The Scottish Boinc Team

https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challen ... /chat/1052

Name Acoustic@Home challenge
Status Upcoming
Project Acoustics@home
Issued by Colombia
Start time 2019-02-13 15:45 UTC
End time 2019-02-20 15:45 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 9
Number of users participating 0

You'll have to remind me it's so far in the future BOINCstats challenges seem to have dropped off a bit ....

We're within the 7 day deadline for acoustics so it's safe to load up work. The project will only give around 1000 WUs per client except somebody done sucked up all the WUs

...AND don't forget to install the opti apps. There are different versions based on your CPU's extensions. Not sure which one to run? Just tell us what CPU model you have and we'll give the best info we have.

EDIT: if you are trying to load up, be patient and keep hitting it. The project is still creating new WUs. You just need to keep updating.

And now I know why my pendings have climbed by 3000 over the past day

That's my 3 best machines moving over to Acoustics in readiness. All with optimised apps. It won't be much of an effort on bunkering though as all are still only running a single boinc client

I am all in.

PS
10 +10 days of WU. Downloading...Still downloading...

I will be posting daily totals (from Formula Boinc, League 2 only) on this thread commencing tomorrow. This will tell us how much we've earned as a team on the preceding day & should give a pretty good guide as to how we are doing in the Challenge. I realise that this isn't a Formula Boinc challenge so the link in post #1 will be the definitive figure once that starts updating. My figures will serve as a useful reminder that points earned also contribute to the Formula Boinc marathon

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 89 on Boincstats all time contributors

Better get systems changed over to this tonight then.

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 89 on Boincstats all time contributors

Alez wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:01 am Better get systems changed over to this tonight then.

Glad you took the hint

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 89 on Boincstats all time contributors

Ukraine obviously putting on a push. Hope you guys have a bunker or two squirreled away. I'm running open on standard app. Don't think I'll have time to install the opti app. If I can find time, which app do you recommend for

54xx / 56xx Xeons Linux
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Win7
Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz Win7 ?

I wasn't going to 'fess up but I didn't get scole's multi-client thing tried out. So ... rather than have machines idle, I've dumped a couple of 1000 WU bunkers already. They'll be full again before the start of the challenge.

At least the premature dumps will have p1ssed off Ukraine when they see their push wasn't quite enough

Alez wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:00 pm Ukraine obviously putting on a push. Hope you guys have a bunker or two squirreled away. I'm running open on standard app. Don't think I'll have time to install the opti app. If I can find time, which app do you recommend for

54xx / 56xx Xeons Linux
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Win7
Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz Win7 ?

The LGA 771 (E54**) CPUs are supposed to support SSE2. I know the LGA 1366 X56** CPUs do.
The FX-6300 and i7-3770 both support AVX (not AVX2) but may run hot. Safer to just run SSE2 on those also.

40k+ worth of credit uploaded before challenge started
Just because firewall rules wasn't saved and got wiped out after sudden reboot.

I started bunkering again but I guess it's bit too late. Damn...

It'll surprise you how quickly they build up with the optimised apps - three times faster on my machines

davidBAM wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:02 am

Alez wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:01 am Better get systems changed over to this tonight then.

Glad you took the hint

Still haven't had the time to optimise, but guess time for lecky bill to rise. I'm counting on you guys for paying Mr Pending .....

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 90 on Boincstats all time WCG contributors

Please note that the link to use for team standings across the entire field for this challenge is https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challen ... /chat/1052

The daily snapshots posted to this thread only include teams in League 2 of Formula Boinc (which is a different challenge with different participants)

davidBAM wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:13 pm It'll surprise you how quickly they build up with the optimised apps - three times faster on my machines

Optimised A@H is fast. I crack one WU in about 33minutes. So maybe nothing is lost.

Nothing is lost, no. Your bunker drop can be seen in the last table above and will have heads being scratched in the Ukraine

So it turns out I am not that all green when it comes to participating in team challenge.

Looking good after the first 15mins. Remember the points showing here are only those earned by the team since the start of the challenge (15:45 UTC)

What about WU with 'validation pending' status? Do they count?

No, not until they are validated. The good news is that some of the bunkers we dropped early will validate during the Challenge and will count towards it. Conversely, some WU will not yet be validated at the end of the challenge and hence will not count towards it.

Regardless though, they ALL count towards team totals for Formula Boinc marathon and other stats

Thanks for explanation, david.
I will do my best to avoid any cock up during next challenge.

Whoop whoop - good man scole, that was quite a bunker drop there

Wow - that's pretty handy too Pete

I've got 126K points in Pending at the moment but I guess everyone is in that same situation.

Looking forward to the update on the Formula Boinc marathon

At time of writing, we actually have more points (1884246) than the other 15 teams added together (1822968)

A long way to go yet

Pleasantly surprised by my laptop, i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz completes a WU only very slightly slower than the Threadripper 2990WX. Pity it only has 8 threads

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:18 pm Wow - that's pretty handy too Pete

Pete, you surprised me! Now I have to drop the rest to stay ahead of you

Boom ! #1 with a bullet. Well done guys

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 90 on Boincstats all time WCG contributors

Pretty bdooly impressive guys looks like we'll comfortable exceed 3.5M in first 24hrs https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challen ... /chat/1052

My pending is still growing which is frustrating but probably a fairly good sign. 3678 WU and counting. Pete / scole: you guys must have massive pending totals after bunker drops?

You guys rock. I don't know how many bunkers you have got. You just crushed competition.

I've learned loads from these guys since I started 6 months ago

I've also learned that SETI.USA have got enough members and enough clout to catch up ... and more ... so it ain't over until it is over

I've made it into top 20 now
6 of us in top 50 now

These lines look pretty parallel to me https://boincstats.com/en/stats/175/tea ... d%5B%5D=12

Total points. TSBT in green

Hal Bregg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:44 am You guys rock. I don't know how many bunkers you have got. You just crushed competition.

Isn't it boring when you are running off with it though. Maybe it can be made a little more interesting

Hmmm - thought you'd been a bit quiet, Bryan. How much have you got bunkered then?

Bryan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:33 pmIsn't it boring when you are running off with it though.

No

24hrs in and the team who actually called the Challenge have only 6 validated WU. Isn't that a bit unusual ?

davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:38 pm Hmmm - thought you'd been a bit quiet, Bryan. How much have you got bunkered then?

Unfortunately (for us) none. I was running RakeSearch and hadn't planned on jumping on this one but I got shamed into it So now I have to pay the pending Troll his fee.

Yeah - not often that I am ahead of you on Day 2

davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:16 pm Yeah - not often that I am ahead of you on Day 2

I'll have to see if I can rectify that problem What I had before was just what was in my pendings from all those bunkers. They've been sitting there for the past 5 days.

League 2 competitors on Formula Boinc . . . . Position 90 on Boincstats all time WCG contributors

I reckon Ukraine have given up in favour of Asteroids, Einstein, Seti (follow first link above table in previous post).

SUSA closing a bit now https://boincstats.com/en/stats/175/tea ... d%5B%5D=12
https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challen ... /chat/1052

davidBAM wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:07 am
SUSA closing a bit now

Hard to say since some folks have decided to bunker In 5 1/2 days they'll have to go "open kimono" and we'll see all

I'm sure you don't mean me but I'll confess anyhow ... I thought I'd grab a bunch of WU in case they ran out. Unfortunately I forgot to stop WCG also downloading WU. It gave me lots of urgent WU which are hogging my threads even though Acoustics has 10x the priority of WCG. You know me ... I'd hate to abort them