PrimeGrid Calendula challenge

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:06 pm

Looks like a big nasty Prime Serpinski Problem LLR starting soon

13 days of pain for my pc's

Anyone joining me ?

Starts at 1800 UTC

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.p ... true#25807

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:16 pm

I'll give this a go - providing my systems behave themselves!

idb · Post by **idb** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:33 pm

I'm not going to put much effort into this one, LLR ramps up the speed of the fans in all my machines and, after a few days, begins to drive me nuts :(

I'm just going to run one, slowish, machine though; just so that I can claim to have taken part in all the challenges this year :roll:

I'll still do the daily team stats.

Ian

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:59 pm

ok chap i don't blame you.

Going to be warm upstairs again :D

idb · Post by **idb** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:03 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 09 27 18:00:10 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

13 The Knights Who Say Ni! 286,526
14 Team 2ch 283,024
15 UK BOINC Team 278,906
16 AMD Users 208,384
17 Picard 173,479

UK BOINC Team members ...

10 Madas91 278,906

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:32 pm

idb wrote: UK BOINC Team members ...

10 Madas91 278,906

Good going Madas! See there's not too much interest in this then?

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:55 pm

It is a nasty one to do. my i7 920 is doing 4 every 55hours.
the q9650 is doing 4 every 59 hours and my q6600 is still only 45% through the first 4 tasks after 70 hours!!!!

The 6600 seems so very slow

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:18 am

My "slow" machine (a 1.8 GHz P4) just reached 35% ish, and then failed with a computing error.

Can't remember it ever doing that before!

I've now started my q6600 on 4 tasks, so I'll see how that gets on. Your 45% does seem to be a bit on the slow side?

Ian

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:47 am

the q9650 went into the good MB and i bought a very cheap basic ASUS P5N73 MB for the q6600 just so it was crunching but cannot overclock it in the slightest.
I'm going to see what i can aquire from the shop the Wife's familly own

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:36 pm

I'm a little late starting on this challenge, but my Q6600 is running 4 tasks, which, after 29 hours are roughly at 20% each (pretty much in line with the above). :shock:

Glad I didn't try running these on my P4. :lol:

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:02 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 09 28 18:00:13 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 279,936
31 Team-Goobee.org 279,018
32 UK BOINC Team 278,906
33 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 211,297
34 Securiteinfo.com 184,511

UK BOINC Team members ...

56 Madas91 278,906

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:07 pm

Joshrandom wrote:but my Q6600 is running 4 tasks, which, after 29 hours are roughly at 20% each (pretty much in line with the above).

Hmmm, my Q6600 (2.4 GHz) is running a bit faster than that - all 4 cores showing 11 hours for 12% (roughly)

Ian

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:49 pm

idb wrote:
Joshrandom wrote:but my Q6600 is running 4 tasks, which, after 29 hours are roughly at 20% each (pretty much in line with the above).

Hmmm, my Q6600 (2.4 GHz) is running a bit faster than that - all 4 cores showing 11 hours for 12% (roughly)

Ian

Hmm, well mine is definitely running quite a bit slower than yours Ian. Although it seems that, according to the details shown on PG, your Q6600 is a little more powerful than mine, it doesn't really explain why mine seems to be taking one and a half times as long on these PSP LLR tasks.

I guess that the discrepancy might be due to the Windows7 application just being more efficient than the Ubuntu version, or that perhaps some WUs are just less a little demanding than others, or maybe the problem is that I'm also running Collatz WUs on my GPU and they're leaching a significant amount of processing power away from the CPU. Then again perhaps it's a combination of all of those reasons.

Ho hum, at least I should get the first four WUs done before the end of the challenge.

James.

idb · Post by **idb** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:03 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 09 29 18:00:15 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

24 AMD Users 732,584
25 Russia 662,822
26 UK BOINC Team 631,240
27 Solar Extreme 555,666
28 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 496,707

UK BOINC Team members ...

44 Madas91 561,515
231 Mattyp101 69,725

idb · Post by **idb** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:02 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 09 30 18:00:18 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

24 Russia 958,681
25 Tamagawa Data Center 884,487
26 UK BOINC Team 631,240
27 Turan@BOINC 579,101
28 Securiteinfo.com 557,881

UK BOINC Team members ...

55 Madas91 561,515
307 Mattyp101 69,725

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:38 pm

This is a nightmare watching them slowly complete.

My Q6600 finally completed 4 tasks in 136 hours which is a bit disapointing to be honest. My laptop is on-off crunching 2 workunits and will complete in around 80 hours total and its only a cheap little core 2 duo P7250 at 2 ghz.

