The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2021 3:51 am**

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 line.

https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challe ... /chat/1096

Name Challenge Granowski
Status Upcoming
Project PrimeGrid Issued by
The Scottish Boinc Team Start time
2021-10-12 01:00 UTC End time
2021-10-19 01:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 9
Number of users participating 0

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:34 am**

I am in.

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:51 am**

Splendid. I'll be there

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2021 10:24 am**

greetings ... it is a Great Honour of mine ... to be with TSBT Gentelmen ...

Our's Team is ... as far as points ... on a rather Very High Worldwide Position ... but what makes Us ... A Great Team ... It Is TSBT Members ...

best regards to All ... and Thank You ... Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:51 pm**

Do you want to invite one of the top teams? Antarctic Crunchers.

Posted: **Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:49 am**

Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:51 pm 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 challenges or simply exist within their own bubble only.

Posted: **Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:14 am**

Alez wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:49 am
Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:51 pm 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 challenges or simply exist within their own bubble only.

We shall see. If they commit they can be more than a handful. Tng's output about equals Gregg's.

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:18 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:19 am**

So, it’s a PG challenge, but being held under Boincstats rules?
That means that bunkering is allowed and will count?

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:41 am**

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:19 am So, it’s a PG challenge, but being held under Boincstats rules?
That means that bunkering is allowed and will count?

Yes. It's a BOINC Stats Team Challenge hosted by BOINC Stats where PG is the project, not a PG Project Challenge hosted by PG

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:20 am**

In with 7 colab free sessions (K80’s). Already bumping up my pendings. Go go go

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:25 am**

BTW, if any wishes to help BOINC Stats financially, click on an ad link whenever you check on the challenge. I believe they earn revenue when the ad is displayed and again if someone clicks on an ad link

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:37 am**

@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 Challenge

The sixth challenge of the 2021 Series will be a 10-day challenge leading up to a relatively rare astronomical event called a blue moon. The challenge will be offered on the PSP-LLR application, beginning 12 August 20:00 UTC and ending 22 August 20:00 UTC.

Once in a blue moon
What if, you can rewrite history?
He asked

For sure
I'll turn it into a fairy tale
He replied

The phrase "blue moon" has actually changed in meaning over the past century. Before the mid-1900s, it simply referred to an impossible event, similar to "when pigs fly". The modern definition of "the second full moon in a calendar month" only became widespread due to a series of misinterpretations in a farmer's almanac, a popular radio show, and funny enough, an edition of the game Trivial Pursuit.

A blue moon happens about once every 2.7 years on average, although the last one was on October 31, 2020. The last PSP prime was found about 3.8 years ago. COINCIDENCE?? (I tried.) Either way, with any luck we can knock out another k-value from the Prime Sierpinski Problem, and prove PSP's to be an (almost) Once in a Blue Moon occurrence.

To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Prime Sierpinski Problem LLR (PSP) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section.

Note on LLR2 tasks: LLR2 has eliminated the need for a full doublecheck task on each workunit, but has replaced it with a short verification task. Expect to receive a few tasks about 1% of normal length.

Application builds are available for Linux 32 and 64 bit, Windows 32 and 64 bit and MacIntel. Intel and recent AMD CPUs with FMA3 capabilities (Haswell or better for Intel, Zen-2 or better for AMD) will have a very large advantage, and Intel CPUs with dual AVX-512 (certain recent Intel Skylake-X and Xeon CPUs) will be the fastest.

Note that LLR is running the latest AVX-512 version of LLR which takes full advantage of the features of these newer CPUs. It's faster than the previous LLR app and draws more power and produces more heat, especially if they're highly overclocked. If you have certain recent Intel Skylake-X and Xeon CPUs, especially if it's overclocked or has overclocked memory, and haven't run the new AVX-512 LLR before, we strongly suggest running it before the challenge while you are monitoring the temperatures.

Multi-threading is supported and IS recommended. (PSP tasks on one CPU core will take 3-4 days on fast/newer computers and 2 weeks+ on slower/older computers.)

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:47 am**

pinhodecarlos wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:20 am In with 7 colab free sessions (K80’s). Already bumping up my pendings. Go go go

Right with you, bunkering 300 wu's so far and about 300 per hour.

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:19 pm**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:25 am BTW, if any wishes to help BOINC Stats financially, click on an ad link whenever you check on the challenge. I believe they earn revenue when the ad is displayed and again if someone clicks on an ad link

That's all very well if you want to meet single Russian women. Or is it just me who sees those ads?

