Gauntlet-related contest for you Foldy types.

Berserker · 4 Nov 2007 at 10:26

Right, so you origami lot don't feel sad missing out on the SETI Gauntlet, here's your very own contest.

The Competition: Using your skill and judgement, deduce the total number of cobblestones awarded to the OcUK SETI team over the entire Kings Gauntlet, as stated in the official results.

The Closing Date: 7PM GMT on Sunday 11th November. Yes, that means you'll have the first weeks' gauntlet stats to help you.

The Prize: Two weeks folding time on five SMP-capable PCs (three E6600s and two older PCs).

Tie-breaker: In the event of a tie, earliest entry wins.

Other Rules: Anyone who holds a Folding@home account, even Gauntlet participants, may enter. One entry per forum member/folding account (e.g. Team ms9cw count as having one entry) - entrants who make multiple entries will be disqualified. All folding will be for Team 10. Results will be announced within 72 hours after the Gauntlet results are announced. This competition may be withdrawn or altered without notice should there be problems with the Gauntlet, the hardware to be used for folding, or the competition itself. Organiser's decision is final.

I will not be collating entries until after the closing date - so you'll need to use your judgement (or each other) to pick a good score.

diogenese · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:54

I'll stick in an early guess at 435,000 colliwobbles.

Cob · 5 Nov 2007 at 06:41

I wouldn't know where to begin.

shadowscotland · 5 Nov 2007 at 07:20

Cob said:
I wouldn't know where to begin.

look at the stats page them and make a guess

A cool half million (as i think we'll improve on the 30k a day at present)

SiriusB · 5 Nov 2007 at 12:24

501,200

Berserker · 5 Nov 2007 at 23:49

Looks like I'll have to remove one of the E6600s from the prize. Initial tests suggest that enabling VMWare support on one of my servers is the cause of the last week's Team OcUK site nightmares. Tests are ongoing.

Biffa · 6 Nov 2007 at 00:26

Is that the thing with the disk errors?

Damn gauntlet stats are going a bit pear shaped at the moment ay?

Berserker · 6 Nov 2007 at 01:03

Yup, that's the one. Looks like it won't be SMP folding again. Don't fancy going 64-bit native on it.

Spoke too soon - another disk error. Seems to happen when the disk is stressed hard.

Berserker · 9 Nov 2007 at 20:17

The total is back up to five PCs - two E6600s (one overclocked), Xeon 3060, and a couple others that sneak in within the deadlines.

Don't forget - Sunday.

Also, this is now open to SETI'ers as well - you can have your choice of origami or little green men.

shadowscotland · 10 Nov 2007 at 14:33

@ Mr. B - finding your stats site real good, but is it normal to have your pending credit keep rising (mine's at 2k now)

rich99million · 10 Nov 2007 at 16:44

I will definitely be having a crack at this - very good of you Berserker :cool:

Gojira · 10 Nov 2007 at 18:55

shadowscotland said:
@ Mr. B - finding your stats site real good, but is it normal to have your pending credit keep rising (mine's at 2k now)

You are right about Mr B's stats site

, and your pending credit, I'm afraid

My pending credit is about 23k :eek:

As I understand it, you don't get your credit confirmed until someone (or possibly even two someones) returns the same exact workunit with almost exactly similar results.

So if, like any self-respecting OCUKer, you are running a bunch of super crunchers, you may have to wait while someone using a ZX80 wth a dodgy RAM pack to complete the unit.

Meanwhile, it sits as pending credit. Frustrating, but it's the way the system works, and it IS supposed to be better for the science - we ARE all doing it just for the science, aren't we?

Alan Woodford

Biffa · 10 Nov 2007 at 19:44

I do it for the wimmin and gratuitous whoppee.. oh and for my turn on spanky

Gojira · 10 Nov 2007 at 19:47

Biffa said:
I do it for the wimmin and gratuitous whoppee.. oh and for my turn on spanky

Colour me unsurprised

Alan Woodford

shadowscotland · 10 Nov 2007 at 21:21

Doh! - really should have had my home rig on seti a good few days before the comp, I thought 48h would be enough (silly me) never mind, be back on serious science soon enough

Edit: that said i do think your sig alan is one of the best on this forum

SiriusB · 10 Nov 2007 at 23:01

Why thank you, but my name isn't Alan.

sparemips · 11 Nov 2007 at 12:09

shadowscotland said:
@ Mr. B - finding your stats site real good, but is it normal to have your pending credit keep rising (mine's at 2k now)

They have made some change over the last few months at Seti.

Most units are now initially replicated once (given to two people) and the quorum is two.

The units are longer to crunch and have longer deadlines.

The result is units can be 'out there' with one result returned and still waiting for a second result to return for quite a while.

For instance, I downloaded a unit 5th Oct. Returned 6th Oct, deadline happens to be tomorrow.

If the other computer doesn't return it (it has 864 units from 11th October backwards- something not right there I think), then the unit will get re-issued with another month or so deadline.

Maybe I'll get those points for Christmas......

shadowscotland · 11 Nov 2007 at 13:47

sparemips said:
Maybe I'll get those points for Christmas......

Hmmmmmmm, when involved in a two week compertition this really doesn't help :rolleyes:

but most of my pending credit are in a batch so I guess I'll get them all at once - knowing my luck about 3 days after the finish date

some how that always more anoying that 3 weeks or 3 months later

anyway nice to know I've not broken anything - and it's just normal S@h life.

br83taylor · 11 Nov 2007 at 14:47

to try and get this thread back on topic

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i guess 560,000.

rich99million · 11 Nov 2007 at 15:43

Ok I'm going for 472,000