PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series International Education Day Challenge

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:17 pm

Hi

Just as a warm up for the WCG challenge (next post) how about a quick one day spurt on this?

Mike

PrimeGrid's 2020 Challenge Series
International Education Day
Challenge

321 Sieve (321-Sieve) CPU only

In observance of UNESCO's International Day of Education, PrimeGrid will be running a 1-day challenge on 321-sieve. The Challenge will be on January 24th from 00:00:00 UTC until 23:59:59 UTC.

To participate in the Challenge, please select only the 321-Sieve subproject in your PrimeGrid preferences section.

Application builds are available for the following:

Microsoft Windows (98 or later) running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU
Microsoft Windows running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU
Linux running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU
Mac OS 10.5+ running on an Intel 64-bit CPU

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:36 am

Thanks for the info / tips. As I probably won’t be up at midnight, I might need to suspend other tasks and block network until just after midnight I guess?

I will probably participate.

Post by **Woodles** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:39 am

I'm in

Tasks take roughly an hour on reasonably recent hardware for ~600 credits.

I'm not going to be up at midnight either so I'll probably just set things going early and accept that some tasks will be before and after the sprint. No point in having cores idle, the FB marathon can always use the extra credits.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:26 pm

Hi all

I'll be taking part too...and as a tip make sure you only allow the "321-Sieve" sub-project, as there is another one called "321 Prime Search LLR" and those tasks are considerably longer AND any credits earned from them will not be counted on this Challenge.

regards
Tim

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:01 pm

Cool, thanks for both sets of info.

With 1h tasks, you’ll still have a problem because tasks are already downloaded and cached right?

Post by **Woodles** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:38 pm

Set the "store at least" / "store additional" to 0/0 or set the project resource share to 0.

The host will only download tasks when it's got free cores, ie. No cache.

As soon as a core becomes available after midnight then a counting task will be downloaded.

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:44 pm

Got it. Haven’t tried that one before!

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:01 am

Hi all

Just got home (having set my PCs to download tasks all of today as I didn't know what time I'd get home) - and now just before this Challenge starts, I find I have NO 321 Sieve tasks...and none of my CPs have had any all day long...

So, I've lost one days worth of 50 CPU's crunching (irrespective of which project) coz I'd set all other CPU projects to "no new work" so PG would have some (even though they would not count, but still helps the Marathon).

I'm hoping that PG has held back tasks until 00:00 so with luck my PCs will get some work. If not then I'm not going to bother with this.

Update at Friday 00:11

And lo and behold, I've got some tasks !!

regards
Grumpy Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:02 am

Hi all

Here's a link to the stats for:

Individuals:

http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2020 ... users.html

and

Teams:

http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2020 ... teams.html

As of 02:45am, there are 69 teams registered and UBT is in 16th place.

Code: Select all

Rank	Name			Score		Tasks
1	Aggie The Pew		1 603 387.67	    2 629
2	Czech National Team	1 522 882.85	    2 497
3	The Scottish Boinc Team	966 667.73	    1 585
4	SETI.Germany		955 689.79	    1 567
5	Sicituradastra.		779 433.03	    1 278
6	[H]ard|OCP		608 665.23	    998
7	Antarctic Crunchers	523 281.33	    858
8	BOINC@MIXI		405 573.53	    665
9	Crunching@EVGA		387 886.86	    636
10	TeAm AnandTech		361 661.81	    593
11	Team 2ch		254 322.05	    417
12	AMD Users		248 223.20	    407
13	Rechenkraft.net		233 585.96	    383
14	BOINCstats		198 822.51	    326
15	Metal Archives		178 696.31	    293

16	UK BOINC Team		150 641.60	    247

17	Ultimate Chaos		137 224.13	    225
18	BOINC@Denmark		135 394.47	    222
19	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		121 367.12	    199
20	Russia			118 927.58	    195
21	Ars Technica		116 488.04	    191
22	Ukraine			114 658.38	    188
23	Noobs Of Kryta [NOOB]	101 240.91	    166
24	Alien Prime Cult	100 021.14	    164

(Only teams with more than 100k credits listed)

Good luck !!

