The Scottish Boinc Team

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Negative

scole250 wrote:

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

Negative

<no_alt_platform> in the cc_config?

Sphynx wrote:<no_alt_platform> in the cc_config?

nope

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.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

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

It says I'm not authorized.

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

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?

Try again leecarver.

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!

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

Another candidate for the short attention span honour

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.

Well done everyone, another good result