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Let's make it this one...
Start, 07:41 UTC March 15th, on SR5. End, 5 days later.
I know everyone still has the number "27" running through their heads...
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I'll be bringing 4 real cores & 3 VPS to the table, totalling ~290000 credit. Most wil exhibit a late start of a few hours as they finish ESP, WOO, CUL & 1 GFN AVX. PSA WSS will continue as I finally benchmark a full week.
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I'm all in on this one too.
I have 5 vultr single cpu instances running.
8 avx cores and 4 non avx cores <--(gone after this challenge).
I think I'm going to retire all my non-avx boxes. They just don't cut it anymore and they use too much power for what I'm getting out of them. So I'm going to say so long to 14 old cores.
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I'm all-in too; although one core will still be finishing an SoB for a few hours. Let's SR5 it to death. |
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I'll second the "all in" theme, almost, as my old Macbook Air runs too hot going full bore, so I only run one LLR there. It's not very fast anyway, so no big loss. My older machines I usually just let run CPU TRP/SPS Sieve tasks where AVX isn't needed.
Remember: SR5 is the project where, if you actually find a prime, the work unit in question will run *much* longer than normal... up to 10 times as long. So don't panic and abort!
Best of luck to all.
--Gary
p.s. I actually know someone who is traveling to Svalbard (from So.Cal.) to see the solar eclipse. It is likely to be a "fail", due to clouds, based on my pole trip ~2 years ago. |
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Yep, I am all in too.
I was wondering if this is a true CPU-only challenge? (Primegrid preferences -> cpu only ,no gpu)
Since LLR is used, a llrcuda (like in prpnet cyclops challenge) seems possible, or not?
Any experience on this matter, anyone?
(would like to use my Nvidia 560GTX Ti to run llrcuda)
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Yep, I am all in too.
I was wondering if this is a true CPU-only challenge? (Primegrid preferences -> cpu only ,no gpu)
Since LLR is used, a llrcuda (like in prpnet cyclops challenge) seems possible, or not?
Any experience on this matter, anyone?
(would like to use my Nvidia 560GTX Ti to run llrcuda)
Cheers,
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No can do - IIRC LLRCuda would need a wrapper - doesn't exist and would be difficult to create and TheDawgz don't believe TPTB would ever allow LLRCuda to be used at PG w/o extensive testing as there are too many issues with it at present.
On another note - TheDawgz will have 10 VULTR cores running SR5 for the challenge.
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Put up a post in the Vultr VPS thread with an automatic BOINC setup script that you can put in the vultr startup script section..
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6161&nowrap=true#83960
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Did a running start with my two faster boxes. I had one of my slow ones I wasn't intending to run for the challenge on some units previously, but it looks like it has gone bad. I've got invalid/inconclusive units. Running some tests on the box now but maybe it is time to retire it anyway as it is an XP box with old school quad core. |
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Completely botched up my start of the challenge as am travelling today. Will get a rolling start on my laptop as I finish up some TRPs during the rest of the day. The MacPro is running full-bore (6 WUs), but has a GFN-WR still running which will be sucking up some CPU time...
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Completely botched up my start of the challenge
You're not the only one. I stayed up to watch the Australian GP (0500-0700ish), and it was rubbish. Then I fell asleep prematurely because of tiredness and adult beverages. Well up and running now, though.
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Bugger was F1 live after all?
My final core will come on around the start of "Sunday Night Trucking" (whatever that is - a clash of worlds :D)
I do wish our collection of indiviuals & microprocessing resources a most successful period of achievement at this specific phase of time.
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Not on the BBC, you had to rely on a dodgy Sky stream from that eplsite place. It was as boring as hell, you didn't miss anything. |
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I've gotta add some money to my vultr account, then I'll fire up 10-20 cores for SR5... Right now I'm down to $5, enough to keep my web server up for the rest of the month. I did some web work for a local guy yesterday, said he'd pay me $20 or so for my work, so that'll go towards vultr.