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:10 am

Note that the reason why TSBT are in 3rd place is because they have 2 guests in #1 and #4 place on the individual stats:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Team			Score		Tasks
1	davidBAM	The Scottish Boinc Team	519 622.02	    852
.
4	Bowmore		The Scottish Boinc Team	368 370.54	    604
.
24	scole of TSBT	The Scottish Boinc Team	139 053.78	    228
.
53	Gibson Praise	The Scottish Boinc Team	75 625.74	    124

For UBT we have:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Team			Score		Tasks
38	Homefarm	UK BOINC Team		100 631.03	    165
.
84	Woodles		UK BOINC Team		39 642.53	    65
.
107	UBT - Timbo	UK BOINC Team		28 664.60	    47

Hopefully more will join in for UBT - if you are not listed then please check that you are crunching the right tasks - you might also need to ensure your stats are being exported.

regards
Tim

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:52 am

Geeze - sorry folks - somehow I totally screwed up the start time and had in my head that it was starting tonight. I even started winding down caches last night in preparation. Ooooops.

I should be able to flip this morning before heading to work ...

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:47 am

I'm up and live, so will still be there for about 2/3rds of the sprint.

Good to see Richard (Homefarm) in there again. Richard - if you're about - are you specifically crunching 321 tasks right now or are you just usually crunching it?

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:19 am

Hi Tim,

I had my usual projects set to resource share of zero and PrimeGrid set to 1,000 but with no projects selected.

The usual tasks continued with zero cache until I enabled 321 Sieve on the PrimeGrid profile at around 10 PM. PrimeGrid 321 tasks downloaded from about 10:15 PM so I'm not sure why you didn't get any tasks during the day? Still, you're heading up the individual charts nicely now.

Teams

Code: Select all

 1	Aggie The Pew		6 269 617.80	    10 280
 2	Czech National Team	6 094 580.81	     9 993
 3	[H]ard|OCP		4 223 453.63	     6 925
 4	The Scottish Boinc Team	4 092 328.35	     6 710
 5	SETI.Germany		3 873 989.52	     6 352
 6	Sicituradastra.		2 742 652.85	     4 497
 7	Antarctic Crunchers	2 001 642.57	     3 282
 8	Crunching@EVGA		1 698 529.73	     2 785
 9	TeAm AnandTech		1 644 859.85	     2 697
10	BOINC@MIXI		1 421 641.94	     2 331
11	AMD Users		1 158 781.50	     1 900
12	Rechenkraft.net		 950 200.83	     1 558
13	Team 2ch		 821 515.10	     1 347
14	BOINCstats		 702 587.52	     1 152

15	UK BOINC Team		 672 703.16	     1 103

16	Metal Archivesv		 610 494.89	     1 001
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		 522 671.45	       857

UBT up to 15th place

TSBT down to fourth. Only teams with > 500,000 listed.

Individuals

Code: Select all

 45	Homefarm	331 777.44	    544
 68	Woodles		198 212.63	    325
 85	UBT - Timbo	143 322.98	    235
311	Rimmer161	  8 538.39	     14
336	meddy2065	  4 879.08	      8

Only the top 400 users listed, other crunchers are available.

(DavidBAM is one of the stalwarts of TSBT, "Bowmore" is an alter-ego of Bryan from SUSA)

Looks like Richard is doing a good job for UBT

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:24 am

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:52 am Geeze - sorry folks - somehow I totally screwed up the start time and had in my head that it was starting tonight. I even started winding down caches last night in preparation. Ooooops.

Well that's one less person who might beat me

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:47 am I'm up and live, so will still be there for about 2/3rds of the sprint.

... Or maybe not

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:52 am

Not often I beat you Mark

I need to try harder

The 2990x looks to be fully utilised on this application, so that’s a plus. Given the strange memory architecture, I’m never sure if it will be fine or be hobbled by lack of internal data througput.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:20 am

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:52 amNot often I beat you Mark I need to try harder

Yes, yes you do

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:52 amThe 2990x looks to be fully utilised on this application, so that’s a plus. Given the strange memory architecture, I’m never sure if it will be fine or be hobbled by lack of internal data throughput.

