PrimeGrid Dog Days of Summer challenge August 26-28

[Ken g6]

Well, I hope you've all had a nice summer vacation. So did PrimeGrid, but they're back with the Dog Days of Summer Challenge! The race starts Friday, August 26 at 18:00 UTC and runs for two days. The good news is you have a fairly good chance of finding a quite large prime in this challenge. The bad news is with short, fast WUs this challenge has the potential to live up to its initials, as a DDoS challenge.

What you need:

• One or more fast x86 processors. (Even slow ones will do!)
• Windows, Linux, or MacOS 10.4+. (Linux may be up to 10% faster, but shouldn't be if they get the new wrapper uploaded in time.)
• BOINC, attached to PrimeGrid (http://www.primegrid.com/).
• Your PrimeGrid Preferences with only "Proth Prime Search (LLR)" selected in the Projects section.

What won't help (but won't hurt either):

• A 64-bit OS.
• A large amount of RAM. Faster RAM might help, but that's doubtful too.
• Any video cards. (I think I got LLRCuda working on 64-bit Linux, but they haven't set things up so anyone can test it yet. D

What won't help (and will hurt, sort of):

• Unstable processors. (Invalid work will be deducted! If Prime95 worked recently on your processor, it's stable.)
• Work not downloaded and uploaded within the challenge. (It's not counted. Should you not be able to be in front of one or more computers at that time, just set their queue level very low (0.01 days). This also makes it more likely that you will be a prime finder rather than a double-checker.)

Welcome and good luck to all!

 

[petrusbroder]

I am in!

 

[Fardringle]

The PrimeGrid CPU client doesn't play nice with the office management system used at the office where the majority of my CPU-only systems are located. However, I just attached my home PC with an ATI HD5670 and will leave it running only PrimeGrid on the GPU as long as it behaves. Hopefully it will help a little.

 

[Ken g6]

Thanks! Sadly, this race is only for "Proth Prime Search (LLR)". Sieve doesn't count.

Edit: P.S. There is a sieve race in December.

 

[Fardringle]

Oh, I didn't notice the last part. I just saw "Proth" and associated it with the GPU project. Oh well. I'll run it anyway.

 

[biodoc]

I'm in! :thumbsup:

 

[jalaram]

I guess I can pause MilkyWay on my system for the weekend. Now to figure out how to set this up.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I'm in. I'll try and finish up some R@H WU and then move over to PG

 

[filibusterman]

time to takes some rigs out of hibernation, hopefully they don't over-heat!!!

 

[sangyup81]

Hopefully this hurricane won't knock out power =P

 

[somethingsketchy]

Hopefully this hurricane won't knock out power =P

Agreed, the East Coast/New England is going to have one helluva weekend with this hurricane coming in. Hopefully I don't lose power, being on the outer edge of the predicted path.

 

[jalaram]

Predictions are that it'll still be a cat 1 hurricane when it reaches me. So, I might have to pull out the abacus.

 

[Rudy Toody]

I have started five hours early. I will have found all the primes ahead of time.

So, go sandbag your attics or whatever it is you do for hurricanes. Go Luck and Stay Dry!

 

[waffleironhead]

Just switched over. Zero queue, in case I'm not around to start at the bell.

 

[somethingsketchy]

Hopefully I'll make it in time. I downloaded the incorrect w/u last night (Cullen/Woodall Prime) *face palm*...so I'm in the rush to beat the clock before 2pm EST (1800 UTC).

 

[Ken g6]

If you don't beat the clock, you could abort the incorrect WUs. Of course then you wouldn't get BOINC credit for them, but you're not going to get race credit for anything downloaded before the race starts anyway.

 

[jalaram]

I set my PrimeGrid to not get any new tasks (Milkyway is suspended) and it looks like it'll finish before 2pm. When 2pm rolls around, do I just click the get new tasks button in Boinc Manager?

 

[Ken g6]

Yes. With PrimeGrid selected, click "Allow new tasks". That's what I'm doing.

 

[SlangNRox]

I'll be joining in this race as long as the heat doesn't get unbearable. Decided to drop my cpu speed by 400mhz to help with the heat. I figure having it slower for the whole race will be better than a higher speed for part of the race

 

[jalaram]

start?

So far I haven't been able to grab any work units

Ditto. And the primegrid website was unresponsive for a while there.

 

[SlangNRox]

So far I haven't been able to grab any work units

 

[waffleironhead]

So far I haven't been able to grab any work units

Same here, but I finally got some. Only took 10 minutes.

 

[zzuupp]

I'm in until Irene says otherwise.

 

[Ken g6]

It's a little early to judge our progress, but here are stats from the first hour:

Stats for team TeAm AnandTech
Rank___Credits____Username
33_____945________biodoc
71_____533________SlangNRox
102____346________Robert Everly
104____336________Rudy Toody
109____318________ZipSpeed
119____290________GLeeM
129____262________jalaram
135____243________filibusterman
139____234________Ken_g6
160____196________sangyup81
253____65_________waffleironhead
332____9__________zzuupp

Rank__Credits____Team
9_____4541_______BOINCstats
10____4100_______BOINC@Poland
11____3791_______Crunching Family
12____3716_______TeAm AnandTech
13____2996_______US Navy
14____2537_______Aggie The Pew
15____1975_______Dutch Power Cows

Where's Peter?

 

[somethingsketchy]

Crud, 1hr 54 minutes communication deferred >.< So much for a good start