Pirates crunch what ?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed May 14, 2014 10:31 pm

LHC just came back up. We're 105 on that project and less than 30,000 credits would put us in the top 100. Getting WU might be tough though. They are getting downloaded as soon as they're available.Or I'm open to focus on a project for a week.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu May 15, 2014 11:46 am

LHC is always up and down

Did manage to grab some units to, but they were not replaced as I crunched them. I should be home tomorrow so will be able to switch projects if we are picking some new ones.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat May 17, 2014 1:00 am

I note we have managed to grab a place in LHC all the same

and we are gaining on Seti a place or two per week. Slowly. slowly, catchy monkey

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun May 18, 2014 1:25 pm

LHC up to 102 now. Rosetta up 13 places to 134. Ibercivis coming along nicely as well and we have even gained a place in Seti

Shall we continue as is for a little while longer or do we have a suggestion for a different cpu project push for this week ?

Oh and Seti still not exporting any individual stats

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun May 18, 2014 11:27 pm

What are our goals? I've been focusing on some projects to get them in the top 99. I'm up for a push on something specific though.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:31 am

We have to decide our goals between ourselves.
My personal goals have been to get Anguilla as high up the country list as possible whilst trying to get as many projects within the top 100 as is reasonably possible whilst at the same time matching the team goals, hence the push on Rosetta, LHC and Einstein which have all been a case of good for both.
We also will have personal goals and favorite projects ( POGS and FM@H for me ) and of course the competitions to take part in. At the same time though, I think we should also have other challenges and fun amongst ourselves ( choose a project for a week, out-crunch each other, get to #1 in team, country etc. etc. ) otherwise we simply become slaves to chasing numbers and the fun goes out of it. And of course as pirates , rules don't apply so ultimately we can do as we want, there is no king here, only a loose pirates parliament

we do this because we want to, not because we are told to .

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue May 20, 2014 12:04 am

I'd say we are doing okay just now and to keep going as we are.
Once I've got a few more hours into numberfields I'll drop that and focus a bit more on Rosetta. It would be nice to get it a bit closer to 100.
We could do with some kind of random project picker device/software, would be good to have a project of the week.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue May 20, 2014 12:58 am

Silver wrote:I'd say we are doing okay just now and to keep going as we are.

Then as is for the next week

Silver wrote:We could do with some kind of random project picker device/software, would be good to have a project of the week.

I could drink lots of rum and then randomly click a mouse at the screen on bamstats ..... electronic version of spin the bottle

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:34 am

How about we rotate through the ranks and each week one pirate chooses the project to focus on? What everyone wants to put in is up to them, but in the spirit of supporting team and country, a pact to make a descent effort. It's bragging rights for the top cruncher. Order to start with first pirate, then next to join the hoard.

On a side note, we need to recruit more privateers. So much bounty for the taking.

Oh, I put my nvidia gpu back on seti. It was torture watching it try to crunch the large collatz wu's.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:03 am

Alez wrote:I could drink lots of rum and then randomly click a mouse at the screen on bamstats ..... electronic version of spin the bottle

Now this is pirate genius, not sure how I didn't think of it first.
Surely it would make sense if our pirate destiny was decided by rum

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:08 am

scole250 wrote:How about we rotate through the ranks and each week one pirate chooses the project to focus on? What everyone wants to put in is up to them, but in the spirit of supporting team and country, a pact to make a descent effort. It's bragging rights for the top cruncher. Order to start with first pirate, then next to join the hoard.

This sounds like a reasonable plan, I'm up for trying it to see how we get on. We can always tweak the idea if we don't like how its working.
With my limited fleet I can't see me gaining bragging rights to often though

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue May 20, 2014 11:50 am

scole250 wrote:Oh, I put my nvidia gpu back on seti. It was torture watching it try to crunch the large collatz wu's.

