
276	UBT - Mikeejones  118 636.49	     132
342	meddy2065	   65 394.63	     186
404	Ben Atkins	   25 479.64	      19
526	Jason	           4 667.63	       3
546	Legoman	           1 654.65	       7
617	duncanr		     298.05	      12
659	Gordon Lack	      49.52	       2

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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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I moved all my crunching to full cores only i.e. without hyperthreading / SMT. I hope that pushes a few extra tasks through ahead of the deadline.
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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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Hi all

Final stats for this Challenge:

Top 20 Teams - 134 teams took part:

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1	Antarctic Crunchers	138 612 556.84	    154 374
2	Czech National Team	33 636 292.60	    39 857
3	Aggie The Pew		32 545 069.25	    36 238
4	SETI.Germany		30 902 217.21	    38 565
5	TeAm AnandTech		26 272 439.91	    38 190
6	Ultimate Chaos		24 315 848.30	    27 831
7	AMD Users		22 018 610.73	    26 813
8	Storm			13 368 359.95	    14 887
9	Crunching@EVGA		8 180 491.27	    10 377
10	BOINC@MIXI		7 875 481.07	    9 747
11	Sicituradastra.		7 174 653.85	    7 851
12	SETI.USA		5 415 142.33	    5 931
13	Team 2ch		4 677 845.11	    5 767

14	UK BOINC Team		4 499 381.51	    4 905

15	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		4 479 410.99	    5 056
16	The Knights Who Say Ni!	4 389 329.68	    5 136
17	Rechenkraft.net		4 231 390.13	    4 744
18	BOINCstats		3 073 126.57	    5 711
19	Ukraine			2 675 439.72	    4 416
20	Team China		2 251 525.43	    2 878
UBT Members Positions - 688 individuals took part.

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Posn    Name           Total       	# of Tasks
31	Homefarm	2 394 720.37	 2 655
50	damienh		1 610 342.87	 1 475
205	UBT - Timbo	256 332.86	 383
283	UBT - Mikeejones123 693.89	 135
342	meddy2065	75 743.74	 211
406	Ben Atkins	30 275.15	 22
538	Jason		4 667.63	 3
555	Legoman		3 257.42	 7
629	duncanr		298.05		 12
674	Gordon Lack	49.52		 2
So, not a bad result - 14th place and 10 members took part...hope you enjoyed it :-)

regards
Tim
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Re: Good Riddance 2020! PrimeGrid Challenge

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It was a good run ... now back on WCG!
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