26/02-05/03: Hurrah for Prof Peter Higgs! LHC Classic Ch

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:09 am

Here's one I initiated earlier!

Url http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/649
Name : Hurrah for Prof Peter Higgs! LHC Classic Challenge
Status: upcoming.
Project: LHC@ Home Classic
Issued by: The Scottish Boinc Team
Start time: 2015-02-26 00:00 UTC
End time: 2015-03-05 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed?: Yes
Number of teams participatingÂ» 5

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:05 pm

Another competition that isn't seti

Maybe the world is changing

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:22 pm

WHOO HOO! A fresh project! Can't wait. :)

From what I understand, the LHC is supposed to restart in May and many researchers are trying to get their models tested before then. I've PM'd Eric Macintosh, one of the project admins about the challenge. Anyone want to post a message on their forum? I can't because I don't have enough recent credit.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:56 pm

Better start racking up some credit pendings then. Have the usual laptop and some androids permanently on the WCG challenge and GPUGrid is off the menu currently as I have had nothing but issues with the latest units crashing or hanging my systems. Might just be that the GTX 660ti's are now getting obsolete for coping with GPUGrid. Will try and post the challenge on LHC forum if I can.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:23 pm

Posted up on the LHC@Home website.

http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... hp?id=3919

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:26 pm

Hopefully there will be some units available. Been pretty sparse the last few days. Some available today if I can pick some up. Problem is the gaps between the availability means my backup projects keep picking up work or I would have to let the systems sit idle.

Server status here http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... status.php

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:43 pm

The project appears to release work in large batches every 4-5 days with smaller resend groups of 200-300 a couple times afterwards and there appear to be BOINC clients with huge caches set that grab most of them. Within a few hours of a large batch of tasks ready to send, they're gone and the tasks in progress takes 4-5 days to go down. I hope they can make it a fun challenge.

Big question now is, I have a few WUs on several systems. Do I let them finish or suspend them and wait for the challenge to start? I'm afraid if too many WUs in progress might hold up new batch of work being released.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:19 pm

I'm just crunching what I can get. Universe and POGS have tons of work so everytime LHC lets me down they pick up the slack and I get no LHC units

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:23 pm

I think they're going to make an effort to keep WUs available.

LOAD UP GANG! Before it's gone!

The project appears to give out about 24 hours worth of work max. At least that's all I can get at one time. Suspending until the 24 hour mark, then bunker them.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:56 am

For those of you still up, I had to change the <ncpus>24</ncpus> option in the cc_config.xml file to a double-triple the actual value to get enough WUs to bunker.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:25 pm

dyslectic

distracted
Mabel Higgs posing at the Winston County Fair, 1955.

Arley, Alabama

An elderly woman in Winston County has had enough. Mabel Higgs, 84, a retired schoolteacher has disconnected her telephone and no longer answers her front door after weeks of "being harassed and exhausted" by local and national journalists.

According to her grandson Thomas Higgs, also of the hamlet of Arley, Mrs. Higgs began to receive calls several weeks ago as excitement built over the impending discovery of the "God particle," otherwise known as the "Higgs boson." "Young, crackpot journalists, who apparently know nothing of science heard the rumours of my mother's award-winning bosom, and they haven't stopped calling or trespassing her property," said Mr. Higgs.
Scientists believe that the Higgs boson is the particle that gives all matter its mass. Experts know that elementary particles like quarks and electrons are the foundation upon which all matter in the universe is built. They believe the elusive Higgs boson gives the particles mass and fills in one of the key holes in modern physics.

But don't tell that to journalists from TMZ, CNN, or even The Guardian out of the UK. "It is well known all over the county that my mother won a contest at the Winston County Fair back in 1955 for "Most Impressive Bosom," and that if you Google "Higgs bosom" you will eventually come up with records of her award, which she is still proud of. In fact, my Mom still refuses to go into a nursing home for fear that all the old widowed men won't leave her alone. She still has an impressive dÃ©colletage. It's almost as impressive as her strawberry-rhubarb pie."

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:44 pm

I want a slab of Hogs bison ribs!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:12 am

would that be a giant 'rack' of ribs your after......

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:13 am

Alez wrote:would that be a giant 'rack' of ribs your after......

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:24 am

I'd love to BBQ a huge rack of ribs for Mabel .

Schwing!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:40 am

That was a 1955 photograph, Scole...

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:45 am

I know. I think she would still be happy to know people thought she was an attractive women. I'm sure she still is :)

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:16 am

Anyhoo, that's enough perving over 85 year old ladies for one thread.

Let us consider our challenge. A splendid bit of bunkering by scole has us heading a pack of 12 active teams so far. :wav:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:35 am

You chaps have no sense of humor and don't know how to pay a compliment to a woman, redneck style. I don't care what their age is, I'll make them blush. :)

Ok, on with the challenge!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:26 am

No diss'in on Scole for going OLD skool on the rack

I'm a vegetarian but I am informed some meat is better matured

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:01 am

Back home and have rapidly spammed the LHC update button. Hopefully my project RAC will climb a little.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:33 am

We're now sitting in 4th with 8 of us returning results so far. LAF and Poland behind us so far. Lets see if we can keep it that way

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:22 am

5th now

LAF gone and Poland catching us. Swamped by the hordes again

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:12 am

I'm glad to see 12 of us crunching on this but as usual we're still out numbered.

