[H] issued team challenge for Citizen Science Grid

hanluc · 30 May 2015 at 23:21

PDW said:
Travis has found the problem and said...

Found it, it was an old credit multiplier I had in there from awhile back. Will take a little undoing but I should have things back to normal sometime tomorrow hopefully!

Just in time for the challenge

I wonder if he'll amend everyone's score back to the correct value eventually, don't know how feasible that would be.

I will be sticking with DNA until it gets sorted out but I have found out that Subset on linux is the most productive on my machines. Credits are quite low for this project (when running properly), my machines do low 7000 ppd for dna & subset on windows, low 8000 ppd for subset on linux (VM) but dna on linux is very poor, all over the place, averaging out at around 5000 ppd.

PDW · 31 May 2015 at 07:42

Yes, it was a low scoring credit project, it took quite a while to get my first 100,000 in DNA last year.

I thought he was doing something last night as my Combined Credit wasn't increasing for quite a while whilst my individual ones were. Having checked this morning it still shows that I'm getting the 6.5 times increase for DNA results. I have got over 200,000 extra points in about 30 hours :eek:

It's doing wonders for the team position, last night's stats show we have moved up 24 spots this week

We were also the top team for output yesterday

andy_taximan · 1 Jun 2015 at 06:10

Well we straight in at number 2, not too shabby , looks like the scots managed to bunker better then anybody lol

Biffa · 1 Jun 2015 at 09:34

Bit of a late start but I'm crunching.

Seems we dropped down to 3rd.

I'm going to run all the science projects it gives out and not cherry pick

hanluc · 1 Jun 2015 at 10:02

We should overtake TSBC soon as their overinflated score seems to be the result of a large bunker, our production is very close to [H]'s but they have just overtaken us.

The Subset sub project can be ran on Android, I have my phone on it, performance per core runs quite well. I got no work available for DNA on it.

Biffa · 1 Jun 2015 at 12:34

Yup we both, [H] and us, took them scots like gooduns!

andy_taximan · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:43

hey we number 1 now, well done guys

colinmcr · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:56

I feel like a traitor, to my fellow jocks ! Ach well

Biffa · 2 Jun 2015 at 14:28

Damn [H] is back in front again!

colinmcr · 2 Jun 2015 at 15:36

Biffa said:
Damn [H] is back in front again!

Wish I was at home to throw some more cpu power at this, ah well every little bit helps.

PDW · 2 Jun 2015 at 16:18

Travis has just posted that he has 'fixed' the credit scoring system. I think this means any DNA results validated now won't have the extra 6.5 times credit added to the Combined total. Shame he didn't manage to get it done before the start of the challenge

He also thinks there needs to be a discussion about the credit scoring for DNA@Home. I assumed he would just reset the combined credit back to the total of the sub-projects but I think he has had a multiplier that was meant to increase the DNA credit value before adding it to the DNA total and the Combined credit total.

Will need to wait for Travis to explain more.

hanluc · 2 Jun 2015 at 16:30

PDW said:
I assumed he would just reset the combined credit back to the total of the sub-projects

Looks like that's what he's done, I've dropped about 400,000 credits and my combined totals add up perfectly now. Not sure how the challenge stats are going to deal with it.

..our team has also dropped around 20 positions in the team stats to the correct position.

PDW · 2 Jun 2015 at 16:45

hanluc said:
Looks like that's what he's done, I've dropped about 400,000 credits and my combined totals add up perfectly now. Not sure how the challenge stats are going to deal with it.

..our team has also dropped around 20 positions in the team stats to the correct position.

Looks like the challenge stats are flat-lining until an increase above the existing level is reached, makes for a bit of tension to see who pops up first

I know who my money is on

hanluc · 2 Jun 2015 at 17:18

It remains to be seen if we can even get to 1.4 million actual credits.

Voicon · 2 Jun 2015 at 17:44

I may be able to a few cores later, are we still second in the challenge?

andy_taximan · 2 Jun 2015 at 21:01

Im number 7 in the top hosts

PDW · 2 Jun 2015 at 21:58

Voicon said:
I may be able to a few cores later, are we still second in the challenge?

We don't know until teams start scoring more than the previously inflated scores that we had reached.

Am sure we will break past our 1.4million but it might take a few days

They have also run out of Subset work, that may be because Travis is away and not able to monitor and create new work or it could be we've done it all !

andy_taximan · 2 Jun 2015 at 22:09

The way its looking is that the competition is fubared (polite word) but hey its just testing out the servers anyways so no big deal, still good to be number 1 tho so lets keep it up

Voicon · 5 Jun 2015 at 00:04

What happened to the stats, we are well in the lead and [H] lost 1,000,000 points?

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/685

colinmcr · 5 Jun 2015 at 06:03

very strange...