NFS@home challenge

Carlos Pinho · 2 Aug 2015 at 10:08

Are you guys permitted to set a challenge at BOINCstats.com? I can't....

hanluc · 3 Aug 2015 at 09:03

Carlos Pinho said:
Are you guys permitted to set a challenge at BOINCstats.com? I can't....

We can do this, however I see you are with SETI.USA, the team founder at BOINCstats is "Team SETI.USA" so the person in charge of that account could do it for you, but I don't mind setting it up, do you have a particular date in mind?

Carlos Pinho · 3 Aug 2015 at 17:59

hanluc said:
We can do this, however I see you are with SETI.USA, the team founder at BOINCstats is "Team SETI.USA" so the person in charge of that account could do it for you, but I don't mind setting it up, do you have a particular date in mind?

Challenge issued.

Carlos Pinho · 3 Aug 2015 at 21:16

Name: NFS@home Air Strike on lasieve5f Application
Status: Upcoming
Project: NFS@Home
Issued by: SETI.USA
Start time: 2015-08-28 00:00 UTC
End time: 2015-09-02 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes U

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/704

http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/prefs.php?subset=project

Run only the selected applications lasieved - app for RSALS subproject, uses less than 0.5 GB memory: no
lasievee - work nearly always available, uses up to 0.5 GB memory: no
lasievef - used for huge factorizations, uses up to 1 GB memory: no
lasieve5f - used for huge factorizations, uses up to 1 GB memory: yes

hanluc · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:00

We're in.

On a side note I'll be downing tools this weekend as I'll be going away.

Carlos Pinho · 11 Aug 2015 at 22:29

Still more than 700k wus to process regarding sieving of 2,1285-.
Thank you for your support.

andy_taximan · 13 Aug 2015 at 21:04

Carlos Pinho said:
Still more than 700k wus to process regarding sieving of 2,1285-.
Thank you for your support.

Im trying !! lol hanluc is doing well also, only 2 weeks till im away tho

Carlos Pinho · 13 Aug 2015 at 22:35

The challenge will help us. I am also running full power here...

Carlos Pinho · 16 Aug 2015 at 11:53

Preparations for the challenge underway for the three applications.
16e Lattice Sieve V5 (lasieve5f)
15e Lattice Sieve (lasievee)
14e Lattice Sieve (lasieved)

Thank you all for your support.

hanluc · 20 Aug 2015 at 19:50

This challenge starts in around a week, if we are going to load up and bunker, I'd say tomorrow or maybe the day after, deadline for the work units are 7 days.

Are not able to partake in this one Andy?

andy_taximan · 20 Aug 2015 at 21:11

im going away on 26th for 2 weeks to find that weird thing that is supposed to show itself during the summer but never does in this country lol

PDW · 24 Aug 2015 at 17:27

Cache didn't hold enough ?

hanluc · 24 Aug 2015 at 20:46

PDW said:
Cache didn't hold enough ?

No it didn't, maximum my machines can get is 800 tasks each, worked out I'd have ran dry 1-2 days before the start so I decided to start again, should have enough for Fri morning now

PDW · 28 Aug 2015 at 06:53

Nice dump

hanluc · 28 Aug 2015 at 07:59

PDW said:
Nice dump

Thanks

Could have been better though, timing wasn't perfect, plus I only got enough work units for 4 days because of the 100 work units per core limitation, which I've since found out (by lurking in the TSBT forums

) I could have got round with an app_info & client state tricking the server into thinking I had more cores that I actually have.

PDW · 31 Aug 2015 at 21:09

May the forth be with us !

Just over a day to go and unless the french have something up their baguettes that's where we should finish

Will be interesting to hear from Carlos how many WUs are left to do when it's all over but I'd suggest he just ask zombie to keep his machines running for another day or two to get them completed

Carlos Pinho · 1 Sep 2015 at 08:08

I'll let you guys know how much is left on the 16e side.

PDW · 7 Sep 2015 at 12:39

Carlos Pinho said:
I'll let you guys know how much is left on the 16e side.

Hi Carlos, any news on this ?

Carlos Pinho · 8 Sep 2015 at 19:26

Sorry, I am overseas.
We had to extend the boundary to q=2700M. Still 100k wu's to process. At this stage it is very difficult to get right maximum "q" because we are getting less relations than expected to start next stage, the filtering and then the matrix build.

PDW · 8 Sep 2015 at 21:54

Carlos Pinho said:
Sorry, I am overseas.
We had to extend the boundary to q=2700M. Still 100k wu's to process. At this stage it is very difficult to get right maximum "q" because we are getting less relations than expected to start next stage, the filtering and then the matrix build.

Okay, enjoy your holiday/work trip

Just so you know your audience, I have absolutely no idea what "it is very difficult to get right maximum "q" because we are getting less relations than expected" means :confused: