14/7 - 21/7 B@P POTM DENIS@Home

Post by **Bryan** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:55 am

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/694

Name B@P POTM DENIS@Home
Status Upcoming
Project DENIS@Home
Issued by BOINC@Poland
Start time 2015-07-14 00:00 UTC
End time 2015-07-21 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 8
Number of users participating 0

Post by **Bryan** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:12 am

A good friend of mine, Bowmore, said that he plans on attending the party

He also said that the project has a 10 day deadline and will give 10 WU per thread with a 640 WU/machine max. So those who have 64 thread machines and set their BOINC preferences to .5 / 10 days will get a full load

Since this is Boinc@Poland's party be sure to bring a present to give to them at the start ... the bigger the better

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:02 pm

Thanks for the heads up. A few of us have crunched DENIS a little. This is a good chance to give it a workout.
And say hey to Bowmore! The party is always better when he shows up :occasion5:

IP address range is 193.146.66.0 - 193.146.66.255

...in case anyone wants to load a bunker, then use a firewall to block access to the server until the start of the challenge. Ya know, just sayin'

Post by **Bryan** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:25 am

I just started bunker #1 a few minutes ago. I'm chewing on 5760 WU (175k) and in 2 days I can switch to Windows BOINC and start chewing on 5760 more

It appears there is some serious bunkering going on. I've been running the project for 3 days and over the last 18 hours my pendings, which had stabilize below 400, are now at 1200.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:47 pm

I've got 4000 in the queue. I hope others on TSBT consider the opportunity to bunker and make a splash...uh-hem... :pirate:

It's also an excellent way to focus on a project and build some WUProp hours on it. I'm hoping that by the end of the challenge, I've earned my first cyan star on my WUProp badge.

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 3:05 pm

I have 5400 finished so I'll start the 2nd bunker (5760) in about 2 hours

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:36 pm

I'll be heading back offshore so no bunkering here.
Actually surprised you guys have been able to stash such an amount as I thought this project generated new units off the results of returned units. Hope you two don't strip the server bare

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:35 pm

When I 1st started the bunker there were 18k WU in progress and now there are 39k so there are others bunkering as well. Only 11,000 of those are mine

My 24 thread machines will be out of work in about 3 more hours so I'll have to switch to Linux VMs to get another load for them. The 12 thread machines have over a day left on bunker #2. I had problems attaching to the project and getting work yesterday morning so I had to run them open for 12 hours while I waited to get a full load so I could shut the lid.

I currently have 8000 ready to drop.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:09 pm

Guess there will be some serious numbers getting racked up at the start of this. I can hear the server trembling from here

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:30 am

Tasks ready to be send: 3312
Tasks being proccessed: 42878

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:33 am

Bryan wrote:My 24 thread machines will be out of work in about 3 more hours so I'll have to switch to Linux VMs to get another load for them. The 12 thread machines have over a day left on bunker #2.

As soon as I win the lottery I will build a server with at least four 16-core Opterons in it.
Heck, when I win the lottery I can build Intel systems as well!
Are there any mobos taking two of those 18-core -36 thread- Xeons? Are there mobos that can take four of those?

Present-day economics however confine me to solutions like this:

Three iTX mobo's in one casing (with three J2900 or N3700 'Pentium' Atoms or three Athlon 5350 mobos a nice alternative!)...

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:19 am

Ah! An uber cruncher wish list discussion. I can find a LGA 2011 V3 duel socket mobo, which has an EATX form factor (may not fit in standard ATX case). http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2cGDyc

The mobo is an ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS which actually supports 3 way SLI...https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z10PED16_WS/overview/

I'm sure there are boards to support more, but they are going to be rack mount server boards.

BTW, DENIS has stopped allowing new hosts for the time being apparently. At can't add it to a new client anyway.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:25 am

Think this server is toast

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:28 am

@Dirk -- screw the Opterons, This is what you want.

http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdeta ... ArtX8P8HAQ

BTW, 8 of them will work together and somewhere on the web is a benchmark where they actually ran 8 in one machine. Can you imagine having a machine with 240 3.2GHz AVX threads? One of them will actually drop into my I7 3930 ASUS MB so I guess I could upgrade

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:31 am

I'm imagining the power wire running to such a beast

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:33 am

scole250 wrote:
BTW, DENIS has stopped allowing new hosts for the time being apparently. At can't add it to a new client anyway.

I added 4 this afternoon (VMs) and got 640 WU loaded and crunching now on each machine. I had trouble attaching yesterday morning but after several hours I was able to get attached and loaded so maybe if you try it later things will work out.

9100 finished and 4467 in the oven

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:40 am

Alez wrote:I'm imagining the power wire running to such a beast

8 x 155 watts per CPU plus chipset, memory, fans, disk...maybe 2000 watt draw? Plus AC unit.

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:54 am

And for only $100,000+ you could be the 1st kid on the block to own one!!

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:18 am

Bryan wrote:@Dirk -- screw the Opterons, This is what you want:http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdeta ... ArtX8P8HAQ

No, I'd want this if I were to buy Intel....

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:21 am

Dirk Broer wrote:
No, I'd want this if I were to buy Intel....

You're right ... that has come out since I last looked in December. Much better!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:56 pm

scole250 wrote:BTW, DENIS has stopped allowing new hosts for the time being apparently. At can't add it to a new client anyway.

Yep, it's difficult to add a project to a new client when the firewall is blocking access to the server

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:56 pm

scole250 wrote:
scole250 wrote:BTW, DENIS has stopped allowing new hosts for the time being apparently. At can't add it to a new client anyway.
Yep, it's difficult to add a project to a new client when the firewall is blocking access to the server

It would be a little more challenging that way

It looks like B@P is taking this one fairly seriously. They did 186k yesterday. If they are also bunkering then they will be difficult to catch. I guess when they issue a challenge then everyone comes out to play (38 members w/ credits yesterday).

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:55 pm

July 4 18,000 Tasks in progress
July 7 39,000 Tasks in progress
July 10 60,097 Tasks in progress

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:15 pm

scole250 wrote:July 4 18,000 Tasks in progress
July 7 39,000 Tasks in progress
July 10 60,097 Tasks in progress

I know where 1/3 of them are:

In progress (19175) Â· Validation pending (826)

The 24 thread machines will run out of work tonight so I will add 1 more VM to each and grab 1920 more WU so when the challenge starts I will have over 20k WU ready to drop. I could do the same with the other machines and add 3800 more WU but I really don't want to do that many Linux installs.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:23 am

I'm looking forward to hour one of the challenge, see what Bryan can offload in just 60 minutes...

And what would Scole be up to? I've got him in the sign-up stats -at this moment that is- and Maxwell [MM] too -I am at 50,960.64-, but when those two have been bunkering...

Post by **Bryan** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:37 am

Dirk Broer wrote:I'm looking forward to hour one of the challenge, see what Bryan can offload in just 60 minutes...

Actually I'm planning on doing something I've never done before ... I'm going to do drops every couple of days. If I totally unload up front then everyone has a target to shoot at. If I stagger the dumps then it'll keep them guessing

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:39 am

Bryan wrote:If I stagger the dumps then it'll keep them guessing

This is going to be a challenge to remember for a long time... :pirate:

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:01 am

I will have the last of the bunkered WU completed about 6 hours before the start. It looks like this:

In progress (22396) Â· Validation pending (668)

That'll give us approx. 670k ready to go. B@P has 37 folks putting up credits so our small team needs all the help it can get

I will release approx. 150k at the start.

There has been no talk about SUSA joining in (so far) so I'm guessing we won't have to worry about them

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:40 pm

Bryan wrote:There has been no talk about SUSA joining in (so far) so I'm guessing we won't have to worry about them

Start worring:
Name B@P POTM DENIS@Home
Status Upcoming
Project DENIS@Home
Issued by BOINC@Poland
Start time 2015-07-14 00:00 UTC
End time 2015-07-21 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating Â» 14
Team Name

Universidad San Jorge (USJ)
BOINCstats
BOINC@Poland
L'Alliance Francophone
SETI.USA
SETI.Germany
UK BOINC Team
BOINC@AUSTRALIA
AMD Users
Planet 3DNow!
The Scottish Boinc Team
Crystal Dream
Freaky
[H]ard|OCP

And then the confidence by the project, touching as compared to Leiden (where we were cheated out of a contest because of a OSX MacIntel combo that had disturbed the desired homogenuous redundancy):

ritterm, Member of team BOINCstats:

"Just curious... Is the DENIS admin aware of this challenge and are they ready for any increase in traffic?"

Chus Carro, Founder of team Universidad San Jorge (USJ)

"Yes, the DENIS admin is aware of it . We have seen this challeng this morning. No problem, we are ready. We'll publish it on the DENIS@home forum to invite more teams."

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:49 pm

Well there are two ways to look at it Dirk:

Either it gives us more butts to kick -or- we won't finish any lower than 14th position

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 8:31 pm

Bryan wrote:Well there are two ways to look at it Dirk:

Either it gives us more butts to kick -or- we won't finish any lower than 14th position

L'Alliance Francophone is the major butt to kick -they are are present the only team with more than 10 million credits.

We 're still missing BOINC Synergy -no.2 with more than 9.3 million, but no.3, SETI.Germany is present -5.6 million credits, as is SETI.USA, no.4 with 3.8 million.

No.5 XtremeSystems -3.1 million- is absent but no.6 -BOINC@Poland is there as organiser, 2.7 million credits and all set to crush XtremeSystems.

No.7 BOINC@MIXI is still absent with their 1.7 million credits but both nos. 8 and 9 will gladly change position with them -AMD Users at 1.6 million and BOINCstats at 1.5 million.

TSBT is at present no.33 with 307,468 credits but in a little over 4 hours the fun begins....
Ukraine, no.10 with 1.4 million credits hasn't shown up yet either.

Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:01 pm

Oh ye of little faith ... are you sure that TSBT isn't a top 10 team on the project?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:02 am

Dirk Broer wrote:And what would Scole be up to? I've got him in the sign-up stats -at this moment that is- and Maxwell [MM] too -I am at 50,960.64-, but when those two have been bunkering...

I saved up the best I could. We'll just have to see how we do against the other teams. I'm hoping for a good turnout.

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:47 am

scole250 wrote: I'm hoping for a good turnout.

There's gonna be

I got the 1st bunker (5k) uploaded.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:02 am

Made it home just in time for the start. No bunker to bring to the table but managed to rack up some pendings which might help

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:42 am

@Dirk, I really think you looked at the stats incorrectly, I'm almost positive that TSBT is one of the top 10 teams on Denis. Maybe the stats sites just haven't caught up yet

Welcome home Alez and thanks for the help!! This is going to be a wild ride!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:01 pm

We're off to a good start. Bowmore is setting a blistering pace.

Welcome to the team and challenge Hal-TSBT and Crannog.TSBT. You folk are new around here, but I can tell you're going to fit right in.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:03 pm

Straight in at #1 with a bullet

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 5:52 pm

scole250 wrote:
Welcome to the team and challenge Hal-TSBT and Crannog.TSBT. You folk are new around here, but I can tell you're going to fit right in.

Hal (Sphynx) had a 8000 WU bunker at the start. I think he has only released about 1/2 of it. Crannog (cineon_lut) is one of the "big guns". Since he started from scratch his pendings are probably growing at a fast rate. Once they stabilize he will climb quickly.

Unless something changes dramatically then B@P is toast

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:30 pm

Where are my manners!

Welcome back What's Under the Kilt? :)

Well I do want to know when B@P is going to start actually posting Playmate Of The Month

pics for these challenges!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 7:35 pm

Welcome onboard to you all. Seems you are setting the heather on fire in this comp. Great to have you all here

Post by **Sphynx** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:39 pm

scole250 wrote:We're off to a good start. Bowmore is setting a blistering pace.

Welcome to the team and challenge Hal-TSBT and Crannog.TSBT. You folk are new around here, but I can tell you're going to fit right in.

Glad to help out! I, unlike Bowmore, prefer the "subtle" approach

so I dropped the bunker over 19 hours. Actually, not really true...with AT&T's help (via throttling) I managed to stretch it out that long. I'm all in now and running real time, except for the 675 pendings I have in the TSBT's bank.

Sphynx (aka Hal-TSBT)

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:55 pm

So Sphynx, how is the view from up there on the top of the heap?

I think I'm going to get on the challenge chat and complain about people bunkering

Scole must have been your wingman on quite a few WU. He got a really good bounce that matched your drop.

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:36 pm

TSBT recognised as making the most progress, now at #18

Post by **Sphynx** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:08 am

Bryan wrote:So Sphynx, how is the view from up there on the top of the heap?

It WAS beautiful! I fortunately got a screenshot because I knew it wouldn't last long.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:19 am

Great start guys!
I've not been paying adequate attention & anyway I'll be staying home to help get Rosetta back in the top 100.
But I must say you all seem to be kicking ass without my modest contribution.
Keep it up!

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:35 am

Hows it going Megacruncher! See what happens when we're not supervised

Bryan wrote:I think I'm going to get on the challenge chat and complain about people bunkering Scole must have been your wingman on quite a few WU. He got a really good bounce that matched your drop.

I've been uploading thoughout the day. I have to head out tomorrow for a few days and needed to get my systems free wheeling. I would still complain about the bunkering though. Every challenge needs some controversy.

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:47 am

scole250 wrote: I would still complain about the bunkering though. Every challenge needs some controversy.

Should I complain right before or right after I do my next bunker drop?

I'm in the same boat as you. We're heading out of town for a couple of days so tomorrow I have no choice but to do a drop. We will get back the evening of the 17th so I will probably do the final drop on the 18th.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:25 am

That's me just heading out the door for offshore to. Just have to hope the systems behave themselves in my absence.

Post by **Bryan** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:28 am

If you go to the project's "top teams" and click on TSBT you'll find that the credits are up to date. When they export stats the next time it should show:

TSBT is now the #10 team on the project and we have the #1 RAC . 8)