I disabled large tasks in my account settings as it was crashing my systems. Everything runs fine up to and including the solo.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu May 22, 2014 12:08 am

LHC Classic should be 99th tomorrow and Test4Theory should be an easy top 100 soon. I'm going to leave a couple cores on that for a while. When they publish a new update to the standard model, I can take pride that I helped, right? Still pushing Rosetta too and adding a little to a couple others. And Collatz for overall credit.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:01 am

We going code cracking for the next competition ?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:06 am

I'm in.

I mean...

Arrrr....I'm in!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:59 am

Well we bossed the Primaboinca challenge there

We going in for the need for speed challenge or do 1 of you 2 want to pick a project for us to concentrate on for the next week or two ?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:14 am

NFS challenge! A couple apps use up to 1GB memory. I might have to add a little to one system

Beware the dread pirates of TSBT

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:04 am

I feel the need, the need for speed!
Count me in for this one 8)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:31 am

So what we up to this week ? We could hit Rosetta for a bit , LHC is down so that's a non starter or we could revisit the need for speed, put a crack on for that for a week or so and grab first place in the UK

Couple of days would do it and a few more to build a cushion or we could do something completely different.
What is the crews mood on this issue ?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:41 pm

LHC is back up and I had a couple systems waiting for it, so I figure I'll let a couple cores on those systems stay on LHC as long as the work lasts. Never know when they'll run out again. WCG sneeked a few extra WUs on a couple systems and trying to finish those off. Other than that, I'll push Rosetta. Of course, I'm game for an all out push on one of them. I did put one smaller gpu on Einstein, just to help keep the numbers on up it {that and I'm so close to getting a sliver star on wuprop and an Einstein app is the closest).

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:16 pm

I've still got some NFS units to run and I'm now running some LHC
I could practise some more config writting and go for a three way split with Rosetta, maybe

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:54 am

If any of you two have a core of more free, then consider giving me a hand grabbing UK #1 on Universe@Home see here http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 154&t=2363
Seems to be one of the few new projects on BOINC that actually means to run for more than the attention span of a (G)nat. ( Scottish independence election references can be giggled at

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Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:34 am

Since my scheduler seems to have had some sort of meltdown I'll be finishing off simap units for a while and also the primegird ones that I still have sitting as well

If I ever get to the end of them I'll have a look at Universe@home, although you'll probably have managed to get us to the top by then

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:52 am

Since silver asked the question in the #1 in the uk thread what to go for as other projects, though I would reply here as there are very few of us that chase this anyway ie us pirates really. Bamstats list for TSBT is here http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/ ... rojectList
There are a few in #2 that we could chase. I have been on ddm for a long time, cas etc.
I would suggest that we shore up a lead on Universe and the three of us chase convector back into #1 then decide after that. Of course this is only a suggestion. I'm also doing more WCG as per Mega's suggestion.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:08 am

I'm running Universe, virtualLHC and also trying to upgrade some primegrid badges

Happy to keep on Universe, are we happy with LHC or do we need to add some more credit to it before moving?
I'll have a look at convector tonight.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:58 pm

Doesn't matter whether I am happy or not, I'm not your boss

LHC is a long term issue I think. Safe for just now I guess, one we can keep jumping back to when we want. Run it for as long as you want. I will go back to it in a bit.
CAS is another project where we are just in 2nd place, won't take much to regain #1 (less than 10 k ) in that one either.
I would suggest
Universe, Convector, Cas and WCG. Androids chugging away on Enigma and skynet POGS. A bit of work every now and again on Einstein with the GPU as it's still our lowest GPU project or Poem if you can get the elusive GPU units there

Rarer than a haggis skin coat

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:09 am

Atlas, NFS and Yafu are also all potential targets. We need more active crunchers to chase these or we need to recruit more pirates

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:42 pm

cas is pretty close now

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:59 am

If you have a core or two spare iGems@home could benifit from the pirate treatment to bring us up to #1 in the UK. Just saying ......

