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Gerasim@Home 2020 challenge

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Gerasim@Home
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Colombia

Start time
2020-03-03 14:15 UTC
End time
2020-03-10 14:15 UTC

Who else is running this? I am. Load up!

Count me in.

I will put a machine on it

Time to wake up guys ... Russia Team is off an running

Where's Pete, I thought he was concentrating on Gerasim for TSBT.

I'm woke

Gibson Praise wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:13 pm I'm woke

Maybe I am asleep - there seems to be a Nightmare peeing in our pool

Are you around Pete?

Yeh, and he is on a team that isn't even entered in the challenge ... just goes to show you can't believe everything you read

... using boinc control software provided by TSBT. The man clearly hasn't an ounce of decency about him

I happen to know him well and I can guarantee he has no decency! A real scoundrel.

YO PETE, where you at? You are needed

woo hoo @scole of TSBT

Nice one Steve! Got any more? Can I move back to XS?

I've a few more. If Russia Team is earning 750k per day, it won't be enough.

I'll jump in tomorrow morning on nightshift sleeping all day

Somebody broke the server

You ?

I'm moving back to XS but I'll keep an eye on how things are going. From the last 2 hours it looks like you guys won't need any help.

WELCOME ABOARD PETE

Looks like Team Russia are easing off : https://www.boincstats.com/stats/64/tea ... d%5B%5D=13

Cruncher Pete wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:43 am
Surely, I am not that bad that you can't work together with me and as such you are leaving us? I am harmless I tell you, harmless...When it is a challenge that TSBT is involved with, there is no time to help other teams. Each to their own I suppose. Having said that, please do not think that I do not appreciate you input to TSBT, I am not sure weather I should crunch for TSBT, SUSA or XS.?

I certainly enjoy working with you Pete and it is always a pleasure. For the past week I've been helping XS on Gerasim to get them past Russia Team. Actually, a week ago they had no FB points on Gerasim so I started helping them. When this challenge started I moved to TSBT because the Russians were kicking butt. Now that you guys have it covered I need to return to XS and help them with the quest to take down Russia Team. Of course now the problem is taking down the Russians and holding off TSBT (unlikely) for the top spot. What a tangled web we weave

Hang on @Bryan - that sounds like you have a few shreds of decency about you when you personally assured me you didn't

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 1:19 pm Hang on @Bryan - that sounds like you have a few shreds of decency about you when you personally assured me you didn't

It's all done with smoke and mirrors I'm trying to improve my image but unfortunately too many people actually know me

It looks like CoolAtchOk may be waving the white flag. His output has really dropped off I've seen him do that in the past where it became apparent that Russia Team wasn't going to win.

Yup - yellow line https://www.boincstats.com/stats/64/use ... B%5D=14342

Still a full 6 days to go though & we love these Marathon points too

TSBT have 3 out of top 4 individual positions - great work @scole of TSBT @Cruncher Pete and @Gibson Praise

Hey I broke into the top 20 on the challenge today

SolidAir79 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 3:47 pm Hey I broke into the top 20 on the challenge today

Congrats, that is a great accomplishment. BUT, it looks like you will probably move up higher than that before it is over

Any type of optimization I can do in the settings?

I selected only spstarter WU on advice but perhaps better to hear from an expert

Cheers might give that a go

I run only the spstarter WU because they have a fairly consistent run times. I've seen Test Separator WU that are very short and the more times the BOINC Client has to load/unload WU the less time it spends crunching. I don't really know how much difference it makes (if any) but I stick with the spstarter WU.

If you calculate the credits/day and don't figure in "dead time" then they pay exactly the same.

My machines are also 64 thread. When running that many threads I've had problems in the past where test separator WU were so short I had trouble getting WU quick enough to keep all threads busy. The project will only give something like 160 WU at a time.

IMHO of course

Cool thanks makes sense

https://www.boincstats.com/stats/64/use ... 5B%5D=6527

Looks like we might get a 1, 2, 4 individual placing if @scole of TSBT and @Gibson Praise can hold off their challengers. Awesome stuff guys

Well done guys

You are doing pretty darned well yourself @SolidAir79

Sounds like I have a hairdryer on all day and night, I'm surprised my other half is not so bothered but she knows alot of the projects are for a good cause

plus it keeps the house warm

Am actually surprised how cool my cpu is only about 70 degrees

Well done guys.
I'm in there as well, sort of, in 47th. But every little helps and I'll try and improve my standing over the next 62hrs.
Clearly TSBT have smashed this challenge out of the park. But it's doing our FB prospects no end of good as well. I think we can be pretty sure that we'll hold onto our third place whatever the rest of 2020 brings.

CoolAtchOk has conceded defeat & has decided to try to get Crystal Dream up the leader board

So does the whole balance of his points get transferred crystal dream too ?

No

His personal score exceeds Crystal Dream's team score so older points will stay with the team he was on when he earned them

Oh well guess they will give a hand back in a later challenge

I think Russia Team and Crystal Dream are all friends. It's good to have friends

Ugh... If you've been running Gerasim I suggest you reboot your system as soon as your work is done. All my win systems were flaky. Had to reset a couple.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:58 am Ugh... If you've been running Gerasim I suggest you reboot your system as soon as your work is done. All my win systems were flaky. Had to reset a couple.

ty .. one of my systems had to reboot a couple of days ago. Went weird, would not bring up task manager, took three reboots to come up correctly ( a blue screen made a brief appearance ). I thought karma was telling me to convert to linux right there and then ( and that is still an ongoing argument ).

I'll be rebooting those boxes and recommend it to others.

We won it with a whopping 52% of the total points scored. Well done to all


Three TSBT members in Top 4 so hearty congrats to @Cruncher Pete @scole of TSBT and @Gibson Praise. Aided and abetted by myself, @SolidAir79 @Megacruncher @jockmacmad2 and @Hal Bregg

Yeah you guys in the top 4 kicked ass well done

Woodles from UBT did well also. He lurks here sometimes

EDIT: could be coincidence but one of my servers won't boot to linux now, which is the default OS. It's stuck on windows until after the sprint and I can fix. Probably a reinstall of linux.

Well done, a pretty conclusive margin

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 pmWoodles from UBT did well also. He lurks here sometimes

Purely accidental, I'm running Gerasim for a while anyway and didn't realise there was a sprint on.