Formula Boinc 2019 - interested ?

PDW · 24 Apr 2019 at 18:50

An update from the last sprint, we finished in 9th position to collect 2 points

Had been waiting for them to issue final stats but they never did, the ones shown at FB are from a couple of hours before the end

Noticed @Biffa had popped up and helped the team out and himself to 8 new badges

The next sprint is announced tonight at 9pm local time (20:00 UTC).
Hopefully it will be able to stand up to the attention FB brings :eek:

PDW · 24 Apr 2019 at 21:00

This week's sprint is Primegrid !

PDW · 24 Apr 2019 at 21:11

PDW · 24 Apr 2019 at 22:09

Primegrid are also limiting number of tasks allowed to 100, presumably to stop problems their end.
No idea when they will lift that embargo to get a decent cache for a bunker without having to falsify the number of GPUs present.

PDW · 25 Apr 2019 at 22:16

After the first hourly update we are in 10th place for a point

Only 42k behind 9th place but 11th place only 130k behind us.

Still have more pending than got validated but that just means someone else has the points as well...

PDW · 25 Apr 2019 at 23:32

Welcome back

Had just been to check and saw we had moved up to 8th place in the sprint for 4 points

That actually moves us up two places in the overall standings as well

The main FB site is here: http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang=en&team=399&year=2019
The sprint scores are here: http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=4&lang=en&year=2019

Yes, would agree that you can probably run two at a time on your cards.
You do that by having an app_config.xml file in the project's folder that has at least the following in it...

<app_config>
<app>
<name>pps_sr2sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.5</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
</app_config>

If you want to tell me what you don't know I'll remind you ?

PDW · 26 Apr 2019 at 00:19

Good stuff

Dropped a place in the last hour, but hopefully just a bunker being dropped by another team rather than increased steady output which is what we should start doing now the troops are rallying

PDW · 26 Apr 2019 at 00:50

I think Windows might have the edge.
I've only 1 card under Linux and that is slower than all the other similar cards under Windows.

PDW · 26 Apr 2019 at 09:12

After the first 12 hours we are in 9th again, we have been swapping between 8th and 9th overnight.
700k to climb to 8th and 1.5M above 10th place.

Just another 60 hours to go

PS. Meant to add it looks like the Wizard is back too :cool:

PDW · 27 Apr 2019 at 10:14

Thanks for all the extra help guys it is keeping us in the points

We're settling in to 9th place, not enough to catch the VomitinDairylea but pulling away slowly from those GC'ers

Just over halfway done, time for more to join in and push higher

PDW · 27 Apr 2019 at 21:12

Into the last 24 hours and we do seem to be catching up with a chance to take 8th spot.
My pendings have been steadily dropping since yesterday but the opposition could just be bunkering to make it look like we are closing in :rolleyes:

@Voicon sorry to hear you aren't keeping well, look after yourself, it looks like oz is back to his old self though.

PDW · 28 Apr 2019 at 09:46

Barring any surprises it looks like we are staying in 9th spot.
#VD have gone chasing after the Polish but we are well ahead of GC

Less than 12 hours to go...

PDW · 28 Apr 2019 at 19:25

Indeed we have

I thought they were just bunkering but having looked at their top producer he has been running the very big GFN's that take a day to run on a 2080Ti and give 945k points each. He's been doing this for quite a while and has a whole load of tasks that *could* get validated between now and 9pm which would wipe out our lead. Maybe others have switched to smaller tasks for the sprint and so the number being run that would validate his has dropped. We could get lucky and keep the spot.

Almost 90 minutes until we find out ...

PDW · 28 Apr 2019 at 21:24

That was an unexpected bonus

We kept 8th spot and 4 points for the sprint.

Thanks to everyone who joined in, a good team effort and our highest sprint finish so far :cool: