The Scottish Boinc Team

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Name Merlyn's Memorial - Stage 4 - Take 2!
Status Upcoming
Project SIMAP
Issued by The Scottish Boinc Team
Start time 2013-09-04 07:00 UTC
End time 2013-09-11 07:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 4
Number of users participating 0

Less than 24 hrs to go. Gentlemen, start your bunkering

alezevo1 wrote:Less than 24 hrs to go. Gentlemen, start your bunkering

If all goes to plan this should be in hand - assuming the scheduler and my computer keep playing the game. ....

An hour in and we've dived straight in at... 2nd!!

1. BOINCstats 7,594
2. The Scottish Boinc Team 7,415
3. L'Alliance Francophone 4,458
4. BOINC@Poland 3,209

1st now... [edit]uh! oh! Sici... [/edit]

Hoarding worked. Just jumped to #2 with 6500 points. Sweet!!

I can't get my cores over properly so i figured AWS server and hoard on that. Plan worked perfectly until AWS restarted my server 10 mins before start. result.....0 work

alezevo1 wrote:I can't get my cores over properly so i figured AWS server and hoard on that. Plan worked perfectly until AWS restarted my server 10 mins before start. result.....0 work

Ouch, thats not good :banghead:

Out of interest, how does the AWS thing work for crunching?
Any chance you would give me an idea of cost/productivity?

works fine for short term boost for comps etc. 8 cores can be had for as little as $0.07 / hr. cost is absolutly minimum as long as you stay below the I/O threshold. I/O charges rack up quick so don't run on projects that have large files both in and out.

really busy just now but if you want when I get a chance i will put together a how to guide. ( on linux )

first off though you need an account with you're credit card and a phone call to verify account. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

after that it's quite easy.

Despite a fine initial showing, & 3 of us in the individual top 10, the big boys are kicking us about the playground. We are in 4th although the amphibian half of the Auld Alliance are still catchable.

If nothing else we will give SIMAP a good boost and move us a lot closer to taking UK #1 from UBT. The gap is down to 1.647 Million.

I've overcome my initial revulsion and will check out this AWS thing.

alezevo1 wrote:works fine for short term boost for comps etc. 8 cores can be had for as little as $0.07 / hr. cost is absolutly minimum as long as you stay below the I/O threshold. I/O charges rack up quick so don't run on projects that have large files both in and out.

really busy just now but if you want when I get a chance i will put together a how to guide. ( on linux )

first off though you need an account with you're credit card and a phone call to verify account. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

after that it's quite easy.

That would be most appreciated, when you get some time.

I was going to try and work out if this made better sense than spending money at home - if you know what I mean

Megacruncher wrote:Despite a fine initial showing, & 3 of us in the individual top 10, the big boys are kicking us about the playground. We are in 4th although the amphibian half of the Auld Alliance are still catchable.

Started so well, I even got a screen grab of me in 2nd place about an hour in this morning :) shame it didn't last too long

On a slightly more positive note I did some maintenance and cleaning of my pc last night. Lots of dust was cleaned out and I turned my cpu cooler fan so it's now blowing the right way
Core temps have dropped over 10C so feel confident that I can leave it running flat out in this continuing fine weather we're having. Every little helps and all that!

AWS setup guide posted under the help section. Any queries give me a shout.

http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 4773#14773

Silver wrote:I was going to try and work out if this made better sense than spending money at home - if you know what I mean

I would say not. Ok there is no maintenance, heat , electricity etc but also no equipment of your own change at will etc and remote control is clumsy plus servers can be deleted quite often. I/O charges are also quite high.
For companies it makes sense.
For Boinc it makes sense as an extra few computers to run on a competition per month and the rest of the time use your own. I set a budget per month I can use for comps and no more otherwise I would be better taking the money and simply buying another computer of my own. Of course i am also spoiled as my main crunchers are i7's so the Xeon's are nothing like as fast but if you have older equipment then it is a great way to participate in a competition or two per month.
Stay under the I/O limit ( or don't exceed too much ) and it is cheap as chips.

We're 4th so far, L'AF pulling away. 6 of us in top 50, 8 in top 100.
We are simply being swamped by numbers........

alezevo1 wrote:... We are simply being swamped by numbers........

Kinda brings back the old days... "Roamin' Thro' the Gloamin with 40,000 Headmen"... Walking across the sea and looking for buried loot always seemed like the kind of thing one might do to pass the time while pirating in the Caribbean...

It's not called pirating any more....... redistribution of wealth or of course providing offshore banking services, no need to bury the loot

alezevo1 wrote:It's not called pirating any more....... redistribution of wealth or of course providing offshore banking services, no need to bury the loot

...Personally, I'd hand 'em a spade and show 'em what it's for. Burying the loot, by thunder! ...Then I'd take 'em offshore and make 'em walk the plank and redistribute themselves to the fishies in person. That way, maybe, they'd stop messing about with the language and pay attention!

But, then, us Barbary corsairs are sticklers for tradition. PinkPenguin, Kapudan Pasha... dat's me! 8)

Never met a Barbary Corsair before....met lots of Barbary apes in Gib though. Thieving scallywags the lot

alezevo1 wrote:Never met a Barbary Corsair before....met lots of Barbary apes in Gib though. Thieving scallywags the lot

I see you've met the crew.

PinkPenguin wrote: I see you've met the crew.

There is no finer a collection of hairy, smelly, thieving individuals a Pirate captain could sail with

On the Simap front we are still 4th from 12. We are holding our own against the Poles but it looks like the amphibians have slipped off into the night.

Individually I have made it to the top 10 after finally making it past Skywalker. Up in front now is a certain Mr M.Cruncher for me to hunt down with just over half the competition to go Of course I will be watching for an overtake from Skywalker once he has sensed the disturbance in the force of my passing.
Janos is below us and unresponsive computers will cause him to fall into the clutches of Mr PP and silver battling it out inside the top 40.
Currently our rear gunners of Snowdog and McDitch are guarding the top 100 with hope that Reeltime will be joining them soon.

With over 3 1/2 days to go there is still plenty of time for some others to join in and leave their mark on the competition. Don't be shy, help us crunch on the last of the Merlyn's Memorial series.

Guess it wouldn't be a Simap challenge without the infamous Mr Pen Ding showing his ugly mug. Over 700 units in his grasp at the mo

the last in the Merlyn Memorial series is complete.
On this one we were 4th from 13 teams.
individually, our places were....
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 9th
Megacruncher TSBT 12th
Skywalker TSBT 13th
Paul of TSBT 40th
PinkPenguin 47th
Janos of TSBT 57th
MacDitch 85th
Snowdog of The Scottish Boinc Team 101st
Radio 103rd
Reeltime 128th
Storme 177th
Grum 298th
ThinBoab 335th
albagael 342nd

well done all :)