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WCG Team Challenges
Hi all,
Now that the Gauntlet Challenge (on SETI@home) has finished, I was wondering what else we could do.
And while checking the WCG website I found that they have now instigated the "Team Challenge" function, whereby, over given periods of time, teams can choose to join a challenge and hence aim to beat other teams - in pretty much the same way as the Gauntlet...
So, if you get two minutes, take a look at these:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/ ... llenges.do
and then let me know if anyone feels that we can make a strong enough impact on any one of the challenges already issued.
EDIT:
This is how our daily WCG credits are increasing
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Now that the Gauntlet Challenge (on SETI@home) has finished, I was wondering what else we could do.
And while checking the WCG website I found that they have now instigated the "Team Challenge" function, whereby, over given periods of time, teams can choose to join a challenge and hence aim to beat other teams - in pretty much the same way as the Gauntlet...
So, if you get two minutes, take a look at these:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/ ... llenges.do
and then let me know if anyone feels that we can make a strong enough impact on any one of the challenges already issued.
EDIT:
This is how our daily WCG credits are increasing
regards
Tim
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Hi Mike,UBT - Mikee wrote:Is there a page for upcoming challenges? Or can we start our own?
Virtually all the ones listed are in mid run. 'Sports heat(s) start today but only run for 4 days which only leaves 'Master note' which started 4 days ago but runs 'til 30th.
Count me in - WCG could definitely do with the boost!
Yup - we could start our own and see what happens...!
OR: On the link I gave, if you click on the dropdown box, you'll be able to select only the "Upcoming Challenges"...
I don't think there's any point us joining a challenge until we can settle on a date in the future when members will be able to clear their cache of existing WUs (from other projects) and hence start crunching on WCG on the relevant date.
Some Challenges are starting on 22nd Nov for 4 days, which might be a bit too soon...but these have few teams in them, so we have a better chance of winning...!
The next batch start 26th Nov for 4 days but these have more teams in them, which might make it more interesting?
The next batch (as of today) start 1st Dec for a month - which might be a bit long...
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There are around 20 teams who get more credit in a month than our overall total (and that includes 3 teams who do it in a week), so avoiding them would be good but probably not possible.
The challenge can make a difference to which project it is best to run--Discovering Dengue Drugs has the shortest wu's so is a good one for results challenges.
It would be nice to improve on " Users going up : 6 Users going down : 92"
The challenge can make a difference to which project it is best to run--Discovering Dengue Drugs has the shortest wu's so is a good one for results challenges.
It would be nice to improve on " Users going up : 6 Users going down : 92"
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Looks like a bit of fun. 8)
How about we join the one called the Christmas Race? Start date is 12/01/07 Gives everyone time to clear the cache, currently has only 19 other teams entered. I'm game if you all are...........
How about we join the one called the Christmas Race? Start date is 12/01/07 Gives everyone time to clear the cache, currently has only 19 other teams entered. I'm game if you all are...........
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i'l play :lol: lets do santa :3some: :3some:
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OK Team leader count me in as well, WCG is one of those projects I should do more often but never seem to get around too??
But just at the mo I am a PC short, my poor old P4 3.2 has bit the dust, locked up last night and is totally dead when trying to restart, PSU is fine, just trying to build some more bitsa back into the case lol
But just at the mo I am a PC short, my poor old P4 3.2 has bit the dust, locked up last night and is totally dead when trying to restart, PSU is fine, just trying to build some more bitsa back into the case lol
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Quite a good spread in the 19 on this one so far, a few way out of our league but then a group (around 20k WGC points a day) we could top with a reasonable increase in output plus several more way below us.UBT - The Prof.... wrote:Looks like a bit of fun. 8)
How about we join the one called the Christmas Race? Start date is 12/01/07 Gives everyone time to clear the cache, currently has only 19 other teams entered. I'm game if you all are...........
Just reached 250k on WCG, my first 1/4 million project .
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Hi all,
OK - the consensus seems to be very positive to get involved with the WCG Challenges......and if there are no dissenters, then I'll put the team forward to be added to the Christmas race...
So, carry on as per norm, and start downloading some WCG WUs a few days BEFORE 1st December....so at least we'll get some credits from day 1...
Remember - it's a 24 day Challenge...and it's all about the points (e.g. credits) earned....
