BOINC Pentathlon Progress and Updates

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:18 pm

The UK BOINC Team are now officially registered in the SETI.Germany 'BOINC Pentatholon'.

Please use this thread for any questions as crille has a direct link.

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:36 am

Which projects and when ? :D

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:03 pm

Here's a link to the official BOINC Pentathlon webpage.

It starts on 5th May and finishes on 19th May and the five projects will be decided by the vote one week before the start of the competition.

UBT voted for:

1. Astronomy
* Milkyway
2. Physics & Chemistry
* Einstein
3. Biology & Medicine
* Rosetta
4. Mathematics
* Collatz
5. Alternate
* FreeHal

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:44 pm

Anyone know of any optimised app for Einstein? Wu's taking just under three hours atm, and would like to speed it up a bit... All in a good cause of course!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:59 pm

So far these are the teams registered for the Pentathlon:

* AMD Users (Contact person: vaughan)
* BOINC Synergy (Contact person: [B^S] Dimitrij)
* boinc.at (Contact person: [boinc.at] Walter)
* BOINC.BE (Contact person: tutta55)
* BOINC.Italy (Contact person: Paolo Landi)
* BOINC@Karlsruhe (Contact person: eminator)
* BOINC@MIXI (Contact person: manu)
* BOINCstats (Contact person: Crystal Pellet)
* CrunchingBaseTeam (Contact person: Hapelo)
* Czech National Team (Contact person: Vit Kliber)
* Electronic Sports League (ESL) (Contact person: pYrus pYraster & marcsen)
* JISATORA@W-ASCII (Contact person: k02kai)
* L'Alliance Francophone (Contact person: ninicool)
* MEDIA DATABASE (Contact person: Daniel Graf)
* Meisterkuehler.de Team (Contact person: Rolf Schulz)
* Planet 3DNow! (Contact person: indiana_74)
* Russia Team (Contact person: CTAPbIi)
* SETI.Germany (Contact person: crille)
* SETI.USA (Contact person: John P. Myers)
* Team 2ch (Contact person: nanashi)
* Team China (Contact person: Yin Gang)
* The Knights Who Say Ni! (Contact person: John Galt 007)
* The Scottish Boinc Team (Contact person: Megacruncher)
* TitanesDC (Contact person: Chulma)
* UK BOINC Team (Contact person: melter65)
* Ukraine (Contact person: rilian)

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:15 pm

SETI.Germany wrote:1st BOINC Pentathlon
from 05/05/2010
to 05/19/2010
5 disciplines
1 winner

Einstein@Home: 05/05/ - 05/10/
MilkyWay: 05/09/ - 05/14/

I believe that both of these projects require WUs to be validated, so it might be an idea to start switching over ahead of time if you're not already running them.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue May 04, 2010 9:32 pm

Sorry I haven't been 'on top' of this Challenge, work is getting a little crazy at the moment! :roll:

We herewith announce the 1st project in the discipline of Physics & Chemistry.

The relevant project is Einstein@Home. All credits granted between
05/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) and
10/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that with a lot of projects it usually takes a while before credits are granted! The statistics for this project can be found here:

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... ziplinid=1

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We herewith announce the 2nd project in the discipline of Astronomy.

The relevant project is MilkyWay@home. All credits granted between
09/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) and
14/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that with a lot of projects it usually takes a while before credits are granted! The statistics for this project can be found here:

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... ziplinid=3

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We herewith announce the 3rd project in the discipline of Alternative.

The relevant project is FreeHAL@home. All credits granted between
10/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) and
15/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that with a lot of projects it usually takes a while before credits are granted! The statistics for this project can be found here:

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... ziplinid=2

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I'll post the other two projects as they are announced on the Pentathlon blog site. Before anyone asks, yes the dates are correct, I've double checked them and altered them to UK style, ie dd/mm/yyyy. The idea is to put team members on their strongest projects to score more for their team over the five projects.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:15 pm

melter65 wrote: The idea is to put team members on their strongest projects to score more for their team over the five projects.

To me that means MilkyWay is a pain in the butt for those of us who don't have ATI cards!

Also means that I'll only be able to do Einstein and FreeHal as I'll be away for the last 2 projects.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:28 pm

Joshrandom wrote:I believe that both of these projects require WUs to be validated, so it might be an idea to start switching over ahead of time if you're not already running them.

A good idea, Mr Random

I started d/loading Einstein earlier tonight and they took an age to come through. I suspect the other teams are getting ready for the start of the Pentathlon tonight!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:33 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:
melter65 wrote: The idea is to put team members on their strongest projects to score more for their team over the five projects.
To me that means MilkyWay is a pain in the butt for those of us who don't have ATI cards!

Also means that I'll only be able to do Einstein and FreeHal as I'll be away for the last 2 projects.

Do what you can, Mikee, it all helps!

I'll not be doing the Milkyway wu's very much as I don't have a GPU card.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:04 pm

I think there's a problem somewhere!

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... athlon.php

We're putting in 1,800/hour and there's zip in their stats! Joint last??

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:48 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:I think there's a problem somewhere!

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... athlon.php

We're putting in 1,800/hour and there's zip in their stats! Joint last??

its been like that since 1st thing this morning

b.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:31 pm

UBT - bobuk wrote:
UBT - Mikee wrote:I think there's a problem somewhere!

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... athlon.php

We're putting in 1,800/hour and there's zip in their stats! Joint last??

its been like that since 1st thing this morning

b.

Its changed now !!!! TSBT are now the bottom of the pile !

{EDIT} Probably does not help that the servers have also been down for some time and I for one am finding it difficult to upload results?

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:44 pm

Same here, Mark - it seems to have been very hit and miss for the last 24 hours. I had some files that took a couple of hours to download, too - although fortunately they were only going into the queue.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:45 pm

Timby wrote:
Its changed now !!!! TSBT are now the bottom of the pile !

Well that's weirder as they had points before! Now we got.... 3!

Manually adding the scores, we get 30.3 which takes us to 16th place.

{EDIT} Probably does not help that the servers have also been down for some time and I for one am finding it difficult to upload results?

I've been forcing uploads/downloads for a few days now.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:12 pm

We herewith announce the 4th project in the discipline of Mathematics.

The relevant project is Collatz Conjecture. All credits granted between
12/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) and
17/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that with a lot of projects it usually takes a while before credits are granted! The statistics for this project can be found here:

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... ziplinid=4

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sat May 08, 2010 12:50 am

Get those GPU's warmed up, you MW credit wh***s!!

Milkyway@home is the 2nd Discipline and starts on the 9th at 00.00hrs UCT

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We herewith announce the 5th project in the discipline of Biology & Medicine.

The relevant project is Rosetta@home. All credits granted between
14/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) and
19/05/2010, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that with a lot of projects it usually takes a while before credits are granted! The statistics for this project can be found here:

http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentath ... ziplinid=5

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sat May 08, 2010 2:39 pm

Still only ATI GPU's ??

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sat May 08, 2010 3:16 pm

fellie wrote:Still only ATI GPU's ??

yes looks like

just do your own thing for five days .....

like me ....

b.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Sat May 08, 2010 3:19 pm

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php

That lists Cuda Apps as well. Give it a try, I think I have used the Cuda before but its not the fastest app in the world?

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sat May 08, 2010 8:32 pm

fellie wrote:Still only ATI GPU's ??

There are, as Timby points out, apps for CUDA GPUs as well as ATIs, but there are also apps for CPUs too, and it all counts towards the teams total.

madas91 · Post by **madas91** » Sun May 09, 2010 3:33 pm

Sorry about missing the start but am crunching MW on all 3 quad boxes and 1 gtx295. Will try to keep switching as best i can to help as much as i can

I have tried collatz on the gtx295 but it errors out of at least 50 percent of tasks

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 10, 2010 6:37 am

I know it's been a controversial project for the team, but I hope as many of you as possible are crunching FreeHal@home in the background now! :D

EDIT: Or not, as the case may be! No work available

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Mon May 10, 2010 7:56 am

melter65 wrote:I hope as many of you as possible are crunching FreeHal@home in the background now! :D

EDIT: Or not, as the case may be! No work available

FH is now sorted and giving wu's out

don't forget to make sure your crunching 25 at a time

Check in your preferences

b.

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Mon May 10, 2010 3:35 pm

UBT - bobuk wrote:
melter65 wrote:I hope as many of you as possible are crunching FreeHal@home in the background now! :D

EDIT: Or not, as the case may be! No work available

FH is now sorted and giving wu's out

don't forget to make sure your crunching 25 at a time

Check in your preferences

b.

Sorted :D

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:50 pm

Good call, Bob! :D

Both FH and MW(cpu) giving plenty of work out now. How's the MW(gpu) going?

