The Scottish Boinc Team

So I don't bunker a lot .. loaded up and cut off so I should get an extra half-year or so of runtime when this starts and we open up.

Gibson Praise wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:06 am So I don't bunker a lot .. loaded up and cut off so I should get an extra half-year or so of runtime when this starts and we open up.

I plan on unloading most clients after the start. Since this is my first time bunkering, shall I wait much beyond the start time, tomorrow evening?

Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:52 pm I plan on unloading most clients after the start. Since this is my first time bunkering, shall I wait much beyond the start time, tomorrow evening?

I would upload all tonight, maybe 30 minutes after the start at 8:30pm eastern. You have some WUs that will already have completed WU past the deadline so sooner the better.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:29 pm

Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:52 pm I plan on unloading most clients after the start. Since this is my first time bunkering, shall I wait much beyond the start time, tomorrow evening?

I would upload all tonight, maybe 30 minutes after the start at 8:30pm eastern. You have some WUs that will already have completed WU past the deadline so sooner the better.

I am looking forward to that I have almost 180 Africas done.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:29 pm

Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:52 pm I plan on unloading most clients after the start. Since this is my first time bunkering, shall I wait much beyond the start time, tomorrow evening?

I would upload all tonight, maybe 30 minutes after the start at 8:30pm eastern. You have some WUs that will already have completed WU past the deadline so sooner the better.

Are you sure it starts tonight? I thought it was starting tomorrow night.

It starts on Oct-05 00:00 UTC which is 8:00PM eastern tonight. I'd wait until at least 8:30PM eastern just to make sure they get a good stats snapshot. You can wait until tomorrow if you want to though.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:02 pm It starts on Oct-05 00:00 UTC which is 8:00PM eastern tonight. I'd wait until at least 8:30PM eastern just to make sure they get a good stats snapshot. You can wait until tomorrow if you want to though.

Naw, I will return them at 8:30 tonight and maybe by morning, when the 9 am report is out we will have a good start, especially others on the team dumping some more.

I was hoping to fill up the other clients also, but did not receive any work there.

THOR Challenge Week 3

Still at 0 seconds for all teams

Gibson Praise wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:43 pm THOR Challenge Week 3

Still at 0 seconds for all teams

Yes, but we are on a roll. I got so far after 12 hours=87 days, with bunkering. And now running almost flat out. Also, there are many of my tasks that were returned and waiting for credit.

greetings ... Good luck on the Challenge ... I am counting three wu per day, all for Africa Rainfall ...

hopefully it is going to be a little help and sincereky,

Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Granowski wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:00 pm greetings ... Good luck on the Challenge ... I am counting three wu per day, all for Africa Rainfall ...

hopefully it is going to be a little help and sincereky,

Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Hello Gregg, it all helps in our quest to get into the top 20 by the end of the week.
Great crunching team, I am in 5th place for the day, so far, in this high crunching company. Now with 3 more clients chomping away on the tasks.

My goodness. I wish they'd improve the challenge stats. 25hrs in and we are all still on sfa!
I dont necessarily expect realtime stats, but at least once a day would be a start!

We're 11th after 24 hours. We need more power!

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:42 am My goodness. I wish they'd improve the challenge stats. 25hrs in and we are all still on sfa!
I dont necessarily expect realtime stats, but at least once a day would be a start!

I seem to recall that the first day's results have taken longer than the others in the previous weeks also. Maybe they can be encouraged to speed it up?

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:15 am We're 11th after 24 hours. We need more power!

Go TEAM!!

I think I got 129 days in 36 hours, even though I shut down my clients accidentally.
I will ask my guru to help me put on more clients. Maybe do 1/2 year per day.

11th is pretty impressive.
And we are ahead of TAAT.
I'd imagined that by this stage in the week I'd have all my cores on ODLK but, I've pretty much crunched my entire bunker and can't get any more, so, I might as well set a few more cores onto WCG.
Charge!