So, if anyone is currently crunching on WCG, what we need to know is which WCG project produces the most points per hour....!
regards
Tim
OK - the consensus seems to be very positive to get involved with the WCG Challenges......and if there are no dissenters, then I'll put the team forward to be added to the Christmas race...
So, carry on as per norm, and start downloading some WCG WUs a few days BEFORE 1st December....so at least we'll get some credits from day 1...
Remember - it's a 24 day Challenge...and it's all about the points (e.g. credits) earned....
So, if anyone is currently crunching on WCG, what we need to know is which WCG project produces the most points per hour....!
regards
Tim
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UBT - Timbo wrote: Remember - it's a 24 day Challenge...and it's all about the points (e.g. credits) earned....
So, if anyone is currently crunching on WCG, what we need to know is which WCG project produces the most points per hour....!
regards
Tim
AfricanClimate@Home Points Per Hour of Run Time 71.37
Discovering Dengue Drugs Points Per Hour of Run Time 65.25
FightAIDS@Home Points Per Hour of Run Time 34.43
Help Conquer Cancer Points Per Hour of Run Time 69.30 (NO WORK AT PRESENT)
Human Proteome Folding 2 Points Per Hour of Run Time 46.26
These figures are the averages from WCG stats (I think 7 points = 1 Boinc credit) so a reasonably fast machine should do better on most projects. It maybe because the minimum specs for AfricanC are higher than the other projects that the average points per hour is greater as it will tend to be newer machines running it.
While HCC is out of work I run DDD and wu's complete in around 1hr on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ for approx 16 credits (112 points per core/hour)
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Hi,UBT-mark3346 wrote:AfricanClimate@Home Points Per Hour of Run Time 71.37
Discovering Dengue Drugs Points Per Hour of Run Time 65.25
FightAIDS@Home Points Per Hour of Run Time 34.43
Help Conquer Cancer Points Per Hour of Run Time 69.30 (NO WORK AT PRESENT)
Human Proteome Folding 2 Points Per Hour of Run Time 46.26
These figures are the averages from WCG stats (I think 7 points = 1 Boinc credit) so a reasonably fast machine should do better on most projects. It maybe because the minimum specs for AfricanC are higher than the other projects that the average points per hour is greater as it will tend to be newer machines running it.
While HCC is out of work I run DDD and WUs complete in around 1hr on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ for approx 16 credits (112 points per core/hour)
That's BRILLIANT.....!
Just what the doctor ordered...
OK people, now you know....plenty of WUs available, plenty of credits offered...so, let's get cracking on WCG sometime before 1st December.
I'll submit the UBT to the Challenge now....so, all we need next is for members to start crunching nearer the start day...
Edit: Now joined...stats are here
(but won't be live until 1st December, of course).
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Already started to run down the cache of other wu's.UBT - Timbo wrote: ...all we need next is for members to start crunching nearer the start day...
Have 8 WCG wu's @ the moment, all for DDD. But be careful, they all seem to have about 4 day turn arounds, :shock: so don't hog too many too early....
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Hi Micky,mickyb69 wrote:If its the same joining up stuff as the gauntlet heres my WCG details :lol:
BOINC Account Number: 198082
WCG name .. mickyb69
As far as I know, there's no independent stats - it's all done through the WCG project website....as they are the admins...!
So, you're automatically "IN" if you are crunching for WCG during the dates specified...
There's nothing else to do in terms of registration...! Just crunch WCG from 1st-24th December...!
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My 2.8 gotmickyb69 wrote:Ta very much Tim , ive started doing some DDD's to get my pending credits up .
My naughty 2.8's getting about 9 credits per hour ...
Anyone getting more credits on different projects ??? :lol:
9.6 on Human Proteome Folding (average over 3 wu's around 8 hrs each)
8.3 on FightAIDS@home (average over 2 wu's around 10 hrs each)
My 3.4 got
12 on DDD
11.7 on HPF (3 wus, 6.5 hrs each)
and 2 FA@H wus differed so much both ran 6 hrs one got 80.1 credits the other 61.8 credits
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It looks like teams enter more than one challenge at once, it would seem a shame not to as well.....There are three December challenges points/time/results which last all month so why not lets have a pop at one or more of those as well (There are 63 teams in the November results challenge, my current crunching alone would place us 9th, without too much team effort we would get at least 5th)
Well, I'm definitely up for this. Trouble is i allowed new work for loads of projects at the end of Gauntlet and got tons of WUs. Have set all to no new work to try and clear cache but it could take some time as I have about 25 days worth of work at present! Once I get to just WUs reporting in Jan, I'll suspend projects and concentrate on WCG.
