The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:55 pm**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:11 pm
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.

Thank you very much, Steve. And especially thank you for the closing sentence.

Posted: **Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:59 am**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:11 pm 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.

It's true!

Even before I joined they tolerated me ..

Posted: **Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:38 am**

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

Posted: **Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:05 am**

I think we can start loading up bunkers with SCC in the WCG starting tomorrow. Their deadline for reporting should be after the start of the Pure Challenge. But better double check my dates.

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:20 pm**

I have started bunkering on 5 clients, so far for wcg, SCC the deadline is 11/4. So well into the last week. USA is already bunkering since they are in 7th place in the current week, ending tonight.
Let's go team! And oh yeah, I am back home, here!!

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:34 pm**

greetings ... I still count three tasks a day towards ARP ... this little help is indeed ... valuable !

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:07 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:34 pm greetings ... I still count three tasks a day towards ARP ... this little help is indeed ... valuable !

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...

They all count, Gregg.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:34 pm**

The bunkers are doing their work and so far 710 wu's of SCC are saved.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 pm**

perfect ...

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 pm perfect ...

Now you can crunch more towards the Thor Pure. I am with you in PG running it on all machines.
Also in Thor,

towards the final week there are 1137 SCC units bunkered and done.

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:55 pm**

Don't know if you guys caught it, but SG is doing (I believe) hourly stats once Pure starts. Here's the link

https://www.seti-germany.de/thor_pure/

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:51 am**

Big Al wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:55 pm Don't know if you guys caught it, but SG is doing (I believe) hourly stats once Pure starts. Here's the link

https://www.seti-germany.de/thor_pure/

They are taking the Thor Pure seriously.

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:27 pm**

Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 pm perfect ...
Now you can crunch more towards the Thor Pure. I am with you in PG running it on all machines.
Also in Thor, towards the final week there are 1137 SCC units bunkered and done.

greetings ... after i get a badge in yoyo for ogr ... i am going to switch 4 x 14 xeon towards ... open pandemidc ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:02 pm**

Granowski wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:27 pm
Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 pm perfect ...
Now you can crunch more towards the Thor Pure. I am with you in PG running it on all machines.
Also in Thor, towards the final week there are 1137 SCC units bunkered and done.
greetings ... after i get a badge in yoyo for ogr ... i am going to switch 4 x 14 xeon towards ... open pandemidc ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Gregg, you will be more than welcome. I had been bunkering for a week now.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:52 pm**

Miklos M wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:02 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:27 pm
Miklos M wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Granowski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 pm perfect ...
Now you can crunch more towards the Thor Pure. I am with you in PG running it on all machines.
Also in Thor, towards the final week there are 1137 SCC units bunkered and done.
greetings ... after i get a badge in yoyo for ogr ... i am going to switch 4 x 14 xeon towards ... open pandemidc ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...
Gregg, you will be more than welcome. I had been bunkering for a week now.

I have about six days left ... until i get ... the 10.000.000 points badge for ogr in yoyo ... then I'l switch for open pandemics ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:20 pm**

The NFS sprint is too close for comfort right now but it'll be over in 10 hrs after which I'll try & get every core onto WCG until Thor is over.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:37 pm**

how are your WCG bunkers holding out Miklos?

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:38 pm**

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:20 pm The NFS sprint is too close for comfort right now but it'll be over in 10 hrs after which I'll try & get every core onto WCG until Thor is over.

Go Team in the Sprint. Looks like we will be number 3 in the Sprints Total for the year? That is awesome, especially for a lil ole' team, hehe.
Looking forward to those cpu's crunching furiously in the wcg. I maybe close to 3000 wu's stashed safely away.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:40 pm**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:37 pm how are your WCG bunkers holding out Miklos?

Thank you for asking. I got a few "pink cores" I got carried away and uploaded an empty client.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:42 pm**

@Miklos M you should maybe ask your guru if he thinks you are ready for krunchie

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:47 pm**

@Miklos M want to remote in and take a look?

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:32 pm**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:47 pm @Miklos M want to remote in and take a look?

If you have the time, yes.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:34 pm**

davidBAM wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:42 pm @Miklos M you should maybe ask your guru if he thinks you are ready for krunchie

I will check with him.

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:26 am**

Opened a few clients and we are off to the races in wcg.

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:42 am**

And for this one we have decent stats courtesy of SG. They refresh hourly!
https://www.seti-germany.de/thor_pure/

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:00 am**

We are trailing somewhat. But with no sprint to worry about for just now I've put 250 cores onto WCG. But we are playing with the WCG big boys so shouldn't expect to have it all our own way.

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:02 pm**

I've been using ProLasso for many years and it is a great program and a useful tool. I mainly use it for setting process affinity and for setting priority.

Affinity ... you can select which threads a program is allowed to use. For example, I can setup a couple of threads for a GPU to run Collatz and no CPU work will run on those threads. You can also set up the process priority. BOINC assigns the default process level at "idle" but using ProLasso you can change that. I set CPU tasks to normal and GPU to "high priority".

