Feb '08 Crunch on RieselSieve

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Feb '08 Crunch on RieselSieve

Post by UBT - Timbo »

Hi all,

The February '08 Crunch starts at 00:01 on 14th Feb 2008 and lasts until 23:59 on 17th Feb 2008.

Hopefully you're all ready to start crunching on this chosen project....

If not, then please join in...you don't need to register on the forum - just add RieselSieve to your BOINC projects and set everything else to "no new work"....

And let's see how many WUs we can crunch in 4 days.

UPDATE: Daily credit production is looking good

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regards and good luck,

Tim

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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Put all 5 comps on it so should get around 1400 credits a day .

If you have not done this project before please join in.
Intel chips give good credits on LLR's
AMD's seem better on the sieves .
Tiss only for a few days then you can go back to your normal projects .
Lets show the rest of the world what the number 1 UK team can do .

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Post by RodEllery »

Probably just me being a bit thick!

How do you set a preference for LLR?. I've got about 100 Seives but no LLRs to work on.
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Post by Ben »

Same looked, but didn't see the option to choose  :(
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Post by NaRyan »

I had to go to My Account and alter the RieselSieve preferences and tick the "Run test applications?" box before I got the llr's.
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Post by RodEllery »

Thanks, LLR now starting to download
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Re: Feb '08 Crunch on RieselSieve

Post by Joshrandom »

UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi all,

The February '08 Crunch starts at 00:01 on 14th Feb 2008 and lasts until 23:59 on 17th Feb 2008.

Hopefully you're all ready to start crunching on this chosen project....

If not, then please join in...you don't need to register on the forum - just add RieselSieve to your BOINC projects and set everything else to "no new work"....

And let's see how many WUs we can crunch in 4 days.

regards and good luck,

Tim

PS Shameless plug for the SAVE Planet Rock petition here: http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_planet_rock
Not trying to cause trouble or nuffink, but if people haven't registered on the forum, how are they going to know about the crunch.

I mean this is a members only section, isn't it?  :?
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Post by Ben »

I suppose having a mini program that sits on your desktop alerting you to a new 'team crunch' would be a good idea for things like that. Random thought of the day..
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Re: Feb '08 Crunch on RieselSieve

Post by UBT - Timbo »

Joshrandom wrote:Not trying to cause trouble or nuffink, but if people haven't registered on the forum, how are they going to know about the crunch.

I mean this is a members only section, isn't it?  :?
Hi Josh,

Yup - you're quite right...which is why this posting is now in the public area...!

In other words, forum members had a heads-up on this in advance, while now, everyone will know about it......!

regards

Tim
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Post by Grinning Grunny »

They've done it to me again, I can't see a Mac version to join in the game :cry:
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

Having trouble with one of my HT systems, almost all my WU on it seem to be running for a while and then ending in Computation Error, any ideas anyone?

All my other systems are running fine.


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Post by fellie »

transferred to the LLRs :)

1hr 44m quoted, sieves were 49m
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Post by Woodles »

Didn't know about this until today but I'm in there now  :D
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

fellie wrote:transferred to the LLRs :)

1hr 44m quoted, sieves were 49m
corrrrrr
Just a note to all us older generation chip people
Afer a few days of crunching riesel ......
Any intel chip over P4 2.6 gets more credits per hour on LLR's
The faster the chip the higher the difference ...

Anything smaller/older does better on sieves .
e.g .... P4 2.8 northwood ......LLR's = 5/6 hours =512+credits a day .
                                 sieves = 2 ~ 21/2 hours=256 ~324 credits a day .

P3 800 ......LLR's = 40 hours =76 credits a day
            sieves = 4 hours  =162credits a day
As far as i know (slap me if im wrong ) the AMD's like sieves more ..


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Post by fellie »

I moved to LLR cos you said they go better on intel further up the thread :)


but, my manager is counting the remaining time up... not down on the current 2  :shock:
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Post by Woodles »

Also shifted to LLRs as they were meant to be faster. Sieves took ~59 minutes, LLRs quoted as 2 hrs 35!

Intel Dual core @2.13 is it best to stick with LLRs or swap back?
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Post by Ben »

I've switched back to the seive project. One of my LLR's completed after 4hours and 25mins and i got 27 credits?

