new skynet challenge

I've been looking for an excuse to buy a 5650 so might be adding one of those in the near future. When this project ends does a new competition start or do the scores roll over? Also my cpu seems quite cool running this compared with prime and such so might be able to get a bit more out of it.
 
chris182008 said:
I've been looking for an excuse to buy a 5650 so might be adding one of those in the near future. When this project ends does a new competition start or do the scores roll over? Also it my cpu seems quite cool running this compared with prime and such so might be able to get a bit more out of it.
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Not sure when next comp starts but if you keep crunching you keep your personal score, this 1 is a month long.
 
most people in here usaly run folding@home but have all swapped there cpus over to boinc to take part in this challange, you keep your points earned, there is different comps for different projects, sometimes its projects were gpus are needed, but skynet is cpu only, if you have any gpus you could join ocuk folding team with them
 
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miniyazz said:
Does it work with no internet? Thought not so stopped it before work today and downloaded a cpu WU on F@H. Come back and it's only done 25% of that one because skynet started itself back up again about 5 minutes after I left :rolleyes:
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Hi, yes it does :D
You can set your preferences so that you have a day's worth of work units to do, there is no quick return bonus for pogs so as long as you get them returned within the week's deadline you will get the points for processing them.

In BOINC Manager go to Tools, Computing preferences..., network usage tab and change the 'Minimum work buffer' field to 1.00 for 1 day. It can take a little bit of fiddling with but that's the general principle :)

You could do 7 days at a time if you wanted to and just connect to the internet to send back completed work units and get new ones to process when convenient for you.
 
chris182008 said:
Got it set up now got a feeling I tried this years ago but had a rubbish system at the time. The 280x's have to be underclocked/volted to run 24/7 unfortunately. It's quite hard to keep temps low enough for quite fans.
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a few things

do you have a passkey? youll need one for the bouns points, after you've done 10 work units you'll start getting the bonus points. It might look like your points are low to start with but leave it for a while and once folding has sorted its self out your points per day will level out nicely, is your team number set to 10 as this is ocuk team number
 
ozaudio said:
a few things

do you have a passkey? youll need one for the bouns points, after you've done 10 work units you'll start getting the bonus points. It might look like your points are low to start with but leave it for a while and once folding has sorted its self out your points per day will level out nicely, is your team number set to 10 as this is ocuk team number
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Yep got a passkey and set to team number 10. Currently it's got an eta of 10 days per GPU is that about right or is that because it's only just started?
 
ozaudio said:
thatll go down to 12 hours or so per gpu, that's what mine do and I also have the 280x
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That sounds better. Temps seem pretty stable now.

CPU 67°C

GPU1 64°C

GPU2 55°C

Will probably leave it at that until Sunday then start tweaking.

Mind sharing what you run your 280x at?
 
mine were undervolted for lower temps aswell but I upped them a little before.

core voltage 1100, was at 1070 before, I think default is 1140 or so

core clock 1100, stock is 1070 I think. 58c - 62c

hardly tweaked at all I just hit them settings, could go even higher clocks probably with that voltage but I don't want it to crash and loose a work unit half way throw so Ill leave it as it is for now
147'600 ppd is what 1 gpu is showing as
 
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ozaudio said:
mine were undervolted for lower temps aswell but I upped them a little before.

core voltage 1100, was at 1070 before, I think default is 1140 or so

core clock 1100, stock is 1070 I think. 58c - 62c
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Thanks mine would run too hot at that I think. See how it runs over the next few days. I've got my phone on the skynet challenge now :)
 
PDW said:
Hi, yes it does :D
You can set your preferences so that you have a day's worth of work units to do, there is no quick return bonus for pogs so as long as you get them returned within the week's deadline you will get the points for processing them.

In BOINC Manager go to Tools, Computing preferences..., network usage tab and change the 'Minimum work buffer' field to 1.00 for 1 day. It can take a little bit of fiddling with but that's the general principle :)

You could do 7 days at a time if you wanted to and just connect to the internet to send back completed work units and get new ones to process when convenient for you.
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That's a better system for part-time internetters like me than F@H then, cheers :)
 
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