UK BOINC Team Forum

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:15 pm**

Right well the voting for the team crunch is due to come to a end Saturday 13th January.

The project to be crunched looks like it will be Einstein@Home if Einstein is down at the time then the back-up project will be the next one down the list so at the moment SETI Beta/Astropulse.

The crunch is due to start 19th January and will end 21st January.

The aim is just to pull in as many credits as we possibly can do as a team for Einstein@Home or the next available project if Einstein is off-line.

All team members need to do is suspend all other projects to stop the WU's from been processed and allow Einstein full access to BOINC for the crunch.

Simple as that (hope thats OK for all

)

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:18 pm**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Right well the voting for the team crunch is due to come to a end Saturday 13th January.

The project to be crunched looks like it will be Einstein@Home if Einstein is down at the time then the back-up project will be the next one down the list so at the moment SETI Beta/Astropulse.

The crunch is due to start 19th January and will end 21st January.

The aim is just to pull in as many credits as we possibly can do as a team for Einstein@Home or the next available project if Einstein is off-line.

All team members need to do is suspend all other projects to stop the WU's from been processed and allow Einstein full access to BOINC for the crunch.

Simple as that (hope thats OK for all )

100% gotcha loud and clear.....

b.

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:11 pm**

Already running cache down in preperation for the start... .. .

Einstein is one of my favorite projects, so I hope its this one.
Don't have Seti on my system (shock, horror)

Suppose I could put it on, but would prefer that I don't

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:16 pm**

UBT - The Prof.... wrote:Already running cache down in preperation for the start... .. .
Einstein is one of my favorite projects, so I hope its this one.
Don't have Seti on my system (shock, horror)
Suppose I could put it on, but would prefer that I don't

It's not a problem.....

And it's the SETI Beta/Astropulse project, not the main SETI@home project....and the aim of the Crunch is simply to catch up with teams ahead of us.....and to use the resource of lots of members to generate some "Team spirit", to leap up the rankings and put us in a better position.

Oh, and to help the project of course...!

If Einstein is down and no work is available, (and you're not keen on SETI) just crunch for your preferred projects, as you would normally.

regards

Tim

Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:20 pm**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:All team members need to do is suspend all other projects to stop the WU's from been processed and allow Einstein full access to BOINC for the crunch.

I would just add the following:

If you are suspending any WU's (for other projects) only suspend those that have a completion date AFTER the crunch is finished. No point suspending WU's where the completion date is BEFORE or DURING the Crunch, as you'll lose any credit if it gets uploaded after it's completion date....!

And if you want to start crunching for Einstein early, you can...and likewise, you don't have to stop when the crunch officially finishes.

All crunches start at midnight and end at midnight - in this case, the Crunch is from Friday 19th at midnight, until Sunday 21st at midnight. This gives us a total of 48 hours.

regards

Tim

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:42 pm**

Well glad you said that because i have already done that without checking team forum. (sorry)

I checked the status of Einstein's server page and found that there was only 6% WU remaining.

So i am trying to gain more credit's with Einstein, due to CP taking all of my time.

Hope it is OK because i have started ...1 ..2 .3 .. GO

(Ps.... think i am going to try a get a score board like what all you have)

(Pps.... how do i do that please PM me)

(Thats better)

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:23 pm**

Naon wrote: (Ps.... think i am going to try a get a score board like what all you have)

(Pps.... how do i do that please PM me)

What sort of scoreboard?

If you mean the User of the Day, then it's easy....

The code is this:

Code: Select all

http://myboinc.com/sigUOTD.php/cpid:0e748ca75bf3cb48ae14f70e18aa17fb/.png

except that for YOUR Stats, you replace the bit from: 0e748.....17fb

with your own CPID

But you have TWO CPID's, which I found are these:

d00d935030f6be1458e3f822f686f7e5
and
38f90446f675142ce697c8d349f7921a

(look here: http://www.boincsynergy.com/stats/index ... earchteam= )

and if you click on the small purple image in the 4th column you will see your profile - some of these need to be edited as they are wrong - you don't need to include the "http://" in the team link - which is why it appears twice - and SETI and Rosetta don't have images.....!)

(Also - Make sure ALL your projects use the SAME email address so that all your projects combine....)

So, YOUR code is:

Code: Select all

http://myboinc.com/sigUOTD.php/cpid:d00d935030f6be1458e3f822f686f7e5/.png

So your image should look like this:

If you don't have any UOTD day awards yet, then you need to ensure each of your products has a profile entered into every project account you have AND you must add a nice image to go with it....then you have a chance to get a UOTD award...!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:09 pm**

If you are wanting a signiture to show all the BOINC credits then go here http://signature.ukboincteam.com/

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:12 pm**

Are we having 2 Einstein crunches ? as its says up top starting tonight.

