Formula Boinc Sprints 2018

[StefanR5R]

The final 18 hours.

During the last few days, we moved from rank 44 to 41 in PrimeGrid's all-time team stats.

 

[Orange Kid]

PrimeGrid final;
First place. Nice race all.Congrats to us and to [H}ard|OCP (208,811,874) First overall.
Small rest then WCG, PG and the last FB sprint.

1 TeAm AnandTech 25___ 161,642,750
2 Gridcoin 18___ 134,206,388
3 SETI.USA 15___ 92,195,110
4 Rechenkraft.net 12___ 84,580,030
5 L'Alliance Francophone 10___ 73,973,379
6 SETI.Germany 8___ 64,385,925
7 UK BOINC Team 6___ 43,977,283
8 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 4___ 40,348,686
9 Planet 3DNow! 2___ 40,275,866
10 Czech National Team 1___ 39,346,394

From FreeDC
xii5ku 45,152,896
biodoc 17,510,487
crashtech 16,457,965
Howdy2u2 13,759,964
Tejas 10,466,471
Lane42 10,153,452
emoga 9,352,693
iwajabitw 7,062,245
10esseeTony 6,416,505
Orange Kid 6,041,955
IEC 5,811,604
Ken_g6 3,082,607
GLeeM 3,047,384
zzuupp 773,001
MarcelliusIkaP 755,396
SlangNRox 311,139
geecee 129,190
catavalon21 3,371

F1 Brazil results

• Lewis Hamilton 1:27:09.066
• Max Verstappen +1.469
• Kimi Räikkönen +4.764

...and with Hamilton's win Mercedes wins the 2018 Constructors' title.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Oh man. Driver has fractured spine, remained conscious, 2nd driver has back pain, Track Marshall banged up with cuts and scrapes, 1st photographer....I forget, okay though, concussion maybe, but the 2nd photographer has a lacerated liver. I can't believe everyone survived this.

 

[ao_ika_red]

It's typical Macau GP isn't it? Bike crash there was even more brutal, just like Isle of Man TT but without haystack.
edit: good news, her spinal surgery was successful. https://www.motorsport.com/f3/news/floersch-surgery-macau-gp-crash/4300277/

 

[TennesseeTony]

Only 9-ish hours until the announcement of the next Sprint project!!

 

[ao_ika_red]

Only 9-ish hours until the announcement of the next Sprint project!!

+24 hours, right?

 

[TennesseeTony]

OOPS, lol, I'm time traveling again. 24 hours early.

 

[StefanR5R]

Did you by chance take a look at the FB site while you visited the future?

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yes, but international (inter-galactic actually) treaties prevent me from saying ANYTHING....lest the time cops show up. And I DO NOT want to deal with that again.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Oh gawd, I may have said too much already!

But, I'm going with collatz again. cough cough cough

 

[Howdy]

Only 9-ish hours until the announcement of the next Sprint project!!

OOPS, lol, I'm time traveling again. 24 hours early.

Yes, but international (inter-galactic actually) treaties prevent me from saying ANYTHING....lest the time cops show up. And I DO NOT want to deal with that again.

Oh gawd, I may have said too much already!

But, I'm going with collatz again. cough cough cough

There are certainly times I worry wonder about you......

 

[Skillz]

Tony needs help AND he needs a clock.

 

[Markfw]

Tony needs help AND he needs a clock.

No No No No.... Tony is doing just fine for an alien to our planet !

 

[Howdy]

Tony needs help AND he needs a clock.

It better be a clock that ACTUALLY TELLS you the time verbally...............analog/ digital....... Speak and spell with a clock option.

No No No No.... Tony is doing just fine for an alien to our planet !

I believe he got booted off his own planet for the same "time Issue"

 

[zzuupp]

I've been told that wearing crimson on a planet called "Tennessee" is a capital offense. Maybe someone timeshifted and escaped.

 

[Orange Kid]

LHC@home 1.0 is the last sprint of the year.

 

[Tejas_2]

LHC@Home 1.0

Beat by the orange one!

 

[iwajabitw]

Question. Im at work so I cant verify. There was a Notice in Boinc a few days back about LHC stopping work for a while. Is it true? Or a subproject or something else?

 

[StefanR5R]

The LHCb subproject has ceased operation indefinitely. A comeback of this subproject is possible but not planned for anytime soon.

The SixTrack subproject had a news item which sounds to me --- and server status looks to me --- as if there is now no SixTrack work available. If this is true, then only subprojects which require VirtualBox are left. (However, I may be mistaken by the looks of server status, and it could also be possible that SixTrack work is generated but downloaded as fast as the generator works.)

 

[StefanR5R]

PS: typo: now work -> no work (from SixTrack)

 

[TennesseeTony]

I've been told that wearing crimson on a planet called "Tennessee" is a capital offense. Maybe someone timeshifted and escaped.

HA HA!!!! Yep, wearing Alabama colors is considered a capital offense during 'Uhmurikan' college Football season.

Yeah, LHC.

 

[StefanR5R]

A very quick look into "top hosts" revealed that SixTrack tasks are still being newly generated:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome...0391087&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=1

Hence, 0 unsent sixtrack tasks in server status doesn't mean that there are never tasks available, it means that sixtrack tasks in higher demand than the work generator can satisfy. This sprint is going to bring back the typical Formula Boinc sprint feeling.*

Of course for those who have VirtualBox, there are Theory and Atlas tasks.

*) Frankly, with the WCG B'day challenge going on, I wouldn't have minded much if the MOD_PYTHON ERROR had made a comeback.

 

[emoga]

So, should I switch all rigs to LHC or just the linux ones with the native atlas app or...just go full WCG? What do we care more about?

 

[StefanR5R]

There is a native Linux app for ATLAS?
app.php only lists the old vbox gunk for ATLAS (and for Theory), and only SixTrack as native.

Edit:
Found cryptic references to ATLAS native here:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4758 "ATLAS native - Configure CVMFS to work with openhtc.io"
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4840 "Guide for building everything from sources to run native ATLAS on Debian 9..."
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4617 "ATLAS native Linux app"

ATLAS has offered a native Linux version for several months but here is an attempt to collect all the relevant information in an easy to find place.

Ha ha! Easy to find for LHC@home standards, true.

Edit 2:
I can't see an actual benefit from the native Linux application. True, you don't need VirtualBox with its out-of-mainline kernel modules. But the RAM requirements of the native application doesn't seem to be substantially lower (I haven't found the actual requirement stated clearly anywhere, only some conflicting claims). And you need to have FUSE kernel modules + CernVM-FS userspace filesystem, and the Singularity container system (i.e. instead of VMs, you get containers).

 

[emoga]

Instructions are here. I have it setup on mint 18.3.

The reason why its better is it doesn't use much (if any) ram. I'm able to run all 72 cores of one machine with a measly 64 GB ram.