Formula Boinc Sprints 2018

[Tejas_2]

Seti.USA is slightly ahead of us now. Anyone have more cores to add to the sprint?

Not that it will make much difference in the greater scheme of things, but i have added 12 more cores and working to get another 12 add soon.

 

[biodoc]

Not that it will make much difference in the greater scheme of things, but i have added 12 more cores and working to get another 12 add soon.

You are right. SUSA is a powerful team and 3rd place is just fine.

 

[StefanR5R]

We have 94 % of their score. Imagine the possibilities. :-)

 

[Orange Kid]

Day two of ODLK1 and we are in third which is looking great.
In the marathon we have gained some ground on CNT and in 4th.

1 Gridcoin                 25 5,194,884
2 SETI.USA                18 1,685,135
3 TeAm AnandTech         15 1,516,088
4 Czech National Team    12 563,649
5 L'Alliance Francophone 10 330,700
6 Rechenkraft.net          8 238,451
7 UK BOINC Team           6 210,528
8 Overclock.net           4 96,988
9 Ukraine                  2 12,049
10 The Planetary Society   1 8,478

 

[Ken g6]

You are right. SUSA is a powerful team and 3rd place is just fine.

Hm, CNT is in fourth, and they are known for bunkering. I suppose the question is, can they get all their uploads done to dump their bunkers? Or maybe the hosts file trick allows uploads without reporting tasks?

Or am I just being paranoid?

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 2:

 

[StefanR5R]

Hm, CNT is in fourth, and they are known for bunkering.

They are also known to perform sub-par in "difficult" projects.
So far, the relative scores somewhat resemble those of last year's Leiden Classical sprint.
(SUSA: 960 k, TeAm: 720 k, CNT: 250 k, LAF: 35 k, RKN: 62 k)

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 3, first half:

 

[ericlp]

Question about upcoming spring (primegrid) in four days...

Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 LLR (SR5)
k·5n±1 for 105 specific values of k

World Cup Challenge project

Seems like this is for (only CPU) tasks, or am I missing something?

Thanks.

 

[StefanR5R]

Yep it's for CPUs only.
A better discussion thread for it:
PrimeGrid Races 2018
Note, PrimeGrid Challenge series is different from Formula Boinc sprints:

• Only tasks downloaded after the start of the race count. (No prior bunkering.)

• It's a quorum=2 project, but all tasks reported before the end of the race count; validation may happen even after the end of the race. (That's the so-called clean-up phase after the end of each PrimeGrid race: Preliminary stats are posted during and at the end of the race; after that all still pending validations happen; and at some undetermined point later, final stats are posted when all validations which affect ranks were done.)

Although you can't bunker before the race, you can perform at least some test runs in order to find out which app_config.xml settings work best on your host. In the past I tested different settings for a few PrimeGrid subprojects on some CPUs, but none of the projects which I tested had similar CPU times to llrSR5.

 

[ericlp]

thanks... yeah I guess I posed in the wrong thread... sorry about that.....

 

[Orange Kid]

In Wichita KS on my way to Phoenix AZ, (down one comp already) so......
Some early stats for the final day of ODLK1.
Looks like we have 3rd wrapped up, well done all!!
Currently in 4rd in the marathon and have moved up a spot in the ODLK1 marathon.
On to the Primgrid race...……….

1 Gridcoin ..................…......25 ….....7,326,066
2 SETI.USA .....................…18 ...…..2,804,298
3 TeAm AnandTech ......…...15 ...…..2,282,759
4 Czech National Team ...….12 ……...870,668
5 L'Alliance Francophone ….10 ......….527,309
6 Rechenkraft.net ..................8 ......…..401,715
7 UK BOINC Team ............…6 ......…..251,361
8 Overclock.net .....................4 ............148,477
9 Planet 3DNow! ...............…2 .........….21,009
10 Ukraine .....................……1 .........….17,434

...and the F1 results
June 10: Canadian Grand Prix
1. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
3. Max Verstappen, Red Bull

 

[StefanR5R]

Wow, another medal!

And wow, the Formula Boinc site managed to pull stats updates from the overloaded project server. (Seeing how it couldn't do so several times earlier, and a bunch of my own tasks failing to upload during the last 10 minutes, I suspected there wouldn't be a proper final stats update.)

Day 3:

Planet 3D Now! were not registered as a team at ODLK1 until yesterday. They are now in, and managed to move onto rank 9.

I have a theory about SETI.USA's modus operandi: On Friday, they don't do much. On Saturday, they look at the stats and remember that CNT and LAF aren't their sole competitors anymore in this season, and switch on some extra resources.

And some numbers from the final stats update across the three leagues:

Spoiler: total production

league  rank  team                           points     credits       %
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  1      1    Gridcoin                           25   7,698,520    35.6
         2    SETI.USA                           18   2,937,393    13.6
         3    TeAm AnandTech                     15   2,371,479    11.0
         4    Czech National Team                12     917,576     4.2
         5    L'Alliance Francophone             10     545,751     2.5
         6    Rechenkraft.net                     8     426,717     2.0
         7    UK BOINC Team                       6     257,536     1.2
         8    Overclock.net                       4     152,805     0.7
         9    Planet 3DNow!                       2      26,761     0.1
        10    Ukraine                             1      18,367     0.1
        11    The Planetary Society               -       9,915     0.0
        12    OcUK - Overclockers UK              -       8,614     0.0
        13    SETI.Germany                        -       7,024     0.0
        14    BOINC@Poland                        -       2,251     0.0
        15    Team China                          -         843     0.0
        16    The Knights Who Say Ni!             -         453     0.0
        17    BOINC@AUSTRALIA                     -         341     0.0
        18    Dutch Power Cows                    -          46     0.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  2      1    XtremeSystems                      25   2,854,506    13.2
         2    [H]ard|OCP                         18   1,765,281     8.2
         3    The Scottish Boinc Team            15     593,467     2.7
         4    Crunching@EVGA                     12     452,986     2.1
         5    meisterkuehler.de Team             10      61,795     0.3
         6    BOINCstats                          8      17,257     0.1
         7    AMD Users                           6       7,401     0.0
         8    Ars Technica                        4       5,603     0.0
         9    Team Norway                         2       2,911     0.0
        10    Russia                              1       2,413     0.0
        11    BOINC Synergy                       -       1,033     0.0
        12    BOINC@Denmark                       -         720     0.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  3      1    Anguillan Pirates                  25     271,125     1.3
         2    LITOMYSL Boinc Team Czech Republic 18     180,423     0.8
         3    Catalunya                          15       3,117     0.0
         4    Microsoft                          12       1,933     0.0
         5    BOINC.BE                           10       1,658     0.0
         6    BRASIL                              8         161     0.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
              total                                  21,606,182   100.0

The overall PPD of 21.6 M / 3 = 7.2 M/day did not improve in the last 36 hours anymore, due to the project server operating at its limit.

 

[Ken g6]

Also note that points went begging in League 3, because nobody but GridCoin likes this project. 0

 

[StefanR5R]

free-dc.org was finally able to pull stats from ODLK1 = latinsquares. Today's scores should be the sum of the past four days.
TeAm: https://stats.free-dc.org/team/lts/54
overall: https://stats3.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=lts

 

[Kiska]

I believe I know why the ODLK1 server is so slow.
On their server status page it shows host for all the things, you'll notice most of the programs are on host "udoox64" now if we google this, we come up with:
https://shop.udoo.org/other/x86.html

Which lists 2 products with quad core CPUs in them. Namely a Celeron and a Pentium, I would hazard a guess that the bottleneck is entirely the insufficient hardware resources

 

[StefanR5R]

5 or 6 W Atom based Celeron and Pentium, even.
If this is really their server hardware, I wonder if they run solely from the onboard eMMC flash. If so, it should be worn out any minute now...

 

[[H]Coleslaw]

They had to make 2 projects due to constraints that the admin either couldn't relay or wouldn't relay. She posts in randomly threads details that are off topic or should be placed in an organized manner. Also posting such information between the projects. Made it rather hard for many to understand the need for the second project. She couldn't just come out and say their server wasn't good enough because of XYZ. Basically, all I got out of her was that they knew why it needed done..... I was like..yeah..thanks for answering a quite simple question.................

 

[StefanR5R]

AFAICT, the two projects ОДЛК and ODLK1 are in addition to

Gerasim@Home which has an ODLS subproject which seems inactive at the moment,
SAT@home which has an active ODLS subproject,
RakeSearch, which is active.​

Any other important ODLS projects that I missed?

Well, that's quite fewer projects compared to those concerned with the search for prime numbers.

 

[[H]Coleslaw]

I don't think SAT has an active anything right now. Allegedly they are returning, but that has been said for a very long time.

 

[StefanR5R]

You are right about SAT; I didn't look closely.

 

[StefanR5R]

They had to make 2 projects due to constraints

Unfortunately, there is never an end to constraints.
https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/forum_thread.php?id=39&postid=247

 

[crashtech]

It seems that significant info is being lost in translation. Too bad it's unlikely any us could help out on with some hardware; I've given away stuff much better than what they're running. Maybe it needs to be very low power, though? That's the only reason I can think of to run something so anemic

 

[[H]Coleslaw]

I believe YoYo runs YAFU off of a laptop VM. But my memory could be fading....Too many projects over the years to keep them all straight.

 

[zzuupp]

Unfortunately, there is never an end to constraints.
https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/forum_thread.php?id=39&postid=247

Since I can't still attach to latinsquares/odlk1, can I get the cliff notes on that thread??