Janos has his rigs humming though. Good to see you in the thick of it

Shout out to the others helping...Fullsus, davidSandilands, Garry Ross, Simon Thomson, Reeltime, KaisenMike and Skywalker, I know you're out there. Dig deep lad!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:46 am

Keep up the good work chaps.
I think I'm out of this one as I seem to be having some slight technical issues.
For you computer experts I believe the official terminology is f@#$â‚¬d
Hopefully I'll manage to find some time to look at it soon

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:02 am

Something I didn't expect was some long running WUs. In the beginning, WUs were running anywhere from 3 minutes to 3 hours. I'm now into WUs taking 12+hours on my fastest systems.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:01 pm

Down to 6th now as the hordes overrun us. On the plus side we have gained 4 places in the world so far which is pushing us further away from the danger zone and that's all good.
Rosetta could have been done with the same treatment, pity they choose to post the competition at the same time as this one.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:46 pm

Sever was out of work for a while (and so was I), but new WUs now downloading.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:55 am

Alez wrote:Down to 6th now as the hordes overrun us. On the plus side we have gained 4 places in the world so far which is pushing us further away from the danger zone and that's all good.
Rosetta could have been done with the same treatment, pity they choose to post the competition at the same time as this one.

Up 5 places now to 89th!

Which in itself makes the comp all worthwhile. :)
Anyway the biggest hoards are by us. We shouldn't drop below 6th place and could still get back 5th.
As for Rosetta if, in a couple of days, 6th is secure but 5th is out of reach then we should give it some laldy!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 4:54 pm

Fingers crossed I seem to be back in the game again, let the crunching resume....

Post by **Sphynx** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:14 am

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to say I really like your site and reading your team interactions. You guys are a credit to the Boinc Community. Oh, and great going on the LHC Challenge. Keep it up!

Sphynx
Seti.USA Administrator

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 11:15 am

Hi Sphynx, nice of you to drop in and say hi.
Feel free to pop in anytime and shoot the breeze with us, and if you ever feel like defecting from Seti.USA and joining one of the big teams we'd be quite happy to have you

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:22 pm

Thanks for stopping by Sphynx. :)

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:54 am

And I though this challenge would bring a huge crunching boost to LHC .

Check out the Agile Boincers LHC stats. That's one account, not a team. They appear to be a data center dedicated to LHC...http://boincstats.com/en/stats/3/user/d ... 5/lastDays

Check out their systems

...http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... rid=242935

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:49 am

Think I can get all that in the tech shed ? Might have to rejig a few systems around to make a bit of space ......

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:07 am

I'm not a licensed electrician, but you might need to add a couple more 20amp circuits.

I think even the Black Ops crew would be jealous. 8)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:25 am

I thought I could just power them all off the spare flux capacitor I have kicking around ....

Up 8 places in the world so far, a major result. Hopefully a few more before the end of play

Post by **Sphynx** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:17 am

That user is in Switzerland. I'll bet there is a connection to CERN.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:48 pm

Sphynx wrote:That user is in Switzerland. I'll bet there is a connection to CERN.

The users crunches this project for Switzerland. The boincstats ID 242935 points to US user Gymborama

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:42 am

The boinc detectives on the case .... do we know the name of his dog yet ?

Bit of a detour from the 50's soft porn and the cooking of bison hoggs ribs.
On more mundane matters 6th it looks like it will be with just less than 2 days to go. Trying to do some rosetta units at the same time now.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:40 am

Hey, I'm willing to post some Betty Page pics as long as I don't get banned.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:00 am

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:54 pm

Most of my systems are out of work and my mouse finger is too tired to keep clicking the project update button. We'll just have to wait and see if we hold off Ukraine. On the bright side, should be able to help out on the rosetta challenge a bit more.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:26 am

TSBT finished a very respectable 6th from 16 and the mighty Anguillan Pirate juggernaut of 4 cores finished 14th ie not last again

Individually
scole of TSBT 10th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 19th
Janos of TSBT 24th
Megacruncher TSBT 30th
Fullsus 59th
Skywalker TSBT 114th
Anguillan Pirate 130th
Paul of TSBT 163rd
Reeltime 181st
KaizenMike 280th
Simon Thomson 454th
Garry Ross 482nd
Sharron Douglas 575th
davidSandilands 594th
Steven Garland 704th

Thanks to all who took part.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:59 am

Well done all! It's great to see so many TSBT members in the challenge. This was a nice fresh project though, wasn't it?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:26 am

scole250 wrote:This was a nice fresh project though, wasn't it?

I miss the days of posting 3 seti comps per week ......

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:28 pm

Alez wrote:
I miss the days of posting 3 seti comps per week ...LCD

I'm with you there Alez!
Bring on the seti 45 minute crunchathon

Well done to that impressive list of teammates who took part in the LHC comp

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:43 am

Great stuff! I think 6th is pretty good for a wee team in a CPU only project!