This section is where you can post topics related to Challenges from other websites, such as Formula-BOINC, SETI-Germany and BOINCstats, as well as project challenges such as from WCG, PrimeGrid et al.
As a Team, we really want to engage as many team members with these challenges, as this gives us a great way of attracting more members to our Team...plus we get to show our strengths as a Team by (hopefully) doing well in each one.
PS: I have moved lots of topics into this section where they are relevant...as you can see, we've always been happy to take part in Challenges...and long may that continue
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:
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 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
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:
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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:
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