WCG team position

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:39 pm

Great Pete. I think you are gonna love that new CPU. Be sure to watch the cooling on it. I'd suggest loading HWInfo and running Prime95 for a while. On Hwingo bring up the "SENSORS" and look for the value of Tdie. That is the temperature of the CPU dies. At 68C it will start throttling the CPU due to excessive heat.

On air, you probably won't be able to go above 3.3GHz to stay below the max temp. And I might add you need a really good CPU cooler to do that.

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:57 pm

I found another very fast mover, CharityEngine3, that just passed me. They only have 65M credits but they are adding 7M/day. They will overtake us in 25 days.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:40 pm

Aye.
It’s going to be tough at the top.
Speaking of which we are 109th Now!
Another 4 gains in the next week.

Has anybody actually tried spending their Byteballs yet? I’ve still not figured it all out and anyway they don’t seem to be worth much at present. My 8GB are worth about £200 today whereas 6 months ago they’d have been worth 10 times that.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:09 am

I've got most of my machines back on now. CPU for TSBT WCG, GPU for AP Collatz

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:06 am

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:09 am I've got most of my machines back on now. CPU for TSBT WCG, GPU for AP Collatz

It's showing! At the 12 hour mark we have over 600k showing on Bstats. A 1.2M credit day would really be something.

Pete, you got that 2990WX humming yet?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:49 am

Jeez [mention]Cruncher Pete[/mention] , that's unlucky and definitely not funny.
Beginning to think these 2990W boards are hard on PSU's. Maybe AMD are not being quite ' honest ' on exactly how much power these boards take or they really pull power on first start up before settling down ?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:12 am

Crunch away Pete. Doesn't matter whether it's multi million or a single point, everything helps and everyone is welcome. I'd love a couple of new GPU's but can't because I need the cash for a new Kart frame before next year's racing and at least one engine complete rebuild before season starts ( might be both current engines and a new gen engine ) . Unfortunately there's always too many toys we want and never enough cash to get them all. Sometimes life suxs

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:13 am

I am feeling your pain Pete but, as Alez says, we can only do what we can do given all the other little factors such as (a) life, (b) money, (c) time etc

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:55 pm

The 2990WX machine will pull right at 400W, at the wall, with all threads engaged. That's running it at 3.3G instead of the stock 3.125G. At those numbers the CPU is using 250W. If you overclock above that the power on the CPU package starts climbing very quickly. At 3.8G it supposedly pulls 500W - that's just the CPU! You can't get that kind of speed from the CPU unless you have "special" cooling capability. You can't do it with air or a AIO water cooler.

If you add a GTX 1080Ti the system pulls 700W at the wall.

Be sure you connect 2 8 pin 12V cables to the MB. It needs them especially if you want to run a GPU.

Sorry you are having problems Pete!!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:53 pm

Cruncher Pete wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:25 am That's not funny. It was humming along nicely last night. This morning I was hoping to install mint on it. I turned the rig off as I also wanted to move to another spot. Dead as a Dodo, would not restart, no fans, just a hint of green led at the bottom of the board. I reinstalled the 1950X still no cigar. Suspect PSU, checked with my PSU tester and it shows flashing HH on the negative 12V rail. Got no spare, got no money to buy a new one. Tomorrow I will shut down a known working unit and try the PSU that way.

I have an ASUS board that will do that too.

Power off the computer, unplug the power cord.
Set the jumper that clears the RTC RAM in the CMOS in the position to do so, wait for 5-10 sec.
Re-set the jumper to normal.
Plug the power in again.

Was about to bin the board until I removed the jumper on a hunch and saw the board spring back to live. Presto: i7-3770 recommissioned

Post by **Bryan** » Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:57 pm

We should move up a position on the next update - probably.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:42 am

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:57 pm We should move up a position on the next update - probably.

Yup, we are 108th Now!