ProLasso is NOT a freebie. After 30 days of the "trial" some features will stop working. The ones you care about for BOINCing (affinity/priority) remain active.

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:19 pm**

Bryan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:02 pm I've been using ProLasso for many years and it is a great program and a useful tool. I mainly use it for setting process affinity and for setting priority.

Affinity ... you can select which threads a program is allowed to use. For example, I can setup a couple of threads for a GPU to run Collatz and no CPU work will run on those threads. You can also set up the process priority. BOINC assigns the default process level at "idle" but using ProLasso you can change that. I set CPU tasks to normal and GPU to "high priority".

ProLasso is NOT a freebie. After 30 days of the "trial" some features will stop working. The ones you care about for BOINCing (affinity/priority) remain active.

Thank you Bryan.

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 10:16 pm**

https://www.seti-germany.de/thor_pure/
This is a nice tool, it shows the standings hourly for all teams. We are currently between 18th and 19th place.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:50 am**

Best paying WCG app?

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:36 am**

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:50 am Best paying WCG app?

SCC on Linux.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:36 am**

bluestang wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:36 am
scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:50 am Best paying WCG app?
SCC on Linux.

ARM (no matter what you run as OS) only seems to offer Open Pandemics-COVID-19

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:35 pm**

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:36 am
bluestang wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:36 am
scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:50 am Best paying WCG app?
SCC on Linux.
ARM (no matter what you run as OS) only seems to offer Open Pandemics-COVID-19

I am getting SCC on all clients.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:48 pm**

Since we are in 19th place I am hoping most of my team mates are bunkering tasks for now.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:50 pm**

I've got a modest bunker, but it's not an out and out game changer. But it might just be enough to give us a chance of 18th if we can lull UserFriendly.org into a false sense of security.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:00 pm**

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:50 pm I've got a modest bunker, but it's not an out and out game changer. But it might just be enough to give us a chance of 18th if we can lull UserFriendly.org into a false sense of security.

Sounds good.

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 12:14 am**

Woo hoo! I only dropped half my bunker but we are up to 18th.
Actually the TSBT effort so far has been pretty awesome.
Our RAC is 192K in Boinc credits which translates into about 1,3M WCG points/day.
But in just 48 hrs we have racked up 7.3M WCG points. That's a huge acceleration.
But we are fighting with the big boys, most of whom will also be uping their game as well.
Just being in this final is a victory. Anything better than last place will be a triumph!

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:00 am**

Joined your little party until I can bunker for the Sprint.

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 12:50 pm**

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 12:14 am Woo hoo! I only dropped half my bunker but we are up to 18th.
Actually the TSBT effort so far has been pretty awesome.
Our RAC is 192K in Boinc credits which translates into about 1,3M WCG points/day.
But in just 48 hrs we have racked up 7.3M WCG points. That's a huge acceleration.
But we are fighting with the big boys, most of whom will also be uping their game as well.
Just being in this final is a victory. Anything better than last place will be a triumph!

I agree with you on that. We are still 18th and I think we can move up a little from here.

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 12:54 pm**

bluestang wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:00 am Joined your little party until I can bunker for the Sprint.

Welcome, let's crunch at them. Go TSBT!

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 2:09 pm**

Thanks to my guru setting up my clients on all computers I am crunching over 50 days in one. :)

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2020 2:11 pm**

Thanks @bluestang - I've put a few on it for the same reason. Re-config will have to wait

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:04 pm**

The challenge is half way through & TSBT are holding firm in 18th place.
Further gains are certainly possible. Onward & upwards!

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:20 pm**

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:04 pm The challenge is half way through & TSBT are holding firm in 18th place.
Further gains are certainly possible. Onward & upwards!

Served in the RAF, have you?

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:48 pm**

Getting to number 17 is proving to be a tough nut to crack.

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:41 pm**

I'll drop tomorrow. I have almost 3900 wu's finished as of now.
Should be ~2M points (give or take).

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:31 pm**

PecosRiverM wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:41 pm I'll drop tomorrow. I have almost 3900 wu's finished as of now.
Should be ~2M points (give or take).

That is great it will close the gap a lot.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2020 1:49 pm**

We are holding 18th place and Australia in 17th might be a bit too far ahead of us, for the last 10 hours.

Posted: **Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:22 am**

greetings ... I've earned ... a badge for yoyo ogr ... 10.000.000 ...

and I've switched ... 4 x 14 xeon ... into OpenPandemics ... hopefully it will help Our's Great Team to achieve a higher position in ... the Thor Challenge ...

as stated many times before ... 'Let's solve Sierpiński Problem TOGETHER !!!'

best regards, Gregg Roman Granowski ...

Posted: **Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:39 pm**

Well done Gregg. But the Thor Pure Challenge is complete, they stopped the count at midnight. https://www.seti-germany.de/thor_pure/
TSBT finished 18th. Considering we were competing against 19 other elite qualifiers, that is pretty good.
Well done everyone & special thanks to Miklos for encouraging us to take part & for getting us so far!

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