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:43 pm**

Gary wrote:Are we having 2 Einstein crunches ? as its says up top starting tonight.

No its that daft Tim he must have got his wires crossed

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:49 pm**

Gary wrote:Are we having 2 Einstein crunches ? as its says up top starting tonight.

Whoops...

Got THAT wrong didn't I.....that''s the trouble, travelling around in a Tardis - you never know what day it is....!

And I thought I only had a drink problem

regards

Tim

(On re-reading the thread, it's coz I saw the 13th Jan date from Halifax - this was the END of the voting, not the START of the Crunch :oops: )

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:37 pm**

Don't forget 5 days to go so start working your caches of WU's down now if you have any non-Einstein WU's on BOINC, that way you can get more Einstein WU's done during the crunch

URL for Einstein http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Just in case Einstein goes wrong SETI BETA / Astropulse came as runner up URL is http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/

And in the event that is down then just choose a project you think needs some help.

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:58 pm**

Already ruunning virtually nothing but Einstein, wu's going along nicely.
Only other thing running now is chess960 as wu's so short.

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:37 pm**

I would like to do others after this.

What will be the next target ...

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:53 pm**

Naon wrote:I would like to do others after this.

What will be the next target ...

I like the enthusiasm.....! Excellent...

The next official Crunch will be sometime late in February.

The actual project that will be the beneficiary, has yet to be decided upon - we usually have a vote and the project that has the most votes, will be chosen (and assuming the project is online and the WU's are short enough...!)

And in the meantime, you could always join the "UBT Sneaky Club" - use the search button above to find this phrase elsewhere on the forum...

regards

Tim

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:43 pm**

UBT - Timbo wrote: The next official Crunch will be sometime late in February.

The actual project that will be the beneficiary, has yet to be decided upon

Depends if the gauntlet is running that month

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:19 pm**

I'd like to participate in the mini crunch but have been unable to hook up with Einstien so I'm assuming it's down at the moment, if so when will it be announced that it will be seti?

Also, I've just set up boinc on my newly rebuilt system with a Prescott 3.0 with HT, I just added Seti@home to it just to check all is ok and it is running 2 instances of seti, but on checking Task manager both instances are just running on one half of the cpu.

My question is, do I need to install another copy of Boinc to another folder to use the other half? as I would like to suspend Folding@home and use all available cycles for the mini crunch.

BTW, I know the second choice is the seti beta and not seti@home and will sign up for it once I get this sorted.

Many thanks

Gary

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:40 pm**

Rockinfroggi wrote:Also, I've just set up boinc on my newly rebuilt system with a Prescott 3.0 with HT, I just added Seti@home to it just to check all is ok and it is running 2 instances of seti, but on checking Task manager both instances are just running on one half of the cpu.

What you should see on a single CPU HT machine running windows is 2 seti processes each using 50%.
The 50% is 50% of total CPU not individual CPU. ie someone lucky enough to have a quad core would see 4x25%, single core would be 1x100% etc
So I think you're ok

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:48 pm**

At the moment I have Folding@home running and before I added Boinc to this system it was showing 2x Folding@home each 50%. Now in Task manager it's showing 1xFolding@home 50% and 2xseti@home 16% and 1xFolding@home 18%.

Gary

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:56 pm**

Rockinfroggi wrote:Now in Task manager it's showing 1xFolding@home 50% and 2xseti@home 16% and 1xFolding@home 18%.

How many boincs have you got running? looks like you might have 2, if so kill 1 of them.
With your HT CPU you should only have 2 project processes running and 1 boinc process

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:03 pm**

Ok, just worked out a temp fix for the mini crunch.

I stopped both instances of folding@home and now both seti are running at 50% each.

BTW, I only have one Boinc client on each system, this is the only one with HT.

Thanks for your time John

Gary

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:10 pm**

Rockinfroggi wrote:I stopped both instances of folding@home and now both seti are running at 50% each.
BTW, I only have one Boinc client on each system, this is the only one with HT.

Ahh, folding isn't boinc is it?
that explains it.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:20 pm**

That's right, Folding is not a boinc project though I understand it may eventually become one, I'm loathed to stop folding for them though as it was through this that I was introduced to boinc but from time to time I'm happy to stop folding as for the mini crunch to help raise UK Boincs standings in the stats.

Gary.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:17 pm**

Rockinfroggi wrote:I'd like to participate in the mini crunch but have been unable to hook up with Einstien so I'm assuming it's down at the moment, if so when will it be announced that it will be seti?

