17/1-24/1 NumberFields@home January challenge

[Bryan]

Sounds like he is going to be a real buddy Alez ... Congrats!

[Silver]

TSBT holds top team spot and half the top 10 individual places!
Keep up the impressive crunching guys :bounce:

[Bryan]

TSBT holds top team spot and half the top 10 individual places!
Keep up the impressive crunching guys :bounce:

I think there is a chance we will win this one

[scole of TSBT]

Hey...you were sandbagging the whole time! Nice drop :)

[Bryan]

Hey...you were sandbagging the whole time! Nice drop :)

Nice drop from you as well ... I was a little optimistic cause I thought we might hit 10M. I guess we'll just have to settle for 9.25M

[Dirk Broer]

Either you are holding in the MOAB, or they are creeping up

NumberFields@home January challenge

Two-stage MOAB commited

[Bryan]

And the three Tenors are singing Scottland The Brave to the Borg once again . I am now resuming Nocturnal operations.

You were a tremendous help Pete! With you throwing up good credits I was able to keep bunkering some of my machines. That allowed me to keep up with you-know-who in the bunker department

Once again, the Borg have been disassemilated

[Alez]

That was some drops guys, crushed the Borg BIGLY

[scole of TSBT]

Was too easy. It's no fun teasing a machine. It doesn't know it's being teased. Maybe it will develop a consciousness sometime

[Bryan]

Was too easy. It's no fun teasing a machine. It doesn't know it's being teased. Maybe it will develop a consciousness sometime

Considering why folks belong to the Borg, to get money, then I would be amazed if they every become a real "team". As you said, it is a machine.

[Bryan]

Hey Dirk, do you want some help. I can do it so no one will know where it came from. AMD Users could take 3rd.

[Dirk Broer]

Hey Dirk, do you want some help. I can do it so no one will know where it came from. AMD Users could take 3rd.

Now that's tempting. We just passed BOINC@Poland and I don't know if I can close the gap with BOINC.Italy in a lttle over two days, together with only NeoGen...

[Dirk Broer]

That was a nice drop into the AMDUsers account, much to the delight of team mate NeoGen.
BOINC.Italy is less amused though...

[Bryan]

That was a nice drop into the AMDUsers account, much to the delight of team mate NeoGen.
BOINC.Italy is less amused though...

I think that should hold up but if not we can always do it again

[Dirk Broer]

In the meantime Luigi R. has proven to be a master of deduction. We must make him an offer he can't refuse....or pass him with Seti.USA as well.

[Bryan]

In the meantime Luigi R. has proven to be a master of deduction. We must make him an offer he can't refuse....or pass him with Seti.USA as well.

I have to admit I'm very impressed. I think I'll keep watching. Poland has increased their output and I can keep Italy ahead of them if needed 8)

[Dirk Broer]

We'd better look very closely: Italia has warmed up to the challenge, it seems...

[scole of TSBT]

I think it's 25000ghz [Lombardia]. Check out his computers https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFiel ... erid=74428

[Dirk Broer]

The least we can say about the Italians is that they keep the fun up in this challenge

[Bryan]

Are you ready to rrrruuuummmmbbbbllllle?

@Dirk, that is a phrase the announcer used to use at the beginning of professional wrestling matches :)

I might need some help on this one Steve. I could normally cover his 30k/hr but I'm helping Pete hold off UofS. You don't have to jump immediately, but watch it close.

[Bryan]

I have to apologize but I've moved off for a while. There is a new project and I've never had a chance to be the 1st user to 1M before so I am going to go for it.

Sorry!!!

NEW PROJECT

Quote Originally Posted by Sergei Chernykh
I've started a project to extend the exhaustive search limit from 1018 to 264 (~1.845*1019), and also to verify all amicable pairs below 1018. There are ~500,000 amicable pairs still to be found in the range 1018 - 264.

Since the amount of computations is so vast (over 500 CPU core-years; 1000 CPU core-years actually because the project uses replication), I'll need volunteers to help with the search. Everyone is welcome!

I've set up a BOINC server: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/

Those who want to participate will need to do the following steps:

Sign up here: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/create_account_form.php
Use invitation code "mersenneforum" (without quotes) when you sign up.
Download and install BOINC client if you haven't done it yet: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Those who are new to BOINC should first browse https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and read some manuals/FAQs there.
When BOINC client asks you to add/join a project, provide the following URL:

https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/

Don't try to find this project in the list in BOINC client, it's not there yet. You'll have to copy-paste the URL.
When BOINC client asks you for credentials, enter email/password of the account you created in step 1.
BOINC client should then connect to the server and start running tasks for the project.



Please report all bugs/issues you encounter either here or on message boards on the project's server: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_index.php

The program that will run on your PCs is open-source and can be found here: https://github.com/SChernykh/Amicabl.../boinc-version
Only Windows 64-bit and Linux 64-bit are supported now. I'm also waiting for bug reports/other suggestions at Github.

[Alez]

Seems I can't create TSBT on it. Working on it.
I'll swich to AMD until the end of the challenge if needed.

Edit, I've switched

[Dirk Broer]

I think it's 25000ghz [Lombardia]. Check out his computers https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFiel ... erid=74428

25000ghz [Lombardia] confirmed...Looks like he is system administrator for the Uni of Milan or so!

[Bryan]

Okay sorry for the interuption ... I'm back. I managed to meet my goal, my 1st time being the 1st user to 1M on a project. The new one pays BIG credits.

[Dirk Broer]

Okay sorry for the interuption ... I'm back. I managed to meet my goal, my 1st time being the 1st user to 1M on a project. The new one pays BIG credits.

Congratulations! I'll try it too, when the Numberfields challenge is over...

[Bryan]

Well it is over!

The good guys totally crushed the Borg again and TSBT finished in the top spot by almost 10M credits. Once again the top 3 individuals were from TSBT!

Congrats to AMD Users for finishing 3rd. If Italy had a bunker they didn't get to use it That is a horrible way to finish a challenge.

I reached my goal of 25M so I'm finished with that project!

[Dirk Broer]

The Numberfields server can be reached again!

[scole of TSBT]

TSBT finished 1st of 16 teams!

The project went FUBAR and the challenge stats are whack but I will give credit to the folks in the top ten that I can remember. If the challenge stats come back I'll update this.

Individual kudos to...
Bowmore 1st
scole of TSBT 2nd
McShane of TSBT 3rd
alez [ TSBTs Pirate ] 9th
Paul of TSBT 10th
Skywalker TSBT (you were there but not sure of position)

And noteworthy, Dirk Broer who helped carry AMD Users to a 3rd of 16 finish!

Well done all :salute:

[Silver]

Great result guys, well done
And great result for Dirk and his AMD chums too :salute: