The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:41 am**

Grzegorz Roman Granowski .. yes, very surprising. I'd like to be jealous, but I'm going to have to settle for mostly gob-smacked.

.. and .. TSBT is already 9th, closing on 8th. Well, if you can get 7th, you can probably get 6th!

Posted: **Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:04 am**

4 more WU from me then nothing for 48hrs - hope we can hold 8th

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:52 pm**

7th place is Our's ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

edit : and I wil be in TOP ten ... as an individual for sure .

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:01 pm**

Superb. Well done

We should be fairly secure in 6th place and over 100M by tomorrow morning

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:56 pm**

' May The Britain be Magnificent, and The Scotland free ' ...

I am in the 8th place as Indidual, and we are in the 7th place as a Team ... we have 36 hour to finish ... hopefully we can hold the 7th place and sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ..

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 4:01 pm**

Well done, Gregg

We will be secure in 6th place before you are finished breakfast tomorrow (unless EVGA are also bunkering)

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 4:32 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 4:01 pm (unless EVGA are also bunkering)

I will be interested in seeing whether they do. I rarely pay attention to the teams at the top. My guess is that they are not bunkering. Bunkering really lowers your chance of being credited with finding the prime ( and that is be all and end all for many dedicated PGers

).

I did a search of the forums at PG for bunkering. Its not often mentioned and when it is there is often a negative connotation. There was the incident almost two years ago with the Pentathlon where several people tried to bunker PSA units and the admins reacted very badly ( and incorrectly to my mind since I was one of those people

)

So I will be interested.

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:02 pm**

Gibson Praise wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 4:32 pm there is often a negative connotation. There was the incident almost two years ago with the Pentathlon where several people tried to bunker PSA units and the admins reacted very badly ( and incorrectly to my mind since I was one of those people )

You, Scole, and myself ... they weren't happy with us

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:24 pm**

I've advanced to the fifth position in Primegrid total points ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:37 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:24 pm I've advanced to the fifth position in Primegrid total points ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

Congratulations from #756

Posted: **Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:40 pm**

Congrats Gregg!

I see that fourth is not that far away ..

from #210

Posted: **Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:29 am**

Granowski wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:24 pm I've advanced to the fifth position in Primegrid total points ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

Hooah!

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:23 pm**

Congrats on #8 spot Gregg - so close to getting #6 as well. It just came down to actual finish times on the last WUs

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:25 pm**

Warm welcome ! Congratulations ... to us All ... and thank You for The Race ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:15 pm**

Greetings and warm welcome ... The Dear The Scottish Boinc Team Members ... I am proud to present to Dear Geantelmen ... The Singularity Theory ... Origins of the Universe ... the main Idea is ... that before the expansion of time and space and matter ... four dimensions had both time and space ... and in the four ... infinities ... there were ... All the Information, and the Infinity in the center ... had spreaded the informations ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2019 7:51 pm**

I wish I understood more. I can just about handle the math behind Collatz

Posted: **Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:23 am**

greetings and warm welcome ... there is An Article about Scotland in the most opinion forming Newspaper in Poland ... https://www.rp.pl/Polityka/312239943-Kr ... legla.html ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

Posted: **Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:58 am**

All I will say on here is that Boris is making an excellent case for another Independence referendum

Posted: **Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:33 pm**

Sorry Gregg, I couldn't read the article or find a translation of it. Shame as it's always interesting to see how others see us.

Bor-arse, appalling carictature of a posh English entitled Tory buffoon that he is, is a great gift to the Nationalists & is any sensible Unionist's worst nightmare.
Which is why it's surprising that the recent General Election results weren't better for the Nats. Sure they got a huge majority of seats (first past the post really doesn't work at all proportionately in a 4 party system) but 55% of the votes went to the 3 Unionist parties with a very clear anti-indyref2 message. Of course in any referendum the Unionist vote will be, err, unified.

But definitely interesting times.

Posted: **Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:45 pm**

Dear the Scottish Boinc Team ... as a Proud Member thank You for acccepting my request to become an Anguillan Pirate ... sincerely and let me asure Dear Scottish Gentelmen of my continous support ... Gregg Roman Granowski ...

edit : please accept my Avatar !

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:59 am**

Gregg, if you want to use that avatar you need to upload it yourself.
Click on your name on top right hand side , select User Control Panel, select Edit Avatar and upload it to the site.

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:53 pm**

Dear Administrator ... Mr. Alez ... thank You for uploading an Avatar ... and ... we are in the first place in Boinc Formula League 2 for 2019 ... I am not exactly familiar to this championship ... does it mean we progress to Leauge 1 for the next year comptetition ? sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:03 pm**

Hi Gregg, I sorted out your avatar as the original was larger than the forum permitted. I must say what a happy-looking chap you are !!

Yes, we progress to League 1 of Formula Boinc next year & will find things much more difficult as the teams are larger. Hopefully a few more of them will truly be taking part as well

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:31 pm**

Dear The Scottish Boinc Team Members ... I've switched GPU power ... 12 x 2080 ti oc and 2 x 1080 ... all to Collatz ... hopefully it wil help us get ... a high place in Leaugue 1 Competition ! sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:41 pm**

Thanks Gregg,

Are you familiar with the Collatz optimisation files for these cards? If not, try this for the 1080 to get run times of around 360 seconds

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verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=9
lut_size=17
sieve_size=30
cache_sieve=1
sleep=0

On Linux, this would go into a config file in project directory e.g. /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz/collatz_sieve_1.40_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia.config There will be an empty file there already (unless you already optimise)

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:48 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:31 pm Dear The Scottish Boinc Team Members ... I've switched GPU power ... 12 x 2080 ti oc and 2 x 1080 ... all to Collatz ... hopefully it wil help us get ... a high place in Leaugue 1 Competition ! sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

F...ing hell, Gregg! Did you just say twelve GTX 2080?!