From other users, you should be turning out 64 workunits every 50 minutes or so

I'll expect to see you appear on the individual stats soon

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:36 am

Teams

Code: Select all

Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Aggie The Pew			7,460,113.32	12,232
 2	Czech National Team		7,436,937.69	12,194
 3	[H]ard|OCP			5,141,330.55	 8,430
 4	The Scottish Boinc Team		4,867,492.19	 7,981
 5	SETI.Germany			4,644,274.28	 7,615
 6	Sicituradastra			3,272,642.91	 5,366
 7	Antarctic Crunchers		2,379,771.27	 3,902
 8	Crunching@EVGA			2,074,828.77	 3,402
 9	TeAm AnandTech			1,951,022.12	 3,199
10	BOINC@MIXI			1,652,788.35	 2,710
11	AMD Users			1,374,680.79	 2,254
12	Rechenkraft.net			1,147,803.57	 1,882
13	Team 2ch			  952,640.37	 1,562

14	UK BOINC Team			  878,234.40	 1,440

15	BOINCstats			  841,031.42	 1,379
16	Metal Archives			  697,708.44	 1,144
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			  634,280.40	 1,040
18	Alien Prime Cult		  601,346.61	   986
19	Ultimate Chaos			  579,390.75	   950
20	Chinese Dream			  567,193.05	   930
21	Ukraine				  562,923.86	   923
22	BOINC@Denmark			  550,116.27	   902

UBT up another place to fourteenth.

Individuals

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
 45	Homefarm	381,788.01	626
 67	Woodles		237,245.27	389
 94	UBT - Timbo	153,081.14	251
136	damienhealy	 87,823.44	144
312	Rimmer161	 10,368.05	 17
333	meddy2065	  7,928.51	 13

And Damien joins the ranks, not bad for two hours output

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:45 am

Rimmer joined in too I see! Not sure I’ve seen Meddy before?

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:59 am

Dave has indeed, not seen him around here much recently.

meddy ran SETI and Rosetta in the past but looks to be purely PrimeGrid these days but swapped over to 321 this morning so an active participant.

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:32 am

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:59 am meddy ran SETI and Rosetta in the past but looks to be purely PrimeGrid these days but swapped over to 321 this morning so an active participant.

Ah, nice one. Glad to see people actively choosing to crunch rather than just getting caught up in the dragnet

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:36 am

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:20 am
Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:52 amNot often I beat you Mark I need to try harder
Yes, yes you do

Oooh, well, I seem to have closed the gap massively and am on the move. Watch out

Richard is still UBT #1 though - solid throughput from him.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:52 am

Teams

Code: Select all

Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		9,820,368.27	16,102
 2	Aggie The Pew			9,617,886.45	15,770
 3	[H]ard|OCP			6,751,426.95	11,070
 4	The Scottish Boinc Team		6,104,948.85	10,010
 5	SETI.Germany			6,051,888.86	 9,923
 6	Sicituradastra			4,214,915.23	 6,911
 7	Antarctic Crunchers		3,025,639.49	 4,961
 8	Crunching@EVGA			2,835,355.37	 4,649
 9	TeAm AnandTech			2,494,429.65	 4,090
10	BOINC@MIXI			2,130,328.31	 3,493
11	AMD Users			1,788,792.71	 2,933
12	Rechenkraft.net			1,524,712.50	 2,500

13	UK BOINC Team			1,377,120.33	 2,258

14	Team 2ch			1,227,088.62	 2,012
15	BOINCstats			1,046,562.66	 1,716
16	Metal Archives			  883,723.37	 1,449
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			  831,883.14	 1,364
18	Alien Prime Cult		  764,795.79	 1,254
19	Ultimate Chaos			  737,960.85	 1,210
20	Ukraine				  722,713.73	 1,185

UBT up another place to thirteenth, making steady progress.

Individuals

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
 42	Homefarm	489,127.77	802
 62	Woodles		325,068.71	533
 69	damienhealy	302,502.96	496
 94	UBT - Timbo	201,871.94	331
270	TroubledBunny	 29,274.48	 48
324	meddy2065	 15,247.13	 25
332	Rimmer161	 14,027.36	 23

Damien shooting up the ranks and TroubledBunny joins in the fun.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:55 am

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:36 amOooh, well, I seem to have closed the gap massively and am on the move. Watch out

For some reason my Xeons haven't contacted PrimeGrid since last night, hopefully they're just off the network and still crunching away ...

