The Scottish Boinc Team

Here's one I initiated earlier!

Url http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/649
Name : Hurrah for Prof Peter Higgs! LHC Classic Challenge
Status: upcoming.
Project: LHC@ Home Classic
Issued by: The Scottish Boinc Team
Start time: 2015-02-26 00:00 UTC
End time: 2015-03-05 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed?: Yes
Number of teams participating» 5

Another competition that isn't seti
Maybe the world is changing

WHOO HOO! A fresh project! Can't wait. :)

From what I understand, the LHC is supposed to restart in May and many researchers are trying to get their models tested before then. I've PM'd Eric Macintosh, one of the project admins about the challenge. Anyone want to post a message on their forum? I can't because I don't have enough recent credit.

Better start racking up some credit pendings then. Have the usual laptop and some androids permanently on the WCG challenge and GPUGrid is off the menu currently as I have had nothing but issues with the latest units crashing or hanging my systems. Might just be that the GTX 660ti's are now getting obsolete for coping with GPUGrid. Will try and post the challenge on LHC forum if I can.

Posted up on the LHC@Home website.

http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... hp?id=3919

Hopefully there will be some units available. Been pretty sparse the last few days. Some available today if I can pick some up. Problem is the gaps between the availability means my backup projects keep picking up work or I would have to let the systems sit idle.

Server status here http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... status.php

The project appears to release work in large batches every 4-5 days with smaller resend groups of 200-300 a couple times afterwards and there appear to be BOINC clients with huge caches set that grab most of them. Within a few hours of a large batch of tasks ready to send, they're gone and the tasks in progress takes 4-5 days to go down. I hope they can make it a fun challenge.

Big question now is, I have a few WUs on several systems. Do I let them finish or suspend them and wait for the challenge to start? I'm afraid if too many WUs in progress might hold up new batch of work being released.

I'm just crunching what I can get. Universe and POGS have tons of work so everytime LHC lets me down they pick up the slack and I get no LHC units

I think they're going to make an effort to keep WUs available.

LOAD UP GANG! Before it's gone!

The project appears to give out about 24 hours worth of work max. At least that's all I can get at one time. Suspending until the 24 hour mark, then bunker them.

For those of you still up, I had to change the <ncpus>24</ncpus> option in the cc_config.xml file to a double-triple the actual value to get enough WUs to bunker.

dyslectic
distracted
Mabel Higgs posing at the Winston County Fair, 1955.

Arley, Alabama

An elderly woman in Winston County has had enough. Mabel Higgs, 84, a retired schoolteacher has disconnected her telephone and no longer answers her front door after weeks of "being harassed and exhausted" by local and national journalists.

According to her grandson Thomas Higgs, also of the hamlet of Arley, Mrs. Higgs began to receive calls several weeks ago as excitement built over the impending discovery of the "God particle," otherwise known as the "Higgs boson." "Young, crackpot journalists, who apparently know nothing of science heard the rumours of my mother's award-winning bosom, and they haven't stopped calling or trespassing her property," said Mr. Higgs.
Scientists believe that the Higgs boson is the particle that gives all matter its mass. Experts know that elementary particles like quarks and electrons are the foundation upon which all matter in the universe is built. They believe the elusive Higgs boson gives the particles mass and fills in one of the key holes in modern physics.

But don't tell that to journalists from TMZ, CNN, or even The Guardian out of the UK. "It is well known all over the county that my mother won a contest at the Winston County Fair back in 1955 for "Most Impressive Bosom," and that if you Google "Higgs bosom" you will eventually come up with records of her award, which she is still proud of. In fact, my Mom still refuses to go into a nursing home for fear that all the old widowed men won't leave her alone. She still has an impressive décolletage. It's almost as impressive as her strawberry-rhubarb pie."

I want a slab of Hogs bison ribs!

would that be a giant 'rack' of ribs your after......

Alez wrote:would that be a giant 'rack' of ribs your after......

I'd love to BBQ a huge rack of ribs for Mabel . Schwing!

That was a 1955 photograph, Scole...

I know. I think she would still be happy to know people thought she was an attractive women. I'm sure she still is :)

Anyhoo, that's enough perving over 85 year old ladies for one thread.
Let us consider our challenge. A splendid bit of bunkering by scole has us heading a pack of 12 active teams so far. :wav:

You chaps have no sense of humor and don't know how to pay a compliment to a woman, redneck style. I don't care what their age is, I'll make them blush. :)

Ok, on with the challenge!

No diss'in on Scole for going OLD skool on the rack I'm a vegetarian but I am informed some meat is better matured

Back home and have rapidly spammed the LHC update button. Hopefully my project RAC will climb a little.