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:59 pm 11th is pretty impressive.
And we are ahead of TAAT.
I'd imagined that by this stage in the week I'd have all my cores on ODLK but, I've pretty much crunched my entire bunker and can't get any more, so, I might as well set a few more cores onto WCG.
Charge!

I think #10 is possible, we just have to keep crunching at full speed and oh yeah, damn the torpedoes.



I still have over 100 tasks on wcg Pending.

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:21 pm
I think #10 is possible, we just have to keep crunching at full speed and oh yeah, damn the torpedoes.

10th is possible. Let's go for it.
Even more feasible is qualifying for week 5 ie the Thor Pure final. There will be 20 qualifiers and as things stand we are sitting 18th.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/foru ... 200#643678

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:09 pm

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:21 pm
I think #10 is possible, we just have to keep crunching at full speed and oh yeah, damn the torpedoes.

10th is possible. Let's go for it.
Even more feasible is qualifying for week 5 ie the Thor Pure final. There will be 20 qualifiers and as things stand we are sitting 18th.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/foru ... 200#643678

Did every one opened their bunker doors the first day? We need to push harder, TEAM! Let's focus here and we can catch Germany a week later.

I wonder if I turn off my gpu's would my cpus crunch fas ter and more units?

Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:24 am I wonder if I turn off my gpu's would my cpus crunch fas ter and more units?

Number of WUs crunched doesn't matter for the 3rd segment. It's runtime. Doesn't matter if it takes 1 hour or 1 day to crunch a WU, as long as the core keeps crunching WCG WUs

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:02 am

Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:24 am I wonder if I turn off my gpu's would my cpus crunch fas ter and more units?

Number of WUs crunched doesn't matter for the 3rd segment. It's runtime. Doesn't matter if it takes 1 hour or 1 day to crunch a WU, as long as the core keeps crunching WCG WUs

Thank you, I forgot.

As of tonight we are 15th. Looking strong.

Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:36 am

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:02 am

Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:24 am I wonder if I turn off my gpu's would my cpus crunch fas ter and more units?

Number of WUs crunched doesn't matter for the 3rd segment. It's runtime. Doesn't matter if it takes 1 hour or 1 day to crunch a WU, as long as the core keeps crunching WCG WUs

Thank you, I forgot.

In general though, it depends on the GPU project. Things like Collatz and SRbase TF use so little CPU that I ignore them and put all threads on CPU projects.

PrimeGrid, Moo and NumberFields use a lot of CPU to keep the GPU going flat out

Amicable Numbers is sort of in-between - seems to use a lot of CPU and then a lot of GPU as the WU proceeds

Very nice going Cruncher Pete and PecosRiverM. Keep crunching.

New bunker to work on as somebody can't count votes..

PecosRiverM wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:10 pm New bunker to work on as somebody can't count votes..

We are in 18th place tonight, we need many bunkers to make sure we remain in the top 20 come the end of the week. No bunker here but running all my clients as hard as I dare. Scored 50 days for the last 24 hours.

Well, by this stage 2 things seem to be clear:
1. We are 15th in Week 3 & are very unlikely to make it into the Top 10 so qualification for Week 4 is unlikely.
2. We are 18th in qualification for Thor Pure. Twenty qualify so that sounds a bit uncomfortable but it isn't. We are way ahead of the team in 21st so a fairly minimal effort will see us qualify for Week 5.
I'm moving my main resources to the Sprint. But the Pi Platoon will be good for at least another 100 days before we are done.
Don't flog your clients too hard Miklos: Remember this one is all about time, speed has nothing to do with it.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:17 pm Well, by this stage 2 things seem to be clear:
1. We are 15th in Week 3 & are very unlikely to make it into the Top 10 so qualification for Week 4 is unlikely.
2. We are 18th in qualification for Thor Pure. Twenty qualify so that sounds a bit uncomfortable but it isn't. We are way ahead of the team in 21st so a fairly minimal effort will see us qualify for Week 5.
I'm moving my main resources to the Sprint. But the Pi Platoon will be good for at least another 100 days before we are done.
Don't flog your clients too hard Miklos: Remember this one is all about time, speed has nothing to do with it.

