22/2-29/2 Crack Nazi Codes Challenge Enigma@Home

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:26 pm

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/762

Name Crack Nazi Codes Challenge
Status Upcoming
Project Enigma@Home
Issued by SETI.USA
Start time 2016-02-22 01:00 UTC
End time 2016-02-29 01:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 12
Number of users participating 0

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:37 pm

Anybody getting any work to download to linux systems? I'm trying to things lined up for a hole shot.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:42 pm

I am but they're droids so maybe not much help to you

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:55 am

scole250 wrote:Anybody getting any work to download to linux systems? I'm trying to things lined up for a hole shot.

Got two RasPi2's and a RasPiB+ running this, all three on Raspbian.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:54 am

All my droids on it and yes I have some on the nix servers :)

Post by **Sphynx** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:40 pm

scole250 wrote:Anybody getting any work to download to linux systems? I'm trying to things lined up for a hole shot.

Another one? Geez, I better load up some more! A lot more! I've seen your hole shot and have learned to respect it!

In the midst of all this I'm having new internet service installed tomorrow. So, I'll be able to offload quickly or I'll be stuck sitting on my bunker. I'm taking bets on sitting on it because it's dependent on AT&T. Wish me luck...if things go well my upload/download speed should increase from 6/.45mbps to 900/700mbps.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:42 pm

Sphynx wrote: ...if things go well my upload/download speed should increase from 6/.45mbps to 900/700mbps.

I'm not jealous.........
at all.........
Well, maybe a little bit

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:22 am

I still haven't been able to get a single enigma WU on any linux system. 5 different VMs and 3 different native installs.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:09 am

my xeon servers are all picking up work so it is out there.

Post by **Sphynx** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 3:51 pm

scole250 wrote:I still haven't been able to get a single enigma WU on any linux system. 5 different VMs and 3 different native installs.

That is strange...I've had no problem getting up to 1200 wus per system.

Post by **Sphynx** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:07 pm

Silver wrote:
Sphynx wrote: ...if things go well my upload/download speed should increase from 6/.45mbps to 900/700mbps.

I'm not jealous.........
at all.........
Well, maybe a little bit

U-Verse install done and I was wrong, I'm actually seeing 935.01mbps download - 944.31mbps Upload

@scole - any luck yet on the linux wus?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:12 am

Sphynx wrote:@scole - any luck yet on the linux wus?

Negative

Post by **Sphynx** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:34 am

scole250 wrote:
Sphynx wrote:@scole - any luck yet on the linux wus?
Negative

<no_alt_platform> in the cc_config?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:22 pm

Sphynx wrote:<no_alt_platform> in the cc_config?

nope

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:04 am

Well, it turns out Enigma doesn't like Ubuntu 14.04 server install, maybe all server only installs. Installed mint desktop on a vm and voila! Too bad it's too late for max bunker. I got a few vms running. Should have a few hundred finished by the start. Also found some info to upgrade the ubuntu server to desktop. Do not want to start from scratch on the native installations and don't have time right now.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:27 am

Just run lubuntu desktop, better than the server versions anyway and way better than ubuntu or mint IMHO ..... just saying :). I'm not bunkering for this as I'm still scrapping zee germans on universe. All droids over though. Heading off tomorrow, got to decide on whether to leave the servers running or power them down .

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:28 am

Is there any way to upgrade from server to lubuntu? For the regular desktop version, I thought I read I could just install ubuntu-desktop. Looks like this will work for lubuntu?
sudo -i
apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get autoclean
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
reboot

Guess I'll find out since my 24 core native install systems, currently booted to windows, will be out of work some time later today.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:07 pm

yes that should work though you don't need to remove the archives, sudo apt-get autoremove should do the clean up for you.

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:28 pm

Can both ubuntu desktop and lubuntu be setup to automatically login on startup? Or is that even needed. On Windows you must login before boinc will start. Don't want that on these systems. Want them to start all the services including boinc automatically on headless systems.

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:52 pm

When you do the desktop install if you don't give it a password or user name ... basically skip that step then the machine will boot straight into Windows with no login required. Using admin tools you may be able to kill the user account and password so that it does this on one that was installed with user/pw.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:49 pm

yes both ubuntu and lubuntu can do that, it's how all my systems are set up. Basically set user name and password on install ( otherwise you will not be able to sudo ) but set check box don't require password at startup.
If you have already installed the desktop either change the options in user accounts or purge and then reinstall desktop with this option set.
Ubuntu and Lubuntu are the same system only the desktop ( unity or ldx ) and installed programs by default are different.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 10:14 am

Well we're off to a flying start.
TSBT sitting in 4th mainly due to a bunker drop by a certain team member. You know the one who said he couldn't get any work and wouldn't have a bunker

There's 5 of us in the top 100 so far,keep up the good work boys :bounce:

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:38 am

I was only able to get to 2 VMs installed with a different version of linux in time. And while trying to re-install that version on a dual boot system, I screwed up and blew away the windows partition along with a completed 1100 WU bunker. I did get Windows re-installed and about half that amount complete before the start of the challenge.