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:36 amRichard is still UBT #1 though - solid throughput from him.

Indeed he is, a very impressive showing.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pm

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:19 am Hi Tim,

I had my usual projects set to resource share of zero and PrimeGrid set to 1,000 but with no projects selected.

The usual tasks continued with zero cache until I enabled 321 Sieve on the PrimeGrid profile at around 10 PM. PrimeGrid 321 tasks downloaded from about 10:15 PM so I'm not sure why you didn't get any tasks during the day?

Hi Mark

As my lack of tasks affected 3 different PC's I assumed there might be an issue with my PG Preferences so I went back to their website and unchecked and then re-checked the specific task and made sure I saved it - then did an "update" on each PC and the tasks then started downloading.

As least I was around when the Challenge started to be able to do this, else they would have been doing nothing until later on. And losing about 12+ hours of crunching on 3 PCs (when they should have been crunching PF tasks early, even though they wouldn't count) isn't the end of the world.

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:19 am Still, you're heading up the individual charts nicely now.

Looks like Richard is doing a good job for UBT

But Damien has now got his farm crunching, so he's passed me now.

And nice work from Richard too...!!

I think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe Top 10 ?

regards and thanks for posting some stats updates too

Tim

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:51 pm

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:55 am For some reason my Xeons haven't contacted PrimeGrid since last night, hopefully they're just off the network and still crunching away ...

That makes sense. Even after all of my upgrades, I shouldn’t be pacing this well in comparison to you.

Hopefully you drop a big bunker later???

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:52 pm

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pm
I think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe top 10?

I hope so. The good thing is that we don’t need to wait long to find out!

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:12 pm

Teams

Code: Select all

Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		12,558,751.92	20,592
 2	Aggie The Pew			11,964,114.05	19,617
 3	[H]ard|OCP			 8,537,170.23	13,998
 4	SETI.Germany			 7,640,639.28	12,528
 5	The Scottish Boinc Team		 7,614,414.23	12,485
 6	Sicituradastra			 5,271,236.05	 8,643
 7	Antarctic Crunchers		 3,759,941.03	 6,165
 8	Crunching@EVGA			 3,672,727.47	 6,022
 9	TeAm AnandTech			 3,145,176.95	 5,157
10	BOINC@MIXI			 2,729,235.38	 4,475
11	AMD Users			 2,274,261.17	 3,729
12	Rechenkraft.net			 2,119,350.38	 3,475

13	UK BOINC Team			 1,892,473.16	 3,103

14	Team 2ch			 1,508,855.49	 2,474
15	BOINCstats			 1,311,862.64	 2,151
16	Metal Archives			 1,103,281.97	 1,809
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			 1,049,002.20	 1,720
18	Alien Prime Cult		   942,882.21	 1,546
19	Ultimate Chaos			   908,728.65	 1,490
20	Chinese Dream			   907,508.88	 1,488

UBT holding steady in thirteenth place, a big gap to fourteenth and a smaller one to twelfth (although they are pulling away)

Individuals

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
 42	Homefarm	608,055.35	997
 50	damienhealy	526,940.64	864
 63	Woodles		408,622.95	670
 96	UBT - Timbo	250,052.85	410
235	TroubledBunny	 57,939.08	 95
320	meddy2065	 23,785.52	 39
341	Rimmer161	 17,076.78	 28

Damien closing fast on Richard.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:17 pm

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmAs my lack of tasks affected 3 different PC's I assumed there might be an issue with my PG Preferences so I went back to their website and unchecked and then re-checked the specific task and made sure I saved it - then did an "update" on each PC and the tasks then started downloading.

All good in the end.

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmAs least I was around when the Challenge started to be able to do this, else they would have been doing nothing until later on. And losing about 12+ hours of crunching on 3 PCs (when they should have been crunching PF tasks early, even though they wouldn't count) isn't the end of the world.

I think i should have checked at the start as well

My Xeons have been reporting in to WUProp so they're running but no tasks downloaded from PrimeGrid. Looks like I'm going to miss three quarters of this sprint.

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmBut Damien has now got his farm crunching, so he's passed me now.

And me too

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:02 pmI think we might be able to make a good stab at this Challenge...maybe Top 10 ?

