17/11-24/11 Einstein computing record

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/600

Name Einstein computing record
Status Upcoming
Project Einstein@Home
Issued by Hammrammstein
Start time 2014-11-17 12:00 UTC
End time 2014-11-24 12:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 10
Number of users participating 0

[scole of TSBT]

Time to start loading the pending queue. It can take a while for credit to be granted. I still have pending from Oct. Hoping to have my new office workstation put together before then. :)

[Alez]

I'm already on it Though not sure what all is working and what's not. Need to get out of here and back to civilisation.

[UrbanFlux]

I still have a pending from October too, so let everything run its course and suspend everything else?

[scole of TSBT]

I just run the gpu apps, at least this time and maybe the last one, too. Mainly because there was and is a cpu project challenge at the same time. A Skynet POGS challenge is supposed to start on the 20th and some of us were going to attack that one too. I try to stop downloading new WUs for non-challenge projects far enough ahead of time to finish them so I'm not taking resources away from a challenge trying to finish the other WUs before their deadline.

[UrbanFlux]

Thank you, ive got plenty to run and some Einstein gpu set and of course now reading "Competition FAQ and how to Bunker" ;O)

[scole of TSBT]

Hoping for a good turnout on this challenge. FYI..Janos had reported problems running Einstein and I have a system where either the video driver wrecks or PC reboots on the BRP5-opencl-ati WUs. Running only the BRP4G-opencl-ati WUs works fine though. This may be my best bunker effort. Shooting for a 7 figure bunker. We'll see.

[Alez]

Well since I'm separated from the tech shed by 5000 miles or so it will be a standing start for me

[Megacruncher]

The bunkering has began!
100% CPU effort from me this time.

[Alez]

Einstein at #79 in the world now. That's the highest position it has ever been and we haven't started the competition. looking forward to gaining another couple of world positions once all these bunker busters start getting dropped.
Guess I'll be ambling along at the back of the line .... for a little while

[scole of TSBT]

robmacagain, if you're done capping on my music choice, how about joining the Einstein challenge? We're in 2nd with a couple much bigger teams gaining on us, but with some more help we might be able to hold on.

[Silver]

Quite a start you made there Scole!
Keep up the good work everyone :bounce:

[Alez]

Quite a start you made there Scole!
Keep up the good work everyone :bounce:

Indeed, someone was a very busy little beaver in their bunker
Mind you I'm 10th from a standing start so ... so far so good. The thing that perplexes me though is I started the comp with 490 pending and I now have 501 pending. So who's got all my units squirreled away ? Though some of them at least would have been in peeps bunkers

[scole of TSBT]

Not too shabby eh?

I still have 280 pending. I don't think I'm the pending problem this time. I only have 108 in progress among 5 systems and one is knocking off 8 WU per hour.

[Alez]

Not too shabby at all. Still up there as top dog. Keep it up.

6 of us in the top 100, though down to 4th as a team. Not exactly unexpected. Could be done with a few more peeps prioritising Einstein for the next few days.

Guess I am just being unlucky with the pendings. Must be from people who hoard weeks worth of units for no good reason

[scole of TSBT]

We're slowly gaining on Astronomy.Ru Forum, but L'Alliance Francophone is gaining on us even faster.

Started crunching the CPU apps too. No theSkynet POGS to bunker. My pending up to 360

[Alez]

Mr Pen Ding has now grabbed 530 of mine but TSBT gained another 2 places on the world rankings today, #77 and rising fast

[scole of TSBT]

I'm not crunching any more CPU app WUs. I have one system that could finish 4 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU) v1.39 (BRP4G-opencl-ati) every 30 minutes while the CPUs were crunching yoyo apps. Then I started running 4 Gamma-ray pulsar search #4 v1.04 (FGRP4-SSE2) WUs instead at the same time as the Arecibo GPU WUs with and nothing else. With CPU apps running the elapsed time for the GPU Wus increased 6 minutes per WU. After 7.5 hours, I completed 4 CPU WUs which yield 2772 credits, but reduced GPU WUs by 6, losing 6000 credits. Net loss of 3228 credits over 7.5 hours. No more CPU WUs on GPU systems for this challenge.

[Silver]

Thats interesting, never would've thought that the type of CPU wu would make any difference.
I was just trying to work out if I can optimise my GPU any better, need to alter the number of units its running simultaneously and do some more calcs!

[scole of TSBT]

I'm running 2 wu per GPU on all systems. Most systems run the aricebo GPU apps best. One runs the Perseus GPU apps best.

[robmacagain]

Sorry, this is 1 of 2 projects I will not bother with anymore because of Mr Ding I am afraid.

[scole of TSBT]

You won't lose the credit. It just might take a month to get credit for a few of them. I only have 2 pending from Oct.

[Alez]

Half way house, TSBT sitting 4th

don't normally put up places at this point however .....

scole of TSBT 1st
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 6th
Megacruncher TSBT 17th
Paul of TSBT 56th
Peter Teago 74th
UrbanFlux 87th

not a bad top 100 and scole still rocking it in 1st place. Keep up the crunching

[Silver]

Scole is certainly 'on' this one!
Most impressive effort, and nice to see a few names in the list too :)

[scole of TSBT]

A little planning goes a long way. And a few good GPUs can make the difference. I think BOINC@Poland might slowly gain on us to take 4th though.

Come on TSBT! We need some more CPU and GPU power. Crunch some Einstein for Scotland's honor!

[Megacruncher]

Still holding onto 4th. Only Sici, L'AF & SETIUSA ahead of us.
We need to watch out for the Poles though.

Scole still unassailable in the individual stakes!

[scole of TSBT]

The einstein project is out of GPU WUs and the work generators for those apps are down

They apparently have either bad WUs or validator. Lots of invalid WUs. Work generators are up and down, testing I guess.

[scole of TSBT]

We're 4th of 17 with less than a day and half to go, but BOINC@Poland is slowly moving up on us. We could sure use a boost.

[Megacruncher]

Uh Oh!

The last half day & the poles just shafted us. So to speak.

[scole of TSBT]

Poland turned it on the last day.

We still finished 5th of 17. Pretty good showing.

[Alez]

TSBT 5th from 17 teams

Individually

scole of TSBT 1st
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 6th
Megacruncher TSBT 15th
Paul of TSBT 48th
Peter Teago 80th
Mark Mair 122nd
Dominic Young 155th
UrbanFlux 157th
Janos of TSBT 302nd
Kostoglotov 312th
B McT 449th
Skywalker TSBT 535th
Giles 572nd
davidSandilands 673rd
tiggsy 817th
David Jackson 877th
Wolfsschanze 916th
DonTex 935th
Simon 1017th
Mad McMax 1147th
McLellan 1155th
Grum 1182nd
Davie Firth 1183rd
DJPercival 1229th
MacDitch 1244th
Robert Hendry 1310 th
outcast 1366th
Shazzadouglas 1383rd

Congratulations to all who took part and to those that contributed without even knowing you were taking part.
A huge congratulations to scole on first place. Been a long time since one of us stood on the top of the podium.
We have also moved the team up to 75th place in the world rankings, the highest that the team has ever been.

[Silver]

Now that's a list of crunchers
Well done everyone, and a big shout out to Scole for taking the top spot :wav:
Be great if some of you guys dropped past and said hi.

[scole of TSBT]

The BOINC is strong with this team...