Primegrid Year of the Tiger challenge

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:30 am

The latest PG challenge is a 3 day event on Proth Prime Search (LLR), and starts on February 14th. at 18-00, and ends on February 17th. at 18-00.

That gives us 5 days to lower cache levels etc.

Are we up for this one, guys?

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:54 am

i will be there :lol:

b.

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:31 pm

Count me in, too

Post by **Woodles** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:38 pm

Go on then, Leiden was fun, I'll give this a try as well :D

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:43 pm

I'm in.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:31 pm

Ditto, been getting the gear in order to do a bit for the team.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:52 pm

I'm in!

What sort of times are we looking at for this one?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:17 pm

D'oh im on the AP26! If the LLR's arn't too long i'm happy to switch over for the time being

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:32 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:I'm in!

What sort of times are we looking at for this one?

If I remember correctly, I think they take less than an hour.

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:43 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:I'm in!

What sort of times are we looking at for this one?

under 15mins per wu

b.

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:51 pm

UBT - bobuk wrote:
UBT - Mikee wrote:I'm in!

What sort of times are we looking at for this one?
under 15mins per wu

b.

About 10 mins each on my system. Nice and short

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:19 am

I'm in!

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:54 pm

Could be a problem with this!

12/02/2010 15:52:19 PrimeGrid Message from server: No work sent
12/02/2010 15:52:19 PrimeGrid Message from server: No work is available for PPS LLR

Just about to set things off before going away for the weekend.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:26 pm

Looking on the PG site, there are 5 projects which have 100 WUs or less available to download at this present time. :shock:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:09 pm

Available: Proth Prime Search (LLR) 4901

A sizeable increase from yesterday! The message boards state that only PPS (LLR) wu's will be released during the Challenge, so I hope they're going to make a whole lot more! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:56 am

15 hours into the challenge

here is where your at :-

79 UBT-Timby 13040.46 ---1
124 Keith 8120.75 ---2
163 Darren 5737.19 ---3
174 idb 5036.98 ---4
224 UBT - JohnR 3815.88 ---5
230 Vector Bitmap 3730.68 ---6
231 melter65 3729.58 ---7
241 UBT - Rick Horn 3500.62 ---8
298 UBT - bobuk 2237.06 ---9
334 Woodles 1765.91 ---10
348 Dave 1665.65 ---11
380 Mattyp101 1292.58 ---12
382 phoghorn 1282.14 ---13
458 UBT - Mikeejones 712.25 ---14
488 Stephen Brown 557.39 ---15
543 Joldy 303.05 ---16
562 TroubledBunny 226.03 ---17
568 Steve Bruton 210.71 ---18
580 Joshrandom 190.77 ---19
603 meddy2065 145.47 ---20
616 Lee Harris 131.69 ---21
803 UBT - Ben 32.93 ----22
1023 UBT - The Prof.... 10.63 ----23
1031 eaa965 10.6---- 24

well done team

b.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:57 am

Hurrayyyy! im not last :lol: ...Yet

Post by **Woodles** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:31 am

Two days to go yet Ben

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:34 am

Still hope yet then

Now switched a few more cores over so hopefully should rise a bit quicker over the next few hours :roll: "should"

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:37 pm

Problem with 'server unable to open database' message seems to have cleared itself up. Not a lot of talk about it on the message boards, so obviously not considered too serious at this stage.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:47 pm

I`ve been watching the Primegrid site, on and off, all day.
It seems that the main problem is that the server has been overloaded, presumably due to the current challenge.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:59 pm

That's not to mention the way the WU have been sent out, its confused the BM totally!!
I resorted to Pausing all the part crunched WU's and manually allowing the WU with the shortest completion time to complete, it was that or the distinct possibility of timed out WU's.

All sorted now so lets keep it up team !!

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:16 pm

Nearly two thirds of the way through and the team is currently in 17th place and, touch wood, looking reasonably safe.

Individual stats ...
1 90 UBT-Timby 36230.6
2 140 Keith 23815.71
3 203 Woodles 13676.35
4 206 Vector Bitmap 13483.47
5 208 idb 13454.71
6 244 melter65 11491.38
7 267 UBT - Rick Horn 10180.51
8 275 Darren 9716.09
9 333 UBT - bobuk 6841.89
10 373 Dave 5346.34
11 386 UBT - JohnR 4960.09
12 412 Mattyp101 4171.93
13 419 phoghorn 3968.84
14 459 UBT - Mikeejones 2853.51
15 566 Stephen Brown 1110.5
16 580 Steve Bruton 998.75
17 585 Joldy 942.78
18 587 UBT - Ben 916.84
19 608 Lee Harris 776.19
20 610 Joshrandom 759.54
21 636 TroubledBunny 613.47
22 653 meddy2065 508.06
23 708 UBT - The Prof.... 307.7
24 1305 eaa965 22.07
25 1337 Owner 12.38

I lost about three hours last night, on my 4 core box, because of the database access problem. Bummer!