The androids really do help in this challenge though.

Post by **leecarver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 1:46 pm

Silver wrote:Well we're off to a flying start.
TSBT sitting in 4th mainly due to a bunker drop by a certain team member. You know the one who said he couldn't get any work and wouldn't have a bunker
There's 5 of us in the top 100 so far,keep up the good work boys :bounce:

Are there any optimal settings we should be using? I've got my work split between GPUGrid and Enigma (75% of processing power total). I'm getting about 32 minutes per task on average with Enigma.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 1:54 pm

Have a look here Lee http://www.tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... gma#p46047

Post by **leecarver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:01 pm

Silver wrote:Have a look here Lee http://www.tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... gma#p46047

It says I'm not authorized.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:21 pm

Sorry Lee I thought you had access to that, follow the instructions in the first post, and ask for the active TSBT member one to get your forum access bumped up a level. http://www.tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1508

Post by **leecarver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:36 pm

Silver wrote:Sorry Lee I thought you had access to that, follow the instructions in the first post, and ask for the active TSBT member one to get your forum access bumped up a level. http://www.tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1508

Thanks, Silver. I selected the TSBT Active Members membership and clicked submit, but it came back and said, "You are already a member of the selected group." Any other thoughts on what I might need to do?

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:41 pm

Try again leecarver.

Post by **leecarver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:46 pm

scole250 wrote:Try again leecarver.

There it is. I see the optimizer thread now. I'll put that in place when I get home.

Thanks for your help, Silver and Scole!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:53 pm

I was going to say get hold of Scole or Alex who know how the access permissions work but I see I don't need to bother now

Post by **scole of TSBT** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 3:03 pm

Before you install the opti app, make sure all your completed WUs have uploaded because it's going to dump all existing WUs once it sees the settings for the new app.

Post by **leecarver** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:52 pm

scole250 wrote:Before you install the opti app, make sure all your completed WUs have uploaded because it's going to dump all existing WUs once it sees the settings for the new app.

Will do. Thank you for the heads up.

Post by **leecarver** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:42 am

So I "installed" the opti app per the instructions in the thread and set my cores to 4. BOINC downloaded some new work, but all five of them went to computation errors in the first 15-16 seconds. It downloaded another batch and these errored out in 6 seconds.

Any thoughts on why this might be occuring?

Post by **leecarver** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:43 am

So I "installed" the opti app per the instructions in the thread and set my cores to 4. BOINC downloaded some new work, but all five of them went to computation errors in the first 15-16 seconds. It downloaded another batch and these errored out in 6 seconds.

Any thoughts on why this might be occurring?

Post by **Bryan** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:30 am

Did you have BOINC shutdown when you moved the files into the Enigma folder? If not it doesn't copy all the files because one or more are in use by BOINC.

Post by **leecarver** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:22 pm

Bryan wrote:Did you have BOINC shutdown when you moved the files into the Enigma folder? If not it doesn't copy all the files because one or more are in use by BOINC.

Yes - I had exited out of BOINC. But I'll try again today and see if I get the same error.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:40 pm

TSBT has slide past the amphibians into 3rd place. Keep up the good work guys. Also got our points back on the Formula BOINC challenge. Win, Win

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:00 pm

I'm impressed, I didn't think we were ging to catch the our Frech foes!!
Keep up the good work team :blob:

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:28 pm

Return of the froggies (les blues, the blue ones as compared to you guys in red):

Post by **Dirk Broer** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:20 pm

Scole has just been passed by our Jason, who had at the start the same problem as Scole -no WUs on Linux.
Jason choose to install the 32-bit libraries in his 200+ core blade server...

Post by **Bryan** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:41 pm

Since I'm running NFS he'll probably pass me also. I guess it doesn't pay to stop crunching in the middle of a challenge

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:30 am

Another candidate for the short attention span honour

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:21 am

TSBT finished a very creditable 6th from 16. Our wee jaunt off on FB the last 2 days cost us 5th to AMD but that was to be expected.

Individual positions
scole of TSBT 12th
Paul of TSBT 30th
alez [ TSBTs Pirate ] 41st
leecarver 80th
Iain 107th
owner 177th
David Jackson 178th
Arnie 220th
Skywalker TSBT 344th
Stuart 420th
Garry Ross 455th

Well done all. If some of the guys on this list read the forum, post up, let us know what your up to and have some more team banter. Maybe even join us on the Formula Boinc endevour.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:09 am

Well done everyone, another good result