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Yup - I was thinking about joining up for the other challenges...the only issue is whether members would be willing to be involved for the 31 days that the other challenges seem to take.UBT-mark3346 wrote:It looks like teams enter more than one challenge at once, it would seem a shame not to as well.....There are three December challenges points/time/results which last all month so why not lets have a pop at one or more of those as well (There are 63 teams in the November results challenge, my current crunching alone would place us 9th, without too much team effort we would get at least 5th)
I thought 24 days on the Christmas race would be OK - but crunching one project for 31 days.....? That is a much bigger commitment !!
I'm quite happy to sign up the team to these other December Challenges, if enough members want to crunch WCG for 31 days....
All in favour, please say AYE !!
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I doubt we could beat them....with First Knight, they have someone who can crunch 200,000 WUs per DAY.....melter65 wrote:Any chance of us beating the Irish contingent at this? Not that I'm bitter about the Gauntlet or anything!! :lol: :lol:
That is some awesome CPU processing power.....wonder if he bought a 2nd Cray off eBay...???
So, our best chance is to hope either that FK doesn't get involved with WCG....or that maybe he jumps ship and joins UBT....! (In which case, they would be made extremely welcome !).
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Hi Rod,RodEllery wrote:Well, I'm definitely up for this. Trouble is i allowed new work for loads of projects at the end of Gauntlet and got tons of WUs. Have set all to no new work to try and clear cache but it could take some time as I have about 25 days worth of work at present! Once I get to just WUs reporting in Jan, I'll suspend projects and concentrate on WCG.
Once the Gauntlet was over, I looked around and thought "which project to start crunching for" on my quad core....and I thought that ABC would be nice....so I now have a huge cache of ABC WUs.....
My other machines aren't really good enough for the long-ish ABC WUs that sometimes show up - I had a 12 hour WU on the quad core - that would have taken ages on my P4 2.4GHz....
So, my other machines are already on WCG, crunching on the DDD WUs (as these take around 2 hours or so) now that I've cleared my cache of SETI WUs.
(Remember: You can select which type of WCG WUs you will be issued with, via your account on the WCG website).
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Now that SAP has finish sending new wu's I have a "nice" cache to finish, but as they have completion dates of May or later I'll just leave some on hold. A friend will also let me use his machine next week so I can add a dual core that is on part of each day
Every little helps, I know the credits are poor, but I think the long term benefits are better than looking for an alien Tony Blackburn who died 50,000 years ago when the signal was sent - if the Sun is 50,000 light years from earth.
Every little helps, I know the credits are poor, but I think the long term benefits are better than looking for an alien Tony Blackburn who died 50,000 years ago when the signal was sent - if the Sun is 50,000 light years from earth.
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Hi John,UBT - JohnR wrote: oops numbskull that I am.
I should have put the sun that the alien planet revolved around. I don't think there would be much chance of life without a sun.
Hmmm...and according to this your alien planet would need a suitable moon as well....!
So, now we're really talking long odds....esp. if the alien looked/acted like TB himself....
I wonder what the odds would be ?
Anything close to Frank Drakes' famous equation...which gives the result as ..... 10 (civilisations able to communicate with Earth), which is Drakes result or 2 (based on current estimates)...
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Just crunching for the 24 days would still leave pending credits going through for up to a week so I say sign up anywayUBT - Timbo wrote:Yup - I was thinking about joining up for the other challenges...the only issue is whether members would be willing to be involved for the 31 days that the other challenges seem to take.UBT-mark3346 wrote:It looks like teams enter more than one challenge at once, it would seem a shame not to as well.....There are three December challenges points/time/results which last all month so why not lets have a pop at one or more of those as well (There are 63 teams in the November results challenge, my current crunching alone would place us 9th, without too much team effort we would get at least 5th)
I thought 24 days on the Christmas race would be OK - but crunching one project for 31 days.....? That is a much bigger commitment !!
I'm quite happy to sign up the team to these other December Challenges, if enough members want to crunch WCG for 31 days....
All in favour, please say AYE !!