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I've got 46 SR/5 w/u's waiting for validation... :)
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I've got 46 SR/5 w/u's waiting for validation... :)
Nice! Have you had a chance to see which locations are performing fastest? By my tests, I've found Seattle to be the fastest.
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Terrible start to the challenge from me, and my SoB also seemed to run for years because it was one of the 2560K FFT ones. Anyway, crunching at full speed now. |
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I got 85 sr5's pending.
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I got 85 sr5's pending.
Team Sacagawea*.* is creeping up on us!
I'll add $20 to my account by tomorrow, I'll spawn 10-30 cores. Not sure yet.
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Yes the "star people" constitute a huge team and we maybe won't be able to hold them off... The team *I* really want to beat is EVGA... my mental image of them is a bunch of guys who get to "borrow" hardware for the weekend from their employer. Not that a GPU does any good on this challenge, but still... :-) I'm sure they're perfectly good people but a little competitive spirit never hurts.
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I got 85 sr5's pending.
Team Sacagawea*.* is creeping up on us!
I'll add $20 to my account by tomorrow, I'll spawn 10-30 cores. Not sure yet.
Pile on the coals!
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I turn my back on you guys for 5 minutes and look what happens. I knew I shouldn't have trusted Rick. First place a considerable way through a challenge? Sheesh!
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Up to 10 cores at vultr. :)
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Up to 10 cores at vultr. :)
Come on...daddy needs a new pair of SR5s!
I didn't get the money on my account, still waiting for it... Hopefully by tonight.. Since there is less time, I'll spawn as many instances as will use around $20 in the remainder of the challenge
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1 Aggie The Pew 1814595.97
2 Sicituradastra. 1798857.49
*Alert alert* hot on our tail(s)! |
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2 Sicituradastra. 1798857.49
*Alert alert* hot on our tail(s)!
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TheDawgz had 10 VULTR cores going since the start.
Added 5 more a little over an hour ago.
About to add 10 more.
For a total of 25 cores that will stay spun up until the end.
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I have recently started 10 virtual cores in addition to the 2 Si ones already on the board. I am also up to the elbows in the guts of machines with a further 6 which should be on line shortly.
He's back :)
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That is kind Iain.
I am still very concerned about the troubled person close to me but the path seems upwards. Long may it continue.
And a couple of blokes and a rat roughing up BOINC's biggest team makes me laugh. It was what our team was designed for. Good work all.
Meanwhile here is my younger daughter and our newish <whisper> Staffie </whisper>. I am glad to say she and George the degus tolerate each other.
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Hot on our tail indeed! We need to go hyper lightspeed to keep ahead of these stars!
SR5-LLR: Solar Eclipse Challenge (2015-03-15 07:41:00 to 2015-03-20 07:41:00)
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Got some money on my Vultr account.. Time to spawn some instances! I think 20 will do for now.
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I have recently started 10 virtual cores in addition to the 2 Si ones already on the board. I am also up to the elbows in the guts of machines with a further 6 which should be on line shortly.
Tim has just BLASTED past me on the leaderboard... |
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Not the only blasting going on:
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Not the only blasting going on...
Too darn right. I thought the Geneva Protocol banned what the dog has just done. |
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Someone do something to re-catch the star people, please... I'm at pathetic full-throttle here. |
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I've got 25 vultr cores running.. Will up it to 35 or 40 by this afternoon.
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Eeeeeeexcellent. |
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Just added 5 2 core Vultr... so that's 10 more cores. Added them 30 seconds ago.
I'm at #44 in the rankings... Let's see if this doesn't help Aggie and my standings..
Man, an SR/5 prime would be a nice trophy... :)
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I thought the Geneva Protocol banned what the dog has just done.
TheDawgz are betting the "sweet little puppy wuppy" just gassed you back to the stone age.
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TheDawgz are betting the "sweet little puppy wuppy" just gassed you back to the stone age.
And I only polished the silverware on Saturday.
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Dang, we're falling behind.
1 Sicituradastra. 3461173.98
2 Aggie The Pew 3386297.47
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Dang, we're falling behind.
