So far Denis has coped reasonably well with this challenge. Not bad given the computing power for the project is almost 50% higher now than when it started from 50k GigaFLOPS to over 73.5k.
There seems only to have been one small hiccup, in the first couple of hours of the challenge when those who had bunkered started to upload / download. But mainly it's kept going and work hasn't dried up.
The Denis website is definitely slower with all the extra traffic. And there are the first signs of some weakness as some stats aren't always updating. Boincstats still shows my credit as rising. on Denis my total credit has got stuck for a few hours. Their admins say we shouldn't worry about the server status icons for which systems are running or not, the validator, assimilator and purge that regularly show red is just a glitch.
Meanwhile, at about the halfway stage the clear leader is Sicituradastra with 16,156k we hold second at 14,720k with overclockers.net at 12,243k. OcUK are keeping pace with the leader, but the gap is more or less static. But overclockers.net are making a bit of a push and their are definitely gaining on us. The second place slot is not assured.
There seems only to have been one small hiccup, in the first couple of hours of the challenge when those who had bunkered started to upload / download. But mainly it's kept going and work hasn't dried up.
The Denis website is definitely slower with all the extra traffic. And there are the first signs of some weakness as some stats aren't always updating. Boincstats still shows my credit as rising. on Denis my total credit has got stuck for a few hours. Their admins say we shouldn't worry about the server status icons for which systems are running or not, the validator, assimilator and purge that regularly show red is just a glitch.
Meanwhile, at about the halfway stage the clear leader is Sicituradastra with 16,156k we hold second at 14,720k with overclockers.net at 12,243k. OcUK are keeping pace with the leader, but the gap is more or less static. But overclockers.net are making a bit of a push and their are definitely gaining on us. The second place slot is not assured.
Now it's at 4600 instead of the default 3400Hz. Reduced the time per WU from 14.5minutes to a fraction over 11. Or to put it another way, that's an extra WU per CPU thread per hour, or an extra 8 WUs an hour 