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Hi all,
OK, I've now signed UBT up for the following extra WCG Challenges for December:
December 07 Results Challenge. (based on Results returned)
December 07 Points Challenge. (based on Points earned)
December 07 Run Time Challenge. (based on Run Time)
Each of these Challenges runs from 1st to 31st Dec 2007
No registration is required - just crunch on WCG throughout December and your points/credits will be included.
Let's see if we can really turn the screw and generate loads of points/credits for WCG through December.
regards
Tim
OK, I've now signed UBT up for the following extra WCG Challenges for December:
December 07 Results Challenge. (based on Results returned)
December 07 Points Challenge. (based on Points earned)
December 07 Run Time Challenge. (based on Run Time)
Each of these Challenges runs from 1st to 31st Dec 2007
No registration is required - just crunch on WCG throughout December and your points/credits will be included.
Let's see if we can really turn the screw and generate loads of points/credits for WCG through December.
regards
Tim
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Hi all,UBT-mark3346 wrote:Nothing like getting an early start
Our WCG all time best five days
Date Credit
2007-05-28 14,437
2007-05-26 11,629
2007-05-30 10,371
2007-11-17 10,312
2007-11-23 10,225
I would suggest that if we are going to do well on ALL of the WCG Challenges, that we should mainly crunch the "Discovering Dengue Drugs" WUs.
This is because:
- They earn you 65.25 Points Per Hour of Run Time (approx)
- They are relatively short duration WUs (approx 1hr each on a 2.4GHz Q6600).
Both the above mean that from a POINTS perspective, we can maximise the number of credit earned per hour
AND
We can maximum the number of RESULTS returned (which is one of the other Challenges).
If you go to the "your projects" section on the WCG website, you can select which project to crunch on.
regards
Tim
PS Please note that WCG awards POINTS as reward for WCG WUs that have been crunched and validated. And SEVEN WCG POINTS = ONE BOINC credit (approx).
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Hi all,UBT-mark3346 wrote:Our WCG all time best five days are now
Date credit
2007-11-28 15,774
2007-05-28 14,437
2007-11-27 13,007
2007-11-25 12,758
2007-11-24 12,495
OK, given the rising level of credits being earned on WCG, I've now joined UBT to ALL the December Challenges on WCG.
Some are over just three days, while the IBM challenge is over the whole month.
This doesn't cost us anything, and all I'm doing is assuming that with quite a few members crunching on WCG, then we can see where we "stand" in comparison to other teams.
At the same time, I'm taking advantage of the fact that during December, more UBT members will be crunching on WCG than has happened at other times.
So, our best chance to win one of these challenges is during December !!
regards
Tim
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This is our team page on WCG so we can check the challenges we are in
and the results.
Happy Crunching
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1
and the results.
Happy Crunching
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1
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I should have everything ive got running on WCG by tomorrow morning (friday 30th ) Even got a few new chips to boost me crunching ... 1 of my p4 1.7 has now got a 2.7 laptop chip in ....yippppeee running @3.0gig without overclocking pmsl .. Still waiting for another 2.7 and have just got my hands on a pair of 1 gig p3's for the old banger server ...
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saving me loads on gas ... might rig the 2.8 up to the main tank and get free hot water .. Lost my poor little p3 1100 last week so ive spent £25 on 4 chips .. just need a 3.2 xp to max up every motherboard ... might be time to save up for a quad .........
Any one got any ideas on how to convince the head that the 5 new duo's should be crunching for us ?
Any one got any ideas on how to convince the head that the 5 new duo's should be crunching for us ?
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Looks like they only show 5 challenges on that page, this shows up to 15 per pageUBT - JohnR wrote:This is our team page on WCG so we can check the challenges we are in
and the results.
Happy Crunching
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... listType=2
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I took a gamble and got a p4 2.7 northwood to put in my dell optiplex 240 .
Couldn't find any details what the mobo would take chip wise . The biggest one sold by
dell was 2 gig .... Yippeee it works ...early days yet but this first WU looks like its going to be good . It was running at an
average of 1 every 6 hours but first ones @ 20% in 30 mins
Looks like its £3.60 spent well
Dear Mr Post man ...wheres my athalon xp 2500 and the 2 p1000's got to ???????
