WCG Team Challenges

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:18 pm

Yes, but the best in terms of credits per hour is Nutritious Rice for the World.

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:54 pm

thank you sah !!

give 'em rice it is then

b.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:04 pm

Il do some rice but if i don't get enough credit i will have to go back to abc :lol:

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:28 pm

Already crunching for WCG, so is there anything I have to do to be in this?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:34 pm

As far as i know .....All WU's downloaded after 12 tonight count toward our team.
But make sure your team is ubt on wcg :lol:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:44 pm

UBT-mark3346 wrote:Our best five days on this are now

Date Credit
2007-12-11 28,593
2007-12-08 27,750
2007-12-13 27,543
2007-12-07 25,879
2007-12-05 25,869

We have added over 300k since 1st Dec and gone up 8 places from world 110 to 102.

Do you think we could double the score this year ?

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:05 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:As far as i know .....All WU's downloaded after 12 tonight count toward our team.

Yes, that`s correct.

Post by **UBT - PennyQ** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:01 am

Well, my one lickle PC with its new hard drive (as the old one went 'phut') is now almost dedicated to WCG for the month (I'm still doing boincsimap, as it's a bit periodic & I don't want to miss it!)

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:25 pm

Hi all,

I know its early days! day one in fact - but we're doing well up to now.
While we're lying in 114th place overall for WCG (According to the team stats page - if I read it properly anyhow) after the first day we're at 21st!
Not a bad start me thinks...

We are being beaten by a couple of other UK teams though...would be a great chrizzy present for all if we managed to finish the comp as the top UK team!

I know.. its early days... but, theres nothing like a good competition!

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:36 pm

I`m convinced we will finish higher up the list by December 24th.

To follow the challenge, see the link below.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:56 pm

Got all 4 chips on it

There goes my 1 mill for christmas

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:02 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote: There goes my 1 mill for christmas

Never mind micky, it`s all in a good cause, and my mill should come by Christmas (2009)

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:06 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
UBT - mickyb69 wrote: There goes my 1 mill for christmas
Never mind micky, it`s all in a good cause, and my mill should come by Christmas (2009)

...9002 for me :lol:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:11 pm

Guess il hold on a few more weeks and make my target 40k on WCG

:twisted:

So how do we get more team members crunching in this compo ?
with the amount of members on the team we should be looking at 50k on a bad day :lol:

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:20 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:

So how do we get more team members crunching in this compo ?
with the amount of members on the team we should be looking at 50k on a bad day :lol:

Send the boys round, and make them an offer they can`t refuse! :twisted:

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:48 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
UBT - mickyb69 wrote:

So how do we get more team members crunching in this compo ?
with the amount of members on the team we should be looking at 50k on a bad day :lol:
Send the boys round, and make them an offer they can`t refuse! :twisted:

Where'd we start boss? :twisted:

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:00 am

Okay, okay ...... I give in!!! I can't stand seeing grown men pleading/threatening. :lol:

I was going for 2 mill overall, and a top 20 place on Enigma, by early in the New Year but I guess I'll join you lot and move all my 12 cores across as their current workload runs out.

Now please .... no more threats!!! :lol:

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:15 am

Thats one converted :lol:

Now NA, get yourself on WCG quick

Or I'm going to have to take away L4D

Either that or... The kitty gets it :lol:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:25 am

:D :D :D :D :D :D nice 37k on day 3 :lol:
Puuuuuushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 18th and still going up .

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:27 am

Ben wrote:Now NA, get yourself on WCG quick Or I'm going to have to take away L4D

OI! Keep yer mitts off ma Left 4 Dead!!!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:29 pm

Donno about anyone else but im getting better credits off Cancer on my E2200
time claimed granted
10.04 185.7 / 133.7 rice
4.67 86.3 / 94.8 cancer

Anyone found owt better ?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:55 pm

NaRyan wrote:
Ben wrote:Now NA, get yourself on WCG quick Or I'm going to have to take away L4D
OI! Keep yer mitts off ma Left 4 Dead!!!

Mwhaha :lol: Look out kitty then :P

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:29 pm

We got our highest ever score Friday - http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph. ... cg&id=6429

We're currently running 17th in the main challenge and top 10 in the other 4 current ones.

4 more challenges started today (2 day ones).

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1

Isn't this fun!?

Done one of the 'Clean Energy project' WUs on my Q6600, got another one to finish on the AMD. As the wingman did it on just over 2 hours, and mine took 10 I ended up with a credit of 42. That equates to 100 credits per 24 hours! Looks like the other one on the AMD will take nearly 15 hours and it looks like I'll get just over 100. This is one sub-project I'm going to leave out!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:07 pm

Done a clean energy in 18 hrs and asking for 368 credits :o
I'll update the score when my wingnut returns his :shock:
Hopefully the 2 hr blokes messed up and they all aint like it

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:16 pm

Ive got eight results pending - dating back to the 3rd. Not too concerned at the moment, but does anyone have any idea what happens to the pending results after the close of the competition? what I mean is, do they get included in the competition results or just added to your wu points total as normal?

Sorry to be a pain.

Si

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:59 pm

simplespud wrote:Ive got eight results pending - dating back to the 3rd. Not too concerned at the moment, but does anyone have any idea what happens to the pending results after the close of the competition? what I mean is, do they get included in the competition results or just added to your wu points total as normal?

Sorry to be a pain.

Si

Wasn't too sure about this myself but I assumed that only validated results count. I've just done some calculating to work it out and that seems to confirm it. So any validated after the finish won't count toward the challenge.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:30 am

Just got a clean energy result 18.21 362.4 / 349.2
Not too bad.

My duo's getting about 20 credits an hour on any project and the P4's get about 5 on cancer and 8 on rice :o
So i have 3 cores on WCG and 1 on ABC, Still looking to join the 1 Mil club for the end of 2008 :lol:

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:39 pm

Wasn't too sure about this myself but I assumed that only validated results count. I've just done some calculating to work it out and that seems to confirm it. So any validated after the finish won't count toward the challenge.

Thanks Mickee - thought as much - but hoping otherwise. I suppose including all wu's reported by the deadline would delay announcing winners etc.

Fingers crossed the team haven't got too many pending at the end.

Good luck with the 1 mil MickyB

Cheers

Si

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:51 pm

We've just been overtaken by Team England (Boinc)

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:55 pm

melter65 wrote:We've just been overtaken by Team England (Boinc)

I guess it's a good job the Isle of Wight doesn't have a team, or we'd really be in trouble.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:01 pm

Joshrandom wrote:
melter65 wrote:We've just been overtaken by Team England (Boinc)
I guess it's a good job the Isle of Wight doesn't have a team, or we'd really be in trouble.

Or jersey :lol: :oops:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:55 pm

melter65 wrote:We've just been overtaken by Team England (Boinc)

You sure about that?

http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats. ... %20Kingdom - he say no!
They've overtaken us on weekly credit but that doesn't mean much as they're several million behind.

Post by **Woodles** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:53 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:
melter65 wrote:We've just been overtaken by Team England (Boinc)
You sure about that?

http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats. ... %20Kingdom - he say no!
They've overtaken us on weekly credit but that doesn't mean much as they're several million behind.

They've overtaken us in the challenge, not overall

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:42 pm

Sorry Mikee, Thanks Woodles!

I should have made it clear that I meant the Challenge, not the overall stats!

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:31 pm

Ah - my fault actually! After all this is the WCG Challenge thread!

While I'm here what projects are we doing? I've been doing 'Help Conquer Cancer' for the last few days but it's being a pain as hardly any of them are being validated, so I think I'll go over to another project - probably back to Rice and try to get a silver badge.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:54 pm

Probably a good move Mikee, since Rice has an initial replication of 19 with a quorum of 10, and HCC has a initial replication of 2 and a quorum of 2, which slows things down badly.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:18 pm

Good thinking! I'll do the same. This is probably the reason I'm getting loads of HCC wu's instead of Rice!

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:05 am

Anyone else having problems getting new wu's for this project?
My Power Mac normally crunches four at a time - down to its last two, and my G4 won't get any new tasks.
The pending queue's getting longer as well...oh joy!

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:20 am

I`m running HCC and Clean Energy, no problems getting WUs at the moment, although the pending ones are building up a bit.

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:55 am

Im doing HCC, Aids and Rice.
I thought at first it may be a platform thing - but Rosetta use to give me the message that 'there was work for other platforms' so its not that I guess.

Ive downloaded a new wu for ABC and Seti so its not a problem with Boinc either. Fingers crossed something turns up. Will run ABC and Seti - keep the puters busy till it does.

Cheers

Si

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:21 am

simplespud wrote:Anyone else having problems getting new wu's for this project?
My Power Mac normally crunches four at a time - down to its last two, and my G4 won't get any new tasks.
The pending queue's getting longer as well...oh joy!

I'm having problems getting WUs now! Since I upgraded the CUDA driver coincidently. Also seems to be just doing 3 WUs + GPU instead of 4 WU +GPU. Could be just a case of the new installation needing a couple of days to settle down.

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:13 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:
simplespud wrote:Anyone else having problems getting new wu's for this project?
My Power Mac normally crunches four at a time - down to its last two, and my G4 won't get any new tasks.
The pending queue's getting longer as well...oh joy!
I'm having problems getting WUs now! Since I upgraded the CUDA driver coincidently. Also seems to be just doing 3 WUs + GPU instead of 4 WU +GPU. Could be just a case of the new installation needing a couple of days to settle down.

I did the same upgrade on one of my systems and for around 30 minutes had only 3 of the 4 processors running, whilst a WU from GPUGRID was running. The 4th processor eventually kicked back in without my doing anything else.

While on the subject of GPUGRID - the WU ran for 20 hours and said it was only 16% through. With it's reporting deadline only 3 days away it was never going to finish so I killed it. Unfortunately this machine has several days work for WCG that it only picks up 1 SETI at a time - runs it for an hour on the GPU, then won't get another all day!

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:51 pm

Problem sorted - for now anyway.
Seems that my having several projects suspended, while taking part in the Christmas projects - has caused problems.

Didactylos on the WCG forum wrote "BOINC thinks you don't need any work. Probably your project debts are wrong after having the others set to "no work" for a long time.

Try resetting the project to reset the debt."

I didn't get chance to reset the project - as downloading new wu's for the other projects, must have sorted out the 'debt' which Didactylos mentioned. An HCC wu followed not long after.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:40 am

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... 9TGC4G1RP1

Looks like we'll finish a creditable 19th. No one is going to catch us and we're not going to overtake anyone. So I reckon we may as well run down and let the 'pendings' carry us through to the end.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=1721

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:38 am

UBT - Mikee wrote:
I reckon we may as well run down and let the 'pendings' carry us through to the end.

Good! Now for some serious credit hogging. :lol:

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:30 pm

I've heard tales, some say legend of certain projects which grant more favour than others...yeah ok, credits...

I could go on, but would just irritate myself, never mind you lot!

so, are there some projects more credit generous than others?
if so, any pointers?....

Cheers

Si

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:38 pm

ABC
SUDOKU

just to mention two

b.

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:05 am

simplespud wrote:I've heard tales, some say legend of certain projects which grant more favour than others...yeah ok, credits...

Si

Milky Way is a very high credit project, plus there is no "wing man". Initial replication 1, minimum quorum 1.

Expect 40 credits per hours per core (@ 2.4 GHz)

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:00 am

Primegrid is good also on the PSP Seive application. Even better if your pc is x64 capable 1.7x the credit of x86 users

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:04 am

Expect 40 credits per hours per core (@ 2.4 GHz)

Im getting about 59 per hour on Milkyway with an E4500 :lol: [/quote]

And about 26 credits on me old P4 2.8 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:52 am

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:

Expect 40 credits per hours per core (@ 2.4 GHz)
Im getting about 59 per hour on Milkyway with an E4500 :lol:

And about 26 credits on me old P4 2.8 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That`s strange, mine`s an E6600. Maybe it`s a platform issue.
My rig is a Windows Vista.

simplespud · Post by **simplespud** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:58 pm

cheers guys, will check them out - see what results I get.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:01 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
UBT - mickyb69 wrote:

Expect 40 credits per hours per core (@ 2.4 GHz)
Im getting about 59 per hour on Milkyway with an E4500 :lol:

And about 26 credits on me old P4 2.8 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
That`s strange, mine`s an E6600. Maybe it`s a platform issue.
My rig is a Windows Vista.

Probs vista, Even my old dell with its P4 2.7 mobile chip was getting 25.

:crybaby: Come back soon Milkyway, Now i've got to scrat around for
my last few credits. Pushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Might even get 2 bonus ABC's woooohooooooo

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