SR5 LLR - Prime Grid - New (restarted) Project

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:28 am

PG have been winding up to starting a new CPU based SR5 LLR Project since 1 Jul. Sieving has been going on full speed ahead since then to prepare for the new BOINC Project Start on 15 Jul:

http://primesearchteam.com/showthread.php?t=49

They switch to a few days of Crunching CPU Based SR5 LLR on PRPNet on 9 Jul as part of the wind up to formally Starting the CPU Based SR5 LLR Project on BOINC

On 15 Jul the SR5 LLR Project formally starts, with a PG Challenge to promote the new (revived) Project. The Challenge will run from June 15th 2013, 18:00 UTC to June 18th 2013, 18:00 UTC. . Standard Individual and Team Categories.

All the details of the Challenge are at:

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=5027#66251

The first few posts nail the Credit estimates, if you want some detail. Its an AVX Project, so those with AVX capable machines (which means Intel in reality) will benefit hugely (all PG LLR Projects are now AVX Enabled).

Note that whilst the more modern AMD machines are theoretically AVX capable, the AMD AVX implementation is weak, so don't expect dramatic times from AMD machines, they will be "wiped" by Intel Based machines.

Regards
Zy

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:29 pm

Hi Zy,

Sounds like a nice little "challenge", though it's a shame it's only for the 3 days....

Anyone interested in getting involved ?....

UPDATE 10th June
To participate, at sometime on 15th June, you need to log onto "Your Account" on PrimeGrid's website and then UPDATE a specific preference, namely:

Preferences for this project

Then select to receive WU's from:

Sierpenski / Riesel Base 5 (LLR)

(You can deselect all the other PrimeGrid projects for now).

regards

Tim

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:23 pm

Yes, I'll be taking part. (Not that I ever do much PG :lol: )

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:25 pm

Had a Motherboard failure last night on my 3960x machine, so I will not be crunching at this one.

New Motherboard arrives tomorrow, then I have to fit it and re-load everything. It'll be Sunday night before I am properly sorted out - at the earliest, probably Monday in reality - as the beastie does other things beside BOINC that I have to sort out. Using the Wife's at the moment as a stop gap (and to type this).

Good fortune to those Crunching at this one

idb · Post by **idb** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:22 am

Haven't done this for a looong time

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Challengs stats for UBT at 09:00 UTC

Teams (+-2) ...

42 MobileUsers 16,363
43 Free-DC 15,679
44 UK BOINC Team 15,603
45 AMD Users 15,468
46 The Planetary Society 14,452

UK BOINC Team members ...

248 UBT - NaRyan 6,659
265 idb 5,417
297 TroubledBunny 3,527

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:54 am

Mmmm, not sure why, but my stats aren't being included. I forgot to start until late yesterday morning, but my account shows credit of 5628 - yet I'm not listed in the challenge stats!

idb · Post by **idb** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:58 am

The challenge didn't start until 18:00 UTC yesterday (15th) evening. Any workunits completed or downloaded before that time won't be counted for the challenge.

If you have got a lot of workunits downloaded before the start time then you probably need to abort them.

Ian

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:37 pm

Thanks, Ian - somehow I missed that!

idb · Post by **idb** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:43 pm

Challenge stats as of 2013 06 16 18:00:03 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

37 SwissTeam.NET 41,017
38 gigo 40,151
39 UK BOINC Team 36,974
40 Free-DC 34,760
41 OcUK - Overclockers UK 33,860

UK BOINC Team members ...

238 UBT - NaRyan 14,249
272 TroubledBunny 10,599
274 idb 10,489
408 hgblade 1,638

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:43 pm

Nearly fighting fit after the motherboard failure - its rebuilt, just got the graphics to properly sort out, but will leave that for now. Finishing off a commitment I made prior to the Motherboard burnout, then I will join in from around 2300hrs tonight.

idb · Post by **idb** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:07 am

Half way through ...

Challenge stats as of 2013 06 17 06:00:05 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

35 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 69,504
36 Bulgaria 65,184
37 UK BOINC Team 63,130
38 Norberts Hundeschule Hundeschule Bottrop 62,528
39 gigo 61,551

UK BOINC Team members ...

235 UBT - NaRyan 23,747
281 idb 16,747
313 TroubledBunny 13,042
377 hgblade 6,019
425 Zydor 3,575

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:55 am

Looks like I picked a good time to test how well my new AMD CPU done primegrid

idb · Post by **idb** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:03 pm

After two days (out of three) ...

Challenge stats as of 2013 06 17 18:00:07 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

30 Team China 168,335
31 Clifford Welding Systems 120,931
32 UK BOINC Team 119,923
33 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 113,442
34 Hardware Canucks 99,659

UK BOINC Team members ...

241 UBT - NaRyan 32,867
283 Zydor 25,764
300 idb 22,802
313 TroubledBunny 20,997
371 hgblade 11,233
429 Geo. 6,260

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:03 am

12 hours to go ...

Challenge stats as of 2013 06 18 06:00:08 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

29 Team China 234,389
30 Planet 3DNow! 232,902
31 UK BOINC Team 180,829
32 Clifford Welding Systems 149,104
33 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 136,849

UK BOINC Team members ...

221 Zydor 47,817
255 UBT - NaRyan 40,641
308 idb 28,349
329 TroubledBunny 23,613
330 hgblade 23,594
417 Geo. 10,352
478 LupusUK 5,205
716 meddy2065 655
835 UBT - Mikeejones 304
839 Stuey77 298

idb · Post by **idb** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:06 pm

Final (provisional) results for the challenge. Well done to all who took part, a team position of 31st out 156 is not too bad at all.

Challenge stats as of 2013 06 19 05:00:08 (UTC)

Teams (+-2) ...

29 Team China 282,506
30 Planet 3DNow! 281,736
31 UK BOINC Team 231,411
32 Clifford Welding Systems 197,725
33 Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon 162,063

UK BOINC Team members ...

204 Zydor 67,025
295 UBT - NaRyan 40,641
318 hgblade 35,250
319 idb 34,978
328 TroubledBunny 31,900
430 Geo. 12,567
499 LupusUK 6,185
734 meddy2065 998
804 phoghorn 643
810 UBT - Mikeejones 633
837 Stuey77 594

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:39 pm

That was a well run Challenge by the Project Team. Slight hiccup at the end when the challenge scores kept incrementing as finished WUs rolled in post-challenge close time, but they'll sort that.

Thanks go to idb for "Stepping Up to the Plate" with result summaries. Hopefully next time my motherboard will not blow up two days before the start

All in All a nice one to "Bank" for future challenges.