24/4-1/5 Let's Fight! Round 2 FightMalaria TSBT - complete

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:05 pm

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/375

Name Let's Fight! Round 2
Status Upcoming
Project FightMalaria@Home
Issued by The Scottish Boinc Team
Start time 2013-04-24 18:00 UTC
End time 2013-05-01 18:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 2
Number of users participating 0

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:06 pm

Diary date guys.
Lets get ready to RUMBLE.......

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:25 pm

32 cores assigned. My internet connection has already started to moan.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:37 pm

In progress (1337) Â· Validation pending (3417)

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:31 pm

Anyone fancy being my wingman?

In progress (1257) Â· Validation pending (6163)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:29 pm

I've got over 500 pending. Strange thing is the units do not require a wingman, minimum quorum of 1, and the server page only states 44 tasks waiting to validate. And it's nearly constantly out of work.
Think there could be trouble at mill.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:24 am

Three of my crunchers had no work early this morning.

All seem to be downloading new work now which infers an admin kicked the work generator when he woke up.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:25 pm

Validation pending (7471)

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:49 am

Validation pending (9753)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:42 am

Janos wrote:Validation pending (9753)

A new form of competition, who can rack up the most unreported points

for a project with a quorum of 1, someone needs to seriously kick the validator.......

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:43 pm

Started to do some tiding up and kicking some cores over now that all the crunchers are roughly behaving :)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:30 am

Validation pending --- 3850 and rising

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:33 am

Validation pending (11143)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:35 am

I think they need another or a faster validator

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:51 am

They also need to send more work. I keep getting idle cores, dammit.

The project only has one machine running every service and I am not sure they have a great deal of time to continually tune the systems.

Just moving the front end services like website, forums and upload/download service to another physical machine would have a dramatic effect on performance.

They also need to add a time out to the update button, like other projects do. If people have no work they will click update to request new work. The request new work script puts significant load on the server.

Again, just splitting the front end services from the back end services would make a huge amount of sense. They have the hardware to do this as they dedicate a 12 core HT Xeon to crunching tasks (24 at a time). Just assign that to running BOINC services and the project will run all the more happily.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:42 am

Maybe you should PM their admin before we completely break their server. Bet it's running a tad hot just now

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:59 am

The validator queue is going down and there is new work available. :)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:21 am

Less than 7 hrs to go and the server is down !!!!!

Post by **Reeltime** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:39 pm

Server is back up, but there is a distinct lack of work. I'm hoping this is just a catch up thing, and they'll be back fully operational before long!

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:23 pm

Ah the joys. I can't even join a new project from afar, I really should look again at a manager.

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:34 pm

...

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:01 pm

PinkPenguin wrote:...

It worked!!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:07 pm

and we're off !!
Just in the door, quick check and not a single one of my machines have a FH@Home task

Brilliant start

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:22 pm

The server is handing out tasks again :)

Post by **Reeltime** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:58 pm

And already we're up within 90k of Australia, and 93k of SETI.USA

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:04 pm

Time to add some rocket fuel!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:10 pm

Janos wrote:Time to add some rocket fuel!

ran out, will mojito do the trick? ( slinks towards cupboard )

Post by **Reeltime** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:14 pm

50k RAC achieved.

Along with 8 of the top 30 do far in the Challenge

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:14 am

#1 team now, Janos running #1 individually :)

Yarr, where's that scurvy penguin ?

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:16 am

Dammit, they won't give me WUs just a few every now and again!

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:43 am

We are doing great guys, keep it up!

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:56 am

Reeltime wrote:50k RAC achieved.

Our team RAC is now over 60k and heading way higher from there!

Post by **Reeltime** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:55 pm

Up to 13th in the world :)

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:34 pm

Reeltime wrote:Up to 13th in the world :)

...Top ten in the next 3 or 4 days and then, maybe, we could have a go at the jumping amphibians who are currently in 7th place!

Post by **Reeltime** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:48 pm

12th :)

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:13 pm

We will be 9th before the weekend is over.
Janos is our first fmah millionaire.
And our lead in the challenge is rapidly becoming unassailable !
:wav: :wav: & thrice :wav:

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:32 pm

My compliments to the chef! A great crunch, Janos... Very tasty!

:occasion5:

:wav: :wav: :wav:

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:43 pm

Thanks guys :)

The team is rocking along with the challenge and the banter is great :)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:15 am

14 of us in the top 100 now, keep those crunchers a munching

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:52 pm

alezevo1 wrote:14 of us in the top 100 now, keep those crunchers a munching

...Mind you, those not in the top 100 are quite an exclusive club.

11th now that we have overtaken the Aussies! Top ten tomorrow... :blob6: :blob6: :blob6: :blob6: :blob6: :blob6:

Post by **Reeltime** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:08 pm

Czechs bounced :)

We're in the top 10

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:54 am

http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/home.php

Project is down

The project's database server is down. Please check back in a few hours.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:27 am

It's back :)

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:29 am

I've made a wee guide for a FightMalaria@Home Optimized Application.

see: http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1851

Much faster than before. :)

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:01 am

Awesome. I'd wondered where all your credits were coming from.

With 3 days to go we seem to more or less have this won. What do you say we keep up the momentum and try and get as high as possible for this project? We are now 9th by total credit ( :wav:) & a clear 1st by RAC. 1st by TC might only take a few months.

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:46 pm

Megacruncher wrote:Awesome. I'd wondered where all your credits were coming from.

The optimized app is running on half of my crunchers. I did some looking at Vina with a view of seeing if it could be run on Parallela before I was back working. I've not answered that question but if you could optimize Vina for the Parallela you are looking at something quite scary. Now that there is the aforementioned Polish optimized app I thought it best to write a nice guide.

Megacruncher wrote: With 3 days to go we seem to more or less have this won. What do you say we keep up the momentum and try and get as high as possible for this project? We are now 9th by total credit ( :wav:) & a clear 1st by RAC. 1st by TC might only take a few months.

I don't have much of an option of changing things so count me in!

I was hoping we would make the 1 million mark on this comp. We are not too far off it. How do you fancy kicking a few more cores at it?

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:05 pm

I took a look at the fmah twitter site: https://twitter.com/Fight_Malaria

It would seem we have made an impact!

FightMalaria@Home wrote:24th April 2013. Over 1,000,000 docking results in a day! Yesterday we had a record 1.2 m results in one day. Awesome!

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:52 am

The Ozzies are keeping pace and maybe even gaining a little.

Problem is, my output will be dropping now that I have my GPU's working again.

Anyone got a spare i7?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:52 am

Wish I had a spare one, might get caught for 3rd place

Post by **Megacruncher** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:32 pm

The Aussies are gaining on us - they took 9th place from us - but aren't a real threat: they gained on us by 10K in the last 32 hrs and we are 72K ahead with just 47 hours left to run. Just in case I'll set 30 or so cores onto the job. Also I want to be sure of finishing in the top 10