We'll give it a go, at least we're trying.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:21 pm

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:51 pmHopefully you drop a big bunker later???

It's not looking promising, they've contacted WUProp today but haven't downloaded anything from PrimeGrid since last night (before the start)

It's beginning to look like I got some setting wrong and they've not been crunching. I'll have to sort them when I get home but that means they've been idle for most of the day.

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:24 pm

Oh well, not ideal, but this is just a bit of a warm up Sprint anyway. Nothing to get too hot & bothered about. Between you & I we just about did 100% of a sprint

We are still on the board and somewhere near the top rather than the bottom. Respectable enough I’d say.

Of course, we should get a nice tail wind once you’re live again, so that’s something to look forward to

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:25 pm

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:21 pm
It's not looking promising, they've contacted WUProp today but haven't downloaded anything from PrimeGrid since last night (before the start)

It's beginning to look like I got some setting wrong and they've not been crunching. I'll have to sort them when I get home but that means they've been idle for most of the day.

Hi Mark

In the PG Preferences have you set:

Use CPU
You must also select CPU apps below.
If you do not, 321-Sieve will be automatically selected for you. >>> yes
Enforced by version 6.10+

(and obviously deselect any other PG sub-projects for CPU).

and also:

321 Sieve (321-Sieve) >>> CPU

There are also 13 "other" Preferences (home, school, work and others) so make sure your attached PCs are set to whichever Preference is as per above...you need to go to:

Your account > Computers on this account > Details for each PC.

regards
Tim

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:34 pm

I must say, in my rush this morning, I initially just ticked the sieve project but not ‘use CPU’. Luckily I noticed in time ...

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:03 pm

Hi Damien,

Oh I'm not too worried about it, it doesn't really count for anything important and we're going to make a decent showing anyway.

Teamwork!

This could all go wrong though, I'm away this weekend so I was going to set things to automatically go back to Gerasim and WEP after midnight .... they may stay on PrimeGrid or stop completely!

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:04 pm

Hi Tim,

All my hosts are using the same PrimeGrid profile (Pluto) and some of them are working so the settings are correct.

The issue appears to be that the Xeons haven't even contacted PrimeGrid to ask for work, never mind not had any supplied.

I don't think it's a PrimeGrid setting, I think I've messed up somewhere on the local configuration and either set CPU usage to 0% or not enabled the PrimeGrid project (although I think that unlikely to have happened on all of them) I'll know more in an hour or so.

homefarm · Post by **homefarm** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:10 pm

Hi

I'm in with my PCs running all cores and hyperthreads. 84 total threads, as it's not using the AVX instructions heat is not an issue and the hyperthreads keep the CPUs at 100%.

The I9 9900K is the fastest, but the Extreme cpus have so many more cores that the compensating effect if more credit per second. I seem to be getting just on 13 credits per second.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:12 pm

Teams

Code: Select all

Rank	Name				Score		Tasks
 1	Czech National Team		14,729,942.52	24,152
 2	Aggie The Pew			13,913,306.51	22,813
 3	[H]ard|OCP			10,038,707.10	16,460
 4	SETI.Germany			 8,953,111.80	14,680
 5	The Scottish Boinc Team		 8,803,080.09	14,434
 6	Sicituradastra			 6,086,652.30	 9,980
 7	Crunching@EVGA			 4,373,485.34	 7,171
 8	Antarctic Crunchers		 4,349,699.82	 7,132
 9	TeAm AnandTech			 3,619,057.59	 5,934
10	BOINC@MIXI			 3,220,802.69	 5,281
11	AMD Users			 2,633,483.43	 4,318
12	Rechenkraft.net			 2,623,115.39	 4,301
13	UK BOINC Team			 2,315,123.46	 3,796
14	Team 2ch			 1,758,298.46	 2,883
15	BOINCstats			 1,508,855.49	 2,474
16	Metal Archives			 1,258,192.76	 2,063
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA			 1,241,725.86	 2,036
18	Ukraine				 1,067,298.75	 1,750
18	Alien Prime Cult		 1,067,298.75	 1,750
20	Ultimate Chaos			 1,054,491.17	 1,729

UBT still in thirteenth place.