So back to seive i go
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

No not faster ...better credit lol ... If it takes you 59 mins for 1 sieve =27 credits .
2 hours 35 for LLR =121~130 credits
2hours 35 mins of sieves give you =67 credits

And also the manager doesn't really know how long your first WU's will take ,
So it thinks a LLR is the same as a sieve ..

Its best if you do a couple of each then work out how much credit you get per hour on them .
I don't think theres two computers out of the many in this forum that would do exactly the same times on project.
If i had a computer that could do LLR's in 2.5 hours on one chip i'd be very very happy.  
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

My llr's seem to range from 5 to 50 hours  :shock:  :roll:



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Post by Woodles »

You're right, it didn't know how long the first LLR WU would take, it guessed at 2:35, actually took 4:44! So I'd need ~128 credits to put it on a par with doing sieves?

Looks like it's about the same for me so I'm leaving it, less for me to screw up!
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Post by fellie »

4h 16m now its done a couple :)
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

OK, as no one can help with my problem I shall blow up the forum, go to the corner and sulk then join that other UK team  :roll:


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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Is it just giving errors on LLR's ?
Run test applications?
This helps us develop applications, but may cause jobs to fail on your computer.
IN  riesel prefs ....Set as NO

I put all me tat on sieves (set the location as "Work" )
And set the bigger ones on "home "
You can set each computer by going to ..
your account .~
Computers on this account ..~
Click on the computer ID ~
then set its location to "work"

Try the error ones on sieves

:shock:
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Is it just giving errors on LLR's ?
Run test applications?
This helps us develop applications, but may cause jobs to fail on your computer.
IN  riesel prefs ....Set as NO

I put all me tat on sieves (set the location as "Work" )
And set the bigger ones on "home "
You can set each computer by going to ..
your account .~
Computers on this account ..~
Click on the computer ID ~
then set its location to "work"

Try the error ones on sieves

:shock:
Yes they are llrs, I'll give your suggestion a try but it just seems strange it is just one system with this problem as my other 4 have not had one error.

edit, just checked and it is already set to no :cry:
Gary. :cry:
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Rockinfroggi wrote:Having trouble with one of my HT systems, almost all my WU on it seem to be running for a while and then ending in Computation Error, any ideas anyone?

All my other systems are running fine.


Gary.
The system isn't oveclocked/overheating by any chance? It's the only thing I can see in the forums. If it is drop back to normal speed and see if that cures it.

If it isn't try a post at http://www.rieselsieve.com/forum/ and see if anyone else has come across your little problem!
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Looks like theres a few bad WU's about .
http://www.rieselsieve.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1385

You might be one of the unlucky ones  :shock:
As far as i can work out the first bug kills all the other WU's
So if you still have the problem on that computer ,Might be a good idea to reset the project and try again  :?:
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Post by Rockinfroggi »

UBT - Mikee wrote:
Rockinfroggi wrote:Having trouble with one of my HT systems, almost all my WU on it seem to be running for a while and then ending in Computation Error, any ideas anyone?

All my other systems are running fine.


Gary.
The system isn't oveclocked/overheating by any chance? It's the only thing I can see in the forums. If it is drop back to normal speed and see if that cures it.

If it isn't try a post at http://www.rieselsieve.com/forum/ and see if anyone else has come across your little problem!

Thanks Mikee, it is overclocked but then so are 2 other systems, I'll give UBT - mickyb69's suggestion a go first as Resetting  the project is far less painful.


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Post by Rockinfroggi »

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Looks like theres a few bad WU's about .
http://www.rieselsieve.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1385

You might be one of the unlucky ones  :shock:
As far as i can work out the first bug kills all the other WU's
So if you still have the problem on that computer ,Might be a good idea to reset the project and try again  :?:

Thanks for that, I'll give that a try.

edit, have reset and it has downloaded all Sieves now so I will leave it at that for now and see how they run.


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Post by Sir Cracked of the Mind »

I'm back.....after a total reinstall...
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Post by Ben »

Welcome back Sir Cracked
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Post by fellie »

I reckon a few heavy crunchers started early :)

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Im sure my 3600 or so points helped :S
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Post by lee_eardley »

your not wrong there , shot through the roof :)
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Post by Sir Cracked of the Mind »

We're really spanking it now!
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Post by MAVRIK »

2nd highest RAC now,top looks a little unlikely.......but you never know!
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Post by melter65 »

The crunch officially finished at midnight last night, but I'm sure others have got a load of WU's left over like me, so we should get no.2 RAC, even if it's after the actual crunch! :D
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