Re: Formula BOINC 2025

[rimmer66]

looks like we will win the second sprint ,

[wbiz]

looks like we will win the second sprint ,

Easily, nobody can catch us now.

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi both

Looks like UBT did pretty well:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.p ... printid=28

Mind you: League 3 is made up of the weakest FB teams (from 2024) that have expressed a willingness to take part in the 2025 season.

And UBT might not do so well, once the mid-season promotions/relegations take place as the new Team for 2025, Atlantis, is doing pretty well in League 4. But then again they might be promoted to League 2, along with UBT, *IF* they continue on an upwards trajectory...AND assuming some teams in either of the higher leagues fail to support FB and they get relegated.

regards
Tim

[wbiz]

With the existing members of League 2, we would have come 7th in the first sprint and 6th in the second which a fair position, we would be 7th in the overall L2 sprints but yes it probably will get tougher if the leagues are updated.

Difficult to tell where we would be at the moment in L2, there is a different spread of projects in different leagues, when we changed from one league to multiple leagues, my position in L2 was initially the same (6th) as the overall position was, I still trying to get my head round that, it is very counterintuitive.

I'm hoping einstein doesn't pop up in the sprints, its usually one of our weakest sprint projects.

We have a very wide spread of marathon projects which reduces risk of getting wiped out, this is pretty much my strategy at the moment, I've learnt from past mistakes it doesn't pay to put your eggs in only a few baskets.

We are 10th overall on boincgames out of 28 active teams, which is very good. None of our team did any tasks on their first sprint (milkyway), partly a mistake on my part, I meant to do one or two tasks just to get the bare minimum 200-ish points for the team and myself. This will probably cost us a couple of places shortly.

[wbiz]

Current sprint is NFS, ends on Monday 7th April 0700 UTC (0800 BST)

[wbiz]

Current sprint is NFS, ends on Monday 7th April 0700 UTC (0800 BST)

Team came first again!

[wbiz]

Current sprint is Asteroids, finishes Sunday 13th April at 1700 UTC (1800 BST)

[rimmer66]

looks like we will run away with this one as well .

[wbiz]

looks like we will run away with this one as well .

Aye, we have now come first in all four sprints so far.

I struggled with this one, I eventually threw the kitchen sink at it, 62 cores 98 threads, I was doing ok for 24 hours or more, peaked at 2nd but then got overtaken many times.

[wbiz]

Current sprint is Einstein which ends Sunday 20th April 19:00 UTC (20:00 BST).

Not one for me unfortunately.

[wbiz]

We came third in the last sprint but we are still a very comfortable first overall. Next sprint is the 1st May at 22:00 UTC (23:00 BST)

[rimmer66]

lets hope its something you can crunch , we were a very close third.

[wbiz]

lets hope its something you can crunch , we were a very close third.

Whoops! Normally my contribution to Einstein sprints make no difference, this time it may have done but I suspect if I'd joined in then TFF would have upped their games so the UBT result would be unaffected.

TBH I can't remember the exact reason for my aversion to Einstein, possibly the accumulation of it being predominantly GPU, ridiculously long tasks, two user validation, validations taking forever (just had one take 16 days!) and a non-standard website.

3 days out would have cost me some places on marathon projects so I only feel a little bit guilty

[wbiz]

Current sprint is SRBase which ends on Sunday 4th May 2200 UTC (2300 BST).

[rimmer66]

i would like to post

[rimmer66]

or post an edit
sorry i can't crunch to my potential

[rimmer66]

i live in a studio flat and the gpu fan blasting constantly is to much ,
sorry

[rimmer66]

sorry about the format ,
i was an arsehole to timbo a while ago , i think i may be still a bi blocked.

[wbiz]

i live in a studio flat and the gpu fan blasting constantly is to much ,
sorry

We came third in the sprint and we are still a very safe 1st position overall.

We haven't been a strong team on GPU sprints for a long time so I normally accept our fate but this time there was little activity from other teams in our league. I mostly used three embedded GPU's, the rest were CPUs. I wasn't going to be able to stay in the user points and the team had a pretty safe third position so I stopped sprinting very early, SRBase isn't one of my target projects this year.

[UBT - Timbo]

sorry about the format ,
i was an arsehole to timbo a while ago , i think i may be still a bi blocked.

Hi

You are not blocked at all....not sure how you thought that, as clearly you can post here, without my intervention,

And I tend to let "sleeping dogs lie" so if you were an arsehole, it doesn't bother me ! In fact I cannot even remember such an event...so I doubt it was a serious matter

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

We came third in the sprint and we are still a very safe 1st position overall.