Just start SETI BETA if you get no joy with Einstein

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:21 pm**

Einstein has been up and working perfectly since lunchtime. Please remember that you will have to remove any app_info.xml-file you may have in your projects/einstein-directory, then restart Boinc. Lets make this a smashing crunch.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:36 pm**

Just downloaded the first WU for the impending Crunch 15.7Megs, now thats what I call a WU!!!!!

I know the start date is the 19th, but is that 00.00 tonight?

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:40 pm**

Timby wrote:Just downloaded the first WU for the impending Crunch 15.7Megs, now thats what I call a WU!!!!!

I know the start date is the 19th, but is that 00.00 tonight?

Start date is whenever u want to start it

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:46 am**

Alan Pull wrote:Einstein has been up and working perfectly since lunchtime. Please remember that you will have to remove any app_info.xml-file you may have in your projects/einstein-directory, then restart Boinc. Lets make this a smashing crunch.

Couldn't see any app_info.xml-file in the project folder, does that mean I'm good to go? and what do those files relate too

Gary

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:58 am**

Rockinfroggi wrote:
Alan Pull wrote:Einstein has been up and working perfectly since lunchtime. Please remember that you will have to remove any app_info.xml-file you may have in your projects/einstein-directory, then restart Boinc. Lets make this a smashing crunch.
Couldn't see any app_info.xml-file in the project folder, does that mean I'm good to go? and what do those files relate too

Gary

I would guess so Gary, I didnt have the file either and all appears to be running fine, apart from the size/length of WU!! :hmph: and the odd Validation error :dontknow:

Timby

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:55 am**

The app.info file is a relic from the days when there were various optimised clients for Einstein - so don't worry if you haven't got one - just delete it if you have.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:19 am**

I'm doing SETI instead this weekend

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:53 pm**

I have downloaded a three day cache for Einstein and am now good to go.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:09 pm**

I'm crunching and mmm is it a tasty cereal!

Robin
x

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:07 pm**

Here's the current stats graphs, courtesy of BOINCstats:

Einstein stats:
Credit per day, over the last 60 days:

Total Einstein credit, over the last 60 days:

Hopefully, we should see a nice rise in stats over the next 2-3 days...

regards

Tim

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:21 pm**

Well I'm going away for the weekend but shall ask hubby not to turn the PC off and to check everything is running smoothly.

Have just left a few small WU's running (those under 2 hours) and my nice big Einstein is crunching away.

I like thise big crunches.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:32 pm**

Looks like we off to a good start - I think we'll gain a place in the Einstein World Ladder tomorrow. Nice to see we have so many team spirited members supporting the crunch.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:59 am**

Been a lil lax with helpin out here so I'm gonna Crunch with you guys this weekend.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:23 am**

Well that's typical Spent all night on my Einstein WU - a nice big 50+ hour one - and when I came down this morning there were dozens of messages saying it exited with zero status and it it happens repeatedly to reset it so I lost a whole night's crunching :(

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:16 am**

Ah - you're not a real BOINCer until something like that has happened!

Welcome to the club!

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:20 pm**

thanx for the email announcing the einstein crunch, it reminded me of days gone by, its been a long time since I crunched anything, it happens after a format, completely forgot to install boinc again, anyway I got 2 computers crunching einstein now, gonna format a 3rd and install linux and have it crunching aswell.

More Power to the CPU.

Pedro

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:37 pm**

My second S5RI WU is just about done, and I've now got 4 more of them at 5hrs each plus a couple of S5R1a 'shorties', so it's romping along nicely. Luckily Einstein itself is looking reasonably stable too (famous last words...)

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:40 pm**

UBT - PennyQ wrote: Luckily Einstein itself is looking reasonably stable too (famous last words...)

well thats it now.....down hill from here on

b.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:56 pm**

Pedro wrote:thanx for the email announcing the einstein crunch, it reminded me of days gone by, its been a long time since I crunched anything, it happens after a format, completely forgot to install boinc again, anyway I got 2 computers crunching einstein now, gonna format a 3rd and install linux and have it crunching aswell.

More Power to the CPU.

Pedro

Welcome back to BOINC any problems just ask away

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:04 pm**

Pedro wrote:thanx for the email announcing the einstein crunch, it reminded me of days gone by, its been a long time since I crunched anything, it happens after a format, completely forgot to install boinc again, anyway I got 2 computers crunching einstein now, gonna format a 3rd and install linux and have it crunching aswell.

More Power to the CPU.

