3/2-10/2 SiDock@home first challenge

[Megacruncher]

Current lead 383K.
5 1/2 days left!
It's gonna be a rough ride but the worst case scenario is second place.
Pretty sure TAAT will lose FB points, at least from P3DN, maybe from us.

[SolidAir79]

Feel like I'm making a little more of a contribution cpu wise now just need to iron out some kinks

[davidBAM]

P3D have brought in the big guns - stay on it though for marathon points as project may not last all year

[davidBAM]

Our best hope now is if the project runs out of work - even sporadically.

Here is an easy way to get 24hrs work.

On e.g. a 3900X
app_config to set max_concurrent = 3
ncpus = 64
run open. No ticklers or anything else needed

Takes seconds to configure on krunchie. Different machines will need different number of instances / parameters to suit speed of machine and #cores

[davidBAM]

the other thing I noticed is that some instances got no work at all until I detached from other projects (which themselves had NNT set and nothing downloaded))

[PecosRiverM]

I'm going to head back to U'verse.
I'm have to shut some of these down tomorrow.

[Alez]

Stats are all messed up on the challenge now

[Megacruncher]

Stats are all messed up on the challenge now

I noticed that happening from time to time. But stats are fine now. TSBT still leading by 300K.
Best of all tomorrow TAAT will lose 7 FB points to P3DN. The day after, probably, we will gain 3 points from SG.

[scole of TSBT]

I'm out of WUs

[davidBAM]

follow post #54 so that you are ready to get lots when the server starts sending again. It says it has 39000 available

[Megacruncher]

I've got work but P3DN are now well in front now.
Their triumph is probably worse news for TAAT than it is for us.
Keep on it!
BTW, what is the source for this project ending soon?

[PShane of TSBT]

Dang Pete
Let a pass

Your wish has been granted Si r....

[Alez]

P3DN are pulling away at a rate now. They are putting some serious effort into beating you guys and they are being complimentary about it on the project forum. https://www.sidock.si/sidock/forum_thread.php?id=82
Another daily record for GFlops on the project and I would think a big learning curve for a FB sprint for them.

[davidBAM]

P3DN are pulling away at a rate now

They might be getting help (what a nerve, eh?) but I suspect there is a friendly Data Centre involved too. We saw evidence of this towards the end of FB2020 but I can't exactly remember which team(s) were involved as they were all out to keep TSBT off the podium.

This wisdom is henceforth to be known as 2020 hindsight

[davidBAM]

looks like server is backed-off again. Hope you all read post #54

[PecosRiverM]

P3DN are pulling away at a rate now

They might be getting help (what a nerve, eh?) but I suspect there is a friendly Data Centre involved too. We saw evidence of this towards the end of FB2020 but I can't exactly remember which team(s) were involved as they were all out to keep TSBT off the podium.

This wisdom is henceforth to be known as 2020 hindsight

After 2020 Pent. they had a group buy on some "7V12" Epyc's from China (I'm not sure). I think they have about 4 Dual's and a couple singles.

[Alez]

Not 100% sure about this , but one of my systems is returning valid units and I'm pretty sure it does not have VS C++ 2019 installed. I didn't run it as I'm pretty certain it is only VS C++ 2015, tried it and hey presto, I now have a huge 4 systems on the challenge.

[SolidAir79]

I only have three

[Alez]

I only have three

Umm, all my servers are dead, blown up dead, absolutely fried dead, dead, refusing to start dead and sitting in a corner dead. Even my i7 3770k is eh, dead, refuses to start.
The 4 systems consist of
i5-7300U CPU @ 2.60GHz laptop 4 cores
ancient Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz 8 cores
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz 4 cores
not exactly the farm of dreams .......

despite that I am sitting in 82nd and Anguillan Pirates, consisting of me and one of the project scientists ( Crtomir ) are not in last place and currently beating UK BOINC Team, which makes me happy

[Alez]

2 days left to run and TSBT is a very respectable 2nd place.

Individually it's

Cruncher Pete 2nd
davidBAM 4th
Megacruncher TSBT 6th
PecosRiverM 7th
Wailing Angus Beef 8th
SolidAir79 17th
Miklos M 22nd
cpozzo 144th
Saetia 166th
Thyme Lawn 201st
BarneyMac 239th

[scole of TSBT]

15 hours to go. I have enough until the end so I went NNW.

Make sure you're showing your SiDock badges!

[Miklos M]

15 hours to go. I have enough until the end so I went NNW.

Make sure you're showing your SiDock badges!

North by North West?

[scole of TSBT]

15 hours to go. I have enough until the end so I went NNW.

Make sure you're showing your SiDock badges!

North by North West?

No New Work

[Alez]

6 hours left to go.
Current GigaFLOPS 28362.45
Target: corona_PLpro_v2 (%) 84.612

The server has held up very well as has the supply of tasks.

[SolidAir79]

Are we staying on this after the challenge for a while gents?

[davidBAM]

I plan to stay on it until YoYo cruncher comes within range for first Sprint (720 hrs)

[SolidAir79]

Great minds think alike
If this project has limited wu's we may secure some good points early in the marathon.

[scole of TSBT]

SiDock appears to be creating new targets as needed so I don't think it's going dormant as soon as feared but like many other projects, who knows how long it will last. The admins are two experienced boincers so it could be around a while.

[SolidAir79]

I suppose with the different variations of the virus it could be !

[Alez]

Final scores on the doors

TSBT finished 2nd from 18 teams

Individually

Cruncher Pete 3rd
davidBAM 5th
Megacruncher TSBT 6th
Wailing Angus Beef 7th
PecosRiverM 8th
SolidAir79 18th
Miklos M 23rd
Saetia 150th
cpozzo 152nd
Thyme Lawn 205th
BarneyMac 253rd

Well done to all members of The Scottish Boinc Team and I wish you well in future competitions. Alez.

[Megacruncher]

Well done team!

And well done also to Anguillan Pirates, who finished 15th. A splendid one place ahead of UBT.
And congrats to their Pirate Captain, Alez, who was 80th overall.

[Alez]

For those that are unaware, this was posted by the team over at SiDock@home.
https://www.sidock.si/sidock/forum_thread.php?id=82

Dear participants!

We are glad to announce the winners of the first project competition! These powerful teams receive special badges picturing pyridine - a compound widely used in production of medicines, vitamins and many other products. The champions are:
1. Planet 3DNow! with 17,433,084 credit
2. The Scottish Boinc Team with 9,469,376 credit
3. [H]ard|OCP with 3,402,481 credit

Congratulations!!!

Well done to TSBT for achieving a special mention.

[scole of TSBT]

TSBT SiDock team page

Our special badge...

[Megacruncher]

Nice. If only all BoincStats comps came with special badges.