The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/652

Name Need For Speed II - NFS Challenge
Status Upcoming
Project NFS@Home
Issued by SETI.USA
Start time 2015-03-15 00:00 UTC
End time 2015-03-20 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 7
Number of users participating 0

Speaking for SUSA, we'd love to see you there in force.

Wouldn't miss it. It will be good to crunch a fresh project. :pirate:

Speaking for AMD Users: We'll be there too -want to polish my 14e and 15e badges

scole250 wrote:Wouldn't miss it. It will be good to crunch a fresh project. :pirate:

SUSA is pleased, as am I ...we're also glad to have Dirk and AMD user there too.

Scole...Goldsboro, hmmm...I'm in Chapel Hill. Nice to have another NC Cruncher in the neighborhood. FYI, Bok, who runs the FREE-DC Stats page is in Wake Forest, so we have a formidable crunching group in NC.

Chapel Hill, eh? He's OK lads. Put away those cutlasses. You'd make a fine pirate Mr. Sphynx, not to be confused with those drunkards in Greenville.

I have to assume you're associated with UNC somehow. My wife and I went to school at Miami U in SW Ohio, but our son is a huge Carolina fan and he has dreams of going to school there. He's only 11 and we advised him he needs to figure out what he really wants to study first. I think highly of NC State too

Me and Dirk joined NFS on the same day so that always adds a bit of extra interest. I see you are ahead of me .... again. This will have to be rectified. Might have to issue a pre comp beep beep
Cutlasses are away Mr Scole , but I retain the right to call in an air strike

The Pirate cores want some competition to, so Anguillan Pirates is in the race with the usual quest to not be the team in last place

Remember as well guys that NFS still has ridiculous memory usage. Basically if you don't have 2GB memory per core then don't run the 16e tasks. You need to stick to the 14e and 15e tasks which pay less.

15e pays double 14e (credit/time). Unless you're working for WUProp app advancement, skip 14e.

Thanks for the above Scole. I'll need to remember and update my project preference when I get home.

scole250 wrote:Chapel Hill, eh? He's OK lads. Put away those cutlasses. You'd make a fine pirate Mr. Sphynx, not to be confused with those drunkards in Greenville.

I appreciate not being associated with that bunch.

scole250 wrote:I have to assume you're associated with UNC somehow. My wife and I went to school at Miami U in SW Ohio, but our son is a huge Carolina fan and he has dreams of going to school there. He's only 11 and we advised him he needs to figure out what he really wants to study first. I think highly of NC State too

My association is through my wife, she works at UNC on the hospital side. Good University, your son would enjoy it there.

24 hours till the start of NFS. Good luck to you all! See you there.

Sphynx, the usual suspects from us will be there doing the best we can

CPU's are warming up :)

Took a bit of tuning but I now have 16e running happily on three machines and 15e on one lower spec machine. :) I did try 14e but they all errored on my Linux boxes.

WCG challenge almost over. Time to start downloading NSF WUs.

Best get my systems off Van Der Waerden Numbers and back to NFS. Ran it for a few days earlier in the week so at least know which can and can't run the 16e units. Kick off at midnight tonight , 16 teams in it so far.

Weirdest thing .... Caro my i7 3770K with 16GB of ddr3 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux will not run the 14e app. It actually causes a core on the cpu to lock ??? and the system to become totally unresponsive which only a hard reset gets it out of this state. Never heard or seen of such before. Seems to run the 15e fine.
Doesn't effect any of my other Linux boxes and doesn't happen on Orac which is the same processor and memory on a different board but running win7.

Anyhoo the challenge is off and running and we are 3rd so far. Sure that will change as all the bunkers get dropped. Think the NFS server is in for a hard hour or so

We are in a fairly robust 4th place now.
Only 11 teams taking part so far and just 72 participants of whom 6 crunch for TSBT and there is a solitary pirate keeping Ukraine in bottom position. :)

Got up this morning to find I was down 16 cores , 8 back up and running, 8 more in the process.... not that it would have made any difference when I got flattened by the Janos Juggernaut coming through. I had almost forgotten what that was like

What happened and what's the prognosis?

Server just crashed, win etc, up and running now. Caro well can't get it to run for a few hours without a cpu core going into an infinite loop and then locked screen etc. but still running. So far got it stable, I think , by overclocking and over volting cpu, turning off hyper thread and upgrading to the latest Ubuntu beyond 14.04 LTS. If it's still up tomorrow morning then I have made progress.
Sitting nicely in 4th as a team. Guess it's individual kudos to fight for now 7 of us in the top 100 and a shout out to Rabbie for his first comp and just outside the top 50. Might have a fight on your hands Paul

Can't get any peace around here, always someone trying to overtake me
I know it's all part of the fun/challenge etc etc........
I'm off to investigate borrowing some electricity from the neighbours

Silver wrote:I'm off to investigate borrowing some electricity from the neighbours

In a previous house, I was rebuilding a garage when the digger unearthed my neighbours garage supply. I was sorely temped and had visions of a huge data centre. I recall I was on ebay that night looking at racks :)

I wonder how long you would've got away with it..........

Half way through the challenge, TSBT 4th from 13 and a cheeky wee pirate in 10th

Current individually places listed below with all of us in the top 100. Bit of a dog fight in 57 / 58 places

scole of TSBT 9th
Janos of TSBT 18th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 19th
Megacruncher of TSBT 28th
Paul of TSBT 57th 15,004 points
Rabbie 58th 15,004 points
Skywalker TSBT 75th

Anguillan Pirate 65th

Since Alez is off on holiday (in Africa somewhere?) I'll fill in here...

TSBT finished very well in this challenge, 4th of 13.

Individual kudos...
scole of TSBT 8th
Janos of TSBT 17th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 18th
Megacruncher of TSBT 23rd
Rabbie 62nd
Paul of TSBT 66th
Skywalker TSBT 68th

Anguillan Pirates finished 10th of 13.

Individual kudos...
Anguillan Pirate 71st

Well done all :salute:

4th place! Not too shabby chaps, a well deserved pat on the back required