16/1-23/1 Contribute to bottleneck after server shutdown!!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:53 am

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/639

Name Contribute to bottleneck after server shutdown!!
Status Upcoming
Project Einstein@Home
Issued by Hammrammstein
Start time 2015-01-16 12:00 UTC
End time 2015-01-23 12:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 12
Number of users participating 0

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:54 am

Not sure Einstein will welcome having their servers hammered after all the problems they have just had....

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:17 am

It's either this or the GPUGrid Challenge. Let's decide. I need to bunker. I'd rather participate on one that more TSBT members are geared up for, which I think is an AMD GPU favored project like Einstein. What do other TSBT members think? All of you! New and old timers!

Should note that GPUGrid only supports Nvidia GPUS and AMD GPUs rock on Einstein...

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:25 pm

Einstein is still down and with all the problems I don't think this challenge is a good idea for the project. I have too much happening just now to babysit GPUGrid with it's constant high failure rate. I find GPUGrid hangs my systems more than all the other projects combined.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:46 pm

Having only just managed to get my remaining Einstein units uploaded last night I'm with Alez in saying that having a comp as they are trying to recover from some slight technical issues is not the greatest of ideas.
And since I'm an AMD man i'm out of the GPUGrid one too.
I am going to continue trying to up my badge on PrimeGrid for now.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:19 pm

Managed to get some GPU units on this now. We are currently 10 from 15 just behind UBT. Will try and hunt them down

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:06 am

Well with all the nay saying I didn't think anyone was giving it a go so I put my AMD GPUS on some WUProp project goals. Try to stay ahead of me...

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:34 am

oooooh, fighting talk. Seems the comp has just got interesting. However don't get too carried away. We need a good effort on Universe. Cores to the fore gentlemen.
We have taken 9th from UBT and I'm in 8th. Catch me if you can

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:24 pm

TSBT now up to 8th but 7th may be a bridge too far.
I'm now in 6th and a Scole appears to have hoved into view in 18th. Mega sitting in 26th.
Still 5 days to go.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:03 am

Eh, we're holding our own in Universe and slowly gaining on the Aussies on Einstein. So I'll stick with it as a long as everyone else does. By the way Alez, check your 6...

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:47 am

Yip my output has flat lined. My 2 x 7970 system has discovered Milkyway, why , no idea. Scheduler ignoring what I want as have my 4 x nVidias system which wants to do primegrid. Can't get 1 7970 to run. Goes for about 10 mins then downclocks to idle and sits there. suspending tasks etc. does nothing. Shut boinc down and restart boinc and it crunches away for a while again before the same. It's a gygabyte 7970 GHz edition and it seems to be that powerplay doesn't recognise that boinc is running on the card and idles it. I did force powerplay off with afterburner but the card went nuts, screen tearing, pixelation and multiple driver crashes. Going to have another look in a bit.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:57 am

Which drivers are you using on the HD 7970 ?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:04 pm

Of the four I have, three look like this...

One looks like this...

I think it was flashed with a Ghz BIOS, but it runs like 3 legged chicken, so I'm not touching it.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:44 pm

We are catching BOINC@AUSTRALIA for 7th and with 3 days to go we should make it. Scole has managed to catch me up and taken 5th place.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:54 pm

I thought we seemed to be making progress on this one, i'm hoping to climb a few more places before the finish.
Don't think you and Scole need to worry though!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:41 pm

As long as we keep up the pace, I predict we'll take 5th.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:43 pm

Well I'm not giving up

still fighting the scheduler though.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:08 am

I'll keep pottering away doing my bit :)

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:33 am

We are up to 7th!

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:40 am

6th now!

:wav:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:51 am

Nice drop. They never saw it coming.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:45 pm

Well, we pulled off a 5th place finish! Good job everyone. :bounce:

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 7:37 pm

TSBT 5th from 15

Individually
scole of TSBT 3rd
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 6th
Megacruncher TSBT 16th
Paul of TSBT 60th
Peter Teago 133rd
Dominic Young 208th
Kostoglotov 266th
UrbanFlux 297th
Mark Mair 371st
B McT 380th
Janos of TSBT 430th
Giles 470th
davidSandilands 654th
Simon 665th
Allan McBain 667th
DonTex 698th
DJPercival 732nd
Wolfsschanze 776th
Davie Firth 780th
Robert Hendry 1093
Mad McMax 1171
tiggsy 1180
MacDitch 1322
outcast 1325
Thinboab 1343

well done those that competed.

The Scottish Boinc Team

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