The Scottish Boinc Team

Alez

To overcome that deficit would be a serious effort, probably far more effort that the points gained would be expected by any sensible team. I think Gerasim is in the bag for this year.

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TSBT finished 7 from 15 teams. Not a bad effort for minimal effort.

Individual kudos to
Megacruncher TSBT 10th
Alez 34
Hal Bregg 74
davidBAM 75

Well done guys.

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Skin of our teeth

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got my first one complete. I had to join a team by searching for Country rather than name (thanks Al) https://i.postimg.cc/WFczkfRh/image.png Teams on project seems a tad flaky. Took a few log on's /off etc before I could actually create team. Haven't managed to secure a task yet so can't comment o...

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The Ramanujan Machine on BOINC

Project : https://rnma.xyz/boinc/
Invitation code : RNM->Run

Team has been set up : https://rnma.xyz/boinc/team_display.php?teamid=19

Applications : Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU

Project details here : https://www.ramanujanmachine.com/

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For the record , TSBT was #1 from 13 teams with 743M points. Individual kudos to Grzegorz Roman Granowski 1 Miklos M. 2 SolidAir79 4 davidBAM 5 Megacruncher 7 Alez 10 Gibson Praise 29 Carlos Pinho 34 John McLean 77 Wailing Angus Beef 136 PecosRiverM 212 Stuart 234 grouchie 318 Hal Bregg 320 Well don...

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Just over 1 hour to go. Unless someone has some bunkers to drop now I think we are going to fall a little bit short at about 742M points. That shows just how much things have changed that we are falling just short of 0.75 Billion points after 7 days when the next closest team managed 170M. In fact, ...

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If we don't make it, we will be very close. A superb effort and a big boost in the marathon. Personally, looks like I'll finish top 10

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I keep my son's desktop on gerasim most of the time. If I had it on Yoyo it would get hot and noisy and slow down his gaming and he'd turn off boinc. It was also enough to keep us moving ahead of P3DN. This challenge might give them ideas although our lead is 12M so they're going to have to devote ...

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davidBAM wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:59 pm This one? https://elementary.io/

If you get a moment, I'd love to see some timings on Einstein and MilkyWay please

Did you ever give this a try ? Interested to know.

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davidBAM wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 1:00 am ... and closing the gap on SG in the Marathon of course

Goes without saying. The whole point of this competition is to help @Granowski move within striking distance of taking overall team supremacy in Primegrid for FB. I think we are well on target for that goal.

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Can't see any way that we haven't won the team competition here. Sounds like it's just a case of settling individual positions now. Very well done guys.

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Miklos M Up to you. Yoyo is better for the team FB marathon wise. Garasim is windows only , very short tasks and poor pay for the effort, plus we have no chance of improving or loosing our 18 points on FB. I've switched my Windows CPU's to it purely for the WUProp times and because I'm chasing some...

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I've switched my windows CPU systems onto here, since I see a few of us on it. My Linux CPU is now back on Wanless fot the marathon points, whilst all GPU's remain on Primegrid.

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davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:07 am My remaining GPU are rented on WCG - this isn't an FB challenge so I couldn't, in all fairness, pull them for it

How do older AMD do on PrimeGrid? rx570 / rx580

I've no idea, but as Primegrid is not FP64 I'd doubt they would do much worse than my GTX 980's etc.

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Music to my ears

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Actually @Miklos M I've got it .
weak key for Miklos M redacted

Guys, you know what to do

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He will not catch Gregg, but he got more juice than I. Go TSBT! He may have more juice, but does he have more grit ? Post your weak key and lets see :D davidBAM I want to get to 1billion on primegrid, but regardless, please stick my rented GPU on Miklos M account please. A 1 - 2 on a challenge we c...

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Team absolutely smashing it as a group but we have to acknowledge valterc of BOINC.Italy for his effort in 2nd place against the might of @Granowski .

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TSBT pulling ahead in the challenge now and quite a few of the team in the top 100. Granowski and Miklos M trading blows for top dog and valterc from BOINC.Italy keeping them both very honest. A great start. So far , so good ...... Noticed that although the sieve tasks pay slightly better, Wieferich...

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I used to do most stuff from my laptop, but since my work got ransomwared at the start of the year they are paranoid about our laptops ( despite the intrusion coming from office worker based clicking ..... ) Having FTP software to transfer to the server is sailing very close to the wind as it is. I ...

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scole of TSBT , not really any more. I used to on the servers etc. but since they are all dead and I only have the 5 systems now, 2 of which are brand new, plus I'd fallen out of love with competing I don't bother. Was racing again this weekend so didn't have time to set up, plus just can't be arse...

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Disappointingly, all my GPU's have run out of work on sieve and wall. BOINC manager simply did not download enough to keep them fed for a bunker drop. CPU's still busy, but obviously not where the points are. Going to try and stay up to open network communication at the start of the challenge in an ...

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That's the cached sigs all updated on the server again. Enjoy those new badges you've earned.

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That's the cached sigs all updated on the server again. Enjoy those new badges you've earned.

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Megacruncher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:19 pm That's all very well if you want to meet single Russian women.

DISCRIMINATION !!!!! Surely other single women are available ?

Actually just stating women is discrimination .... the totally fcuked up world of social media

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Megacruncher there is a primegrid challenge on PSP-LLR that runs at about the same time, but that is not the same as our challenge which is a straight up BOINCStats challenge. Bunker away . For info only. https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9720 Welcome to the Once in a Blue Moon Challeng...

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Just rang up my 18th star on WuProp thanks to the two new projects on Mimecraft@home.

Looking at adding to my FreeDC stats subprojects and stats which have been sorely neglected lately .
My Stats

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I've completed what I had locally for the Yoyo sprint and have started getting ready to run this. Kick off is in 24 hrs.

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Dirk Broer , the system in question is win 7 so no outside control by the Gates corporation. Microsoft pushing their crap drivers plus very questionable usage policies is why I never have or will upgrade to win 10. Something seems very broken in the operating system, yet it keeps functioning as lon...

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It's a possibility I guess, I can have a look later today. It's just so strange that a clean install of 416.34 works, but nothing else does yet does on the 2 other systems.
Doesn't really matter as it works on that driver on primegrid etc, still , very weird.

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If I can find the CD then the activation service should still work, it did a few months ago anyway. If it doesn't , no big deal as there is no support and updates for win 7 anyway. Probably not worth it though to run 2 x GTX 980 on minecraft :lol: . Easier to just upgrade to linux although it is goo...

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Win 7, no updates have been issued for years. I guess the easiest option would be to just kill it with fire and swap the system to linux, but it's my original, longest running system, so kinda sentimental. Only thing I can't run on it ( that the GPU's would handle ) with the currently installed driv...

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Yes, clean install of 5 different drivers downloaded from nVidia and all result in a cuda only system. Go back to 416.34 drivers and it works. Take the same downloaded install package ( 465.89 in this case ) and copy it to 2 different win 7 system and install results in 2 systems with both cuda and ...

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Well I give up as nothing works. I have tried at least 5 different drivers, installed the nVidia cuda toolkits etc and no opencl support, just the cuda drivers. As soon as I go back to the 416.34 drivers I have opencl and can crunch primegrid again.

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Yes I know, but since upgrading I have no openCL support, so I can't run primegrid etc as they are opencl

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471.68 installed, no openCL support. Did you download a seperate toolkit to get the opencl dlls? Works fine on Linux , but seems to be missing in the win 7 drivers.

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I'll give it a go. I've also downloaded 466.77. Surely one of them will work. It was to try and get the new minecraft GPU tasks to work on windows as it says I need the latest drivers in the BOINC manager after failing to download any tasks, but it doesn't bother to tell you what is the minimum driv...

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@scole of TSBT yes it was that one I downloaded. BOINC reports no opencl drivers present after install.

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Which nVidia drivers to use on win 7 with 9xx and 10xx cards.
I was on 416.34. Updated to the latest 472.12 drivers for latest cuda , but now have no opencl.

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Well it was a year ago and I can't remember what I had for breakfast just now, but you must have requested it. I've checked that you are indeed the founder.
Up to you if you want to hold it or send it back to me. Not fussed either way.

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hmmm, big brained putting all their eggs in a single basket.

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Do you want to invite one of the top teams? Antarctic Crunchers. The founder of Antarctic Crunchers will get a notification via Bam and BOINC if they pay any attention. After that it's up to them to sign their team up to the competition. Unfortunately, much like FB, most teams are ignorant of Bam c...

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/scrapeProj.php?proj=32&start=12-Oct-21%2001:00%20UTC&&end=19-Oct-21%2001:00%20UTC To honour Gregg's Granowski contribution to the team and to keep up our push on Primegrid and finish with 25 points in the FB marathon I've issued a challenge on Primegrid. I'll see you all on the start l...

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Cached signatures will be updated after I'm sure you will have all updated your PrimeGrid badges by the end of the sprint

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Set up my recurring donation a few days ago, so here's a virtual signalling bump

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As my win 7 systems died, I just converted them to Linux. I have to use 10 at work but no way I would subject myself to it on my own systems. 11 will probably be even more of a commercial phone app.

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https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1095 Name Gerasim@Home autumn challenge Status Upcoming Project Gerasim@Home Issued by Colombia Start time 2021-10-12 18:45 UTC End time 2021-10-19 18:45 UTC Late entrants allowed? Yes Number of teams participating » 13 Number of users participati...

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Ah yes, Win 10, the microsoft knows best version of an operating system. Total pain in the bolloxs is what it is.

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I've uploaded a copy of the CA bundle to our server. If you need it grab it from ca-bundle.crt here after that simple copy it into the BOINC folder at C:\Program Files\BOINC\ for most installs. You might change the 'simple' into 'coerce Windows to really download it, despite all the warnings Window...

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