2019 Formula Boinc Sprints

[Ken g6]

The sprint is PrimeGrid.

 

[TennesseeTony]

PrimeGrid

Refresh my memory, what PG tasks can be bunkered for 24 hours easily yet still pays very well? I need a sub-project for both GPU and for CPU...

EDIT: For GPU I will be bunkering GFN-20, but may drop a number or two (GFN-19/18/17) during the race, because they all need a wingman, right?

 

[Orange Kid]

I'm doing all sieve. GCW and PPS

 

[StefanR5R]

I will be sieving only as well. The chance that GFN tasks get validated before the sprint is over is a tad too low for my personal tastes.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Can you get enough for 24 hours? Thought those were really short?

In other news, I'm asking for 5 days of tasks, I have 24 hours worth of WCG, but I'm only getting one GPU task at a time: " 4/24/2019 16:41:11 | PrimeGrid | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: ; NVIDIA GPU: ) " So....?


EDIT: DOH! Had my resource share set to 0, which only allows one task at a time.... (thanks to biodoc for this solution)

 

[lane42]

Have mine set for pps but 10 day's is not going to last long.
with 4 gpu's and 1 is a 2080ti @ 1:28 a w/u

 

[StefanR5R]

I will be sieving only as well. The chance that GFN tasks get validated before the sprint is over is a tad too low for my personal tastes.

Can you get enough for 24 hours? Thought those were really short?

Sure I can get enough... with my usual workarounds. :-)
I need about 500 tasks for each of my GPUs for 24 hours, and so I downloaded 6x 100 tasks for each GPU. Once a batch of 100 tasks is done, a shell script switches to the next 100.

 

[zzuupp]

This was easy. I was already doing GCW sieve (gotta upgrade that badge before May 1).
GPU's switched to PPS sieve & a genefer spread.

 

[TennesseeTony]

The Sprint page has changed format, so it looks like they are ready for us to release our bunkers.

 

[StefanR5R]

We are currently 20th in the 2019 PrimeGrid marathon, with 363 M points.

In the PrimeGrid sprint of November 2018, we made 162 M points.* Suppose we repeat that, we still won't enter the top ten of the marathon. :-/


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*) And we won Gold back then. B-)

 

[Ken g6]

Well, no, we didn't get any marathon points for PG last year either. It also seems like we had some help with the sprint, although it's [H]ard to recall.

 

[IEC]

[H]ard start to the race:

1     [H]ard|OCP     25     22,444,697
2     BOINC@Poland     18     11,003,350
3     XtremeSystems     15     9,087,100
4     SETI.Germany     12     6,179,906
5     TeAm AnandTech     10     4,997,059
6     Rechenkraft.net     8     3,307,346
7     SETI.USA     6     2,759,106
8     BOINC@AUSTRALIA     4     2,588,125
9     Crunching@EVGA     2     2,515,219
10     OcUK - Overclockers UK     1     2,474,250

 

[TennesseeTony]

[H]oly crap, this is a [H]ig[H] scoring round of Sprinting. Although first-[H]our scores are most impressive, expect wild swings at a moments notice. Lot's of folks not even [H]ome from work yet in Mountain and Pacific zones, for example.

 

[IEC]

A dinnae ken what's up in League 2, but those Scots sure busted some bunkers.

 

[StefanR5R]

@Aurum has got 80 % of league 3's output at the moment.

 

[lane42]

Nice to see you back Aurum

 

[zzuupp]

1....[H]ard|OCP.......25....59,831,309
2...XtremeSystems.....18....23,608,348
3....SETI.Germany.....15....22,214,665
4..TeAm AnandTech.....12....21,994,953
5......SETI.USA.......10....21,611,722
6.....BOINC@Polan......8....16,646,747


nice start

 

[IEC]

Current standings:

1     [H]ard|OCP     25     94,625,462
2     XtremeSystems     18     41,420,644
3     TeAm AnandTech     15     41,122,976
4     SETI.USA     12     33,164,940
5     SETI.Germany     10     28,919,410
6     BOINC@Poland     8     28,148,289
7     Crunching@EVGA     6     22,279,848
8     Rechenkraft.net     4     15,648,944
9     OcUK - Overclockers UK     2     13,406,897

 

[Kiska]

Dear Primefinder,

Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is assigned to the Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=15 (GFN-15). Since candidates on this subproject are not large enough to report to the Top 5000 Primes List, your prime is visible immediately.

Workunit 610157861 : 122173916^32768+1 (264995 digits)

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we will surely resolve any problems.

Once again, congratulations on your find! Thank you for participating in PrimeGrid.

Sincerely,
The PrimeGrid Staff

Yay?

 

[StefanR5R]

Formula Boinc sprint at PrimeGrid,

the first twenty hours,​

top fifteen teams of League One:​

Points-per-hour of the 2nd and 3rd team:

 

[crashtech]

The pre-Haswell Intels and the Ryzens are not good at this sub-project. I hope the next iteration of Ryzen improves AVX2 performance, which seemingly is the issue here and with most (all?) PG projects.

 

[Ken g6]

Yay?

GFN-15's are awfully tiny. You should aim higher. Though probably no higher than GFN17-MEGA.

 

[Orange Kid]

PrimeGrid day one;
Some quick stats as I have places to go people to see.
W find ourselves in third at the moment and have been as high as second. Going to be lots of back and forth till the end on this one.
Enjoy.



From FreeDC:

 

[crashtech]

Had to take a 1060 offline, it was going to a black screen and causing the PC to become unresponsive. Not sure if it's dying, or there's some interaction going on with the Ryzen hardware it's sitting in.

 

[zzuupp]

Thunderstorms!

Thankfully, I think I only lost power for 4 hours max.
Weather map looks clear now & it's cooled down a bit.