[Einstein@home] UK Teams Title Race

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Einstein@home UK Teams Title Race

1. UK BOINC Team 432,741,997 - PPD 280,348
2. OcUK - Overclockers UK 319,895,006 - PPD 300,270
3. University of Glasgow 297,596,653 - PPD 239,761
4. The Scottish Boinc Team 285,012,595 - PPD 273,552

Its just a matter of time until OcUK's Einstein crew claims the Crown.
But it would be preferable to overtake them within my lifetime!

 

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Whatever you can give guys, be good to be the UK no.1 team.
Been on a secret recruiting mission via private messaging on Boinc.
As most will know PCFormat (magazine) is no more, they have 1 biggish active cruncher on thier Einstein team.
Trying to tempt them over but so far no response

 

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New member - Tina

http://www.teamocuk.co.uk/spart.php?p=EAH&u=544831

She's got a GTX980 but is she prepared to use it?

There is nothing better to motivate a guy than getting stomped by a girl

 

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I can do a bit, trouble is I have a short attention span, especially on GPU projects.

Excellent - you have another problem though - Pumpkinstew - 10 days, Borged by MGP - 94 days

I'm in

Excellent

I take it the GPU massively out performs a CPU? Might be able to put one of the GTX 980's in my Xeon rig for a while and leave that crunching

Is the Pope Catholic and if you could that would be great

Joined up with 2 gpu's

Wow, getting a great response here, I'm shocked

I can turn some attention to this but I'm not back home until the 27th to set it up

With what your packing that will suffice

Are there any optimised clients for this or just what Einstein downloads when you first sign up?

Not aware of any but I have been away for a little while

 

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Does anyone realise how long it will take to catch up some 110,000,000 points difference

Hence the comment in the op, but with the 50 million pledge from PDW and the response thats coming in things are looking good

Now if that means Mr Hanluc feels the need to divert his energies here, and his gaze away from Asteroids, perhaps I can reclaim my top spot over there

Not helping

 

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As a guide you get about 600 points for a cpu wu and about 4000 for a gpu wu.
I do both - 2 gpu + 8 cpu - your spec would produce a very respectable PPD.
Dont be a credit tart - crunch Einstein

 

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Which of these, or all of them, do I change from 1 to 0.5 to run 2 wu's at a t ime on my 980ti ?

BRP APPS for me, but I did change all 3 settings to 0.5

 

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Im number 1 on my titan X only, catch me if u can

Congrats

Dear Santa

Please can I have a Titan X, I have been very good and...........

Catch your PPD?, maybe not but I will close the gap a little very soon.

 

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Thanks for the pointers re the apps and running on gfx cards. Will get something running, just want to get to 1M on Denis first.

Fair enough, just be quick already

 

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I did, but he hasn't said when he is going to die so bit of a moving target at the moment

I'll check and get back to you on that

 

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Must say the CPU performance seriously sucks, at least on Windows. Xeon rig completed some units over night. Run time was nearly 8.5 hours and gives 390.50 points. Other ones are still processing after 14 hours

All the times that people have been quoting are normal for Einstein.

 

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Mine average between 9-12 hours.

My GTX 660 completed a task last night and got 4,400 points Is that normal?

Yes, I'm getting approx. 600'ish per cpu unit and 4000'ish per gpu unit.

FAO Andy_Taximan

Overtake stats (Days)

sculptor 3
hellsk8er 4
loudbob 61
shaf* 68
hamesy 88
Gordon Proctor 105
Simon Pickard 115
kolala 167
jondi_hanluc 169
Pumpkinstew 210
Borged by MGP 223

Like

 

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If it cannot run Einstein there is a problem for sure, this project doesnt run gpu's flat out, mine runs at around 90%.
I'm surprised you havent noticed issues with it before, had it long?.
My 660ti is fine working on 2 gpu units at a time.

 

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Currob - I feel for you man, really, been there myself. I think you know what needs doing now unfortunately - RMA or the bay.

Welcome Zapp and thanks for your contribution, a fellow 24/7 man - hardcore

Been away at work for a few days then tried a couple of upgrades.
First upgrade was 2000mhz ram, disaster, would not run anywhere near that speed, bsod after bsod, nil boot etc.
Could only get it to run at 1333 and as the are 3x2Gb it turned out its not enough ram anyway (Boinc was reporting a task waiting for ram).
So I have reverted to my old 12Gb of 1333 ram - not that the ram upgrade would have given massive boast so no great loss but I probably lost a days crunching messing with it.
Second upgrade a result - i7 950 out - Xeon X5660 in - 6 cores 12 threads - lovely .........also 35w saving - win win

 

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Team update

1. UK BOINC Team 434,192,631 - PPD 253,601
2. OcUK - Overclockers UK 323,055,821 - PPD 670,003
3. University of Glasgow 299,317,636 - PPD 293,893

Our PPD has increased massively from 4 days ago, give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it

Senture takes the ppd crown from Andy-taximan shocker

...............but how long can he keep it up? and will Andy endure - its getting intense people and I love it



Chart - TeamOcUK

 

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Thats very good of you Senture to leave it running while youre away, impressed

 

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Are there any optimised apps for Einstein?
I've noticed people with similar rigs to me getting much higher RAC.

No optimised apps available on this project.

PPD not high enough?

I dont know your experience/situation so I can only suggest -

Do you run your PC 24/7

Are you aware you can process multiple work units at once on the cpu and gpu?

If your answer is yes to both of the above then you may have a problem.

Not trying to insult your intelligence, if I have sorry.

Edit: Just checked your stats, you only started crunching a few days ago, it takes a while for your RAC to rise.
At the moment it looks like it will be around 20 to 25k based on your recent output.

 

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http://boincstats.com/en/stats/5/user/list/12/0/317

Sorry dude

 

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Holy crapola, just noticed Ba's & Biffa's accounts are active, this could be interesting
They have as many cpu cores as I have gpu ones

Update: The following milestones have just been passed -

Biffa passed 1,000,000
Senture passes 750,000
Zapp3012 passed 100,000
Senture passed 500,000
currob passes 350,000

This is for you



Update 2: The Team's PPD has now reached 851,630 - and its still rising

 

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Not long before he reclaims the top spot

ive upped output a tad lol

You have an amazing output guys, your both stars

No worries. I've only been crunching for a little over a month.

Give it a few weeks and your RAC will be more realistic, wish I could run 3 rigs.