Hiya

I think we came 4th, beaten by Switzerland, by just 400 BOINC credits:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.p ... printid=32

Sadly, I could only start crunching on Sunday, as I could not access the PC in my office as the remote control software was not connecting (as my office PC had "locked up") and I had to go there to do an "end of year" stock take, so I was able to reboot the PC and get it running the Sprint project.

The shorter running tasks (which i think were GPU - short v0.47) my host crunched only earned 300 credits each, while the longer running tasks (which I think were CPU - average2 v0.47) earned 500 credits each. But sadly, 10 of the tasks I had ended AFTER the Sprint finished..so they didn't count

We haven't been a strong team on GPU sprints for a long time so I normally accept our fate but this time there was little activity from other teams in our league. I mostly used three embedded GPU's, the rest were CPUs. I wasn't going to be able to stay in the user points and the team had a pretty safe third position so I stopped sprinting very early, SRBase isn't one of my target projects this year.

The next Sprint is not due to start for about 10 days, so, maybe a CPU-only project might be selected...or maybe not... ...

regards
Tim

[wbiz]

We came third in the sprint and we are still a very safe 1st position overall.

Hiya

I think we came 4th, beaten by Switzerland, by just 400 BOINC credits:

Weird, I was watching their progress and could have sworn they hadn't make it to 3rd a while after 11pm, and its now 400 credits difference.

Did the anti-bunkering trial fail? The last two sprints there was some heavy bunkering.

We still have the invisible man competing in user-L2, I don't mind the username missing but when you can't see the credits of the person you are chasing you have no idea if you are gaining or just throwing computer time away.

[UBT - Timbo]

Hiya

I think we came 4th, beaten by Switzerland, by just 400 BOINC credits:

Weird, I was watching their progress and could have sworn they hadn't make it to 3rd a while after 11pm, and its now 400 credits difference.

Hi - I think I mis-read the final stats as the 0 and the 6 look very similar...so, yes we got beat by 400 credits. (I've corrected my post above)

Did the anti-bunkering trial fail? The last two sprints there was some heavy bunkering.

The only "anti-bunkering" function is that the project is no long announced in advance. There is nothing else that can be done about Members/Teams "speculating" as to which project might be chosen - and I doubt that the project admin would make any announcement BEFORE the start time.

However, efforts are made (in advance) to ensure that the selected Sprint project will have enough tasks available, but some Members/Teams could easily have enough hosts to be crunching a few projects and once the announcement is made, they can easily stop accepting tasks from other projects.

We still have the invisible man competing in user-L2, I don't mind the username missing but when you can't see the credits of the person you are chasing you have no idea if you are gaining or just throwing computer time away.

I've only just seen your post from early April (on the FB forum) about the missing member(s). So I'll advise Sebastien and see what he has to say about it (or to make any corrections).

regards
Tim

[wbiz]

The only "anti-bunkering" function is that the project is no long announced in advance. There is nothing else that can be done about Members/Teams "speculating" as to which project might be chosen - and I doubt that the project admin would make any announcement BEFORE the start time.

I may have dreamt it or totally misunderstood it and it might not have been for the purposes of anti-bunkering but I thought Sebastian did some work on only incorporating credits on tasks that were issued after the start of the sprint. That data is available but it may create a significantly heavier workload on servers.


The invisible man is currently in the L2 marathon positions:-

10th Amicable
15th Milkyway
9th Moo! Wrapper
16th NFS
8th ODLK
7th ODLK1
18th Primegrid
9th RakeSearch
14th Rosetta
12th Sidock
15th SRBase
10th Ramanujam
10th YoYo

[wbiz]

Current sprint is Ramanujan which ends on Sunday 18th May 1500 UTC (1600 BST)

EDIT: Got my GMT and BST mixed up doh!

[UBT - Mikee]

Current sprint is Ramanujan which ends on Sunday 18th May 1500 UTC (1600 GMT)

Hi

Once again late to the party but as the site is currently down I didn't know what the sprint was - luckily you mentioned it so I'm here but only running intermittently.

Mike

[wbiz]

Current sprint is Ramanujan which ends on Sunday 18th May 1500 UTC (1600 GMT)

Hi

Once again late to the party but as the site is currently down I didn't know what the sprint was - luckily you mentioned it so I'm here but only running intermittently.

Mike

Welcome mikee, I see you have arrived straight into validation heaven, hopefully more of your tasks will tunnel their way out.

[UBT - Mikee]

'Validation Heaven'?

Not the most precise description but I know what you mean.

Been a whlle since I had to go through wingmen to get credits - thought we had got past that but there we go...

Mike

later...

Where's "Marvin The Dalek" avatar gone??? Or did he go in the Forum cull?

[wbiz]

Current sprint is Gerasim which ends on Sunday 25th May 1500 UTC (1600 BST)