7th Annual BOINC Pentathlon: 5th - 19th June 2016

PDW · 12 Jun 2016 at 08:08

Early days in the swimming pool as Universe started at 1am local time but we have moved up to 4th place :cool:

PDW · 12 Jun 2016 at 08:24

The main table has updated now and we have moved up to 9th place overall :cool:

Pushing Gridcoin for 8th

Edit: Added link for scores...
https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php

hanluc · 12 Jun 2016 at 08:38

I think some shenanigans are in place with Universe, but never the less a nice sight to see

.... seems to be quite a backlog with the validation server.

Senture · 12 Jun 2016 at 10:21

hanluc said:
.... seems to be quite a backlog with the validation server.

Should have seen how painful it was to upload results last night :eek:

MGP · 12 Jun 2016 at 10:40

That has been some impressive dumpage in the Universe. 4th Place at present is rather surprising. The question is how well we can hang on to that start when a lot of teams are going to be snapping at our heels.

Going to be interesting to see how everyone deals with Rosetta being thrown into the mix for the sprint. That will be three CPU based projects running at once which might make for strategic juggling of resources?

MGP · 12 Jun 2016 at 12:05

Looks like the Universe validation server is really stuggling - over 11000 WUs to work on :eek:

Starting to slip down the leaderboard now as the credits work themselves through

picnic · 13 Jun 2016 at 10:25

Following a prod from Oz over the weekend I've signed up and will do my little bit. To save me trawling all the messages are there any optimised apps for universe@home? Does it use the GPU? Mine isn't currently.

ozaudio · 13 Jun 2016 at 10:28

hay

no apps, cpu only, just add and let it run

hanluc · 13 Jun 2016 at 10:40

ozaudio said:
hay

no apps, cpu only, just add and let it run

... with Linux if possible.

picnic · 13 Jun 2016 at 10:54

Sorry no Linux here unless I run up a virtual pc. Is there a big advantage to do that?

MGP · 13 Jun 2016 at 11:47

At this stage, don't worry about fiddling and trying to optimise the PC. Windows will be just fine.

The only projects left to run now are all CPU based CSG running till the bitter end on the 19th June as does Universe, (5 days left) and then Rosetta that is in the mix between the 15th & 18th (3 days only 1.5 days till start). Any of those could be good to run. Indeed now is the time to start any bunkering on Rosetta ready for release no earlier than 1:00 am (UK Summer time) on the 15th.

We are at the tail end of the PrimeGrid GPU based challenge but that has just over half day to go now and new production isn't going to affect our results.

hanluc · 13 Jun 2016 at 14:36

picnic said:
Sorry no Linux here unless I run up a virtual pc. Is there a big advantage to do that?

Check the Distributed Computing sub forums

PDW · 13 Jun 2016 at 15:18

The team is in 11th place overall at the moment and in the currently running disciplines we are:

12th in the Marathon - CSG
12th in the Cross Country - Primegrid
10th in the Swimming - Universe

Any and all help appreciated

MGP · 13 Jun 2016 at 15:41

Lookout the Czech Team is putting on a Universe spurt. There was me thinking we were at risk from the Francophones. We could yet slip from 10th to 13th

TheTross · 13 Jun 2016 at 16:03

Am running Universe until the end of the challenge. It's not a huge output I'm afraid, just four tired old cores available but every little helps

hanluc · 13 Jun 2016 at 21:35

Down to eleventh on Universe

... need more powaa!!

ozaudio · 13 Jun 2016 at 22:20

Ba's 120 core is out of action due to overheating, hes swapping cases so he can add more rads. if streetlight was still around , he has loads of cpu power

Senture · 13 Jun 2016 at 23:53

Got my 32 core Xeon system sorted out now, so that's been plonked on Universe

hanluc · 14 Jun 2016 at 07:38

A reminder folks, Rosetta starts at 1 am (our time) tomorrow morning.

MGP · 14 Jun 2016 at 09:26

Rosetta doesn't need a wingman so will validate as you upload. At least this means there won't be a validation backlog as per Universe, but does also mean Rosetta will play very different to the other projects. An interesting sprint.

Trouble is you download, and it will only give so many WUs as boinc can't predict crunching time properly (one of my PCs showed 3 days per WU, when 3 hours was more realistic. As a result some have run dry overnight.

Watch out too, if you don't get WUs when you expect, maybe something is busy, or whatever, boinc will quickly back off it's communications. One of mine doesn't want to speak to Rosetta for 24 hours :eek: