The Scottish Boinc Team

https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/957

Name Ocean of fantasy
Status Upcoming
Project Acoustics@home
Issued by Russia Team
Start time 2017-09-28 04:00 UTC
End time 2017-10-05 04:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 12
Number of users participating 0

Anyone fancy a run on this one ?

Why not?

lousy credit , no badges. I'm in.

scole250 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:17 pm lousy credit , no badges. I'm in.

But the glory of dropping your famed bunker buster on the opposition .......

For those that are joining us on this competition and have not run the project before, some information can be found in this thread on the forum.

scole250 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:17 pm lousy credit , no badges. I'm in.

As a motivational speech it falls a bit short..

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:03 pm

scole250 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:17 pm lousy credit , no badges. I'm in.

As a motivational speech it falls a bit short..

and I thought it was supposed to be the brits that were the quiet, understated folks. Stiff upper lip and all that ....

Off one rig, straight back out to another in a mad rush. Moving systems over remotely tonight. Is the project a quorum of two so I can at least build some pendings ?

Alez wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:36 pm... Is the project a quorum of two so I can at least build some pendings ?

yes

well I'd better start building some pendings then ....

Less than 2 days to go. Fill those bunkers gentlemen.

[mention]Tejas[/mention] , you joining us for this one? I hope you're saving up!

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:20 am @Tejas , you joining us for this one? I hope you're saving up!

I actually signed up for this one, so I suppose I have have to produce a token amount before switching to TSBT. No bunker saved up as I'm trying to finish off another project.

If you signed your team up by all means run it with your team. We won't disable your account

21 hours to go and up to 600 pendings so far, best I can do.
[mention]Tejas[/mention] I made your account a full member of TSBT so that you can see everything on the website that other team members can see. Don't think that that makes you beholding to us. You crunch whatever you wish and will always be welcome to join us when it suits you.

From the project admin -
On September 28, 2017, the first challenge in Acoustics@home will be started. During this challenge, we will deal with the quite large scenario no. 906, which contains about 1 million workunits. Recently only 10 % of these workuntis were already calculated.

You know what to do

Barely 12 hours until the start. I better load up and disable network activity

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 4:21 pm Barely 12 hours until the start. I better load up and disable network activity

Not buying it Mr Bunker Buster

[mention]scole of TSBT[/mention] Looking at the Acoustics@home team page and it doesn't look like there will be many of us on this, maybe just the two of us, maybe 3 or 4 at the most so far.

Too bad. Rumor has it the Russian Bikini Team is going to host a reception for the top 3 teams after the challenge...

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:11 am If you signed your team up by all means run it with your team. We won't disable your account

Well my "Team" consist of me. It was created because I'm lazy and it is the best way to check stats across all projects on one page. So I will be joining you on this challenge too.

Tejas wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:49 pm Well my "Team" consist of me. It was created because I'm lazy and it is the best way to check stats across all projects on one page. So I will be joining you on this challenge too.

?At least one of them is you: https://boincstats.com/en/stats/search/#tejas

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:18 pm Too bad. Rumor has it the Russian Bikini Team is going to host a reception for the top 3 teams after the challenge...

I know propaganda (пропаганда) when I see it...

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:15 pmI know propaganda (пропаганда) when I see it...

I didn't catch any of their names

I can't get it to run on my Xeon without every WU erroring out after 1 sec but I'll try & persuade the rest of the croft to give it a whirl.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:10 amI can't get it to run on my Xeon without every WU erroring out after 1 sec but I'll try & persuade the rest of the croft to give it a whirl.

It's not a computation error. The project is declaring them Abandoned for some reason. Don't know what it is but it looks like maybe that host doesn't have SP1 installed. Some projects apps require that but I figure it would either not download WU or you'd get computation errors if that were the case.

Looking at the top computers on the project, Windows appears to be the preferred OS for this project and I didn't see any computer inside the top 140 or so running Win 7 that didn't have SP1 installed. Could try installing it.

Least it's an old skool dogfight without the hoardes of GC swamping the place.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:41 pm

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:15 pmI know propaganda (пропаганда) when I see it...