1 Sicituradastra. 3461173.98
2 Aggie The Pew 3386297.47
I wonder for future sieving challenges if we should run with huge caches and not report until close to the end. I am sure that we are only number 2 because number 1 saw how well we are doing and made an emergency call to their large membership. If we adopted the plan it would be hard to gauge how well we were doing until too late.
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Dang, we're falling behind.
1 Sicituradastra. 3461173.98
2 Aggie The Pew 3386297.47
I wonder for future sieving challenges if we should run with huge caches and not report until close to the end. I am sure that we are only number 2 because number 1 saw how well we are doing and made an emergency call to their large membership. If we adopted the plan it would be hard to gauge how well we were doing until too late.
I don't suggest this plan for prime hunting challenges as I think it is better to find primes than win challenges.
That would be a good strategy for sieves, indeed. I think for this one we are paced a bit faster than them at this time, because at the time I posted earlier, they were ~80k ahead of us, they're currently ~50k ahead of us. I can't make any more vultr instances, so we may have to figure out how we are going to do this.. It's so close that it won't take a lot to push us up ahead of Siciturdastra.
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See how it pans out over the coming hours. I can't add any myself at this time. |
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See how it pans out over the coming hours. I can't add any myself at this time.
I'm maxed out at Vultr. My Challenge RAC has largely been due to the two monster AWS instances I was running as a comparison test, but they were so much less-economical than Vultr that I just let them expire!
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See how it pans out over the coming hours. I can't add any myself at this time.
I'm maxed out at Vultr. My Challenge RAC has largely been due to the two monster AWS instances I was running as a comparison test, but they were so much less-economical than Vultr I let them expire!
How many Vultr cores do you have? They didn't ask for ID until I reached 40.
p.s. I have one long running SR5 unit.. The only one that has taken more than 14k seconds so far, It's under 75% done at nearly 33k seconds.
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p.s. I have one long running SR5 unit.. The only one that has taken more than 14k seconds so far, It's under 75% done at nearly 33k seconds.
TheDawgz hope that it turns out to be prime !!
However, we have noticed that run times on our 25 geographically distributed cores are slowly increasing and are VERY erratic - ranging from 7,454 to 18,184 seconds. Not surprisingly some cores are consistently "fast", some consistently "slow", some that were "fast" are now "slow", some that were "slow" are now "fast", some even vary by local server time of day and some just bounce all over.
That being said - you can't beat the price!
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p.s. I have one long running SR5 unit.. The only one that has taken more than 14k seconds so far, It's under 75% done at nearly 33k seconds.
TheDawgz hope that it turns out to be prime !!
However, we have noticed that run times on our 25 geographically distributed cores are slowly increasing and are VERY erratic - ranging from 7,454 to 18,184 seconds. Not surprisingly some cores are consistently "fast", some consistently "slow", some that were "fast" are now "slow", some that were "slow" are now "fast", some even vary by local server time of day and some just bounce all over.
That being said - you can't beat the price!
true but it seems unlikely a normal WU would take 40-45k seconds, the slowest I've seen yet is 15k seconds. i guess we'll find out.
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Now 30,000 behind. We can do this guys! We're (ever so slowly) gaining on them, it'll be a close race either way.
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Now 30,000 behind. We can do this guys! We're (ever so slowly) gaining on them, it'll be a close race either way.
1 Sicituradastra. 3867001.00
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Hey Golfer, how did you get your work unit stats from the command line?
boinccmd --get_state
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SR5 primes can take up to 10 times longer to crunch!!
Another 5000 seconds and it's advanced under a percent. I'm really hopeful!!
p.s. It's a -1, the ones that take 10x as long if prime. I'm running the candidate on my own computer at the same time, just because it won't tell me if it's prime after returning it to the server, if my wingman hasn't replied...
My wingman on this WU got it ~5 minutes before me, but has a 2GHz Intel Xeon. So chances are I'll return it first.
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SR5 primes can take up to 10 times longer to crunch!!