Ian

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:21 pm

... and I see we are currently going through an "unable to open database" phase again.

Glad I updated my cache size to 5 hours after last night; I hope it's enough :?

Ian

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:42 pm

idb wrote:... and I see we are currently going through an "unable to open database" phase again.

Glad I updated my cache size to 5 hours after last night; I hope it's enough :?

Ian

Yes, It`s becoming increasingly annoying!
If PG don`t sort themselves out soon, I`m going to call it a day, and go back to what I was doing before the challenge. :evil:

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:05 pm

it is a real pain in the a**e

ive been baby sitting these wu's all day....

o well keep going....

b.

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:51 pm

Anyone here managed to get a prime during the challenge (so far)?

Ian

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:31 pm

idb wrote:Anyone here managed to get a prime during the challenge (so far)?

Ian

not me

still stuck on 32 PPS LLR's found thought i might have got at least one.....

b.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:38 pm

Same here. Still, nearly 1 day to go and a boat load pending, we may have a chance yet. :D

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:11 pm

idb wrote:Nearly two thirds of the way through and the team is currently in 17th place and, touch wood, looking reasonably safe.

I really, Really, REALLY wish I hadn't added that bit :(

18th place now, at the last update

Ian

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:23 pm

idb wrote:
idb wrote:Nearly two thirds of the way through and the team is currently in 17th place and, touch wood, looking reasonably safe.
I really, Really, REALLY wish I hadn't added that bit :(

18th place now, at the last update

Ian

fate dear boy fate

b.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:29 pm

Time to bribe those CPU cores a little more :!:

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:15 am

I have just reported my 1st Find for almost 2 years, got the email tonight and have given PG permission to report it !!

(Edit) 477 · 2735735+1 was my find !

(Edit 2) 165 · 2758432+1 Just waiting for the wingman to Verify !!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:17 am

Well done that man! :D

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:28 am

Nice one Mark! :D

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:40 am

well done mr. t

b.

idb · Post by **idb** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:39 am

idb wrote:Anyone here managed to get a prime during the challenge (so far)?

My stats show that I got one last night. No e-mail though, so I'm probably just the double-checker, but it's nice to hit something.

Ian

idb · Post by **idb** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:00 pm

idb wrote: My stats show that I got one last night. No e-mail though, so I'm probably just the double-checker, but it's nice to hit something

Tell a lie, email just arrived...

811*2^748484+1 (225320 digits)

My largest prime so far, sweet

Ian

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:04 pm

Good work Ian. :thumbup:

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:20 pm

Well done :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:01 pm

Nice one Ian :thumbup: , thats two so far, wonder if anyone else has got any ?

Mark

idb · Post by **idb** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:15 pm

Preliminary final standings for the team

We finished in 20th position

1 94 UBT-Timby 59991.88
2 145 Keith 38312.91
3 214 Vector Bitmap 22978.07
4 217 idb 22479.83
5 257 melter65 18582.32
6 263 Woodles 17925.74
7 281 UBT - Rick Horn 16485.36
8 327 Darren 12835.88
9 350 UBT - bobuk 10888.69
10 391 Dave 8180.71
11 418 Mattyp101 6764.73
12 434 phoghorn 6142.60
13 459 UBT - JohnR 4960.10
14 468 UBT - Mikeejones 4594.04
15 565 Steve Bruton 2302.16
16 599 Joshrandom 1664.20
17 602 Stephen Brown 1635.60
18 608 Joldy 1597.94
19 619 UBT - Ben 1420.85
20 621 Lee Harris 1382.67
21 647 TroubledBunny 1056.66
22 660 Iain Harvey 976.08
23 689 meddy2065 728.59
24 731 UBT - The Prof.... 464.62
25 765 Space Cowboy 360.20
26 923 ian.ormonroyd 143.32
27 1226 Falco 48.53
28 1285 Owner 38.79
29 1567 eaa965 22.08

Congrats to timby for getting in the top 100, no mean feat, and to everyone who participated.

Ian