I didn't catch any of their names

It is the ladies team from FC Rossiyanka, which hails from Krasnoarmeysk, not far from Moscow.
Another publicity still:

normally they pose like this:

McShane of AP wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:55 amJust for info. I won't be in the challenge

You're more than welcome to join in should you wish. You know where we live. Good to see a post from you.

[mention]Tejas[/mention] Nice moves on grabbing individual first place.
TSBT also currently sitting in first place

Tejas 1st
scole of TSBT 3rd
Alez 11th
Megacruncher TSBT 32nd

There's plenty of room in the posts for me to happily add more names. Every unit crunched adds points to the team !!

[mention]Tejas[/mention] , I hope you have more completed WUs stashed somewhere. JayPi is creeping up on you.

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:42 pm @Tejas , I hope you have more completed WUs stashed somewhere. JayPi is creeping up on you.

I do not, but I have more systems getting close to completing their other work soon.

TSBT still leading the pack - although it's close and the Russians are gaining on us.
Great individual standings too -
scole 1st
Tejas 3rd
Alez 10th
I've moved up to 14th. I got the Xeon to run it eventually - Win 7 SP1 just would not install so I ended up giving another £99.99 to Microsoft for Windows 10. Still it's zinging along nicely now. And Cortana is friendly.

We're managing to stay just ahead of Russia Team

Got home tonight, got my dead server up and running, updated linux on my main server and it promptly died. Awesome !!!. Server has now been rebuilt to lubuntu 17.04 but can't get it to act as a wifi hotspot just now, so server back and running but no wifi for the droids. That will be a job for tomorrow after finishing the pro kart rebuild for it's debut on Sunday.

2 days into the comp and TSBT still continues to hold first place.

7 members crunching on the comp now. Hopefully a few more will jump onboard.

scole of TSBT 1st
Tejas 3rd
McShane of TSBT 5th
Alez 11th
Megacruncher TSBT 14th
MarkRBright 105th
Andrew 122nd

Great effort everybody.

The pendings do build up. Around 20% of what I've completed are pending.

My pendings are closer to 40%. Hopefully they start flowing in soon.

Since Pete, MarkRBright and Andrew joined in we've started pulling away from Russia Team.

Ready to go racing tomorrow I can assure you the Acoustics@home were very loud doing a burn out in the garage

That's the servers in the shed next to the Kart, Hitec garage !!

Does it run better on Windoze or Linux.

I had a 1M project disappear off my stats and couldn't figure out which one it was. For some reason Acoustics is the culprit and when I checked the FreeDC stats I saw that Scole and Pete had big numbers. I didn't know this was going on.

As my machine roll off of Leiden (FB Sprint) I'll put them on it since I have to run it anyway.

It's about 12-14% faster on Win64 vs linux

Hey Dirk, did you see me wave when I went by?

Why are you guys complaining about pendings ... only 16% of what I've turned in has validated. That really sucks!

Classic project with high rate of pendings challenge. There's 80 hours left in the challenge. To minimize pendings you need to load a full 80 hours work on each system now and hope your wingman completes his within that time.

Over half way thru the comp and TSBT are well out in front in a two horse race with Russia Team. :wav:
Surely there's no reason that the pending situation should favour the ruskies? The harder other teams try the more likely it is that they will validate our work? Or am I missing something?

Most of your pendings are probably sitting in Scole's cache Actually, I checked quite a few of mine and there are a number of Ruskies that have a average turn around time of 4-6 days. I have bunches of finished WU where they are my wingman. The best ones I have are some of Scole's machines.

Things are getting better on my end, 21% of what I've turned in has validated ... that's progress

Bryan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:43 pm Hey Dirk, did you see me wave when I went by?

More of a Bow wave I guess?

My Threadripper has landed.
Early indications are that it kicks the Xeons arse for much less outlay!
I'll put it onto Acoustic for a day or two. But we are so far ahead of the Russians that it shouldn't be necessary. It might just put me in with a chance of joining scole, McShane, Tejas & Alez in the top 10. Not that that matters!

Excellent. Tell us how the temps run while crunching.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:35 am
It might just put me in with a chance of joining scole, McShane, Tejas & Alez in the top 10. Not that that matters!

The last time I checked my friend Bowmore was in the top 10 also