The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/410

Name Merlyn's Memorial - Stage 1
Status Upcoming
Project PrimeGrid
Issued by The Scottish Boinc Team
Start time 2013-08-05 01:00 UTC
End time 2013-08-11 01:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 5
Number of users participating 0

2 days to go on this one ladies and gents......

Starts tonight....

My ATI cards are now dedicated to the project, with a few remaining Milkyway to clean up.

Janos wrote:My ATI cards are now dedicated to the project, with a few remaining Milkyway to clean up.

Cool, though nVidea's are faster here . Also you need to get one of these rather natty signature bars that are all the rage this year..

I'm on it too :)

Silver wrote:I'm on it too :)

excellent, your efforts were missed on the last few challenges.

alezevo1 wrote:
excellent, your efforts were missed on the last few challenges.

I was away on holiday, and just left my pc pottering along.
I'll do my best to add to the cause though :)

Silver wrote: I'll do my best to add to the cause though :)

I should think so too, holidays....tsk tsk

A nice showing 20 minutes in

#2, #3, #4 and #6.

WOOT!!

I'm on it: Just did a 1.4 million credit upload! TSBT have taken the lead as have I! 8)

Megacruncher wrote:I'm on it: Just did a 1.4 million credit upload! TSBT have taken the lead as have I! 8)

You most certainly are on it!!

Coming in late. Systems reset to only prime grid.

managed to drag myself up to #2

alezevo1 wrote:managed to drag myself up to #2

Think we could just leave you and Mega to it, you two are banging in some HUGE numbers!!

Silver wrote: Think we could just leave you and Mega to it, you two are banging in some HUGE numbers!!

Not at all. Our lead looks healthy enough just now but there are 6 days to go & to stay #1 we need to pull out all of the stops, hope that L'AF leave a few stops in and pray that the PrimeGrid big beasts don't join in until it is too late. Remember Sicituradastra and the Milkyway challenge?

So all hands on deck/stops/to the pumps etc.

In fact I might use my CPU cores for it. Every little helps.

A second day gone and we are slowly extending the team lead & have a firm grip of individual places 1,2 & 5. Crunch on - Merlyn would be very happy, in an understated sort of way.

Megacruncher wrote:A second day gone and we are slowly extending the team lead & have a firm grip of individual places 1,2 & 5. Crunch on - Merlyn would be very happy, in an understated sort of way.

"Quite by chance, the Collatz challenge being over, I had opened my PC s to New Work for primegrid with very pleasing results on the NVidea equiped rigs. " - something like this ? 8)

Holding 1st and 2nd, seems 5th has gone as Janos has quit or has issues. Keep crunching everyone till our MIA colleague recovers
5 of us in the top 25 and Paul not that far from joining that number.
10 of us in the top 100.

Perhaps it's time to switch on the work pc's + 2 servers, to see if I can bash out a credible number for a change :)

Does anyone have any experience of using bionic on domain based systems?

alezevo1 wrote: 5 of us in the top 25 and Paul not that far from joining that number.
10 of us in the top 100.

I'm trying!! Not sure I'm going to manage though
It's a bit cooler today so that might help, I'm concerned my computer goes who'd of thought I'd be complaining about the heat in the North East of Scotland!

Radio wrote:Does anyone have any experience of using bionic on domain based systems?

Not that I'm aware of but I'd be telling a lie if I pretended to understand the question! :) Whatever it is just go for it!

Silver wrote:

alezevo1 wrote: 5 of us in the top 25 and Paul not that far from joining that number.
10 of us in the top 100.

I'm trying!! Not sure I'm going to manage though
It's a bit cooler today so that might help, I'm concerned my computer goes who'd of thought I'd be complaining about the heat in the North East of Scotland!

Keep going! U R 27th and advancing on the elite. :)

One of my rigs was giving off an unpleasant plastic-about-to-spontaneously-ignite smell a few days ago: opening the case and training a cheap but noisy 40cm Staples fan on the problem has allayed all my concerns.

2 days to go and we are in the lead by 3.6 million. :wav: Unless one of the big 3 teams joins in by morning we will probably win this!

If this happy situation endures until this time tomorrow you should all be thinking of a rapid switch over to Collatz.

Already got the ATI on collatz, though since I am finally home from being tortured, assessed and found to be as stubborn and jiggly as last year, released for my holidays to begin this can be switched back if required. :)
Apparently after years of abuse I am still....well upright

most of my machines are on their last few Primegrid WUs These I am sure will be enough to carry the team and little old moi to victory regardless of what the next 25 hrs brings. For most of tomorrow I will be stockpiling Collatz WU and getting the Red Bull in, ready for that 0201 dump!

I've got to try and clear out a ton of units to prepare for a punt at collatz. never ran this one seriously so no idea what to expect. Seems to be the solo units pay the best so will try and concentrate on them for the challenge , that's if I win the next 24 hrs battle with the scheduler........

I too am just starting to transition to collatz. Have some BIG PG wu's that need to finish.

Bring it on!!

and it's finished....
Victory for TSBT 1st from 11.

Individually......

Megacruncher TSBT 1st
alezevo1 2nd
Janos of TSBT 15th
Dinsdale67 16th
Radio 19th
Paul of TSBT 30th
David Jackson 35th
Skywalker TSBT 50th
PinkPenguin 82nd
John McLean 112th
dw1234 137th
Buster Gunn 187th
LochNessGallery 201st
EmbraCraig 280th
Stuart 297th

well done all.

Indeed.

A big win. :thumbup:

This rounds on me :occasion5:

alezevo1 wrote:and it's finished....
Victory for TSBT 1st from 11.

Good effort everyone!!
Hope we can do as well for the next three :)