Individuals

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Score		Tasks
41	Homefarm	710,516.03	1,165
42	damienhealy	702,587.52	1,152
63	Woodles		484,858.58	  795
94	UBT - Timbo	289,085.49	  474
218	TroubledBunny	 79,894.94	  131
318	meddy2065	 29,884.37	   49
358	Rimmer161	 18,296.55	   30

Very close between Richard and Damien now!

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm

Hi Richard,

That's an impressive number of threads, explains your placing in the UBT team this sprint

Good to know that a large number of slow(er) threads do well, I have a few older Xeons that aren't the fastest but do have quite a few cores.

Welcome to the delights of sprinting

Mark

homefarm · Post by **homefarm** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm

Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:14 pm

homefarm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter

Ha ha ha ha ... I'm doing my best to get to that level

Maybe one day ...

I'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle

Good to see you in the sprint - a very fine effort from you indeed!!

homefarm · Post by **homefarm** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:37 pm

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:14 pm
homefarm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm Wow Damien you're smoking, what are you running, a Google Datacenter
Ha ha ha ha ... I'm doing my best to get to that level Maybe one day ...

I'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle

Good to see you in the sprint - a very fine effort from you indeed!!

144 threads, Umm maybe 4 x 36 thread 7980xe or something Xeon?? Sounds good.

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:46 pm

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:14 pmI'm currently throwing 144 pretty good threads at it and sieving as fast as my little slices of silicon can handle

Might not be enough, I've woken my Xeons up

Not sure what was wrong with them, no tasks running and soon as I did a manual refresh they downloaded work and started crunching

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:54 pm

Well, I’m pretty used to looking at your tailpipe, so get moving!!!!!

Richard - I’m mainly running Threadripper gear. Only a little bit of intel these days. I’m as shocked as anyone ... ha! Who would have thought ...

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:31 pm

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:46 pm
Might not be enough, I've woken my Xeons up

Not sure what was wrong with them, no tasks running and soon as I did a manual refresh they downloaded work and started crunching

Hi Mark

Excellent stuff...glad you got them working...

If it was your "old" Xeons (E5-2670's types) that had no work, then you may have had the same issue that I had as 2 of my 3 PCs use that CPU. However, my workhorse PC (using an older Quad core) also had the problem, so it may not be "Xeon-related" but some other factor?

In my case, I *KNOW* I changed and saved my PG preferences to allow the 321-Sieve tasks, but my PCs didn't recognise this change...and only by going back to the Preferences and switching them around and then back again, did it eventually result in tasks downloading. Maybe the PG server cache wasn't updating with the amended preferences, possibly due to lots of people making updates due to this Challenge?

regards
Tim

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:43 pm

So Mark, 300k to close on my position, 4 hours left. Not sure even your Xeon farm is up to that task, but I would love to be proved wrong!!!!

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:52 pm

Hi Damien,

Probably not but I'll give it a try

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:53 pm

Hi Tim,

It was five of the dual Xeons (Linux) and an i7 (Windows) so no real pattern.

Confusing.

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:23 pm

Well, we're into #12th so far out of 108 registered. With Mark's monsoon 'tailwind' coming in, we've managed a 'League 1' global position at least, despite several mishaps of various descriptions ...

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:03 pm

Hi all

Team stats as of 8:45pm and with a shade over 3 hours to go:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name			Score		Tasks
1	Czech National Team	20 695 227.71	    33 933
2	Aggie The Pew		18 523 427.22	    30 372
3	[H]ard|OCP		13 503 463.79	    22 141
4	SETI.Germany		12 105 607.37	    19 849
5	The Scottish Boinc Team	11 509 139.84	    18 871
6	Sicituradastra.		8 084 025.67	    13 255
7	Crunching@EVGA		6 073 844.71	    9 959
8	Antarctic Crunchers	5 775 610.95	    9 470
9	TeAm AnandTech		4 872 371.27	    7 989
10	BOINC@MIXI		4 531 445.55	    7 430
11	Rechenkraft.net		3 796 534.13	    6 225