Aye Aye Captain.

We are 19th after today with 2 days to go.

Miklos, as soon as the Sprint is over I'll all 200 of my cores on WCG for the final stretch.

me too 500 or so

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:28 pm Miklos, as soon as the Sprint is over I'll all 200 of my cores on WCG for the final stretch.

With all this help I am sure we shall get into the top 20 and live to fight another day.

davidBAM wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:30 pm me too 500 or so

david are those clients too, just curious. I can muster 66 cores if not using the gpu's, plus clients.

That is number of threads, half that for number of cores. Am down by several machines at the moment as well but don't hold back - some of these cores are not up to much

What, me worry?

Steady on chaps. No need for last minute heroics.
We are still 18th in qualification for the Thor Pure Challenge.

18. The Scottish Boinc Team 36 years, 143 days
19. UserFriendly.Org 35 years, 53 days
20. AMD Users 31 years, 302 days

21. BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID 27 years, 156 days
22. Sweden 13 years, 185 days

Twenty qualify. Look at the figures and relax. Brazil are not suddenly going to crunch 9years in 2 days when all they have managed in 19 days is 27years. Qualification is in the bag!

Conversely it is game over as far as qualifying for Week 4 of Thor Dirty is concerned. We are 19th on c.14 years. To qualify we need to end at least 10th. CNT in 10th have c.31 years. To overtake that in 48hrs we'd need at least 3100 cores on it. Not gonna happen!

So chillax & keep your foci on the Numberfields sprint & the Gerasim Marathon.

And rejoice that we have done rather well in a challenge in a project which for years was one where we struggled to reach the top 100!

459 threads on ever since end of Sprint. Needed the remainder to run PG GPU

so when is week 4? I'll bunker up the pi farm

davidBAM wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:42 pm so when is week 4? I'll bunker up the pi farm

Very unlikely we'll make week 4 but we should qualify for the 5th week, THOR Pure which will be based on credit instead of runtime. It will run Monday November 02, 2020 thru Sunday November 08, 2020.

Hold the Pi farm!

Thor Challenge Wk 3 finished 7 hours ago but the results haven't been announced yet.
No way we could have qualified for week 4 but week 5/Thor Pure is a cert. And unlike weeks 1, 2 & 3 it doesn't clash with any FB sprints!

I must pay more attention as it seems bizarre to me. I thought the numbers reduced each week like Musical Chairs

davidBAM wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:27 am I must pay more attention as it seems bizarre to me. I thought the numbers reduced each week like Musical Chairs

Week four is the final, including the likes of Greedcoin/the Borg. Week five is for the 'Pure', like TSBT, or AMD Users. We both qualified.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:53 am Hold the Pi farm!

Thor Challenge Wk 3 finished 7 hours ago but the results haven't been announced yet.
No way we could have qualified for week 4 but week 5/Thor Pure is a cert. And unlike weeks 1, 2 & 3 it doesn't clash with any FB sprints!

I will temporarily(for 1 week) join my old team, USA for the week of 10/19-25 and give them a hand. Then return for the Thor Pure and crunch like crazy.

no problem with that, my friend. You won't be taking your GPUs will you?

davidBAM wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:15 pm

no problem with that, my friend. You won't be taking your GPUs will you?

Nope, they are on a mission to catch SG. They are running at full tilt My guru even set it so there are three extra ones crunching in a client.

davidBAM wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:15 pm

no problem with that, my friend. You won't be taking your GPUs will you?

A very valid question. I want the gpus to run for TSBT, and the cpus for USA for two weeks. Since the bunkering.
How do I do it?

Miklos M wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:08 pm A very valid question. I want the gpus to run for TSBT, and the cpus for USA for two weeks. Since the bunkering.
How do I do it?

Miklos, you can take the GPUs also. We all crunch for different teams every now and then. You would be welcome here even if you didn't crunch for TSBT at all.