7. BOINC Pentathlon 2016

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TennesseeTony

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Holy crap, SETI.USA has 28.4 times more output in POGS than us!

That being said, currently we are in 5th place for POGS. Well done y'all!

@Ken_g6: WUProp for the Marathon, lol.
 

geecee

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Anyone actually been able to get work for CSG, anything at all? My BOINC logs just show "Project has no tasks available" every time I connect.

I'm having some weird issue with POGS, so I guess I will just buffer PG units for now.
 

JeffCos

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Anyone actually been able to get work for CSG, anything at all? My BOINC logs just show "Project has no tasks available" every time I connect.

I'm having some weird issue with POGS, so I guess I will just buffer PG units for now.

Same here.

Sorry that i'm late to the fight, very busy weekend. 22 threads now crunching with 12 more coming online later today and a 970
 
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geecee

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Stupid question, and I should probably know this already, but are finished results counted when they upload, or after they show Ready to report, and are then reported?

I.e. I suspended a project so that it wouldn't report, turned on network access for BOINC so that I could grab a bunch of new work for a different project, and I noticed that it uploaded all my results (despite the project being suspended).

If they are considered reported already, well then I just wasted a day of crunching/buffering due to my sheer stupidity, and fully deserve all of your soon to come incessant mockery.
 
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waffleironhead

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Stupid question, and I should probably know this already, but are finished results counted when they upload, or after they show Ready to report, and are then reported?

I.e. I suspended a project so that it wouldn't report, turned on network access for BOINC so that I could grab a bunch of new work for a different project, and I noticed that it uploaded all my results (despite the project being suspended).

IIRC the results are counted when you are granted credit by the project. You might still be fine if you uploaded early if your wingman reports during the right time frame.
 

Ken g6

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Stupid question, and I should probably know this already, but are finished results counted when they upload, or after they show Ready to report, and are then reported?

I.e. I suspended a project so that it wouldn't report, turned on network access for BOINC so that I could grab a bunch of new work for a different project, and I noticed that it uploaded all my results (despite the project being suspended).

If they are considered reported already, well then I just wasted a day of crunching/buffering due to my sheer stupidity, and fully deserve all of your soon to come incessant mockery.

Blame Rattledagger:

Bunkering different BOINC-projects are fairly easy, the easy method is to just Suspend project-1 while you're asking for work from Project-2 and as you've filled-up with work from Project-2, disable network and re-enable Project-1 again.

Yes, but this shouldn't be a problem, since in BOINC returning results is a two-step process with 1st. being uploading of result-file(s) and 2nd. being reporting of result. Suspending a project blocks the reporting and because of this as far as the project goes you've not returned anything yet.

So unless you've hit a bug there BOINC also does the reporting for suspended project it can actually be an advantage to upload result-files as they're made available but firewall-block the scheduling-server that accepts the reporting. This is especcially true if a project has large files to upload and you've got mediocre upload-speed or is saving-up for a dump at the end of the Quad-Athlon or another race.
 

Ken g6

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And the Citizen Science Grid queue is at 0 again. I hope all of you that wanted work built a buffer. I didn't because I wanted to hold onto this PrimeGrid flush until tonight. :\

Edit: Oh, good, they loaded 300K more.
 
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Pokey

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Is there a "preferred" primegrid project for our purposes??

Never mind........ pps sieve. I found the suggestion. Lost it for a bit.
 
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Ken g6

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I flushed 15 minutes after the supposed start time. I guess that won't count. Real PrimeGrid races are much better run. D:
 

TennesseeTony

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It's GO TIME!!! All is well. Go Go GO!

Our overall score (temporarily) has jumped 3 places, from 16 to 13! And we're ahead of BOINC Stats, who placed ahead of us last year, WOOT!
 
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TennesseeTony

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I have set the twins to working on CSG when tasks are available, POGS otherwise.

We will soon drop one place in POGS, but the twins couldn't hope to hold off Hard OCP at the rate they are currently going.

It appears most of the participants (myself included) wrote off CSG due to the lack of tasks. But, that's where I believe we can gain the most points, as we are FAR behind in the rankings, but the point differences are actually quite small. It should be easy to gain a relatively few project-points, and make huge jumps in race-points.

And now I recall I made predictions last year too...can't think of a single one that was correct.

Anyway, join with me if you would, keeping some POGS as a reserve, CSG as primary, and PrimeGrid for the GPU. We must beat BOINC Stats!!!!

EDIT: If you have multiple machines, keep one primarily on POGS, still a long way to go before that one's over.

EDIT 2: For PrimeGrid, I'm disappointed at our initial placement, but a lot depends on wingmen: I've got 17 GFN20 (31,200 x17= 530,400 points), 4 GFN21 (131,674 x4= 526,696 points), 1 Cullen (11,600 pts)from last race (lol), and about 400 PPS Sieve (3300 x 400= 1,320,000pts) that are all still pending. Basically only a third of the points have been counted so far, lol. This is more like a sailing yacht race...all depends on the luck of the wind(wingmen).
 
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Ken g6

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My Sandy Bridge laptop is no good at CSG, so it's doing POGS for sure. My Core 2 seems to be better at CSG, so that's what it's doing. (Plus PrimeGrid.) My tablet's doing CSG, but my phone can't since there's no PIE binary.

I guess maybe I'll switch my Skylake to CSG.
 

TennesseeTony

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I got a little excited and put the other two 980Ti's to work, Ken, I edited the previous post while you were posting, you may find edit #2 of interest.

EDIT: We've gained 3 places, soon 4, on CSG since the twins went to work last night. Woohoo!
 
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Ken g6

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At this point, don't do any GFNs. Those were only useful to buffer before the race. Now, just do PPS Sieve.
 

TennesseeTony

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Yep, those were for long term buffering. Then, since they had no wingman, or were in progress on another computer, I felt it was safe to upload them and get a round of the PPS Sieve per GPU prior to the race's start.


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Wow! We've moved up 5 places now, in less than 24 hours on CSG! That earned us 15pts for the overall score. We are still 14th overall, but only 3 points from tying with Crunching@EVGA for 13th. We lost 3 points to Hard OCP in POGS, but they are moving like a rocket in POGS.
 
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Ken g6

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I'm still having a hard time getting CSG work. Maybe because I'm asking for it for Linux and Android.
 
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