Another 5000 seconds and it's advanced under a percent. I'm really hopeful!!
p.s. It's a -1, the ones that take 10x as long if prime. I'm running the candidate on my own computer at the same time, just because it won't tell me if it's prime after returning it to the server, if my wingman hasn't replied...
My wingman on this WU got it ~5 minutes before me, but has a 2GHz Intel Xeon. So chances are I'll return it first.
Estimated remaining CPU time is increasing as one might expect at this point ... makes one go hmmmm!
There is no doubt that you'll return the work unit first so ...
TheDawgz are crossing our paws that it turns out to be prime.
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Estimated remaining CPU time is increasing as one might expect at this point ... makes one go hmmmm!
There is no doubt that you'll return the work unit first so ...
TheDawgz are crossing our paws that it turns out to be prime.
Yep! Thank you for crossing your paws for me :)
Just used python to check the length... It says 1,362,197 digits, checked using multiple methods including len(int(n)) and the log base 10 of n. Hmm. Both returned 1362197
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Hey Golfer, what does the 1998 signify in your userid, if you don't mind. It's ok if you don't want to say.
Birthday year. :) It's coming up in about a week, in fact.
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Birthday year. :) It's coming up in about a week, in fact.
Really?!
I quickly used my fingers and toes and I had some left over. That's hard to believe. How did you learn all this computer stuff so young?
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Hey Golfer, what does the 1998 signify in your userid, if you don't mind. It's ok if you don't want to say.
Birthday year. :) It's coming up in about a week, in fact.
Really?!
I quickly used my fingers and toes and I had some left over. That's hard to believe. How did you learn all this computer stuff so young?
Yep.. In middle school I learned batch scripting, and from there I realized there was so many better things I could do with programming.. Next learned html, css, php, and earlier this year, python. This summer I'll try to learn java. I think I can learn really quickly, teach myself it all. It's just really fun so I spend a lot of time with it. I type around 100wpm, that helps too.
How old would you have guessed I was?
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Birthday year. :) It's coming up in about a week, in fact.
Really?!
I quickly used my fingers and toes and I had some left over. That's hard to believe. How did you learn all this computer stuff so young?
Yep.. In middle school I learned batch scripting, and from there I realized there was so many better things I could do with programming.. Next learned html, css, php, and earlier this year, python. This summer I'll try to learn java. I think I can learn really quickly, teach myself it all. It's just really fun so I spend a lot of time with it. I type around 100wpm, that helps too.
How old would you have guessed I was?
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I was going to guess it was your high school graduation year. Mine was in 81. <sigh>
Yep, if I had graduated in 1998, I'd be 18 years older than I actually am.
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I was going to guess it was your high school graduation year. Mine was in 81. <sigh>
Yep, if I had graduated in 1998, I'd be 18 years older than I actually am.
You young punk kid. Just kidding of course!
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News flash: a trans-national group "AtP" has single-handedly brought cloud computing to its knees. :-)
@1998Golfer: best of luck, hoping that WU proves prime... You'll join the "mega" club and knock off a "k".
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TheDawgz last saw high school in 1977 <heavy sigh>
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Not looking good for the unit being prime.. It just sped up and will finish in the next few minutes -- The test I ran independently on my PC said not prime. Maybe one day! But not today haha
Task returned: http://www.primegrid.com/workunit.php?wuid=427890113
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Around 45,000 ahead of us now.. Go ATP! We can do this!
EDIT: We just jumped in credit, now they're only 30,000 ahead. Woot!
(another) Edit: Updated again and they're 40,000 ahead... Gonna be a close race to the finish line!
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Added another 4 cores after dual cpu upgrade of power edge 2950III server
But since Centos 7 has no boinc package available the boinc sources needed to be compiled (64bit)
After yum install and some git and g++ commands the boinc client (V7.5) was started as a service
Needles to say boinccmd had to be used since no boinc gui is avalable either under Centos7 :)
(damn only 3 hours and another workday is commencing..)
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As I type this, the gap is 20,000.
Dang! I hope we're closing in on 'em now!! I'm in as far as I can go.. 39 Vultr cores, 2 4.4GHz i5 cores, 3 slow cores..
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As I type this, the gap is 20,000.
At this moment, over an hour later, the gap is 10,000.
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SR5-LLR: Solar Eclipse Challenge (2015-03-15 07:41:00 to 2015-03-20 07:41:00)
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1 Sicituradastra. 4544839.51
2 Aggie The Pew 4544731.79
Closer than a gnat's proberbial.
Just turned over the i3 (not on 24/7) + another Vultr, but the Vultr started a WOO so won't be on SR5 until ~24hrs time :(.
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It's even closer than a gnat's chufter than vefore - just 100 in it at 10:00UT. 2008 Athlon on - 16 hours estimate at dual core so that'll give us an extra 6 units in theory. I'll power up 1 final VPS I have available after work for the final 36 hours (ideally could have started it before I got to work) |
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2 Aggie The Pew 5002814.98
Let's dig up all the old computers and give them a Blast!
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Let's dig up all the old computers and give them a Blast!
Go Aggie!
Yep.. It's going back and forth now.. Currently they're ~18,000 ahead. I just put 4 cores of a 3.4GHz AVX xeon on it for the day, hopefully long enough to get off 2 or 3 sets of 4 SR5.
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1 more VPS going.
They're 25k ahead.
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Added 2 cores ...
Funny thing is that the big guns of the * team are crunching lots of non-SR5 wu's
Is this an evil Omen ? Is Miss Arizona playing tricks on us? Time will tell...
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I released some WUs that I accumulated to off-line box.
I think overtook it.
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I released some WUs that I accumulated to off-line box.
I think overtook it.
Go Aggie!!
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Holy christ we've blitzed them.
Don't lift off as the effects of that big dump tail off.
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I am still laughing at Z-sensei's magnificent blitz. I think it is superbly timed. Oh to be in The Star Chamber I bet there is much dismay.
Again great work Z.
Oh and we really like it when you post. Please do so as often as you can.
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I released some WUs that I accumulated to off-line box.
I think overtook it.
Go Aggie!!
Fantastic work, Z!
I loved the image of Walter pulling old dusty computers out of a closet just to fire them up for one super-inefficient SR5 each, all while yelling "Go Aggie!"
TheDawgz, Golfer & I are all neck-and-neck at position 20 as I write this. My flock of Vultrs is still flying. Let's bring this one home!
Go Aggie, indeed!
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I released some WUs that I accumulated to off-line box.
I think overtook it.
Go Aggie!!
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2 Sicituradastra. 5583374.64
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Don't lift off as the effects of that big dump tail off.
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So about the dog. The wax melted out of my ears and all the silver is tarnished but one day I may be able to breath through my nose again.
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I released some WUs that I accumulated to off-line box. I think overtook it.
That is some understatement ....
TheDawgz have yellowed our fur!!!
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So about the dog. The wax melted out of my ears and all the silver is tarnished but one day I may be able to breath through my nose again.
Nothing in this world like puppy gas - regardless of which end it emanates from!!
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TheDawgz, Golfer & I are all neck-and-neck at position 20 as I write this. My flock of Vultrs are still flying. Let's bring this one home!
Just a matter of time before Golfer leaves us neck-and-neck in the dust.
TheDawgz ran this 100% on 25 VULTR single core instances.
Started out with 10 and then added the additional 15 on Monday noon-ish(MST).
We are impressed enough to do the VULTR thing again next challenge and probably going to retire our AMD 4 core for all the obvious reasons as well.
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We love you Z, we do... We love you Z, we do...
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I'm a bit puzzled how one can maintain an offline cache especially that size when they're LLR, but that is more of an observation than anything else. My heart skipped when I saw the jump so I must care!
Talking of inefficient the Athlon might only make 4 not 6, so if necessary I must remember to pull it before it starts its 5th + 6th.
So to summarise this end:
* PSA paused
* Athlon on
* i3 off sieving + helping also
* additional VPS.
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Judas Priest! I about crapped my pants when I looked at the standings!
Nice job big-Z!
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Way to play hero Z!
I had to do a double and triple take to make sure I saw what I saw...