We're now sitting in 4th with 8 of us returning results so far. LAF and Poland behind us so far. Lets see if we can keep it that way

5th now LAF gone and Poland catching us. Swamped by the hordes again

I'm glad to see 12 of us crunching on this but as usual we're still out numbered.

Janos has his rigs humming though. Good to see you in the thick of it

Shout out to the others helping...Fullsus, davidSandilands, Garry Ross, Simon Thomson, Reeltime, KaisenMike and Skywalker, I know you're out there. Dig deep lad!

Keep up the good work chaps.
I think I'm out of this one as I seem to be having some slight technical issues.
For you computer experts I believe the official terminology is f@#$€d
Hopefully I'll manage to find some time to look at it soon

Something I didn't expect was some long running WUs. In the beginning, WUs were running anywhere from 3 minutes to 3 hours. I'm now into WUs taking 12+hours on my fastest systems.

Down to 6th now as the hordes overrun us. On the plus side we have gained 4 places in the world so far which is pushing us further away from the danger zone and that's all good.
Rosetta could have been done with the same treatment, pity they choose to post the competition at the same time as this one.

Sever was out of work for a while (and so was I), but new WUs now downloading.

Alez wrote:Down to 6th now as the hordes overrun us. On the plus side we have gained 4 places in the world so far which is pushing us further away from the danger zone and that's all good.
Rosetta could have been done with the same treatment, pity they choose to post the competition at the same time as this one.

Up 5 places now to 89th!
Which in itself makes the comp all worthwhile. :)
Anyway the biggest hoards are by us. We shouldn't drop below 6th place and could still get back 5th.
As for Rosetta if, in a couple of days, 6th is secure but 5th is out of reach then we should give it some laldy!

Fingers crossed I seem to be back in the game again, let the crunching resume....

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to say I really like your site and reading your team interactions. You guys are a credit to the Boinc Community. Oh, and great going on the LHC Challenge. Keep it up!

Sphynx
Seti.USA Administrator

Hi Sphynx, nice of you to drop in and say hi.
Feel free to pop in anytime and shoot the breeze with us, and if you ever feel like defecting from Seti.USA and joining one of the big teams we'd be quite happy to have you

Thanks for stopping by Sphynx. :)

And I though this challenge would bring a huge crunching boost to LHC .

Check out the Agile Boincers LHC stats. That's one account, not a team. They appear to be a data center dedicated to LHC...http://boincstats.com/en/stats/3/user/d ... 5/lastDays

Check out their systems ...http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrac ... rid=242935

Think I can get all that in the tech shed ? Might have to rejig a few systems around to make a bit of space ......

I'm not a licensed electrician, but you might need to add a couple more 20amp circuits.

I think even the Black Ops crew would be jealous. 8)

I thought I could just power them all off the spare flux capacitor I have kicking around ....
Up 8 places in the world so far, a major result. Hopefully a few more before the end of play

That user is in Switzerland. I'll bet there is a connection to CERN.

Sphynx wrote:That user is in Switzerland. I'll bet there is a connection to CERN.

The users crunches this project for Switzerland. The boincstats ID 242935 points to US user Gymborama

The boinc detectives on the case .... do we know the name of his dog yet ? Bit of a detour from the 50's soft porn and the cooking of bison hoggs ribs.
On more mundane matters 6th it looks like it will be with just less than 2 days to go. Trying to do some rosetta units at the same time now.

Hey, I'm willing to post some Betty Page pics as long as I don't get banned.

^^

Most of my systems are out of work and my mouse finger is too tired to keep clicking the project update button. We'll just have to wait and see if we hold off Ukraine. On the bright side, should be able to help out on the rosetta challenge a bit more.

TSBT finished a very respectable 6th from 16 and the mighty Anguillan Pirate juggernaut of 4 cores finished 14th ie not last again

Individually
scole of TSBT 10th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 19th
Janos of TSBT 24th
Megacruncher TSBT 30th
Fullsus 59th
Skywalker TSBT 114th
Anguillan Pirate 130th
Paul of TSBT 163rd
Reeltime 181st
KaizenMike 280th
Simon Thomson 454th
Garry Ross 482nd
Sharron Douglas 575th
davidSandilands 594th
Steven Garland 704th

Thanks to all who took part.

Well done all! It's great to see so many TSBT members in the challenge. This was a nice fresh project though, wasn't it?

scole250 wrote:This was a nice fresh project though, wasn't it?

I miss the days of posting 3 seti comps per week ......

Alez wrote:
I miss the days of posting 3 seti comps per week ...LCD

I'm with you there Alez!
Bring on the seti 45 minute crunchathon

Well done to that impressive list of teammates who took part in the LHC comp

Great stuff! I think 6th is pretty good for a wee team in a CPU only project!