Also you you could just send them [BOINCstats, not the Russian ladies

] some money/crypto.

https://www.boincstats.com/page/donate

You'll get a mention and the option of switching off the ads altogether.

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:29 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:52 am**

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 hour and a bit, then I will be running open.
Good luck to those of us on it. I'm sure a few of the usual suspects will be in the top echelons.

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:04 am**

Alez wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:52 am 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 hour and a bit, then I will be running open.
Good luck to those of us on it. I'm sure a few of the usual suspects will be in the top echelons.

Don't you run multiple clients per computer?

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:14 am**

@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 arsed with switching keyboards etc.
Not the most efficient way I know, but there again, given the systems and GPU's I have left I don't tend to attempt much of a bunker. My efforts towards the team competitions are more background these days than the numbers you guys are putting up, so not really a great loss team wise.

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:28 am**

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 don't even have BOINC on the laptop anymore. I was going to set up BOINC on linux through Hyper V, just need to confirm that the anti virus / snooping ware crap they use can't see inside a Hyper V VM. Naughty I know

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:04 am**

Are we ready to start off?

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:08 am**

yup link in post 1

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 5:36 am**

Lucky my computer is faster than me on the uptake.
Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:52 am**

Fear not, all GPUs are busy on this challenge. Just doing a little bunkering until I can suss out what SG are doing. Can maybe give them a wee surprise later

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:14 pm**

My colab sessions are run like this: 3 hours start between 08:00-09:00 (GMT) and 3 hours start run between 21:00-22:00 (GMT). 700k pending. Should average a 700k per day. Not much but it’s the least I can do.

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:20 pm**

Heh - it all counts

I remember once losing a place in a gpugrid FB Sprint by HALF a workunit

Posted: **Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:29 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:20 pm Heh - it all counts

I remember once losing a place in a gpugrid FB Sprint by HALF a workunit

A big "ouch" moment.

Posted: **Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:36 am**

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 and Wall-Sun-Sun tasks validate with very few pendings, probably because @Granowski is my wingman on so many

Posted: **Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:58 pm**

100M the lead and 6 TSBT members in the top 10. I don't think they want to play with us

Posted: **Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:32 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:58 pm 100M the lead and 6 TSBT members in the top 10. I don't think they want to play with us

Shucks, I am hurt.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:40 am**

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 .

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:14 am**

He will not catch Gregg, but he got more juice than I. Go TSBT!

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:44 am**

Miklos M wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:14 am 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

@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 called would be quite satisfying .

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:51 am**

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

Guys, you know what to do

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:58 am**

Why stop at 1 - 2 ?

I am running dark on aged WU to avoid feeding Mr Pending. Things are going to change a bit when I drop

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:00 am**

Music to my ears

Posted: **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

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:31 am**

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:49 am**

Okay - have dropped what I had on 2070 Super and then gone dark again. This will let me see accurate deadlines for each bunker - and accurate timings too as some were only 2-up while I was clearing YoYo. Will check it over in the morning

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:59 am**

@Miklos M is your account set to provide pps-sieve and nothing else for nVidia? I don't want CPU work

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:20 am**

Just to let you guys know I’m kicking PRM xxxx without owning any GPU…haha.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:00 am**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:59 am @Miklos M is your account set to provide pps-sieve and nothing else for nVidia? I don't want CPU work

I am only doing PPSSieve on all gpu's I got and running yoyo on the 2080 ti's cpu's.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:20 am**

pinhodecarlos wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:20 am Just to let you guys know I’m kicking PRM xxxx without owning any GPU…haha.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:07 am**

Greetings ... we are doing Perfectly well ... Once More ... let me Thank ... TSBT Gentelmen ... for ... Honouring ... my steady contribution ...

and sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:11 am**

PecosRiverM wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:20 am
pinhodecarlos wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:20 am Just to let you guys know I’m kicking PRM xxxx without owning any GPU…haha.

Big dump coming? Let me hide…

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:41 pm**

5 of the top 6 places would be a great result for the team ... with Marathon Man at #1 of course

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:56 pm**

208_70dd4087c7e4c8d8540c9d19bf5d845a

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:57 pm**

you are too early for the raffle

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:24 pm**

Think I’m blocked on colab, nothing my morning, nothing now, will try tomorrow to turn on the sessions.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:30 pm**

The lead is now 200M - apply these to the FB Marathon and we should be within a baw-hair of 1Bn for the 25pt spot. I expect SG will dig very deep to stay there though. They are after a podium place themselves

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