That was a highly impressive "off-line" cache of w/u's you've been storing up... nice strategy. Nothing like ripping the heart out of the opposing team, who clearly thought they were going to win, at the very last minute.
I tried to get on * people's website/message forum to see if they were up to any tricks and I needed an account/password... but I did make an effort. Their PG message board is devoid of any posts. But on their primary website (Arizona Moon)... they have it plastered everywhere about how they've come in first every single challenge, every year...
Now....
All we need to do is find a Prime... that will be the icing on the cake!!
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The end of * peoples' reign...
Time for Operation Supernova! |
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wow, Tim, little did you know Z had taken your caching suggestion to heart. Way to go Sir Z.
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I have pulled 2 Dual CPU PowerEdge 1850 servers (3.6 and 3.0 Ghz) from under the dust and
after some startup problems (memory / diskcontroller errors) managed to make them start crunching .
So another 8 cores were added.
Because make no mistake , the star guys will counterattack so anticipation is needed.
Go Aggie Goooooo !
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Wise words - they've probably been threatened for first place before, whilst we were not in contention and concentrating on fighting off the cows. Or, they may build up a cache themselves as a backup plan, but if it's not needed, simply release it after the deadline so nobody apart from the admins notices.
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With 19 hours to go, we're still ~820,000 ahead of the * people.
Last update: 2015-03-19 12:15:17
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2 Sicituradastra. 7079249.12
In other news, somehow I wiggled myself into 12th place in individual stats.
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To all rats:
I would highly recommend crunching SR/5 w/u's after the competition due to the sheer growth in size of N and lack of a prime being found ... I think there's a high possibility that several K's are going to be knocked off within a week's time.
I've had three w/u's listed as inconclusive... all from the same wingman... fortunately, my results are all valid so far... no errors.. :)
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With about a 1/2 day left here's an update on the NUMBER 1 team of this challenge - AtP !
Remarkable job all you ratties !!
(and it's great to see Tim back in the mix)
Rank Name Score
1 zunewantan 4,351,996.63
12 1998golfer 788,943.14
19 TheDawgz 667,070.20
22 mattozan 605,524.62
26 brinktastee 572,870.58
35 Neo 455,129.11
66 Walter Darimont 260,715.26
78 mackerel 224,968.27
90 Iain Bethune 200,338.65
95 Gary Craig 195,701.73
97 ~~~(,__,)^'> 193,447.79
98 Dave 192,427.75
160 gazzyk1ns 106,044.99
174 Mark Doom 93,731.93
372 Rick Reynolds 13,834.16
373 Van Zimmerman 13,525.85
389 meilijo 11,426.57
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Semi-real-time webcam (updates once a minute or so) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, one of the few land locations being eclipsed. Weather does not look favorable, about 6 hours beforehand, as I type this. Eclipse occurs there at 10:10 UTC. The camera is fixed, looking at the town, not the sun... but it might be interesting to drop in around totality just to see how the terrain looks.
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Their crown of amazingness has been demolished! + well done Germany :)!
Cloudy here in midlands England, but bright.
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We have done it, CongRATS !
Cheers, Walter
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Yes, it's completely overcast here in Suffolk, as forecast.
Prof. B is naturally close as Tim has said... and is Crun-Chi on a mountain-top somewhere?
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CONGARATS! A top finish for Aggie the Pew!
Well done everybody. From the Big Rat zunewantan on down the list, we all did what we could and it was enough to topple the *Star People*. And how appropriate that it was during the Solar Eclipse Challenge?! (Maybe that name was foreshadowing?) (Ha, see what I did there?)
Here in Moscow, RUS, we will get about a 57% eclipse at around mid-day. It is bright and clear outside, so it should be a good show.
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It was clear first thing here, but clouded over a bit during the closest approach to total eclipse. Actually that meant you could get reasonably good naked-eye viewing, and at the thickest bits even looking through a scope.
