Proudly graduating from one-trick pony to Pony Engine.
Me too!Good, then the ones I have pending should finally validate............
that's a fair comment, weather true or not hahaBut we just meant well, keeping traffic to the server to a bare minimum during the first days of the race, while the server was hit so hard by everyone.
evga are clearly not impressed with you guys. lol
That's not exactly from a jump, but from a sprint-within-a-sprint going on while it was night at your and my place.That's quite a jump.
But more often we learn by following the advice of the experienced. I am here since about a year now and am glad to have learned a lot already from my TeAm mates. I also found good advice in project forums and some other team forums, among them some from @bill1024 at the Crunching@EVGA forum. Thanks for that.bill1024 at the EVGA forum said:Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
To calm any concerns that you may have, a good part of my downloads, and all my uploads so far, happened outside the period during which the networking stack of the server was overloaded.bill1024 at the EVGA forum said:And another thing, with all the issues they are having with their severs as it is, with the huge bunkers coming from several people all at once, it would be your own fault. Then how would you feel taking down their servers,
I'm not keen on creating an account at the EVGA forum, so maybe an EVGA member can explain to Punchy how the quota of tasks in progress are calibrated towards average or slower-than-average hosts, and how it is a necessity to work around these limits on large and fast hosts in a credits-based sprint on a quorum=2 project, just in order to level the playing field. (Primegrid challenges excepted.) Even with the number of queues with which I ran this and the previous sprint, I probably still have more than average hardware threads per queue, hence am still at a slight disadvantage. All what Punchy can observe is that this gives me more flexibility in timing the reporting of results, but this is really only just one aspect of several.Punchy at the EVGA forum said:...his extra-hard working-around-the-server-limits...
There's nothing better than waking up in the morning and knowing somebody out there doing their magic while I'm still sleeping. Thanks guys.That's not exactly from a jump, but from a sprint-within-a-sprint going on while it was night at your and my place.
For starters, think about whether or not contests help the projects. The rest has been explained previously.Punchy at the EVGA forum said:You still haven't answered how your teammate's excessive bunkering, sometimes including working around project limits with extra virtual machines or disk images, benefits those projects.
Have fun, hope you guys kick butt!We get to play with them next year.
That silly person among us is actually more calculating and risk-averse than some are assuming.
It can't "hurt" too much as project admins would rather have you abort than let them time out. Which EVGA team must have known as many WUs have been aborted by them today.The only time it "hurts" a project is when you abort a lot of tasks and they have to be resent.