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:54 pm**

benchmark times for OC 2080 here https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 229#p74344

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:01 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:54 pm benchmark times for OC 2080 here https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 229#p74344

The only thing I can say is... wow!

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:09 pm**

please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website :https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:24 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:09 pm please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website :https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

I get it now. I would rather expect volunteers with significant hardware and financial resources to keep a low profile.

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:07 pm**

Hal Bregg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:24 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:09 pm please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website :https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...
I get it now. I would rather expect volunteers with significant hardware and financial resources to keep a low profile.

I honour Your's point of view. sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

edit : however, we try to widen the BOINC idea as far as we can !

Posted: **Sat Dec 28, 2019 11:05 pm**

I think 1x 2080 Ti would help. I think 12x is an awful lot of help... using the optimizations that's about 120,000,000 per day just from those

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:24 am**

Granowski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:07 pm
Hal Bregg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:24 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:09 pm please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website :https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...
I get it now. I would rather expect volunteers with significant hardware and financial resources to keep a low profile.
I honour Your's point of view. sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

edit : however, we try to widen the BOINC idea as far as we can !

Don't get me wrong Greg. I didn't mean to say that you should never disclose that information about your BOINC setup. I really admire your efforts to contribute so much to BOINC community.

Posted: **Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:18 am**

Greetings and warm welcome ... there is a saying in polish ... 'do siego roku' ! it is a wish for a happy Year ... it is not easily translated ... there is also a saying ... 'niech się darzy' ... may be gifted ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

edit : I have a question ... whilst checking usage of GPU towards collatz ... there are only abou 10 % usage of GPU ... why may that be ? Gregg Roman Granowski

Posted: **Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:47 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:18 am edit : I have a question ... whilst checking usage of GPU towards collatz ... there are only abou 10 % usage of GPU ... why may that be ? Gregg Roman Granowski

In the folder \ProgramData\BOINC\projects\boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz\, do you have these 2 files with the following contents or similar?

app_config.xml

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<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

collatz_sieve_1.30_windows_x86_64__opencl_nvidia_gpu.config

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verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=8
lut_size=17
sleep=1
reduce_cpu=0
sieve_size=30

If not, add them, restart the boinc client and see if that changes anything.

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:36 pm**

Dear The Scottish Boinc Team Members ... we are secured at 5th place in Formula Boinc ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:44 pm**

we are doing well but will lose quite a few points when Universe starts giving out work again. Will drop points on Gerasim and Collatz too

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:59 pm**

Greetings ... we are doing extremely well on Formula Boinc ... we are secured at 6th place ... hopefully we can reach 5th place as well ... sincerely and let me asure of my continous support ... Gregg Roman Granowski

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:05 pm**

Yes indeed - very pleased so far. Things will change a lot once the Sprints start as it will become rather clearer which teams are truly competing in it this year & which are staying on their favourite projects.

I get my FB kicks with bunkering to the max - and even speculating on which Sprints might get chosen. Only got one right last year - or was it two - but, to be honest, there weren't enough teams really trying in League 2 last year

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:35 pm**

Greetings ... do we have predictions or do we make expectations on which place we would like to finish our's Formula Boinc perfomance ? sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:41 pm**

That is a VERY good question.

I'll get some ideas on the other threads e.g. as I did for TN-Grid https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=178&t=17424

Things will change though and, even after only 4 weeks, it is fairly clear that we need to give up any idea of winning any FB points in certain marathons

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:22 pm**

As I've said before, we have to be realistic and accept that, in League 1 we are playing with the big boys, when in reality we are not that big.We simply cannot win.

But if we are smart we could possibly hold on to our current 6th place. I'd be disappointed to finish outwith the top 10 & devastated to finish below UBT!

For the marathons we really need to concentrate on the smaller projects, as we have been doing. Crunching for SETI WCG etc is a waste of time.
For the sprints, attention, focus, anticipation & luck are the main determinants of success. Preemptive bunkering, married with luck, might be useful. but key will be switching all resources over to every sprint as soon as it is announced.
So, all hands on deck, all year round!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:11 pm**

Greetings and warm welcome ! I've advanced to the 4th place in Primegrid Total Points !

May The Britain be Magnificent, but The Scotland Independently free

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:35 pm**

4th place is fantastic, Gregg. Tell me that doesn't put a smile on your face!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:44 pm**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:35 pm 4th place is fantastic, Gregg. Tell me that doesn't put a smile on your face!

indeed, it does ! however, i find my BOINC contribution as a duty, but the points are nice ! I've set a Polish National Task : let's solve Wacław Sierpiński Problem together, and my Primegrid settings are set to all the Sierpiński subprojects,
S o B, ESP, PSP and S/R Base ... so far there no findings, although many Work Units have been counted ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 4:49 pm**

3rd place is even better https://www.primegrid.com/top_users.php Well done, Sir

Also @Gibson Praise at 19th.

Respect

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:20 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 4:49 pm 3rd place is even better https://www.primegrid.com/top_users.php Well done, Sir

Also @Gibson Praise at 19th.

Respect

that's statistic site is by RAC ! sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:37 pm**

oops - didn't notice that

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:43 pm**

I am only one post to have a hundred . will there be a change in my TSBT rank after a next post? sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

btw ... how are things going in UK after Brexit ? what is ... the next plan ? will UK be joining any other Political or Economical alliance?

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:16 pm**

I think the only 'political alliance' in Boris' mind is Empire

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