12	UK BOINC Team		3 552 580.13	    5 825

13	AMD Users		3 476 344.50	    5 700
14	Team 2ch		2 530 412.87	    4 149
15	BOINCstats		2 034 576.36	    3 336
16	Metal Archives		1 716 216.39	    2 814
17	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		1 685 722.14	    2 764
18	Ukraine			1 409 444.24	    2 311
19	Ultimate Chaos		1 399 076.19	    2 294
20	Alien Prime Cult	1 375 900.56	    2 256
21	Chinese Dream		1 373 461.02	    2 252
22	BOINC@Denmark		1 319 181.26	    2 163
23	Russia			1 238 066.55	    2 030
24	BOINC@Poland		1 237 456.67	    2 029
25	Noobs Of Kryta [NOOB]	1 141 704.72	    1 872

(Only teams with >1m credits shown)

UBT member stats:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Team		Score		Tasks
33	damienhealy	UK BOINC Team	1 170 979.20	    1 920
43	Homefarm	UK BOINC Team	931 904.28	    1 528
48	Woodles		UK BOINC Team	872 135.55	    1 430
96	UBT - Timbo	UK BOINC Team	376 299.05	    617
209	TroubledBunny	UK BOINC Team	131 735.16	    216
330	meddy2065	UK BOINC Team	40 252.41	    66
379	Rimmer161	UK BOINC Team	24 395.40	    40
481	alistair_porter	UK BOINC Team	4 879.08	    8

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:09 pm

Hi all

I've got 165 tasks in my "pending" section on the PG website...I doubt if all of those would be validated before midnight...esp as the quorum for these tasks is "2"...so, until a wingman completes and validates a task, then we're sort of "in limbo" on the credits side.

Perhaps they should have reduced the quorum to "1" but as we're all in the same boat, it's just chance as to who gets credits before the deadline.

Here are the stats direct from the PG website:

Challenge: International Education Day
App: 12 (321-Sieve)
(As of 2020-01-24 18:28:22 UTC)

328030 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 328030 (100%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

2171 (1%) were aborted. [2171 (1%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
694 (0%) came back with some kind of an error. [694 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
225407 (69%) have returned a successful result. [225413 (69%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
99787 (30%) are still in progress. [99787 (30%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

61165 (27%) are pending validation. [61171 (27%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
164234 (73%) have been successfully validated. [164234 (73%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
8 (0%) are inconclusive. [8 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:27 pm

Hi

Have I missed something? Just wondering why this thread suddenly got longer...

Seems I'm fashionably late to the party... so late I may as well put out the empties and make a start on washing up!!

Oops!

Mike

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:56 pm

Hiya Mikee,

don't worry, you've been around longer than me and know that we've been invited to a bespoke crunch. Nothing too serious, a 1-day thing, and we've been doing whatever works. Glad you checked in. Homefarm,(Richard) is putting us to shame on CPU anyway, and he's more of a GPU cruncher!!!

The sprint series gets more serious later in the FB sprints, but would want Tim to confirm what we should do thereabouts. I just like crunching, and ideally for a good cause

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:57 pm

Pfft, call yourself a team leader?

Put the kettle on before you start the washing up!

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:07 pm

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:57 pm Pfft, call yourself a team leader?

Put the kettle on before you start the washing up!

Erm, who are you referring to??

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:07 pm

20:45
damienhealy 1 170 979.20
Woodles 872 135.55
Lead - 298,844

22:00
damienhealy 1 258 802.64
Woodles 995 332.32
Lead - 263,470

So another eight and a half hours and I'll catch you

I should have started earlier

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:11 pm

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:07 pm Erm, who are you referring to??

Mikee, UBT team leader at PrimeGrid

You commented while I was typing (I'm a lot slower on a 'phone)

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:41 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:27 pm Hi

Have I missed something? Just wondering why this thread suddenly got longer...

Seems I'm fashionably late to the party... so late I may as well put out the empties and make a start on washing up!!

Oops!

Mike

Hi Mikee

Where you bin?

It was your original post that got us involved in this, in the first place

But you are forgiven, and it's been a bit of fun for a day

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:25 pm

From PG website:

At the Conclusion of the Challenge

When the challenge completes, we would prefer users "moving on" to finish those tasks they have downloaded, if not then please ABORT the WU's (and then UPDATE the PrimeGrid project) instead of DETACHING, RESETTING, or PAUSING.