Couldn't find any details what the mobo would take chip wise . The biggest one sold by
dell was 2 gig .... Yippeee it works ...early days yet but this first WU looks like its going to be good . It was running at an
average of 1 every 6 hours but first ones @ 20% in 30 mins
Looks like its £3.60 spent well
Dear Mr Post man ...wheres my athalon xp 2500 and the 2 p1000's got to ???????
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I'm sorry that I haven't been able to help out with these December challenges, only I've gotten my PC a little over committed with a CPDN workunit thats due in January.
But I do know the value of teamwork...
...so I have scraped some extra crunching power together and will now be able to do a little bit to help. :D
But I do know the value of teamwork...
...so I have scraped some extra crunching power together and will now be able to do a little bit to help. :D
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Yup - we did do well, didn't we ??RodEllery wrote:It does seem a bit confusing but as I see it:
we WON Dec 2/3 results and Dec 2/3 Hours but I'm not sure about Dec 2/3 points (only 2-3 K in it).
Well done all.
FYI:
The "results" based Challenges - if you do more of the shorter duration WCG projects, such as DDD, then we'll return more completed WUs and hence we're more likely to win these types of challenges.
The "run time" based Challenges are simply a measure of our "Crunching power" - so the longer each PC crunches on WCG, increases our chances of winning these.
The "points" based Challenges are dependant on how many points are earned for each completed WU. As we now know, some WCG projects seem to produce higher credits per hour than others...so to maximise our points totals, the DDD and AfricanClimate projects are the best choices to crunch on (see here).
Personally, I am only crunching on the WCG "DDD" project because they are short duration (less than 1 hr on a "stock" Q6600 @ 2.4GHz) and produce high credits per hour.
regards,
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Sorry, but for obvious reasons I need to do the cancer project too, so i'm doing a mixture of long and short WUs.UBT - Timbo wrote:
FYI:
The "results" based Challenges - if you do more of the shorter duration WCG projects, such as DDD, then we'll return more completed WUs and hence we're more likely to win these types of challenges.
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I'm in a similar situation to Mr Random, although my CPDN WU is due in February! Every time I resume the task it runs as a 'High Priority'Joshrandom wrote:I'm sorry that I haven't been able to help out with these December challenges, only I've gotten my PC a little over committed with a CPDN workunit thats due in January.
I'm trying to give equal time to the WCG Challange and my CPDN unit!
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From what I now understand, CPDN deadlines are generally ignored providing that there are still regular trickles from the PC in question. :shock:melter65 wrote: I'm in a similar situation to Mr Random, although my CPDN WU is due in February! Every time I resume the task it runs as a 'High Priority'
I'm trying to give equal time to the WCG Challange and my CPDN unit!
So I didn't need this second PC after all...
...at least my little office is nice and warm now :D
Let's all contribute to Global Warming by predicting Global Warming!! :lol: :lol:Joshrandom wrote:From what I now understand, CPDN deadlines are generally ignored providing that there are still regular trickles from the PC in question. :shock:melter65 wrote: I'm in a similar situation to Mr Random, although my CPDN WU is due in February! Every time I resume the task it runs as a 'High Priority'
I'm trying to give equal time to the WCG Challange and my CPDN unit!
So I didn't need this second PC after all...
...at least my little office is nice and warm now :D
Thanks for that bit of info, Young Random! I'll keep crunching the WU every now and then up 'til Christmas, then give it a blast!
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Hi Melter,melter65 wrote:Don't know about anynoe else, but I haven't had any WU's from WCG for the last three days, so my Christmas Challange finished on the 21st December!
Which WCG projects have you joined??
(Some run out of WUs every once in a while).
There is an option for you to crunch other WCG projects, if your preferred project runs out. (Log in to your account on the WCG website and view the "my projects" section).
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Hi,UBT-mark3346 wrote:Got a while to go for these challenges we have entered :D
Dec 7-8 2008 Minicrunch Points Points 12/07/2008 12/08/2008
Dec 7-8 2008 Minicrunch Run Time Run Time 12/07/2008 12/08/2008
Dec 7-8 2008 Minicrunch Pts Points 12/07/2008 12/08/2008
I think these were entered incorrectly to start with (as they should have been dated during 2007).
I entered the team, not realising the year "error"...!