The LHC sprint doesn’t seem to have cost us too much WCG momentum. The next update will see us up another place. With another to come tomorrow. Astonishing!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:59 am

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:42 am
Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:57 pm We should move up a position on the next update - probably.
Yup, we are 108th Now!

The LHC sprint doesn’t seem to have cost us too much WCG momentum. The next update will see us up another place. With another to come tomorrow. Astonishing!

Equally astonishing is that TSBT is in 9th place in the FB marathon for WCG in league 2. 2 points

I can't remember us ever scoring any points in FB for WCG.
We live in interesting times

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:21 pm

107th Already!

And in more good news a whole bunch of Neumannium Labs members defected to Byteball earlier. This might be just temporary so they can get signed up for cryptodosh. But they’ve been gone long enough to more than half the teams credit in the last 24 hrs. Whatever the case it takes some heat off us.

Happy days!

https://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/team ... erMovement

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:25 pm

Party time

I invited some friends from XstemeSystems. It is a surprise party for Scole

They are friends of his too.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:09 pm

My birthday was 2 weeks ago, but that's ok. It's a party!

Post by **VietOZ** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:14 pm

Joined
I'm in the process of cleaning up the mess (Boinc instances) I created during the birthday challenge, so my output will be a little lower for a couple days as my machines need to qualify with WCG again. I should be back in full force in a couple days or so.

Cheers

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:05 pm

Happy belated birthday scole!
And welcome to all of the guests.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:34 pm

+1 to the above. Congrats & welcome

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:43 pm

Wow - I am dropping down the Team rankings with these heavy-hitting guests

I don't mind AT ALL though

Thanks for helping us out on WCG guys

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:15 am

Woot woot, who doesn't love a good party p14

At this rate [mention]Megacruncher[/mention] will get his 99th place for the team as an early Christmas present.
Big shout for all those helping out

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:24 am

We are now up to 106 th place now.

Another page, another good excuse for a table post

WCG position

Position	Team	Points
103	The survivors	223,631,565
104	5by14	223,361,988
105	Wisconsin	221,443,166
106	The Scottish Boinc Team	221,281,988
107	America (USA)	221,081,676

Superb work guys

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:26 am

and we should take 105th on the next update

Post by **Bryan** » Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:23 pm

With your 1 table/page rule it is a good thing we are at the bottom of this page!

The last 12 hour stats shows we did 924k (1.85M/day). In 24 hours we should be sitting at 103 and it'll be time for another Table

There is light at the end of this tunnel and it isn't a train!

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:38 pm

And 105th Now! It is.
scopes Birthday guests sure know how to party.
And Neumanniums defectors are still with Byteball. So looking good.

At this rate I reckon that we are in with a chance of making 100th on 30th November, St Andrew’s Day.

Post by **Bryan** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:31 am

According to Bstats the last 12 hours we did 1.014M - WOW!!!! We are only 500k out of 103rd so on tomorrow's 1200 UTC update we'll move up 2 positions.

Get ready for another table Alez

The guys from XS are really boosting us up. Impressive considering VietOZ isn't up to speed yet!

Post by **Bryan** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:56 am

[mention]davidBAM[/mention] - you're going to drop another position in the team stats

bluestang from XS is joining us as well!

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:11 am

Very disappointing. I'll get over it I suppose

Hmmm, captain of a WCG team on Page 1 of rankings! I just got over it.

And, as you know, we are working on something to give back.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:35 am

BOINC World position based on RAC --> 21 out of 26,438
WOW, amazing guys.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:14 pm

103rd Now!

Just over 2M since the last update.

And the #100 team is just 6.6M ahead and moving at a mere 50K per day.

Time to switch back from LHC & fully rejoin the WCG ass-kicking!

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:22 pm

Yup - my machines are gradually finishing off their LHC downloaded WU and reverting back to WCG. TBH, I simply aborted some of the queued Theory jobs because nearly all of them failed (after occupying 24 CPUs for an appreciable amount of time

)

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:09 am

24 hours from 101st

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:08 am

Guess I'll hold off on the final table before we reach 100

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:35 pm

2.2M yesterday! We'll make 101st on the next update. If our friends stay with us make the top 100 in 48 hours

XS has sure given us a huge boost!

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:42 pm

Thanks very much Guys - hugely appreciated. About to leave the USAF team in our slipstream

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:51 pm

101st

Table time

That was from the 1800 UTC update so more credits to come in 3 hours.

EDIT: it looks like our current run rate is 2.4M/day - amazing!

Post by **Megacruncher** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 10:34 pm

Woo Hoo!
We are 3.8M behind ek$i sozluk cpu power & shifting 2.2M per day so Wednesday looks like it will be the day.
Amazing.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 10:46 pm

Ah !!

That's another 24 threads coming on-stream now - that'll make all the difference

Post by **VietOZ** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:05 am

I'll stay until the end of the month. Since my only goal left is to get to the top 50, but it won't likely to happen unless I add another rig.

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 3:35 am

Fantastic VO and thank you ... I either owe you one, or I owe you another one

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:39 am

Bryan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:51 pm 101st

Table time

That was from the 1800 UTC update so more credits to come in 3 hours.

EDIT: it looks like our current run rate is 2.4M/day - amazing!

OK, OK, I get the message

We are now up to 101 st place now.

WCG position

Position	Team	Points
98	CANAL@Boinc	251,763,008
99	Fairleigh Dickinson University	237,064,952
100	ek$i sozluk cpu power	230,841,288
101	The Scottish Boinc Team	227,675,391
102	U.S.Air Force	226,902,614

A massive thanks to everyone for all the help to get to this position.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:04 am

+1 to that

Even the reflected glory is as much as I can handle

Post by **Megacruncher** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:04 pm

The Final Countdown

Position	Team	Credits
100	ek$i sozluk cpu power	230,876,253
101	TSBT	229,448,808

Apologies for the unauthorized table!
2.4M yesterday so done and dusted by tea-time tomorrow!
Probably.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:32 pm

We just hit 100th place !!

Well done all

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:10 pm

Well done everyone!

And well done to the Captain! Clearly a change of management was what was needed: The last guy never got anywhere with this.
Special thanks to Bryan and the guys from XtremeSystems: We could have done it without you but not nearly so quickly or in such style. We owe you.

And not forgetting the silent stalwarts plugging away over the decades.

Website · Post by **davidbam** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:16 pm

+1 to the vote of thanks to Bryan and his Xtreme friends

A very wise man recently wrote:Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally!

The main task of this blind squirrel is to further rally the silent stalwarts and make sure we can now stay in the top 100

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:23 pm

Actually once we’ve got up just one or two more places staying top 100 will not be that tricky.
Our current RAC of 1.4M is 15th highest.
The 100th highest is just 99K.
Just a few months ago we’d have struggled to maintain even that. But now that we’ve got bigger better hardware, you’re here & I’ve finally found Linux I reckon that once the dust has settled we could easily sustain an RAC of 200K (currently 63rd highest). This would keep us moving slowly up & leave resources free for FB & other challenges.
Whatever, it’s looking so much better than 2008 when we got there only to realise that holding it meant abandoning all other priorities.

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:56 pm

[mention]Megacruncher[/mention] - does that mean you are now one of those Linux snobs?

That was a fun run and I'm really glad to see you guys get there. You've been scratching and clawing your way for a long time now. As you say, maintaining the top 100 is a lot easier than getting there initially.

There is at least one fast mover, CharityEngine3, coming up behind us to the tune of 7M/day. There are probably others but by the time they catch you your position should keep you on the 1st page of the stats.

CONGRATS TSBT!

Post by **Bryan** » Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:11 am

No big deal guys ... just friends helping friends

And now we can just kick back, relax, and have fun! The pressure is off.

Post by **Hal Bregg** » Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:26 am

Glad to see TSBT in top 100. I try to spread news and hopefully more people start crunching for BOINC in our team