Pedro

Welcome back :lol: :lol:

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm**

Still no S5R2's for me :(
Should see some over the weekend crunch though.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:46 pm**

jaysback wrote:Still no S5R2's for me :(
Should see some over the weekend crunch though.

No I only have S5RIa WU's at the mo, when are the S5R2's due? Any idea of size/time to complete yet?

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:53 pm**

I think i may of amagined up those S5R2's, could of swawn that i read about them at some point.
To many late nights building pc's then overclocking the nuts off them.
That reminds me - better go to bed as i have work at 07.00 :shock:

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:39 am**

Hi all,

After 24 hours of crunching (since midnight on Friday night), the Einstein Mini-Crunch has so far netted: 28,162.96 credits...

and as the Team daily RAC is a mere 13,726.54 (according to the project), it seems we're on our way...

Keep on crunching...!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:11 am**

Iza crunchin boz Iza crunchin

I take it that pending credits are not going to help the mini crunch? as I seemed to have amassed 1,636 for Einstein

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:38 pm**

According to BOINCStats we had our best ever performance yesterday with over 30,000 credits AND a World place climb to (ahem) 47. If this is repeated today then we should go up another to the heady heights of 46!

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:54 pm**

I've crunched so much it makes my teeth ache. i want soup for a week after this!

Still, good to see we're on the up up up! 8)

Robin

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:17 pm**

Been crunching so hard I had to look twice in the mirror this morning

By this evening it was looking more like

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:25 pm**

Timby wrote:Been crunching so hard I had to look twice in the mirror this morning

By this evening it was looking more like

looking at your RAC I'd say you've been crunching for the rest of us, still, just over an hour to go and I can stop and use the loo and get something to eat, phewwwwwww

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:00 am**

Rockinfroggi wrote:Iza crunchin boz Iza crunchin

I take it that pending credits are not going to help the mini crunch? as I seemed to have amassed 1,636 for Einstein

Well, the pending credits WILL help the project and the team score, but sadly won't be specifically "counted" within the context of the Crunch stats.

However ALL credits count whether issued straight away or at some point later....so it's all worthwhile stuff....!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:04 am**

UBT - Mikeejones wrote:According to BOINCStats we had our best ever performance yesterday with over 30,000 credits AND a World place climb to (ahem) 47. If this is repeated today then we should go up another to the heady heights of 46!

Einstein up by 32,876.40 in the last 24 hours.

Overall stats:
start: 5,743,109.34 (as of 00:01 on 20th Jan)
after 24 hours: 5,771,272.30 (as of 00:01 on 21st Jan)
after 48 hours: 5,804,148.70 (as of 00:01 on 22nd Jan)

Total achieved: 61,039.36

....well done everyone....!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:51 pm**

Well it appears to have done the job because it looks to me like we've gone from 46th to Team Ranking 31. What a result! :blob3:

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:56 pm**

Aye, looks like a cracking effort by all involved!

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:58 pm**

UBT - Janea wrote:Well it appears to have done the job because it looks to me like we've gone from 46th to Team Ranking 31. What a result! :blob3:

Hi Jane

Methinks you're putting idea's into our heads.....

31st place in Einstein is nearly 3 million credits ahead of us....

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/team_st ... &to=100#30

regards

Tim

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:25 pm**

No - she's right! Well sort of - if you mix 'n' match.

31st highest RAC - which is still pretty good.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:34 pm**

Our RAC for the week prior to the Crunch was around 11.2K, it seems to be peaking now at over one and a half times that (17.4K). This will of course decline again, but vividly indicates one of the most successful crunches ever. Deserves a round (of beers or cheers) to all those team spirited members who took part.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:35 pm**

That's strange - cos if you got here
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_teams. ... &offset=20

it says we're No 31.

I guess Boincstats.com gives a different ranking to the Einstein website.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:39 pm**

thats cos its sorted by RAC rather than total credit

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:40 pm**

UBT - Janea wrote:That's strange - cos if you got here
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_teams. ... &offset=20

it says we're No 31.

I guess Boincstats.com gives a different ranking to the Einstein website.

That's right - but that's the RAC order rating you're looking at. Click on the 'total credit' near the top right and the table will list it in total credit order.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:42 pm**

UBT - Janea wrote:That's strange - cos if you got here
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_teams. ... &offset=20

it says we're No 31.

I guess Boincstats.com gives a different ranking to the Einstein website.

Hi Jane,

OK - the link YOU gave shows us at 31st place in terms of Recent Average Credit (which is to be expected as the Crunch meant we returned more WU's than we would do normally).

Whereas, the info I was basing the "placing" on, relates to the Total Overall Credit ranking....!

So, we're both right !

regards

Tim

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