11/10-16/10 Friedrich Bergius Challenge-yoyo@home

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:40 am

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/727

Name Friedrich Bergius Challenge
Status Upcoming
Project yoyo@home
Issued by ngb:setiteam
Start time 2015-10-11 14:00 UTC
End time 2015-10-16 14:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 9
Number of users participating 0

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:45 am

Alrightly...fresh meat! Hasn't been a Yoyo team challenge for over 1.5 years! Let's not disappoint ElricM and his friends. Challenge starts in 13 hours. Let's make a showing.

Tips here...http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 172&t=2806

BTW, they have great badges. Not a better chance to earn some....
OGR Cruncher

(which runs on androids)
ECM

Muon

Euler 625

Evolution

Harmonious Tree

Odd Weird Search

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:59 am

I'm going to stick with Universe in the main for FB but I will try and shove some systems over here. Can't have you all on your own

That said, once started, things do tend to spiral out of control ....

Can we expect a devistating bunker bomb or is this a straight up crunch what you got start ? and where's Mr Carver lurking with evil intent

or that utopia-i ...... 8)
Oh and someone poke Paul before he's late as usual :bootyshake:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:12 am

I've still got one 24 core system on Universe until I get that Venus badge. Of course, if Meisterkuehler.de Team decides to keep coming at us, I can turn quickly. Got that...give it up lads. You must have other priorities.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:17 am

scole250 wrote:I've still got one 24 core system on Universe until I get that Venus badge. Of course, if Meisterkuehler.de Team decides to keep coming at us, I can turn quickly. Got that...give it up lads. You must have other priorities.

:bootyshake:

of course those Polish lads are just down the road on Universe .....

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:40 am

Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance !!!!
just awesome.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:21 am

scole250 wrote:Alrightly...fresh meat! Hasn't been a Yoyo team challenge for over 1.5 years! Let's not disappoint ElricM and his friends. Challenge starts in 13 hours. Let's make a showing.

Tips here...http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 172&t=2806

BTW, they have great badges. Not a better chance to earn some....
OGR Cruncher (which runs on androids)
ECM
Muon
Euler 625
Evolution
Harmonious Tree
Odd Weird Search

Euler, Harmonious Trees and Odd Weird Search have ended.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:33 pm

8 hours in, TSBT is in 4th and threatening SETI.Germany for 3rd! We've got a pretty good crew so far including...
Snowdog of TSBT
Skywalker TSBT
Paul of TSBT
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ]
scole of TSBT

Keep it up gang

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:31 am

Alez wrote: Oh and someone poke Paul before he's late as usual :bootyshake:

Aww man that's harsh.......
It might be entirely accurate but....

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:06 am

If your not carefull I may exercise admins rights ( ie bullying ) and change your rank to coo's tail

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:59 am

Nothing to see here, just happy people crunching away.......

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:18 am

Amost a day and half in and TSBT is still 4th. Not too shabby considering the company.

Individual positions...
scole of TSBT 2nd
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 12th
Paul of TSBT 22nd
Skywalker TSBT 35th
utopia-i 45th
Philippe 79th
Snowdog of TSBT 88th

Keep it up!

I'm trying for a silver star on Muon and a gold star on ECM. Any other badge hound goals?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:22 am

Badge Hound ... I like that. Might be a renaming of a forum to reflect the badge houndiness of the participants

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:29 am

Done, we now have a place described as 'A happy place for all the Badge Hounds among us to brag about the bling.'

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:42 am

It reallty pi$$es me off when 10 hours into a unit it decides to throw a computational error

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:47 am

This is my thoughts I just posted over at the challenge chat...
I'm starting to think some PrimeGrid 17 or Bust WUs got mixed in the ECM WUs

At least you still get the WUProp hours.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:01 am

scole250 wrote:badge hound

Now that gives me an idea...

Post by **utopia-i** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:57 am

This challenge is indeed a challenge! - Thankfully the WU quorum is 1, but the WUs are not the shortest, 7 -10hours plus - long deadline and ideal for bunkering but was away on a jolly to sunny Aberdeen of all places ...

anyhow I'm in sneaking in under the radar ...

... perhaps Scole250 can explain his megga 21K jump over Sphynx[BlackOps] to go back into 2nd
.... some giggery pokery afoot here I suspect :bom:

The good old days revisited
--------------------------------
I can remember, just, walking into the HQ of evolution@home (before it moved to yoyo land ) and the scientist/developer was gob snacked that I new all about and contributed to his project. In those days badges weren't as prized as they are now ..

other wise I could have gotten a few points added after upgrading one of his Macs ...

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:07 pm

Janos wrote:
scole250 wrote:badge hound
Now that gives me an idea...

Me too, but I was thinking about badgers instead of hounds:

These badgers do not stink at all:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:18 pm

utopia-i wrote:... perhaps Scole250 can explain his megga 21K jump over Sphynx[BlackOps] to go back into 2nd
.... some giggery pokery afoot here I suspect :bom:

Nah. A couple of my systems just happen to be getting similar, long running WUs which finish close to the same time. My credit tanks for a while, then spikes when they all complete in a short window.

