13/1-16/1 Compete against Gridcoin: YOYO 3 day Race #001

[Alez]

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/849

Name Compete against Gridcoin: YOYO 3 day Race #001
Status Upcoming
Project yoyo@home
Issued by gridcoin
Start time 2017-01-13 01:30 UTC
End time 2017-01-16 01:30 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 15
Number of users participating 0

[scole of TSBT]

Anyone want to hit this challenge before the numberfields challenge? No bunkering on either for me. I still have a little more TN-Grid work I want to get in.

[Silver]

Yeah why not

[scole of TSBT]

ok, maybe a little bunker.

[Silver]

ok, maybe a little bunker.

Is there a "best" project to run credit wise or are they all much the same?

[scole of TSBT]

Is there a "best" project to run credit wise or are they all much the same?

I believe ECM pays best, with Muon next.

[Bryan]

ECM pays a little better than Muon and they pay about 20% better than OGR.

ECM on Windows pays about 20% more than running it on Linux.

[Silver]

Thanks chaps.

[jondi]

I do remember ECM used to occasionally dish out some 'mp*' work units that gave twice as much credit, don't know if they still do, been a while since I ran it.

[scole of TSBT]

I do remember ECM used to occasionally dish out some 'mp*' work units that gave twice as much credit, don't know if they still do, been a while since I ran it.

I saw a news post where they said they had ECM WUs that required 10GB of memory and paid double the credit but I'm not sure how you select or prevent getting those.

[Bryan]

Jondi makes a good point. There was a RSS feed that came out a short time ago saying there were ECM tasks paying double credits because they used a boatload of memory. I found it, dated 12/23/16

The ecm P2 workunits require up to 10 GB RAM. Because of this they get double credits. Systems with less RAM should not get them.

[jondi]

I'm not sure if they are the same ones, they may have used more memory but certainly nothing like 10 gigs per WU. I remember talking about them in our forums and having just done a search I see it was 4 years ago.

[Silver]

10 gig of ram!?
I'm not going to be getting through many of them then.

[Dirk Broer]

10GB of RAM per WU? Is that sloppy programming or not? 32GB for an unthreaded quad-core ain't good enough then!
Let alone a quad with hyperthreading: to be able to run eight WUs you'd need 80GB of RAM (and a server to play with).

P.S. Running eight on my i7 with a mere 16 GB of RAM, ATM

[Dirk Broer]

Our (AMD Users) Jason is almost single-handedly clobbering the whole of the Borg here (with a little help from me and LazyKiller)!

[scole of TSBT]

Well done you guys! I screwed up and dropped over 70k before I realized I was still on AP

[Silver]

I see SUSA is having a crack at this one, I suspect our chances of coming out on top are slim

[Dirk Broer]

Our Jason got diverted by WCG Beta and HSTB WUs...the Borg in a secure 2nd position ATM

[scole of TSBT]

TSBT finished 8th of 14 teams

Individual kudos to...
MarkRBright 31st
scole of TSBT 32nd
Paul of TSBT 64th
Snowdog of TSBT 190th
Philippe 202nd
atfogarasi 325th

Well done us!