The Scottish Boinc Team

https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challe ... /chat/1093

Name TN-Grid summer challenge
Status Upcoming
Project TN-Grid
Issued by Colombia
Start time 2021-08-11 14:15 UTC
End time 2021-08-18 14:15 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 16
Number of users participating 0

TN-Grid

Kicks off in a days time for anyone interested.

Sure, I'll swap over from Wanless for a while as we still need points on TnGrid too.

@Alez Do you want your rentals on TnGrid?

@davidBAM sure, all points count for the team so go for it please.

Does TnGrid use a lot of heat?

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:42 pm Does TnGrid use a lot of heat?

It doesn't use heat but but it may cause your CPUs to generate more heat (I knew what you meant). Try a few and keep and eye on CPU and GPU temps

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:14 pm

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:42 pm Does TnGrid use a lot of heat?

It doesn't use heat but but it may cause your CPUs to generate more heat (I knew what you meant). Try a few and keep and eye on CPU and GPU temps

Thank you, I will try a few and keep a close eye on temps.

Going to try and add a team stats on the first post if I can get it to work ....

just needed the year on the start date :)

Cheers, every day is a school day

It is both picky and subtle, you use 1-Jan on the Sneaky Peek because that means 1-Jan in the current year. 11-Aug 14:15 would probably have worked okay after 14:15 UTC but 11-Aug-21 14:15 gives the same actual timestamp forever

off and running, TSBT currently in 2nd place.

not sure what's going on with the start time. I had to fudge post #1 by an hour in order to get it to agree with the BoincStats figures

Maybe not all UTC's are equal, brexit, Trump etc. Seems to be working fine now.

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:49 pm

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:14 pm

Miklos M wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:42 pm Does TnGrid use a lot of heat?

It doesn't use heat but but it may cause your CPUs to generate more heat (I knew what you meant). Try a few and keep and eye on CPU and GPU temps

Thank you, I will try a few and keep a close eye on temps.

Not joining in the water is nice ?

All my systems are air cooled only and they cope fine. TN-Grid doesn't run the systems any harder than any other project as far as I'm aware.

Alez wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:10 pm All my systems are air cooled only and they cope fine. TN-Grid doesn't run the systems any harder than any other project as far as I'm aware.

They do have an AVX app and those apps often create some extra heat. Your air is also much cooler than Miklos' place.

Rechenkraft obviously had a bigger bunker than us but we are gaining on them by the hour.
A win for us would show that we aren't just about pre-comp bunkering. It would also be very useful in protecting and maybe gaining some FB marathon points.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:43 pm

Alez wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:10 pm All my systems are air cooled only and they cope fine. TN-Grid doesn't run the systems any harder than any other project as far as I'm aware.

They do have an AVX app and those apps often create some extra heat. Your air is also much cooler than Miklos' place.

Very true, so I'll quantify my reply as I should be the last member of the team commenting on someone not taking part in a competition. In no way am I attempting to sway or shame Miklos into taking part. The internal air temps inside the case of my hottest system is 12 deg C higher than ambient. The walls of my houses are 3ft thick, so outside temp is @14 deg C, internal of my house is 22 deg C. My I7 internal case temp is currently 27 deg C running 6 of 8 threads on TN- Grid with no GPU work. I simply lower the core count on projects that run hotter than others. I wouldn't place TN-Grid as being any harder on my systems than most other projects, but others may obviously experience different.

And myself he can run what he wants to as everyone can. I just like to see everyone join in the fun

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:56 am Rechenkraft obviously had a bigger bunker than us but we are gaining on them by the hour.
A win for us would show that we aren't just about pre-comp bunkering. It would also be very useful in protecting and maybe gaining some FB marathon points.

Some of P3DN have also woken up to their being a competition available outside of FB. We are slowly catching Rechenkraft.net. I am off to the BTCC race meet at knockhill tomorrow. I had intended shutting down my systems before I go, but I may rethink this, although as usual lately my contribution is not exactly stellar . 1 new Ryzon is up and running, another is apparently out for delivery with Hermes. If you are from the UK you will know that this means it may or may not turn up at your address and it may or may not be damaged beyond use when it does .......

I see that Pete is sitting second in the challenge for BOINC @AUSTRALIA. nice to see he's still around BOINC and kicking some ass.

... yeah, including our asses

Seems to have overcome his dislike of bunkering too https://www.boincstats.com/stats/150/us ... 5B%5D=3164

davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:55 am ... yeah, including our asses

Seems to have overcome his dislike of bunkering too https://www.boincstats.com/stats/150/us ... 5B%5D=3164

Well, if you don't like my morals ..... I have other available

Rechenkraft have upped their game too

@SolidAir79 hits the front

Rechenkraft next folks keep the pressure on

They have eased off a little, I think. Doubtless starting to bunker some for later. WU still aren't within range of the end of the challenge though

... or maybe not, this shows points per hour over 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 hrs. I guess long run-times will give erratic scoring

Wow Hoo! We are winning!
And I am bunkering! Not enough to worry @SolidAir79 but I'd quite like to kick Cruncher Pete's bottom. Nice though it is to see that he isn't actually dead yet!

Staying on this for a while yet. Apart from wanting 1st place, the marathon points are very useful

We are winning by a mile!
And I just displaced Cruncher Pete for second place in the individual stakes. Nice!

awesome, well done

I have quite a bit bunkered - - mostly for Alez, wonder if it'll take him above Pete too

That would be nice

it's official, we have more than double the score of 2nd placed RK

Oh yes please, full steam ahead and past Pete. Should have my own systems back on as well for last 2 days

A TSBT 1-2-3 with Pete pushed off the podium would be a very fine prospect indeed!
If you share your weak account key for the project @Alez then I'm happy to lend you a few cores once my own position is secure which shouldn't be too long!

what Fresh Hell is this? I spent 6 and some hours crunching a WU only to be told it isn't usable. Had a few from same machine
http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/workunit ... d=30003711

Need to crunch AGED units in the closing days or Mr Pending will win

Okay guess I'll let mine go..

PecosRiverM wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:58 pm Okay guess I'll let mine go..

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom...

I don't understand how you can have scored more in the last hour than your total score. Never mind - at least the challenge has it right

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:35 am

PecosRiverM wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:58 pm Okay guess I'll let mine go..

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom...

It was just a small one I slipped in there..

Pete is about to go into 4th place.

... and I have enough bunkered for Alez to counter any moves

davidBAM wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:17 pm Pete is about to go into 4th place.

... and I have enough bunkered for Alez to counter any moves

Hurrah. Although the old bugger is hanging on grimly, still about 3K ahead of Alez.

not now - score all you can to maintain the current placings. I think you guys deserve #1 and #2 so I may not even drop all of Alez's bunkers after pre-empting some other rentals to do it. I'll aim to keep him safely on 3rd place.

I don't actually think Pete will have significant bunkers - I deliberately prolonged the overtake to see if he would drop. Will see what he does when he gets up

... another thing, the boincstats page does not update every 15mins - looks more like 30mins

Yup thats it now. TSBT 1-2-3.
I'm happy to be part of a TSBT cleansweep. Not particularly bothered about where on the podium I stand.

Back home from the racing and in 3rd. Wow, thank you guys. I'm ecstatic with that and drop my bunkers for others if you can. #1 and #2 deserve their places on merit. #3 for me is a huge team effort that the team takes the kudos for.

@Alez you can be the 3rd Brownlee brother