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:45 am

My biggest problem is that I only have a core or two

After pogs is done I'll have a look at iGEMS - even though it sounds suspiciously like an apple project

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:57 am

#2 in Igems now, bit of a push and we can take #1

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:56 am

we're back #1 in iGEMS@home

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:39 am

Alez wrote:we're back #1 in iGEMS@home

Sweet! :pirate:
Just a word of warning though, there are no checkpoints for iGEMS.
So don't suspend boinc or pause units - like I've done

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:37 pm

For a newly started project it works quite well. Hopefully they will enable checkpointing soon I think you can suspend the units as long as you have leave applications in memory whilst suspended enabled.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:02 pm

Alez wrote:For a newly started project it works quite well. Hopefully they will enable checkpointing soon I think you can suspend the units as long as you have leave applications in memory whilst suspended enabled.

That sounds pretty logical - so it must be wrong

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:23 pm

Silver wrote:
Alez wrote:For a newly started project it works quite well. Hopefully they will enable checkpointing soon I think you can suspend the units as long as you have leave applications in memory whilst suspended enabled.
That sounds pretty logical - so it must be wrong

Exactly .... just like the BOINC scheduler should work , in theory

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:58 pm

Alez wrote:
Silver wrote:
Alez wrote:For a newly started project it works quite well. Hopefully they will enable checkpointing soon I think you can suspend the units as long as you have leave applications in memory whilst suspended enabled.
That sounds pretty logical - so it must be wrong
Exactly .... just like the BOINC scheduler should work , in theory

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:27 pm

We have a few challenges starting soon. Which ones are we attacking?

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:18 am

I'm going to be partaking in some Enigma crunching.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:37 am

Einstein and enigma por moi

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:40 am

Continuing to hit Einstein for all it's worth. #67 in the world and both team and country moving on up.

Wonder if Rob fancies a Caribbean hide away

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:06 pm

since we lost POGS #1 status to overclockersUK and it's the next decent competition up for cpu's, I'm making an early start, both to build up the pendings and to try and claw back some of the losses to overclockers. I want UK #1 back

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:53 pm

And there's another Einstein challenge coming up too. Now I like Einstein as much as the next pirate and I'll crunch it for the challenge, but that project is starting pop up in challenges as much as seti. Does it need the push? There's lots of other projects and I wonder if the admins would like a push for theirs. Megacruncher proposed TSBT issue a team challenge. I think we should consider one. A TSBT Anguillan Pirate challenge?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:03 am

I'm all in favour of a TSBT challenge. Which project do you fancy ? Dream up a name and post it here http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... =18&t=1894 We can bring it to mega's attention and see if we can prod a few folk back into taking part in the comps

Don't mind another Einstein challenge as realistically I haven't taken my GPU's off since the last one. Been on a couple of month crusade to drive it up the leader board as I got sick of seeing it in the high 90's and having to emergency crunch it to save it from dropping out of the top 100.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:50 am

Lately it's Universe, POGS, SRbase and Finds with Einstein on the GPU. Did revert to Seti but it just makes no sence to have 2 x 7970 making the credit of a core2duo. dDM as always is a slow burner with Rosetta and LHC when I can get them. Would like more Poem on the GPU but hens would like teeth. WCG on the droids and a dedicated wcg laptop.
Skywalker has finally passed me on POGS, might need an over the top response or I may just accept the best man won in the end.,

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:34 am

Alez wrote: Skywalker has finally passed me on POGS,.....
or I may just accept the best man won in the end.,

What is this accept that you speak of!?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:44 pm

'accept' is the sad case of being in 1st place in 19 projects for the team and simply runninig out of cores

I've had to make a sacrifice in order to try and run more Rossetta, LHC and WCG for the team. Either that or I need more cores

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:56 pm

I know that you certainly do your bit for the team Alez, I just thought pogs was one of 'your' projects.
I'll just point out that if you took pogs back you'd be top in 20

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:39 am

It certainly is and I've not given up but I have put in 14.6 million credits and 296,832.32 hours and Skywalker has put in 15 million credits then I regard it as no shame as it is obviously one of his favorite projects too. His participation is great for the team and is a great achievement. All I need is more cores

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:33 am

OK, all that was a pile of $hite, challenge on and I will have #1 back in POGS by the end of play tomorrow. Guess a leopard doesn't change it's spots and mellowing in old age is also a steaming pile of doo doo