TN-Grid challenge

PDW · 2 Dec 2016 at 20:27

Now Formula Boinc has finished for the year you might be lacking direction as you wander aimlessly towards your Christmas pud

Wander no more, a challenge has been issued on TN-Grid

The challenge is at:

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/831

Start time: 2016-12-10 16:00 UTC
End time: 2016-12-16 16:00 UTC

It is likely the project will end up in The Vault unless it can't handle the load.
They have recently upgraded the server CPU, RAM and storage so hopefully that won't be a problem.

The project is now open, the invitation code can be found on the main page http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/

Can you sign us up for the challenge please hanluc ?

PDW · 6 Dec 2016 at 09:34

Looks like the crunching part of FB only runs for the first 11 months and then it takes a month to get the medals sorted out :rolleyes:

Unless there is a medal ceremony somewhere exotic that hanluc has been invited to attend and accept our gold medal on behalf of the team

You can do some work now for next year, just find a project that takes a long time to validate, some of the Primegrid work can take 3-6 months to validate !

TN-Grid - You need to register on their website first to create an account, then you can attach a client to it.
See the first line immediately below 'Join TN-Grid' on the left hand side of their home page

PDW · 10 Dec 2016 at 17:30

Looks like there might have been a few holding back for the last day or two !

Team is currently in 2nd place, a long way behind the hosts

hanluc sitting in 3rd place for now, can you keep it ?

PDW · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:55

You should be in 4th overall for a while, no-one else is near

I still have over 1,200 units pending so am thinking someone else is still going to drop a load soon.

Andy should be looking in his rearview mirror as Senture is coming up fast

PDW · 11 Dec 2016 at 13:16

I have received 2 at a time recently but only having 8 running and taking about 43 minutes to run I never run out. Is that your problem on the big box ?

If I've ever increased the cache settings in the past it would happily download dozens at a time for linux/windows.

I see our gold medal has finally turned up in FB

PDW · 11 Dec 2016 at 19:03

So it actually runs out of work to do ?

I think the most I have seen downloaded at any one time is 256 for a 64 thread machine, that might be the limit the project allows. Even that would take some time to chew through given that your big box will be taking a lot longer to process them.

If you aren't able to keep 256 in progress then something else is wrong

PDW · 11 Dec 2016 at 19:18

You are back up to 3rd

I'm still stuck at 7th but Senture has overtaken Andy

Not sure why Andy has set <max_concurrent>8</max_concurrent> when he has 16 cores !

PDW · 11 Dec 2016 at 21:52

It was actually a 32 thread machine that got 256 tasks.

You can't even split the threads over two or more clients as they aren't seen as unique. Only other option would be if you can create a unique virtual machine on the linux box to co-exist.

Sounds like Windows it is then !

PDW · 12 Dec 2016 at 19:24

Do you think the previous version was bad or just the current one is newer and handles big boxes better ?

We are still in 2nd place but it looks like we are being caught by EVGA, this time tomorrow we could be relegated to 3rd

PDW · 13 Dec 2016 at 15:08

I think P3D might be doing a bit more than us, but with only 3 days left of the 6 days our lead might just be enough unless they put their foot down too :eek:

PDW · 16 Dec 2016 at 12:10

Doesn't look like it was enough, P3D will overtake us for 3rd place in an hour or so with just 4 hours left to go

They did have 22 versus the 4 of us.

On a positive note, currently have 15,324 valid tasks, 0 invalid tasks and 29 errors but all of those were cancelled by the server so very stable.
Looks like a good Bio/Med project to add to the Vault

PDW · 22 Jan 2017 at 09:54

Count me in for the SUSA one

PDW · 29 Jan 2017 at 19:20

Thanks for the reminder !
I thought it was tomorrow :eek:

Still got some Woo WUs going but mostly up to speed to hit the ground running.

For those joining in there are optimised apps (provided by user Daniel) for Windows/Linux from here...
https://bitbucket.org/sirzooro/pc-boinc/downloads

These are faster than the most recently released optimised apps (again by Daniel) by the admin of the project.

Versions for SSE, AVX and FMA depending on what your CPU is capable of, this thread has the details at the project...
http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/forum_thread.php?id=135&sort_style=8&start=0

You need to stop and restart the BOINC client to get the optimised app to be recognised and used.