Formula Boinc Sprints 2018

[Orange Kid]

Seti@home for the first sprint.

 

[iwajabitw]

I'm going to have to let a few systems leak a bit that have never ran Seti, to get a cache built up.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Seti@home for the first sprint.

A very good way to start FB Sprint this year.

 

[Orange Kid]

I'm going to have to let a few systems leak a bit that have never ran Seti, to get a cache built up.

Seti maxes out at 100 tasks per. You will probably need to have multiple installs to last 24hrs.

 

[GLeeM]

A very good way to start FB Sprint this year.

I agree, we should learn a lot about how many of the TeAm will be active in Sprints this year and if other teams in League 1 are going to participate in Sprints. Hmm ... OcUK and Overclock.net?

 

[StefanR5R]

Pointers into our recent past of SETI competitions:

• June 2017, FB sprint
  http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/formulaboinc.2500571/page-27#post-38929282

• August 2017, Wow!-Event
  http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/seti-home-wow-event-2017.2511175/

 

[TennesseeTony]

That 100 task limit applies to both CPU and GPU tasks, combined, correct?

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Apologies for using this thread as a dumping ground, so I can transfer my app_config to my Linux box with a 10 series GPU. Yes, I'm too lazy to look for a thumb drive.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>astropulse_v7</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.25</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.01</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v8</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.25</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.01</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

 

[StefanR5R]

Should be 100 GPU tasks per GPU, plus 100 CPU tasks per host.

Further correction:
100 GPU tasks per GPU
100 CPU task per device(be it dual socket or quad socket)
1000 tasks per host (a hardcoded limit in the client)
That can be changed if you change 2 lines of code in the source and compile it yourself
Boinc doesn't care if you have a 64 core quad socket system, the scheduler sees it as if you had a, 64 core single socket system
A good quote on the S@H forums

BOINC --> You havee vone CPU, you have 4 CPU's, I Don' Care! I see Noth-ink! You geet 100! No More! (using my best Sgt. Schultz impersonation) lol

 

[yodap]

Happy sprint season friends, and congrats on the fast start in the marathons.

 

[ao_ika_red]

I agree, we should learn a lot about how many of the TeAm will be active in Sprints this year and if other teams in League 1 are going to participate in Sprints. Hmm ... OcUK and Overclock.net?

We should fare better with OcUK because they have more CPU power than GPU last year, but I don't really know. And they still have cold weather there even though it's almost April so they have reason to keep their farm in full blast.

 

[Ken g6]

The first sprint update is in, and we're in fourth place. (That's good in League 1, and in SETI.)

 

[Orange Kid]

......and now Seti is out of Nvidia GPU tasks

 

[Ken g6]

......and now Seti is out of Nvidia GPU tasks

Really? My last WU fetch a couple of minutes ago got two tasks.

 

[Orange Kid]

Maybe just Winblows? It says there are Intel, ATI and CPU tasks but "no tasks for you."

 

[Orange Kid]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Seems to be just the one computer it doesn't like.
Sent it off to do something else till it is back in good graces with Seti.

EDIT Got me an astropulse

 

[Markfw]

So I need to put every other project on pause until SETI is done, right ?

 

[TennesseeTony]

If you are so inclined, yessir, CPU or GPU or both. When you wake up Saturday Sunday (I thought that seemed a bit short, thanks Stefan ) morning, you will desire to resume your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[StefanR5R]

The sprint actually ends on Sunday (morning for Mark, night for kiska). But since validations may take a long time at SETI@home, the later the results are submitted during the sprint, the lower is their chance to get validated before the finish line.

 

[Ken g6]

EDIT Got me an astropulse

I've gotten nine of those.

 

[petrusbroder]

Added a GTX1080, GTX960, 2xGTX980Ti, GTX670, GTX650Ti, and a number of 28 cores.. Lets see what that does ...
Have a few Astropulses too

 

[ao_ika_red]

Wow, got snatched by KWSN. Keep an eye for L'Alliance Francophone 'cause they're moving fast.

 

[TennesseeTony]

It's early in the game, but we do seem to be in a rather tight grouping, which is to say, in this first Sprint, we are near the top of the third group in League One. Gridcoin is in a group of their own at the top, SETI.U and SETI.G comprise the 2nd grouping, with more than double the score of the 3rd group (consisting of 10 teams, 450k to 750k in points).

Of noticeable absence in this Sprint, are Overclock.net and OcUK. Anyone paid them a visit recently?

edit: Good heavens, OCN's DC forum is filled with mining threads, and OcUK doesn't seem to have a current thread for FB, though I prodded them a bit in last year's thread.

EDIT: Whew, I found OCN's real DC thread: Overclock.net > Overclockers Care > Overclock.net BOINC Team > Formula BOINC 2018

 

[ao_ika_red]

Both oc.net and OcUK forum are quite active. Their pre-sprint RAC is also nominal.

 

[Orange Kid]

Day one finds us in a respectable 5th spot.
The Knights are slowly out pacing us and France is not far behind. Canada and USA need to be watched too.
The OverClockers seem to be out of this one.
Search on.......

1 Gridcoin .................................25 ..........10,030,618
2 SETI.USA ..............................18 ...........3,522,622
3 SETI.Germany .......................15 ...........3,203,853
4 The Knights Who Say Ni! .......12 ...........1,533,092
5 TeAm AnandTech ..................10 ...........1,476,220
6 L'Alliance Francophone ...........8 ............1,256,377
7 USA .........................................6 ............1,239,244
8 Canada ....................................4 ............1,175,126
9 The Planetary Society ..............2 ............1,128,047
10 BOINC@AUSTRALIA ............1 ............1,113,811

 

[StefanR5R]

Whew, I found OCN's real DC thread: Overclock.net > Overclockers Care > Overclock.net BOINC Team > Formula BOINC 2018

I went looking around and haven't found any current Formula Boinc related threads in the forums of SETI.USA, KWSN, USA, Canada, Australia.
SETI.Germany haven't followed Formula Boinc for many years now.

L'Alliance Francophone:

Formula BOINC 2018 (translate)​

Czech National Team:

Formula Boinc 2018 (translate)
Formula Boinc 2018 - Sprint (translate)​

Rechenkraft.net:

Formula Boinc 2018 (translate)​

Planet 3DNow!:

Boinc Formula Sprints Termin Thread jetzt mitmachen (translate)​

Edit March 25: added RKN
Edit April 6: added P3DN