28/10-31/10 Ukraine Cup stage 1 - Einstein

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/599

Name Ukraine Cup stage 1 - Einstein
Status Upcoming
Project Einstein@Home
Issued by Ukraine
Start time 2014-10-28 10:00 UTC
End time 2014-10-31 10:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 14
Number of users participating 0

[scole of TSBT]

Is another Einstein challenge too soon? If not, time to start bunkering gang! I'm in. :)

[Silver]

Well I was just away to move off Einstein but I suppose I could do another few days

[Alez]

Still on it TSBT cracking on

[scole of TSBT]

Ok. Had this problem last time on Win 8.1 systems while trying to bunker einstein. My hosts file has this entry in it which should prevent it from connecting to the einstein server, but it still connects.
192.168.1.241 einstein.phys.uwm.edu

If I ping that address, it gets destination host unreachable. Why is BOINC not using the hosts file? Can't suspend network activity because I have BU running on this system too.

[Silver]

I'd love to help but I've no idea Scole.
I spent an hour trying to write firewall rules and trying to block ip addresses on my router and couldn't get anything to work.
I've gone for the high tech solution of downloading a heap of units and turning off network access in boinc. Not much help to you though

[scole of TSBT]

Einstein crashing my workhorse system too. The one with 2x 7970s. Changed the config to run 1 WU per GPU and it hasn't crashed since. Any suggestions for this?

[Alez]

Over taxing the cpu's or running out of memory ? I normally have boinc set to use 75% or 87.5% ( 6 or 7 cores ) on an 8 core system or 3 at most on a 4 core system.

[scole of TSBT]

We've jumped to a quick lead! :cheers: But can we hold on to it

That was quite a hoard of WUs you had Silver 8)

Rob, Megacruncher! Time to make those GPUs earn their keep.

Let's go Scotties! :bounce:

[scole of TSBT]

24 hours in and we've settled into 4th. Though SETI.USA started flexing their GPUs and suddenly jumped into 6th. Let's see if we can hold 4th for 2 more days. 8)

[Silver]

That was quite a hoard of WUs you had Silver 8)

Why thank you kind sir
Just trying to do my bit, and I need all the help I can get!
Screen shot taken of us both nearly at the top

Nice to see the team banging the numbers in

[scole of TSBT]

The Yankee hoard is advancing fast. They will over take us in 12 hours.

TSBT, we need more GPUs!

[Alez]

and we ended up 5th from 15

Individual efforts :
scole of TSBT 4th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 5th
Paul of TSBT 28th
Peter Teago 64th
UrbanFlux 110th
Janos of TSBT 225th
Kostoglotov 240th
B McT 312th
Mark Mair 468th
David Jackson 491st
Giles 533rd
tiggsy 690th
Wolfsschanze 708th
DonTex 743rd
Grum 807th
DJPercival 880th
MacDitch 893rd
Robert Hendry 951st
outcast 997th

well done all

[Silver]

I'm reasonably happy with that, since I was dropping down the ranks all the way through the comp
Well done everyone, a good few names on the TSBT list there :)

[scole of TSBT]

A big turn out for the challenge. Lot's of participants. Good to see so many TSBT members on the list.