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#1 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth! POGS
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:38 pm
by Alez
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/699
Name John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Status Upcoming
Project theSkyNet POGS
Issued by Astronomy.Ru Forum
Start time 2015-09-14 02:00 UTC
End time 2015-09-21 02:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? No
Number of teams participating » 8
Number of users participating 0
#2 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:08 pm
by Silver
Nice to see someone planning ahead.
Although it means I need to remember when it comes round

#3 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:08 am
by Dirk Broer
Silver wrote:Nice to see someone planning ahead.
Although it means I need to remember when it comes round

Set it as an event in Facebook and/or Outlook...
#4 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 6:22 pm
by Silver
Dirk Broer wrote:Silver wrote:Nice to see someone planning ahead.
Although it means I need to remember when it comes round

Set it as an event in Facebook and/or Outlook...
I think you might be mixing me up with someone who's organised Dirk

It's a great idea though, calendar app away to be opened....
#5 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:40 pm
by scole of TSBT
Could not get POGS WUs to download to most of my androids because of storage issue. Had to uninstall and reinstall NativeBoinc on most of them. PITA

#6 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:25 am
by Alez
I just switched my droids over. Hope I don't have the same issue as not spending the night in the tech shed. Not focusing on this anyway, systems are over onto Universe ....
#7 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:58 pm
by leecarver
Got my system switched over to POGS... Crunch, crunch, crunch.
#8 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:18 pm
by Silver
Nice one lee, glad to have you aboard for this one as we don't seem to be setting the heather alight on this one, yet

#9 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:28 am
by Alez
Get that GTX 770 over onto the Primegrid challenge on pps sieve Lee. Think we will need all the horsepower we can muster .
#10 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:43 am
by Silver
Wellllllll, you can tell that our priorities are elsewhere at the moment.
We're just outside the top 10 but a mere 90k short of 10th spot, I'm going to have a word with my droids when I get home and see what they're playing at!
#11 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:11 am
by Alez
I think my droids are still bogged down with CSG units and then in typical Boinc scheduler distain for anything I may want, they are now hitting enigma

Is it that difficult a concept to understand that it is my computer, my power etc. so the scheduler should do what I want not what some non functional algorithim thinks it should do.
#12 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:57 am
by Silver
Alez wrote: Is it that difficult a concept to understand that it is my computer, my power etc. so the scheduler should do what I want not what some non functional algorithim thinks it should do.
Yip

#13 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:23 pm
by leecarver
Alez wrote:Get that GTX 770 over onto the Primegrid challenge on pps sieve Lee. Think we will need all the horsepower we can muster .
Joined PrimeGrid this morning. Should I leave the resources as 50/50 (split with POGS)?
#14 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:45 pm
by Alez
leecarver wrote:Alez wrote:Get that GTX 770 over onto the Primegrid challenge on pps sieve Lee. Think we will need all the horsepower we can muster .
Joined PrimeGrid this morning. Should I leave the resources as 50/50 (split with POGS)?
No, run only the pps sieve app on the nvidia GPU. Put your cores on POGS. There is no advantage on doing CPU units for Primegrid for a challenge as all you want to do is generate as much points as quickly as possible. Leave a core free for the GPU and watch it fly.
See this post...
http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 721#p26424
#15 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:42 pm
by leecarver
Alez wrote:
No, run only the pps sieve app on the nvidia GPU. Put your cores on POGS. There is no advantage on doing CPU units for Primegrid for a challenge as all you want to do is generate as much points as quickly as possible. Leave a core free for the GPU and watch it fly.
Ok - I think I have everything set up properly. For PrimeGrid preferences, I've told it no CPU but use NVIDIA GPU, and it is only running on the PPS-SIEVE project. For POGS, I set the CPU usage limits to 75% of the CPUs.
Are there any tweaks I should be making to memory and what not? Has anyone established any sort of guide on what the local and project preferences should be in general for optimal use? I pretty much shut down BOINC when I want to use my system for anything other than web surfing. But when I'm away, it should be able to use whatever resources it wants.
And you're right about it flying. Just finished a WU in 7:42 (using .0731 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU).
#16 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:35 pm
by Alez
Watch how quickly your points go up
We did have some optimisations etc. but most are obsolete or buried away in previous challenge posts. I've started putting together new optimisations as we go again and this time they are all in the same place :)
look here
#17 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:41 am
by scole of TSBT
A triple challenge week! TSBT is 11th of 20 with 3 days left.
Individual positions
scole of TSBT 46th (not bad for a just the androids)
Skywalker TSBT 63rd
Paul of TSBT 98th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 117th
leecarver 121st
Megacruncher TSBT 124th
AArrgghh 166th
Janos of TSBT 265th
thinboab 417th
phildemeur 523rd
wyqmanutd 546th
FlyingfocRS of the Scottish Boinc Team 550th
Joe PC 566th
A good turnout! Well done all!
#18 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:55 am
by Silver
That's quite a nice little list of tsbt crunchers, keep up the good work everyone.
If we could scrape into the top 10 that would be a result!
#19 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:17 pm
by scole of TSBT
TSBT finished 11th of 21
Individual kudos
scole of TSBT 49th
Skywalker TSBT 60th
Paul of TSBT 77th
leecarver 90th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 117th
Megacruncher TSBT 127th
AArrgghh 169th (join the forum lad)
phildemeur 301st
Janos of TSBT 314th
thinboab 430th
wyqmanutd 505th
Joe PC 549th
FlyingfocRS of the Scottish Boinc Team 599th
Another good turnout. Well done all!
#20 Re: 14/9-21/9 John Dobson - 100th anniversary of the birth!
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:59 pm
by Silver
Well done everyone, another great result 8)