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#1 Primegrid 2020 Challenge #1

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Date: 24-Jan-2020, 00:00:00 UTC to 25-Jan-2020 00:00:00 UTC
Project: 321-sieve (CPU only)

As with all PG Challenges, only workunits downloaded after the start of the challenge and completed and returned by the end of the challenge are valid (double-check validation not required).

This is the first of nine challenges this year, the only 1-day challenge in the series ( http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/challenge.php ), and the only one till mid-March.

Workunits are quick ( under 10 min on EYPC 7281 @ 2.1ghz, under 3 min on i9-9900K @ 3.6ghz edit: wrong sieve / wrong times/ right clown. corrected: 1hr 10min - EPYC, 50 min - i9 ) and are best run with hyper-threading on ( as opposed to most PG cpu apps which use the LLR algorithm and prefer HT off ). edit: 609.89 pts / wu

Please feel free to join me in this inaugural challenge,
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#2 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Perfect. I need less than 5k hours to get WUProp lime 25k hours on that app.
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#3 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Dipping a toe in the water now. Any reason not to run all available threads? That is, is there a minimum RAM or L3 Cache bottleneck that you know of on larger machines?

ETA : low RAM requirement (137M on Linux)
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#4 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Gibson Praise wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:43 am 50 min - i9
Yup - same on 3990X https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 758#p79758
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#5 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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reminder - starts at midnight UTC
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#6 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Ready!

For maximum credit during the challenge, clear your cache before the start and don't download any new WU until after the start. It's only a 24 hour challenge so it will make a difference.
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#7 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Time to go!
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#8 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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I am fully loaded. About 20mins until first WUs turned in
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#9 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Somebody get a picture ... we're in 3rd.
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#11 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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davidBAM wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:57 am Image
.. and still in third :shock: :dance:
and on the individual side davidBAM continues to hold first with Bowmore close behind p10
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Hmm ... no denying first place individual be nice. Maybe some of the Pros will just hire clout from Amazon Web Services though?

Third placed team will ruffle feathers
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#13 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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There is an entire thread devoted to Google CoLab http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.p ... 839#135424 .. mostly devoted to GPU use. Haven't seen anyone try to abuse the CPUs yet.

On a one day challenge I think we might catch them by surprise.

edit: Woohoo! I am back into the top 50 - which for me is fabulous!
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#14 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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I'm starting to get run over! We're still holding 3rd though.
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#15 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Bryan wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:56 am I'm starting to get run over!
Me too

We are about to drop to 5th. Any assistance greatly appreciated
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#16 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Hmmm I'm running 321-sieve but I don't seem to be showing on the Challenge page for the team (or as an individual for that matter).

Checked on the Primegrid Account Page and I am deffo showing as TSBT.

According to BAM (not David) I have done 195,773 so far today.
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#17 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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#18 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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We dropped to 5th - now back at 4th. I've even got 8WU running on my laptop but I doubt if that is the reason.

Laptop crunching not recommended, I know
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#19 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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If you can crunch on the laptop, well I just started an old i7-3770. Might get ten or twenty workunits.
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#20 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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:clap: We are just a tad competitive on here :D
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#21 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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The laptop actually does quite well, 8 threads and 80mins each so 1 WU every 10mins
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#22 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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davidBAM wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:39 pm :clap: We are just a tad competitive on here :D
Speak for yourself, there isn't a competitive bone in my body :D
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NVM

My laptop went crazy! Sorry.
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#28 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Well done all, 5th in the Team Place which is awesome against the PrimeGrid Professionals. We had 3 in the Top 20, 5 in the Top 100.

I got first individual place with more than a little help from Bryan who sacrificed a Top 5 finish for himself to hep me in last 7-8 hours - many, many thanks. I'd been having a ding-dong battle staying just ahead of RFGuy from [H] team so Bryan stepped in to make sure of things
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#29 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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Heckuva showing. 4th was tantalizingly close!
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#30 Re: Primegrid Challenge #1

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We could have made 3rd with a concerted effort, I reckon.

At risk of blowing my own trumpet, I have to point out how much btsk helped me - I had 480 threads running flat-out in 24 instances on 18 machines within 9-10mins of the start. btsk ticklers also ensured all had a full day's work within 30mins (and it did require a bit of tickling even though PG is an extremely well-run project. Okay, so Bryan helped a bit at the end but it really was a flying start
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