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:59 pm

Seems OK Melter at my end on both projects, plenty of MW for the Ati's and for the Nvidia cards that have the ability to handle MW, FH I have virtually no experiance with and seems a bit patchy? but am still steaming on, feels like a V8 running on 5 cylinders :lol:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 10, 2010 11:32 pm

I ask because on FH we are 18th and TSBT are 16th, but we got 800 credits/hr more that them in the last hour!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed May 12, 2010 10:57 pm

TSBT are now joint 13th place overall, while we are joint 15th. That's only one place difference and we're outproducing them on at least two projects!

Only seven days to go, we need to go all out on Collatz and Rosetta. Let's make finishing above the Scots our main target now!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 17, 2010 4:44 pm

The final project, Rosetta, is now on it's own in the last leg of the Pentathlon. The bad news is that TSBT are now four places above us, so we need a good showing from Rosetta if we are to beat them!

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Tue May 18, 2010 1:04 am

260,000 wu at Rosetta to hit ... I wonder if the database will be drained the same as FreeHal's was over the Pentathalon :shock:

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Tue May 18, 2010 11:16 am

68,000 left now ...

Yet http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ states:
Server Status as of 18 May 2010 9:34:47 UTC
[ Scheduler running ]
Total queued jobs: 4,038,489

So I'm not sure what wu's there are, but if 200k left the database in 11 hours, surely a lot of boincers are filling their cache ready for the pentathalon :shock:

I know I have lol

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Tue May 18, 2010 5:53 pm

fellie wrote:So I'm not sure what wu's there are, but if 200k left the database in 11 hours, surely a lot of boincers are filling their cache ready for the pentathalon :shock:

If they have been filling their caches, then I fear they are a little late since the pentathlon ends in around seven hours time.

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Tue May 18, 2010 8:54 pm

AHhhhhhhh Shaddap lol... i've got me dates mixed up ..

* climbs back in his cave *

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue May 18, 2010 9:37 pm

You are in good company, fellie. Bob, Ben and I will never forget a certain UBT top cruncher who started a PrimeGrid challenge a week early!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue May 18, 2010 10:11 pm

melter65 wrote:You are in good company, fellie. Bob, Ben and I will never forget a certain UBT top cruncher who started a PrimeGrid challenge a week early! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

he shall remain nameless but it starts with a T and ends with a Y

work it out .....

b.

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Tue May 18, 2010 11:12 pm

Early start on a challenge is good, clear the cache, nab a few early cobbles :D

As for being as late as me to the Rosetta part of the pentathalon.... :oops:

megacruncher · Post by **megacruncher** » Wed May 19, 2010 1:29 am

The Boinc Pentathlon is over and UBT are 20th= on 117 points which is great. :D Well done guys you've done the UK proud :wav:

But, who is the top UK team for this elite competition? Well, knock me down with a spurtle of shortbread, if The Scottish Boinc Team haven't provided the premier UK performance with 126 points and 17th= place! :lol: Yes, we're pleased for us too! :wav:

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Wed May 19, 2010 2:33 am

megacruncher wrote:The Boinc Pentathlon is over and UBT are 20th= on 117 points which is great. :D Well done guys you've done the UK proud :wav:

But, who is the top UK team for this elite competition? Well, knock me down with a spurtle of shortbread, if The Scottish Boinc Team haven't provided the premier UK performance with 126 points and 17th= place! :lol: Yes, we're pleased for us too! :wav:

Well done to you and your team megacruncher, 17th place is an impressive achievement.

Oh, and congratulations to TSBT on being only the second UK team to reach the 1.5 billion marker.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed May 19, 2010 10:59 am

Nice One, megacruncher!

It was different, what with the overlapping projects and not knowing what the projects were until close on to the start time!

Well Done Team! Now the question is, what to do with all these Rosetta wu's...................................?

:lol:

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:41 am

megacruncher wrote:The Boinc Pentathlon is over and UBT are 20th= on 117 points which is great. :D Well done guys you've done the UK proud :wav:

But, who is the top UK team for this elite competition? Well, knock me down with a spurtle of shortbread, if The Scottish Boinc Team haven't provided the premier UK performance with 126 points and 17th= place! :lol: Yes, we're pleased for us too! :wav:

Very well done to our friends over the border. :D

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon May 24, 2010 2:42 pm

Acccchhh nooo! Well done lads! :lol: :D