Still, at least we'll have something to crunch for, next December
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I was down for the whole lot prior to the Challenge, then I cut it back to the Cancer one because we were told there were more credits/points for that one! As soon as I couldn't get any more WU's for that, I reticked the full bag of mashings again, but got nothing, even after resetting the project!UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi Melter,melter65 wrote:Don't know about anynoe else, but I haven't had any WU's from WCG for the last three days, so my Christmas Challange finished on the 21st December!
Which WCG projects have you joined??
(Some run out of WUs every once in a while).
There is an option for you to crunch other WCG projects, if your preferred project runs out. (Log in to your account on the WCG website and view the "my projects" section).
regards
Tim
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Hi Melter,melter65 wrote:I was down for the whole lot prior to the Challenge, then I cut it back to the Cancer one because we were told there were more credits/points for that one! As soon as I couldn't get any more WU's for that, I reticked the full bag of mashings again, but got nothing, even after resetting the project!
OK, so it would seem to be that coz WCG (Cancer project) hadn't any WUs, so BOINC filled up your cache with WUs from other (non-WCG) projects....
And until those get crunched, so WCG won't get a look-in.
It will give you more in time...you just need to wait until the other WUs have been processed and returned.
regards
Tim
But BOINC has only done that because I was totally out of WCG WU's and I restarted a few more projects manually. I didn't tick the box to let BOINC automatically download other WU's!UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi Melter,melter65 wrote:I was down for the whole lot prior to the Challenge, then I cut it back to the Cancer one because we were told there were more credits/points for that one! As soon as I couldn't get any more WU's for that, I reticked the full bag of mashings again, but got nothing, even after resetting the project!
OK, so it would seem to be that coz WCG (Cancer project) hadn't any WUs, so BOINC filled up your cache with WUs from other (non-WCG) projects....
And until those get crunched, so WCG won't get a look-in.
It will give you more in time...you just need to wait until the other WUs have been processed and returned.
regards
Tim
Christmas Race 2008
Hi friends,
a short note, have a look to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721 and be invited.
yoyo
a short note, have a look to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721 and be invited.
yoyo
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I think you`re right Mikee, Timbo is the project captain.
If we take on the WCG challenge, please note that the various projects have very different credits per hour rates.
"Nutritious rice for for the world" is far the best for credit hogs.
"Fight aids at home" is the worst. I believe "Help conquer cancer" is the second best.
If we take on the WCG challenge, please note that the various projects have very different credits per hour rates.
"Nutritious rice for for the world" is far the best for credit hogs.
"Fight aids at home" is the worst. I believe "Help conquer cancer" is the second best.
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A few months ago, I had a major problem with my rig. It blew three hard drives, and crashed several times a day. The wife suggested it was "tired", and told me to give it a good rest!hgblade wrote: My wife might feel the computers should have a rest over Christmas
Bless them, they mean well, but they haven`t got a clue.
The real reason was a serious BIOS fault. :D
UBT - Rick Horn wrote:A few months ago, I had a major problem with my rig. It blew three hard drives, and crashed several times a day. The wife suggested it was "tired", and told me to give it a good rest!hgblade wrote: My wife might feel the computers should have a rest over Christmas
Bless them, they mean well, but they haven`t got a clue.
The real reason was a serious BIOS fault. :D
*Shifty look* Whoops! :lol:
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No problem Rick,UBT - Rick Horn wrote:Hi guys.
Tim has added UBT to the Christmas WCG race.
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I think I've added UBT to some other WCG challenges as well....as it costs nothing to admin or get involved.......so, we may well improve our relative position if others see us "participating"...
Here's hoping we do well on WCG over the coming weeks....!
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As I've been volunteered this is just a reminder of the challenges/races coming up in December. This isn't for the credit hogs out there (that includes me I suppose!). However, if you're in it for the science and benefit of mankind, please feel free to join in next week.Hi friends,
a short note, have a look to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721 and be invited.
yoyo
No, really, please do - PLEASE!!
I usually only beg once and if no one listens I get very unhappy!
Encourage your friends and colleagues to help your team!
* If they already participate in the World Community Grid, then copy and paste the web address below and send it to them in an email. All they need to do to join your team is click on the web address and then click on the join now button on the page that appears.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1
* If they have not yet joined World Community Grid, then copy and paste the web address below and send it to them in an email. When they register, the team will be automatically selected for them. Let them know that they will still need to download and install the World Community Grid software.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/v ... 9TGC4G1RP1
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