[Einstein@home] News Q4 2015

derk · 28 Nov 2015 at 22:36

News Q4 2015

Top 10 UK Teams - Total Credit

1 UK BOINC Team 435,891,726
2 OcUK - Overclockers UK 329,699,693
3 University of Glasgow 301,327,156
4 The Scottish Boinc Team 288,606,173
5 The Snowblind Alliance 169,463,378 (New)
6 QuakeNet 101,961,759
7 Team England (Boinc) 63,360,021
8 University College London 57,615,666
9 Boinc UK 53,841,880
10 Cardiff Gravitational Phy. 49,257,341

Top 10 UK Teams - PPD

1 OcUK - Overclockers UK 958,133
2 The Scottish Boinc Team 453,812
3 University of Glasgow 304,704
4 UK BOINC Team 245,137
5 University College London 129,058
6 Boinc UK 100,898
7 Team England (Boinc) 73,017
8 GameGrin 70,400
9 QuakeNet 62,293
10 Sleeping Dogs 61,788

Top 25 OcUK Active Contributors (PPD)

1 Senture 2,377,705 296,380
2 Andy_Taximan 5,505,583 192,390
3 Ba 26,430,047 150,915
4 currob 787,200 57,200
5 pnutty 387,594 43,516
6 -derk- 37,637,605 37,730
7 Borged by MGP 9,489,909 31,363
8 Zapp3012 529,433 30,800
9 Stephen Ord 28,035,842 22,451
10 Biffa 1,200,354 22,000
11 hamesy 8,236,743 21,065
12 kolala 12,116,936 9,009
13 jondi_hanluc 12,321,650 8,800
14 Simon Pickard 9,430,605 7,623
15 Gordon Proctor 8,971,422 6,879
16 cadmunkey 37,022 5,093
17 chrislip 964,061 4,400
18 Tim 1,029,417 4,400
19 Tina 68,839 3,465
20 Mick Wood 3,171,646 1,386
21 Graham Skelly 617,317 1,386
22 agiorgitis 275,261 1,386
23 xrobert 780,174 693
24 Martin 1,161,584 693
25 ynda 38,688 125

Member Milestones

2015-11-28 Biffa 1,200,000
2015-11-28 colinmcr 4,000
2015-11-28 Andy_Taximan 5,500,000
2015-11-27 currob 750,000
2015-11-27 Senture 2,000,000
2015-11-27 cadmunkey 30,000
2015-11-27 Pumpkinstew 12,000,000
2015-11-27 pnutty 350,000
2015-11-27 Zapp3012 500,000
2015-11-25 Tina 60,000
2015-11-18 ozaudio 30,000
2015-11-16 Borged by MGP 9,000,000
2015-11-15 jondi_hanluc 12,000,000
2015-11-12 Graham Skelly 600,000
2015-11-12 kolala 12,000,000
2015-11-12 agiorgitis 250,000
2015-11-07 chrislip 950,000
2015-11-04 PDW 50,000,000
2015-11-02 Relatively Lawless 2,000,000

New Members

2015-11-30 Nix 693.00
2015-11-29 Graeme 59,037.00
2015-11-28 colinmcr 4,400.00
2015-11-26 cadmunkey 37,021.60
2015-11-16 currob 787,200.00
2015-11-16 Senture 2,377,704.83
2015-11-12 Tina 68,839.22

Members Lost

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News

UK team title race is progressing beyond expectations, we may be seeing a trend now where our PPD crosses the 1 Million mark at the weekends and drops a little mid week.
It's a big task to take the UK title but you have risen to the challenge and then some!
We seem to have a steady flow of new members coming in, this was a surprise. To those people I say thankyou & welcome to the team.
Andy_taximan & Senture maintain thier powerhouse status, they appear to be taking it in turns wearing the PPD Crown but keep an eye on your rear view mirror!

Picture of the day - A thing of beauty

Chart - TeamOcUK

BaBa · 28 Nov 2015 at 23:12

Hello all

Thanks for the news Derk :cool:

I take it that is you Halz :confused:

Anyway added a little horsepower to the race not sure for how long but we will see :eek:

derk · 29 Nov 2015 at 00:03

It is indeed Sir and I had noticed you fired your engines up, hence the warning to the other 2

andy_taximan · 29 Nov 2015 at 05:51

I had to turn my 4770k and 780s off for now hence the slip from number 1 but hey ho

picnic · 29 Nov 2015 at 08:41

Thanks for the news but I can't really be in 5th place in the Active Contributors (Total & PPD) list can I? Where does the PPD come from because Boinc gives me a daily average of 11455.99. Now I know that's increasing but it's only slowly.

Senture · 29 Nov 2015 at 09:55

BaBa said:
Anyway added a little horsepower to the race not sure for how long but we will see

Can safely say those AMD cards will out perform my GTX 980's, never mind the rest of it :eek:

. All adds to us taking the top spot though

derk · 29 Nov 2015 at 18:54

picnic said:
but I can't really be in 5th place in the Active Contributors (Total & PPD) list can I?

At the time of writing you did have the fifth highest PPD (not RAC), a quick look shows that since that time you been overtaken by Zapp3012 and my goodself - I have started to leave the PC on while I'm at work

I use PPD a lot because it reflects whats actually happening right now, with RAC the figures takes weeks to stabilize.
Reading it back I can see what you mean though so I edited the title.
Now stop moaning and get crunching ya slacker

Zapp3012 · 29 Nov 2015 at 20:40

Looks like that new 750ti is doing me proud

picnic · 29 Nov 2015 at 22:43

derk said:
Now stop moaning and get crunching ya slacker

Yes sir, three bags full sir

derk · 30 Nov 2015 at 19:16

Zapp3012 said:
Looks like that new 750ti is doing me proud

Indeed

2 more new members added to first post - Graeme & Nix - welcome aboard chaps.

More Member Milestones

pnutty passed 450,000
Tina passed 70,000
Zapp3012 passed 600,000
currob passed 850,000
Nix passed 500
cadmunkey passed 60,000
colinmcr passed 10,000
Graeme passed 50,000
Borged by MGP passed 9,500,000
pnutty passed 400,000
Zapp3012 passed 550,000
currob passed 800,000
Senture passed 2,500,000
cadmunkey passed 40,000
colinmcr passed 8,000
Graeme passed 8,000

Teams PPD hits new high .....again

1,444,318

derk · 2 Dec 2015 at 04:10

UKBoink teams output has been falling all week - are they folding under the pressure?
Their output was around 400k a month ago but that has now fallen to 189k
Even more amazing, our PPD yet again hits a new high -

1,582,938 !!!!!! :cool:

More Member Milestones passed

2015-12-01 Postmanfw 100,000
2015-12-01 Zapp3012 700,000
2015-12-01 pnutty 500,000
2015-11-30 Andy_Taximan 6,000,000
2015-11-30 currob 900,000
2015-11-30 Tina 80,000
2015-11-30 colinmcr 40,000

(Graeme appears to have changed his name to Postmanfw)

Everyones contribution has been fantastic but I think it would be unfair (considering the outlay)
not to single out 4 people who's output has gone way beyond the call of duty - Ba, PDW, Andy and Senture - we salute you.
This is why I love Team OcUk, everynow and then it seems to go through a quite patch but poke it with a stick .........and the beast roars
One thing is certain - WE WILL BE NUMBER ONE

Senture · 2 Dec 2015 at 12:21

Thanks very much for the update and the kind words

. It would appear my Xeon rig at home has either crashed or been turned off

no contact or work done in over 24 hours now. Not sure when I can get back to restart it but at least I can do some units overnight on my laptop's 780M

BaBa · 2 Dec 2015 at 12:52

Having trouble here as well

SR-2 shut down will not restart,I put a third GPU in it yesterday I may have over done it :mad:

SR-2 back up and running, back to 2 GPU's we will see how it fairs.

Biffa · 2 Dec 2015 at 14:22

Ooh einstein news.. mac pro still soldiering on. Worth puttin it on the dual Xeon in there?

Currently running some caca ATi 5570 but could maybe move to GTX750 ti's

derk · 2 Dec 2015 at 16:19

Senture said:
Not sure when I can get back to restart it but at least I can do some units overnight on my laptop's 780M

I'm sure you will do all you can - thanks

BaBa said:
SR-2 back up and running, back to 2 GPU's we will see how it fairs.

