PrimeGrid Autumnal Equinox Challenge September 23 - October 6

[biodoc]

Just dumped 8 WUs, 6 more in a couple of hours.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I got my Blackhawk case installed. Temps on CPU have reached 73C max, GPU reached 68C max. Much better than 81-85C and 73C. Even better yet, I don't even have the sides on yet. Possibly the cooling will get better once I do that.

Ran into a snag with the USB 3 ports. Newegg's pictures show a single USB3 port on the front panel, terminated in a cable that plugs into a rear external USB3 port on the mobo. I had ordered some Syba USB3 cards with one of those external-style sockets, internally. So I intended to use that to plug into. But this case must be a newer revision, and Newegg hasn't updated their pictures, because it came with TWO USB3 ports on the front-panel, and both of them terminate into a 20-pin high-density header, that many new mobos support. Darn it.

Have to get a new mobo eventually, or get a USB3 external powered hub.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of Sept. 28, 04:01:21

Individual stats:
014 ______ petrusbroder __________ 1 522 123.28
026 ______ biodoc ________________ 1 017 066.16
145 ______ Robert Everly ___________ 279 801.11
158 ______ SlangNRox _______________ 229 418.47
169 ______ sangyup81 _______________ 225 687.29
174 ______ GLeeM ___________________ 224 482.33
190 ______ Rudy Toody ______________ 218 825.63
233 ______ ryan ____________________ 165 171.32
228 ______ Ken_g6 __________________ 163 985.77
344 ______ rabrittain ______________ 110 745.93
224 ______ Larry _____________________ 84566.83

630 crunchers in the list


Teams' stats:
06 ______ PrimeSearch Team________ 7 186 606.09
07 ______ Czech National Team ____ 5 487 116.18
08 ______ TeAm AnandTech _________ 4 241 874.12
09 ______ Dutch Power Cows _______ 4 197 071.99
10 ______ Aggie The Pew __________ 3 179 446.80
11 ______ US Navy ________________ 2 921 003.51
...
17 ______ The Knights Who Say Ni!_ 1 845 114.70

140 teams in the list.

Well crunched!
We are now (barely) ahead of the DPC and Aggie The Pew. That may change though - please crunch on, recruit new crunchers, assimilate and borgh more!


BTW: most of my nearly finished WUs and all finished WUs are uploaded and in the above stats. I have only some 8 - 10 WUs left to finish within the next 12 hours - and then we will all see how petrusbroder will drop in the list ...
I have also received some really long WUs - 70 - 110 hours! I hope that those are artefactual numbers.
I'll report later if they change (or not).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, all of the Woodall LLR units I got, are going to be around 72 hours ETA.

Edit: On my main rig, they are at 55%, 50%, 46%, and 46%. On my secondary rig, they are at 28% (all four).

 

[somethingsketchy]

Looks like we're going to hold onto 9th place, quite well. Just checked the stats just now during lunch, and we've got quite a lead on the rats.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Have any primes been found?

 

[somethingsketchy]

I know I haven't, out of the six that I've ran so far. Anyone else found anything yet? Perhaps we would have to wait until validation, before we'll find out if we got a prime or not.

 

[Ken g6]

Day 5 stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
19_____1715586____petrusbroder
37_____1017066____biodoc
151____334861_____Rudy Toody
156____309353_____Robert Everly
158____308340_____sangyup81
190____229418_____SlangNRox
207____224482_____GLeeM
211____222460_____Ken_g6
266____166802_____rabrittain
268____165171_____Ryan
399____84566______Larry

Rank__Credits____Team
6_____8845528____PrimeSearchTeam
7_____6785633____Czech National Team
8_____5395850____Dutch Power Cows
9_____4778109____TeAm AnandTech
10____3905637____Aggie The Pew
11____3754629____BOINCstats
12____3572950____US Navy

Looks like we're going to hold onto 9th place, quite well. Just checked the stats just now during lunch, and we've got quite a lead on the rats.