I got some semi-decent pictures taken of the eclipse projected onto card through a small Dobsonian scope. The best one close to the maximum was:
The rest of my pics (and ramblings), can be found at https://twitter.com/IainBethune
As you can see, my observing set up is nothing like the equipment usually shown off by Tim, but the results were OK nonetheless.
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Very nice to see Iain. Could I share (with credit of course)?
There was and is a very heavy overcast here but effects were noticeable. The was a distinctly odd feel in the air and a number of sensor equipped lights came on. At maximum contact my light meter reported an EV of 8 at 100ASA corresponding to 640lux or floodlight sports and around a quarter of that a few minutes earlier or later. |
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Nice job everyone on the #1 finish!!
I concur that Zune and Golfer deserve a ton of credit for making this tourney what it was!!
I'm already thinking ahead to the next challenge... with Zune bunkering some "offline" w/u's (by the use of the 'some' I mean 100+ w/u's) LOL, and Golfer's vultr script having been perfected and most of us now having our Vultr instances limit raised to insane levels,....
Oh, it's going to be good. :)
Thanks Golfer for all your help in the beginning with getting my Vultr up and crunching!
Haven't had this much fun in a tourney in a LONG TIME!
Time to shut down my dual core Vultr instances... Still going to run 5 single 768 instances as the price is great and the speed faaasssstt.
I will continue on SR/5 until a prime is found.
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Golfer,
It may be advisable to develop/code a startup script for Vultr for PRPNET challenges...
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Dave, that video is private, I can't see it. Where are you located anyway?
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Golfer,
It may be advisable to develop/code a startup script for Vultr for PRPNET challenges...
Neo
It's slightly harder for PRPNet challenges, because you have to have a unique "Client ID" for each new instance.. If you can think of a way to fix that I'm good with it. I currently have one that downloads, extracts, installs, the PRPNet client, all you have to do is edit master_prpclient.ini, run the 1-single-update file, and run prpclient.
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#!/bin/sh
wget http://uwin.mine.nu/PRPNet/prpclient-5.3.2-linux_64.7z
apt-get -y --force-yes install p7zip-full
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Dave, that video is private, I can't see it. Where are you located anyway?
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Bollox. Sorted now, set to public.
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Individual standings at the end of the challenge:
Rank Name Team Score
1 zunewantan Aggie The Pew 4945434.37
12 1998golfer Aggie The Pew 974398.13
19 TheDawgz Aggie The Pew 779290.42
22 mattozan Aggie The Pew 701594.93
27 brinktastee Aggie The Pew 644068.74
34 Neo Aggie The Pew 535977.23
64 Walter Darimont Aggie The Pew 312108.29
78 mackerel Aggie The Pew 261461.47
88 Iain Bethune Aggie The Pew 236491.33
90 Dave Aggie The Pew 229711.93
93 ~~~(,__,)^'> Aggie The Pew 226843.45
95 Gary Craig Aggie The Pew 223286.70
125 Mark Doom Aggie The Pew 165385.25
162 gazzyk1ns Aggie The Pew 121876.58
376 Rick Reynolds Aggie The Pew 15800.74
395 Van Zimmerman Aggie The Pew 13525.85
406 meilijo Aggie The Pew 12404.39
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I'll stay around on SR5 cleanup, when that's available. Though, I may power down the older boxes for a bit just to let the molten slag congeal.
Making un-sticky now, though feel free to keep posting! Fantastic work, all!
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Am so proud of this win! It's a first for the team! It's a milestone! It's fantastic!
AtP rocks!
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BTW I love the idea of holding back for a while and then unleashing a flood of WU the next time a sieve challenge comes around (12 June - ESP sieve). There would be various ways to do this based on everyone's home network setup, boinc version, and so on. Best to test ahead of time!
Need to be careful to not run afoul of the challenge start and end deadlines, WU timeout, and so on.
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I'm under the impression it's wise to hold off SR5 (& WOO/CUL) due go possible bug in LLR atm. Any update on this? Is it safe or could there be a recheck effort necessary? |
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Bug has been fixed in the last day or two. We are currently trying to figure out what extend of candidates may be affected. No need to stop crunching on any particular sub-project though.
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