Denis@home team challenge: 31st Oct - 7th Nov

hanluc · 25 Oct 2015 at 19:41

Denis@home team challenge.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/730

Starts: 6pm (utc) 31st Oct 2015
Ends: 6pm (utc) 7th Nov 2015

Thought I would start a new thread for this challenge. Currently there are 12 15 20 teams, including ourselves, that have signed up for this.

The objective as usual is to score as many points within the time frame for the BOINC project Denis@home.

Any newcomers please see the 'DENIS' thread for tips on how to optimise your production.

Go Team OcUK!

hanluc · 28 Oct 2015 at 07:52

There are now 15 teams signed up, including Overclock.net who are currently the top producers.

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 12:59

MGP said:
Not quite sure how often it updates, but a good stats site that interprets a lot more than the Denis site, or even the boincstats challenge can do:

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=den

Some of the graphs are very nice.

I like FreeDC's stats. Denis updates once a day on there, around 11am.
Currently though the day's total is wrong, it's not 4+ million for us, that's the last two days combined, it's 2.48 million for us, just 100K less than OCN at 2.57 million, here's hoping for a good scrap

EDIT: scores are correct now

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=den&team=54
... and on a personal note, I see that he can still out produce me! :mad:

.. think I need to up the ante.

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 13:31

PDW said:
If by chance you are referring to me, then you should know that yesterday I was still running some vLHC and DPAD. Also intend to get a few more cores when I switch from Moo to Asteroids on the Nvidia cards. So tomorrow should be a better day

You can shove your ante wherever you want as long as it doesn't involve me, I'd suggest you get shopping quickly to get your order in and pay for Saturday delivery to stand any chance

LOL
I can't do any more before the challenge, I went and sold my 2700K which I regret now, the timing of it that is, but I'm not done upgrading.

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 13:49

I'll send Boycie a trust message and fries guy a message through boinc (he's not a forum
member).

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 16:45

PDW said:
Talking of upgrading, we could do with Boycie upgrading from the first optimised app to the latest to get his output nearer 300k than 200k.

I've noticed that some of his tasks take double the time of some of his others for the same points, makes me think that maybe his computers are sometimes busy doing something to do with his work, heaven forbid

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 17:23

He's got back to me and said that he's updated them

Interesting to see now what times they do.

hanluc · 30 Oct 2015 at 18:16

PDW said:
It hasn't contacted the Denis server yet...

http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/hosts_user.php?userid=10032

It has now, rocking and rolling

hanluc · 31 Oct 2015 at 00:13

Biffa said:
I should have few dozen threads to throw at this

Don't know if you realise mate but your dual xeon (sr2?) machine isn't running the optimised app, your other machine is. There is an OSX version if that's what you weren't aware of.

OSX 64bit SSE41:

Code:

http://www.boincunited.org/opt_apps/denis/denis_1.05_x86_64-apple-darwin__sse41_v3.zip

hanluc · 31 Oct 2015 at 00:23

double post

hanluc · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:37

Typical, who's idea was it to run this comp at the weeked? :rolleyes:

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 09:37

colinmcr said:
Yeah I'm trying to carefully approach the "Hey honey can you turn on my 5930k pc as well" conversation...

Tell her she can have the boinc credit for it

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 11:25

andy_taximan said:
Gutted !! Lost 10 hours yesterday after the main pc did a update and boinc didnt restart while i was out working, my fault i spose, will use my own advice and team viewer in a couple times a day to make sure its on or just make sure it restarts after a reboot
BAD timing as i lost a couple of places in the charts

I always change my windows update settings so it doesn't install them automatically, though I have been caught out a few times after doing a fresh install and forgetting to do it.

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 12:52

colinmcr said:
In Top Computers I've climbed to 5th Jon is ahead of me in 3rd, Andy in 7th (So good going)

no. 1 now baby :cool:

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 14:17

PDW said:
Power cut for last 20 minutes

They say it might be fixed by 3pm

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery

tipes said:
I am in - I think, currently downloading work from server - not a lot happening though. Perhaps mod could see if I am in the pool so to speak - zen19.

Mark

You are here http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/hosts_user.php?userid=10651 and you are currently teamless and you are not using the optisimed app AVX2, which runs the tasks over 10x faster.

First, go to your account (http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/home.php) top right hand corner, join team "OcUK Overclockers UK"

Then download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1452459/denis/denis1.6.1_avx2.zip and extract the contents to your C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\denis.usj.es_denisathome directory. Fully shut down the Boinc client (File/exit Boinc) restart and you should be good to go.

Thanks for helping out! That's a very nice machine you have there.

Devrij said:
Why does it say new user instead of OcUK next to my name on BOINCstats for the challenge?

It's happened before with other challenges, should catch up soon and show your correct team, to my knowledge your scores are still being added to our team total.

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:32

colinmcr said:
Congrats Jon, hope I can catch up a bit. Can't remember but I think I changed my cpu to usage to 90 or 95% so it can still fold on my 780s, forgot all about changing it back and stopping F@H.
Ach well its better than no points at all I suppose

Thanks, looking at your run times also you are a little slower than me which makes me think, as we have the same machine, that you haven't upgraded to the latests AVX2 app, but no to worry you're still churning out good production, I just wish we could start catching Sic as a team.

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 18:16

tipes said:
Hi hanluc,

Thanks for the guide - thought I was doing something wrong - have followed your instructions and it is running a lot quicker - nice. Thanks for the pc compliment - cost an arm and two legs but worth it lol. I will try and contribute as much as I can. Please confirm I am now running as part of the team.

Mark

Looking great now, thanks again!

colinmcr said:
When was the last upgrade to AVX2? I did my upgrade 3-4 weeks ago can't remember version number, might have been 1.5.0 ??

A week ago, it's sesef's version.

Biffa said:
On one of my machines the AVX2 app just errors out, had to drop back to the SSE3 one

AVX2 is Haswell or newer, so your 4770K should be OK, the others your want sse4.1 or the lastest Crunch3r one.

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 18:22

colinmcr said:
I don't think we can catch Sic they are steaming ahead, shame I can't field anything else cause I'm abroad...

I wouldn't say steaming, rather slowly pulling away, they had a big bunker boost to start with, but they are a massive team, it would be some achievement to catch them.

hanluc · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:40

Biffa said:
Gotcha, working now.

All I need to do now is work out where to put the optimised app on the mac.

Anyone have a clue?

Everything I read about it says there should be a Library>Application Support>BOINC Data>projects> folder

But mine just has Library>Application Support>BOINC

And no other folders inside that.

Maybe it's a hidden folder issue, the Boinc directory in windows is hidden, maybe it's hidden on the mac and you need to show hidden folders in the settings? just a guess.

hanluc · 2 Nov 2015 at 10:31

currob said:
Does anyone here use gridcoin? Is it worth signing up for it?

You have to crunch for the Gridcoin team to get them, I'm not sure what they're worth, I know they aren't on the major exchanges, or at least they weren't.

ozaudio said:
I see Bombay added more cores

Cool, our production now is about the same as Sic's, we just need to tip the balance. Have you spoken to Ba recently? I remember you saying he was taking a break.