I agree with somethingsketchy, but don't get cocky! Looks like Larry's gonna be our secret weapon.

Edit: These are big ranges, and only a few Woodall primes have ever been found. A prime by anyone in this race is unlikely overall.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, Ken_g6!

 

[petrusbroder]

The TeAm has passed the 5Million milestone (5 009 448.12 points, rank: 9th in the race).
Well crunched!

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats!

About 13 hours until 8 more from me.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Looks like Larry's gonna be our secret weapon.

If you say so. I've got both 3.0GHz Q9300s crunching away, with a few GPU WUs on my main rig. I suppose I could suspend those. I wanted to test out my temps with both the CPU and GPU going at the same time.

Now I wish I had upgraded to SB already. If only I had more spare change.

Edit: I enlisted the help of my 1.9Ghz T3100 dual-core Celeron laptop. It's a C2D, so it shouldn't be too bad. I don't know if any of the WUs will finish before the challenge ends though.

Edit: Main rig, 91%, 87%, 81%, 80%. Secondary rig, 64% (all four).

 

[SlangNRox]

I might have to not overclock my 2600k. Cores are at around 76C right now @4.2ghz

 

[somethingsketchy]

If you say so. I've got both 3.0GHz Q9300s crunching away, with a few GPU WUs on my main rig. I suppose I could suspend those. I wanted to test out my temps with both the CPU and GPU going at the same time.

Now I wish I had upgraded to SB already. If only I had more spare change.

Don't worry, you're not the only one, who would love to upgrade to SB. I know I would take one in a heartbeat.

Oh well, IB and Bulldozer will suit my fancy.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of Sept. 28, 04:00:40

Individual stats:
016 ______ petrusbroder __________ 1 968 884.91
038 ______ biodoc ________________ 1 133 714.72
135 ______ SlangNRox _______________ 434 508.97
140 ______ sangyup81 _______________ 422 995.00
148 ______ Robert Everly ___________ 397 248.86
170 ______ Rudy Toody ______________ 334 861.54
181 ______ rabrittain ______________ 307 004.22
240 ______ GLeeM ___________________ 224 482.33
244 ______ Ken_g6 __________________ 222 460.82
302 ______ ryan ____________________ 165 171.32
439 ______ Larry ____________________ 84 566.83

832 crunchers in the list


Teams' stats:
06 ______ PrimeSearch Team________ 9 871 347.33
07 ______ Czech National Team ____ 7 865 069.21
08 ______ Dutch Power Cows _______ 6 258 652.62
09 ______ TeAm AnandTech _________ 5 695 899.53
10 ______ BOINCstats _____________ 4 474 036.90
11 ______ Aggie The Pew __________ 4 411 652.70
...
18 ______ The Knights Who Say Ni! ____ 2 299 730.36

168 teams in the list.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had some problem with my network connection. My secondary router's power brick seemingly passed away this morning while I was asleep. Wondered why I had like 8 WUs all saying "uploading".

Edit: That's fixed. Should be turning in four Woodall LLR WUs in the next four hours.

Edit: Is 65C too hot for a laptop CPU? It's blowing fairly hot air out, but temps haven't gone over 65C. Says TJmax for chip is 105C.

Edit: Turned in two of them on my main rig, other two are at 98% and 97%.

Edit: Well, what the heck. I maximized the BOINC manager, and it hung. Couldn't restore it, but could minimize it.

 

[Ken g6]

I seem to have forgotten to post stats today!

Rank___Credits____Username
17_____2281960____petrusbroder
49_____1133714____biodoc
109____582192_____SlangNRox
151____451470_____Rudy Toody
165____422995_____sangyup81
177____397248_____Robert Everly
196____339461_____Ken_g6
215____307004_____rabrittain
249____247878_____Ryan
278____224482_____GLeeM
432____111907_____waffleironhead
510____84566______Larry

Rank__Credits____Team
6_____11745888___PrimeSearchTeam
7_____9881686____Czech National Team
8_____7396834____Dutch Power Cows
9_____6584883____TeAm AnandTech
10____5483326____BOINC@Poland
11____5336677____Aggie The Pew
12____5193375____BOINCstats

Where'd BOINC@Poland come from?!

 

[somethingsketchy]

Must be they were holding off on submitting WUs, until they had a big enough group for points.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of Sept. 30, 03:00:42

Individual stats:
017 ______ petrusbroder __________ 2 338 924.87
037 ______ biodoc ________________ 1 490 379.99
119 ______ SlangNRox _______________ 582 192.41
178 ______ sangyup81 _______________ 422 995.00
176 ______ Robert Everly ___________ 427 551.70
164 ______ Rudy Toody ______________ 451 470.56
118 ______ rabrittain ______________ 335 058.19
152 ______ GLeeM ___________________ 459 063.54
216 ______ Ken_g6 __________________ 339 461.44
261 ______ ryan ____________________ 247 878.69
336 ______ Larry ___________________ 171 491.77
450 ______ waffleironhead __________ 111 907.98

1010 crunchers in the list


Teams' stats:
06 ______ PrimeSearch Team_______ 12 512 718.67
07 ______ Czech National Team ___ 10 490 365.24
08 ______ Dutch Power Cows _______ 7 664 703.94
09 ______ TeAm AnandTech _________ 7 378 376.14
10 ______ BOINC@Poland ___________ 5 886 360.46
11 ______ Aggie The Pew __________ 5 776 572.83
10 ______ BOINCstats _____________ 5 623 591.35
...
16 ______ The Knights Who Say Ni!_ 3 478 772.17

193 teams in the list

Welcome to the prime-grinding, waffleironhead! Good to see you!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Stats as of Sept. 28, 03:00:42

Shouldn't that be, Sept. 29? My watch is showing the 30th. Surely you are not two days behind?

 

[somethingsketchy]

Good to see we're gaining on the Cows. I got some WUs that'll finish in the next 19 hours.

 

[somethingsketchy]

On a related note, anyone have a rough idea, of when we should cutoff receiving new tasks and process what is in our queue? I have six WUs in the queue, but currently processing three at a time.

I just turned off new tasks, to finish out the rest of the competition. I have on the three running tasks:

WU #1 - 5h 34m
WU #2 - 10h 31m
WU #3 - 18h 28m

As I've been averaging ~41 hours per WU, I figured I have reached the inevitable end of my competition run, while making the deadline for all of the queued work.

Thoughts?

 

[Ken g6]

Day 7 stats - we've been crunching for a whole week, folks!

Rank___Credits____Username
15_____2755575____petrusbroder
35_____1670582____biodoc
140____582192_____SlangNRox
149____569597_____Rudy Toody
158____548193_____Robert Everly
182____459063_____GLeeM
201____422995_____sangyup81
202____419253_____rabrittain
240____339461_____Ken_g6
271____277134_____Ryan
339____201315_____Larry
501____111907_____waffleironhead

Rank__Credits____Team
6_____13927800___PrimeSearchTeam
7_____12455729___Czech National Team
8_____9466456____Dutch Power Cows
9_____8357273____TeAm AnandTech
10____7054689____Aggie The Pew
11____7000929____BOINC@Poland
12____6173655____BOINCstats

Poland is battling rats, but we're above the fray.

 

[waffleironhead]

Welcome to the prime-grinding, waffleironhead! Good to see you!

Thanks, slow and steady here. I'll probably get another 4 units done before then end. Its not much, but hey it all adds up.

 

[petrusbroder]

Shouldn't that be, Sept. 29? My watch is showing the 30th. Surely you are not two days behind?

No it was just a copy-paste-miss-the-correction-error.
Thanks for seeing it.
Corrected.