ABORTING WU's allows them to be recycled immediately; thus a much faster "clean up" to the end of a Challenge. DETACHING, RESETTING, and PAUSING WU's causes them to remain in limbo until they EXPIRE. Therefore, we must wait until WU's expire to send them out to be completed.

Likewise, if you're shutting down the computer for an extended period of time, or deleting the VM (Virtual Machine), please ABORT all remaining tasks first. Also, be aware that merely shutting off a cloud server doesn't stop the billing. You have to destroy/delete the server if you don't want to continue to be charged for it.

regards
Tim

Post by **Woodles** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:42 pm

I'll finish the ones I already have but I've switched to no new work from now. They wouldn't finish in time.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 2:42 am

Woodles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:42 pm I'll finish the ones I already have but I've switched to no new work from now. They wouldn't finish in time.

Hi Mark

I switched PG to "no new work" about 10pm, as I had just enough tasks to get me to midnight - and I then re-allowed T.Brada tasks, which are set on resource=0, so BM just downloads tasks as it needs them.

I was going to do a final PG Challenge stats summary, but I'll leave it to mid-Saturday morning.

regards
Tim

homefarm · Post by **homefarm** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:38 am

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:54 pm Well, I’m pretty used to looking at your tailpipe, so get moving!!!!!

Richard - I’m mainly running Threadripper gear. Only a little bit of intel these days. I’m as shocked as anyone ... ha! Who would have thought ...

Great stuff, loads of cores and fast too. Pity TRs don't have AVX capabilities to match Intel extremes. If they did they would the Bee's Knees. Congratulations on the score!

damienh · Post by **damienh** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:00 am

Do they not? I’ve not really looked closely at AVX but, yes, lots of cores. I don’t have a ton of space so need to keep a high number of cores per machine. They seem to work very well, and keep on getting better ... as of 7th Feb they offer a 64 core!!

Anyway, good run all. Definitely not our smoothest effort, but a good bit of fun and a respectable result.

I’m back on TN-Grid and then will probably do the WCG run to map cancer markers 1st - 7th Feb. I think Chris C (Richard - Chris C is ‘ncoded’ on BOINC) is crunching WCG too, so that will help.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:23 pm

Hi all

A bit late, but here's the final stats for this Challenge:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name			Score			Tasks
1	Czech National Team	24 659 480.21	    40 433
2	Aggie The Pew		21 720 444.39	    35 614
3	[H]ard|OCP		15 894 212.99	    26 061
4	SETI.Germany		14 440 857.03	    23 678
5	The Scottish Boinc Team	13 589 457.57	    22 282
6	Sicituradastra.		9 408 086.01	    15 426
7	Crunching@EVGA		7 267 999.54	    11 917
8	Antarctic Crunchers	6 781 311.32	    11 119
9	TeAm AnandTech		5 696 325.90	    9 340
10	BOINC@MIXI		5 406 630.53	    8 865
11	Rechenkraft.net		4 679 037.72	    7 672

12	UK BOINC Team		4 477 775.67	    7 342

13	AMD Users		4 045 977.09	    6 634
14	Team 2ch		3 153 715.34	    5 171
15	BOINCstats		2 377 941.62	    3 899
16	Metal Archives		2 033 356.59	    3 334

(113 teams took part, but I've only listed those that have credits> 2m).

12th place which is pretty good going esp considering Mark and Damien had issues getting tasks to begin with.

Team member stats:

Code: Select all

Rank	Name		Team		Score			Tasks
30	damienhealy	UK BOINC Team	1 483 240.32	    2 432
37	Woodles		UK BOINC Team	1 227 698.51	    2 013
44	Homefarm	UK BOINC Team	1 086 205.19	    1 781
98	UBT - Timbo	UK BOINC Team	434 848.01	    713
217	TroubledBunny	UK BOINC Team	146 372.40	    240
339	meddy2065	UK BOINC Team	46 351.26	    76
388	Rimmer161	UK BOINC Team	29 884.37	    49
431	UBT - Mikeejones UK BOINC Team	17 076.78	    28
498	alistair_porter	UK BOINC Team	6 098.85	    10

(610 BOINCers crunched 321-Sieve tasks over the 24 hour period - so a Top 50 position for 3 UBT members is pretty good.

)

Well done to all who took part...and here's to the next Challenge.

regards
Tim