Formula BOINC race

[adamantine.me]

Somebody ask for someone with experience with Prime Number projects? PrimeGrid (see my sig) is the big kahuna of BOINC prime number projects. They search for large primes and sieve with smaller ones to avoid large composites.

But there are other projects. SRBase is a separate project looking for a particular form of primes, using the same software as PrimeGrid. NFS@Home looks for prime factors of large numbers that are known to be composite. There are a few others, like primaboinca, with which I'm much less familiar.

Ah, I learned about sieving and primes when I was trying to write a small algorithm to do prime arithmetic. I'll check it out.

Thanks for the replies. I also noticed a "Mind Modeling" project. Heh

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of October 31, 2015, 19:00 UTC:


Leiden Classical:

MilkyWay@Home:

Volpex@UH:

NFS@Home:

Total standing in Formula-BOINC:

OK, folks, lets do some more crunching!

 

[petrusbroder]

As most of you prefer tactics #2, i.e. Leiden Classical and MilkyWay@home with Volpex@UH as a long term projects, that it will be.

StichExperimen, I'll add your points under the name of Bruce tyomorrow, as I am not at home now and my computer time is limited (it is not my computer and 'net). Please have patience!

 

[Pokey]

More questions:
I just went to Leiden Classical to look for an answer to a question and I see there has been virtually no activity there for a year or more. So here goes:

For whatever reason, at any given point in time, I have a computer, sometimes more than one, with no work for the Leiden project. I will get a full cache but when it has been worked through, it doesn’t get any more. I have gone through all the usual gyrations and checked configs, etc., and the only conclusion I can come to is that there isn’t enough work to go around, so a rig can sit idle until more work is available. So for our purposes, I am looking for a solution.

I have not been running Volpex and would like suggestions on configuring Volpex to run when the Leiden cache is empty. Do I just attach to Volpex and let BOINC manager take care of scheduling? Or should I dedicate one or two computer to Volpex only? Suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[TennesseeTony]

In my experience volpex only gives a frw tasks per day.

 

[QuietDad]

Leiden has kept two pcs stocked during this race (cache full, too) so I'm not complaining

 

[Ken g6]

@Pokey, set a bigger cache. I think setting a max additional work size, of .1-.2, also helps, as it means you're not constantly banging at the server for more work.

@Peter, it's November. When does the Holiday Season F@H race start?

 

[petrusbroder]

@Peter, it's November. When does the Holiday Season F@H race start?

The race starts, as allways, around December 1st. This years it is a tuesday, so it will be December 1st. I'll start a new thread soon.

 

[petrusbroder]

@Pokey:
I have my priority for Volpex set at 10000 (the other projects have it set at 100). You do set that at the Volpex home page, @ the link "Volpex@Home preferences". When there are Volpex WUs you'll get a few even the other projects crunch - then the other projects are paused while you crunch the Volpex WUs.

 

[petrusbroder]

The stats are as of November 1st, 2015, 19:00 UTC:

Leiden Classical:

MilkyWay@Home:

Volpex@UH:

The stats are short today as my relief for the On-call-duty has not arrived yet - only 2 hours late ...

 

[petrusbroder]

The stats are as of November 2, 2015, 20.00 UTC:
Golden fields denote milestone makers!

Leiden Classical:

Congrats, Pokey and StichExperimen, on your milestone!

MilkyWay@Home:

Congrats, QuietDad and Pokey, on your milestones!

Volpex@UH:

The Formula-BOINC total standing:

We havbe lost 2 points in Yafu ...

The yellow highlights the "loosing" project; the red circles the projects we are racing in. Please crunch some more!

 

[StitchExperimen]

I got my name changed from bruce to StitchExperimen if you go looking for it.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of November 3, 2015, 19.00 UTC

Leiden Classical:

MilkyWay@Home:

Volpex@UH:

Formula-BOINC total:

It is getting there!
In Leiden Classical we will gain 2 more points in approx. 2 days and can get 3 more points in a week more.
In MilkyWay@Home we have gained 2 points as of today. Well done!
But we need to increase our lead if we don not want to loose points in December ...

 

[Orange Kid]

It is getting there!
In Leiden Classical we will gain 2 more points in approx. 2 days and can get 3 more points in a week more.
In MilkyWay@Home we have gained 2 points as of today. Well done!
But we need to increase our lead if we don not want to loose points in December ...
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Formula Boinc ends Nov.30th... so hit it with all ye have till then.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Formula Boinc ends Nov.30th

Well that's a bit of a shock, lol. I assumed it ran till the end of December. Hmmmmm.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Edges has over 600 WUs available. Get them while they're hot!

 

[petrusbroder]

Edges has over 600 WUs available. Get them while they're hot!

All gone ...

 

[TennesseeTony]

Edges has over 600 WUs available. Get them while they're hot!

I noticed your post rather quickly and managed to snag 122 of them. They don't pay well though.

 

[petrusbroder]

Sorry, no stats today - more late tomorrw! RL sometime s...s.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Thanks for letting us know. We appreciate you!

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats as of November 5, 2015, 19:30 UTC:

Leiden Classical:

We have jumped up 6 points since the last stats 2 days ago! Well done, TeAm-mates!
Congrats TeAm AnandTech on a grand milestone: 14 M points!
Congrats QuietDad on your 50K milestone!

MilkyWay@Home:

Congrats Pokey on your 5 Million milestone and the 6th milestone in MilkyWay@Home.

Volpex@UH:

Formula-BOINC total standing & projects:

Finally, a BIG congrats to Pokey, who has passed 11 milestones in this race in 3 projects! That I call great crunching! :thumbsup:

The racing team-members hav passed a whopping total of 30 milestones in this race! Just count the yellow fields ...!

 

[petrusbroder]

And finally: just a few days ago we lost two points in Yafu. We could get them back ...

But first we have to secure our lead in some of the above projects ...

 

[TennesseeTony]

I guess I can try a spare machine for (new to me) Yafu, been kinda warm this week though.

I can also keep a machine on Leiden Classical when we switch. I'm always VERY nervous about passing SETI.USA.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Sadly I don't see any opportunity to gain but 4 points before the end of the month (and end of Formula BOINC), which keeps us in our current standing.

Milkyway and Yafu, for 2 each, with NFS being a long shot at getting an additional 2 points.

 

[petrusbroder]

I propose that we add Yafu to the mix of projects and that we keep on crunching MilkyWay; starting tomorrow at 19:00 UTC!
Those who want to run Leiden should do so, those who want to run Yafu, can do so!

Stats tomorrow!