Post by **Sphynx** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:40 pm

I'm still voting for the ".... some giggery pokery afoot..." If I hadn't been tied up on WCG, this would have definitely been the challenge to bunker. You guys were all tied up on Universe, so you had the same problem. Nice job on Universe BTW!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:14 pm

All need are 6 more Universe WUs to clear pending to get the lovely Venus badge, but that's taking even longer than these ECM WUs to complete!

Post by **utopia-i** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:13 am

Does anyone have any experience of running ECM WUs, ecm (App0.01) on a Mac (i3 3.2GHz)

The 4 Wus are showing 60% and Elapsed time is 25 hours, 16 hours remaining

I'm pretty sure these WUs take approx 10 hours on a PC (App 0.05) .. ok I realise it a bit of comparing apples and oranges but .... 31hours for completion ?

I'll not be racing up the leader board then

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:15 pm

I was running 36 WU on Linux. At the 12.5 hour mark they were only at 44% so I pulled the plug. I think Steve is right that Windows is the way to go on ECM. After wasting 12 hours I didn't bother to kick over to Windows.

Post by **utopia-i** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:35 pm

Bryan, that is interesting, I wish I'd asked 12 hours ago

I've only 4 WUs, now at elapsed time 30 hours and 80%, just gotta let them finish, if its a computational error then I'll move onto WCG FAH2 ...

Post by **Sphynx** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:53 am

@scole - what's going on over there? You're either bunkering, you went home or you're stuck on some very long ecm wus.

Post by **utopia-i** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:29 pm

With a day left to go .. hopefully some of the long WUs will end in time to boost our totals

Team position is 5th of 17 teams . 85K behind 4th place SETI.Germany

A goodly turn out of Munchers ..

scole of TSBT .... 3rd
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] .... 12th
Paul of TSBT .... 27th
utopia-i .... 52nd
Skywalker TSBT .... 54th
Snowdog of TSBT .... 95th
Philippe .... 122nd
Peter Teago .... 165th
conelmatrix .... 173rd

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:45 pm

Sphynx wrote:@scole - what's going on over there? You're either bunkering, you went home or you're stuck on some very long ecm wus.

Don't know why it's tanked so bad. Yesterday evening I did start Milkyway which is using 6 cores on various systems, but it started going south before that. I also had to suspend yoyo on a couple systems to keep milkyway work on them.

Post by **Sphynx** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:24 pm

scole250 wrote:
Sphynx wrote:@scole - what's going on over there? You're either bunkering, you went home or you're stuck on some very long ecm wus.
Don't know why it's tanked so bad. Yesterday evening I did start Milkyway which is using 6 cores on various systems, but it started going south before that. I also had to suspend yoyo on a couple systems to keep milkyway work on them.

That shouldn't account for a 60k turnaround between you any me. That is strange, but I'll take the gift as long as it holds out.

Post by **utopia-i** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:17 pm

The Teddy Bears' Picnic ...

The last day may be full of surpise/s (hopefully) 8) :drunken:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:08 pm

I did have some long running WUs on my X5650 systems, 40 hours. A few starting to finish...
http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/results ... &offset=20

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:56 am

On the home straight. 5th for the team is assured. Still a couple of individual positions to be confirmed

Post by **Sphynx** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:57 am

scole250 wrote:I did have some long running WUs on my X5650 systems, 40 hours. A few starting to finish...
http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/results ... &offset=20

Those are long. It's been a while since I've run ecm...may be a while longer before I try to run that to 1 million. I've been pretty consistently on Cruncher ogr throughout the challenge, though I flipped over to Evolution and I've even got a couple Harmonious Trees running. Good luck at the finish!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:20 am

Come on droids, you can do it!

Post by **utopia-i** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:43 am

4 hours to go ...

That's me uploaded, not enough to overtake SETI.Germany for team 4th but individually almost caught a certain Alez in 12th!, however the key word is almost ..

WELL done to all, its a brutal challenge for sure with long WUs, will take a good few days more to finish off WUs, holding out for an EVO silver badge, then onto or return to .... ?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:11 am

You very close. Still a few hours to go and I doubt any more of my units will complete. There's still a chance of you getting past me

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:03 pm

TSBT finished 5th from 15 teams.

Individual kudos to

scole of TSBT 3rd
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 12th
utopia-i 13th
Paul of TSBT 31st
Skywalker TSBT 60th
Snowdog of TSBT 94th
Philippe 134th
Peter Teago 164th
conelmatrix 182nd

well done all.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:52 pm

Good job everyone, a solid performance

I see utopia isn't scared of taking on the boys at the top!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:49 am

Silver wrote:I see utopia isn't scared of taking on the boys at the top!

An A+ for effort , C- for execution

( This will come back to haunt me, I just know it

)

Post by **utopia-i** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:30 am

A C- for execution is very generous, excuses are ... forgot about the challenge, started almost a day late and finished, thanks to the extra long WU times, 4 hours early ... I can only do better ! -

The only positives was to lull Alez into a false scene of security which seems to be working well and a new evo silver badge .. :bounce:

( off topic ... what is the main project for the team, apart from challenges and person badge goals ?, are we still Formula challenging ?)