Hopefully i can hold onto mid table to the end

idb · Post by **idb** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:01 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 01 18:00:10 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

26 Tamagawa Data Center 1,121,580
27 Wetenschapsforum 1,029,699
28 UK BOINC Team 926,360
29 Turan@BOINC 843,651
30 Solar Extreme 779,999

UK BOINC Team members ...

46 Madas91 856,635
356 Mattyp101 69,725

idb · Post by **idb** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:04 pm

madas91 wrote:My Q6600 finally completed 4 tasks in 136 hours which is a bit disapointing to be honest.

My Q6600 should finish 3 of it's 4 tasks tonight; they are currently at 90% after 82 hours. For some reason the fourth has fallen behind and is going to need an extra 24 hours

Ian

idb · Post by **idb** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:46 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 02 18:00:11 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

25 AMD Users 1,582,093
26 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere 1,373,164
27 UK BOINC Team 1,204,139
28 Wetenschapsforum 1,109,091
29 Solar Extreme 970,721

UK BOINC Team members ...

53 Madas91 1,018,010
308 idb 116,404
410 Mattyp101 69,725

idb · Post by **idb** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:03 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 03 18:00:20 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

25 AMD Users 1,720,801
26 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere 1,715,124
27 UK BOINC Team 1,400,609
28 Wetenschapsforum 1,299,356
29 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 1,139,646

UK BOINC Team members ...

64 Madas91 1,018,010
303 idb 153,556
319 Mattyp101 150,371
396 LupusUK 78,672

idb · Post by **idb** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:03 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 04 18:00:19 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

24 Tamagawa Data Center 2,034,608
25 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere 1,867,188
26 UK BOINC Team 1,801,184
27 AMD Users 1,761,700
28 Wetenschapsforum 1,579,947

UK BOINC Team members ...

55 Madas91 1,305,109
338 idb 153,556
352 Mattyp101 150,371
435 LupusUK 78,672
471 Joshrandom 76,229
669 Cymek 37,247

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:02 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 05 18:00:31 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

25 Tamagawa Data Center 2,238,324
26 AMD Users 2,074,877
27 UK BOINC Team 1,958,278
28 Wetenschapsforum 1,805,043
29 Turan@BOINC 1,629,025

UK BOINC Team members ...

56 Madas91 1,423,107
374 idb 153,556
384 Mattyp101 150,371
483 LupusUK 78,672
523 Cymek 76,343
526 Joshrandom 76,229

Cymek · Post by **Cymek** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:00 pm

I've had to abandon some of these tasks running on my slower boxes. They just seemed to accumulate more hours to go than there were hours to go, if you know what I mean. I think that running FreeHAL at the same time probably grabbed too much memory - as well as slooooow CPUs.

Well done to those that had a go.

idb · Post by **idb** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:03 pm

Challenge stats as of 2010 10 06 18:00:27 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

25 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere 2,657,647
26 AMD Users 2,329,893
27 UK BOINC Team 2,037,357
28 Wetenschapsforum 1,839,567
29 Solar Extreme 1,835,480

UK BOINC Team members ...

67 Madas91 1,423,107
399 Cymek 155,422
405 idb 153,556
418 Mattyp101 150,371
527 LupusUK 78,672
567 Joshrandom 76,229

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:02 pm

Well, that's all my tasks finished. Hopefully i won't slip to far down before the finish tonight :)

Not the nicest challenge so well done everyone.

GPU crunching again now so onwards and upwards 8)

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:59 pm

Well that's my fifth and final WU for this challenge completed, and I have to say that I'm glad it's over.

Oh, and I finally figured out how to make my q6600 process these WUs at a more reasonable rate (run them on three cores and leave the other one idle), it's just a shame that it took me almost the whole challenge to figure it out. :evil:

idb · Post by **idb** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:02 pm

Final challenge stats as of 2010 10 07 18:00:33 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

25 Tamagawa Data Center 3,403,940
26 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere 3,179,223
27 UK BOINC Team 2,652,467
28 AMD Users 2,578,602
29 Team Norway 2,419,511

UK BOINC Team members ...

58 Madas91 1,885,448
389 Joshrandom 191,945
398 Mattyp101 187,424
429 Cymek 155,422
441 idb 153,556
583 LupusUK 78,672

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:25 pm

I've dropped to 58 now its updated again.

Am still over the moon, my best finish so far in a challenge. :headbang:

Still kicking myself for missing the first one this year :oops: :oops:

Cymek · Post by **Cymek** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am

Well done madas91 on that 58th place. Dare I say we all did well