Good to hear no lasting damage to such an exotic piece of kit - 2 is still fantastic

Biffa said:
Worth puttin it on the dual Xeon in there?

Now its funny you should mention that as I was considering the very same thing this morning.
I'm most likely looking at lower level kit than yourself. I'm running a X5660 on a X58 board now
so a move to a dual 1366 board would be my preference.
I have no experience of 2P boards and of the reading I have done so far (and correct me if I am wrong anyone)
here are some of the things I should look out for -
Different mainboard power sockets/requirements?
Different fan headers?
Possible weird form factors
CPU heatsinks - normal LGA1366 jobs?
Then there is server ram
Not that important but would overclocking be possible?
So any tips on ones to avoid would be welcome
If it turns out to be to problematic I'll opt to stay with my current setup & install a 2nd gpu.

picnic · 2 Dec 2015 at 17:25

Missed me

2015-12-01 pnutty 500,000

Great to see the team going so well but I'm being thick again. I can't find the PPD anywhere again. I'm sure I found it a few days ago but not any longer

andy_taximan · 2 Dec 2015 at 23:30

Congrats to Ba for taking number 1 spot ,im sticking to 1 pc for now tho still lol

Biffa · 3 Dec 2015 at 02:05

derk said:
I'm most likely looking at lower level kit than yourself. I'm running a X5660 on a X58 board now
so a move to a dual 1366 board would be my preference.
I have no experience of 2P boards and of the reading I have done so far (and correct me if I am wrong anyone)
here are some of the things I should look out for -
Different mainboard power sockets/requirements?
Different fan headers?
Possible weird form factors
CPU heatsinks - normal LGA1366 jobs?
Then there is server ram
Not that important but would overclocking be possible?
So any tips on ones to avoid would be welcome
If it turns out to be to problematic I'll opt to stay with my current setup & install a 2nd gpu.

Dunno mate, I've just got a Mac Pro with dual Xeon 1366's in it

derk · 3 Dec 2015 at 12:44

picnic said:
Missed me

2015-12-01 pnutty 500,000

Suddenly there was a puff of smoke and ...........

andy_taximan said:
Congrats to Ba for taking number 1 spot ,im sticking to 1 pc for now tho still lol

PDW has the top spot for PPD, his and Ba's output is extraordinary (there is not much in it) :cool:

and 1 pc of yours is just fine.

Biffa said:
Dunno mate, I've just got a Mac Pro with dual Xeon 1366's in it

Crossed lines on my part, no matter, onwards & upwards

Have you all noticed the new guy, Postmanfw, he's 4th on PPD already

, Senture's knocked me down a place and I have
Zapp, Pnutty & kolala all bitting my ppd butt - awesome I think :confused:

derk · 3 Dec 2015 at 12:59

Up until now I have not mentioned how long it will take to claim the UK number one spot.
This was deliberate, I worried early on as 1 person almost spelt it out, thankfully they did not.
Why, well at the beginning it did look a duanting task and I worried that people would not engage.
I know we can do it if people just stay the course.
So for the first time, reluctantly, I'm going to lay the facts bare, based on thier PPD remaing unchanged -

In 100 days based on our ppd of 1,000,000

1.UKBoink = 459415819
2.OcUK = 436403371

In 100 days based on our ppd of 1,200,000

1.UKBoink = 459415819
2.OcUK = 456403371

In 100 days based on our ppd of 1,250,000

1.OcUK = 461403371
2.UKBoink = 459415819

At the moment our PPD is in the region of 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 per day but it is beyond expection for it to remain so high

The foot soldiers are very important here to take some pressure off our heavy hitters, its a bit of an ask for them to maintain
thier output levels for 100 days. So to the other members (myself included) we need your very best for as long as you can.

Once we take the title we can lower the PPD considerably, most likely we can retain it without the assistance of the big hitters completely.

So there you have it, its upto you how fast we make this happen - anything worth having isn't easy

All the contributors will have thier usernames listed on the official Einstein Team page as being part of this awesome event and I will also create
personlised certificates which will be sent to your Boinc Einstein email address (so you dont have to be a forum member to be involved)..

This is the OcUK Enstein 100