PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread 2016

[TennesseeTony]

Thanks for keeping the stats once again, Ken_g6, we appreciate the effort!

Everyone had some impressive scores this race. Well done guys!

About 2 months to the next PG race!

 

[zzuupp]

wtg TeAm!

In happy news, the inconclusive unit is/was VALID!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, thanks for the stats Ken_G6, and thanks for the great race everybody!

I had fun, although it puzzles me how my Haswell Celeron G1820 2.7Ghz dual-core with 16GB DDR3-1600 dual-channel RAM (probably running at 1333), can even remotely compete with my G4400 Skylake OCed dual-core @ 4.455 (and later in the race, 4.125Ghz), with dual-channel DDR4-2333 CAS17 RAM.

It's got me scratching my head for sure.

Then again, the Haswell G1820 has the "Linux factor" going for it. That might be the difference.

 

[QuietDad]

None of my 12 cores (2x xeon 5335 and a q6600) could get anything done in time. Oh well, maybe next time.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for all the stats

 

[VirtualLarry]

None of my 12 cores (2x xeon 5335 and a q6600) could get anything done in time. Oh well, maybe next time.

Yeah, this race wasn't too kind to Core2-era machines. Even my overclocked SKL dual-cores didn't have an easy time. Only my i3-6100 with AVX/AVX2 really did that much.

 

[Ken g6]

Cleanup Day 1 stats:

8_____3580093____The Knights Who Say Ni! (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~99 WUs away)
9_____2692455____BOINC@MIXI (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~24 WUs away)
10____2412182____TeAm AnandTech (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~0 WUs away)
11____2408993____Team 2ch (-56031, ~5 bad WUs, 2.27%, ~1 WU away)
12____2405222____Ukraine (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~1 WU away)
13____2225769____[H]ard|OCP (-34763, ~3 bad WUs, 1.54%, ~16 WUs away)

Well, isn't this interesting? We moved up a rank! But our position is really precarious.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Interesting indeed!

 

[waffleironhead]

None of my 12 cores (2x xeon 5335 and a q6600) could get anything done in time. Oh well, maybe next time.

That is strange, as my athlon2 620 from the same era was able to finish WU's in about 5.5 days of crunching. I always thought the AMD chips were a bit slower than the Intel of the same era.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That is strange, as my athlon2 620 from the same era was able to finish WU's in about 5.5 days of crunching. I always thought the AMD chips were a bit slower than the Intel of the same era.

Except, these WUs seemed fairly memory-intensive. Core2's are choked by their FSB, and chipset memory access, whereas AMD Athlon/Phenom II's have their on-die integrated memory controllers.

 

[Ken g6]

Except, these WUs seemed fairly memory-intensive. Core2's are choked by their FSB, and chipset memory access, whereas AMD Athlon/Phenom II's have their on-die integrated memory controllers.

My Core 2 Quad made 4 Cullens fairly easily. But it has a 133MHz FSB. That might have made the difference.

 

[Ken g6]

Cleanup Day 2 stats:

8_____3580093____The Knights Who Say Ni! (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~99 WUs away)
9_____2692455____BOINC@MIXI (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~24 WUs away)
10____2412182____TeAm AnandTech (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~0 WUs away)
11____2405222____Ukraine (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~1 WU away)
12____2397424____Team 2ch (-67600, ~6 bad WUs, 2.74%, ~2 WUs away)
13____2214121____[H]ard|OCP (-46411, ~4 bad WUs, 2.05%, ~17 WUs away)

We got a little more breathing space behind us, as 2ch fell another place.

 

[Ken g6]

Cleanup Day 5 stats:

8_____3580093____The Knights Who Say Ni! (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~99 WUs away)
9_____2692455____BOINC@MIXI (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~24 WUs away)
10____2412182____TeAm AnandTech (-0, ~0 bad WUs, 0%, ~0 WUs away)
11____2392630____Ukraine (-12592, ~1 bad WUs, 0.52%, ~2 WUs away)
12____2373261____Team 2ch (-91763, ~8 bad WUs, 3.72%, ~4 WUs away)
13____2190874____[H]ard|OCP (-69658, ~6 bad WUs, 3.08%, ~19 WUs away)

And now we officially have room to have a bad WU, as Ukraine lost one too.

 

[TennesseeTony]

:thumbsup:

 

[Ken g6]

Bump for the next race! I think it doesn't overlap with the pentathlon.

 

[Kiska]

We officially have about 46 hours to reset, for the pps mega challenge. Well this is going to go well. :\

EDIT: Hmmmm is there an available GPU app stable? either through anonymous plat or stock

 

[Ken g6]

Pretty sure that's a no on the GPU app. I think I could dig up a stable app for 321, but that's about it. LLR is hard!

 

[Kiska]

Unfortunately I wouldn't know where to start if I was to begin writing code either openCL or CUDA, being that its my first year in bachelor of Computer Science

 

[TennesseeTony]

The next race is CPU only? Actually I know the answer is yes, it's just that I posted accidentally (pentathlon post) and am trying to hide my mistake.

Ok, uhm, real question then. I have many different profiles in PG, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, etc. If I delete those and just use 'default,' will all machines previously assigned to Saturn for example, now revert to the 'default' profile?

 

[QuietDad]

This starts today!

 

[BofRA]

So only WUs downloaded after the race starts count?

 

[Orange Kid]

So only WUs downloaded after the race starts count?

Correct

...and finish b4 the end, but they all count even if not validated b4 the end of the race...though they are subject to being validated... if not you lose those points

 

[Ken g6]

And the WUs only count if they're for the particular project in any given race. This race is PPS Mega LLR. So go to your PrimeGrid Preferences and select only that project for CPU work.

 

[BofRA]

So is it bad form to abandon the other WUs I have queued? or should I just let nature take its course to download new ones once those finish?

edit: nvm. I actually went and read the race announcement and they said to abort/abandon "old" WUs

 

[Ken g6]

Aborting work is not bad form. Letting old work sit forever until it expires is slightly bad form. Especially if you have leftover work at the end of a race.

Anyway, the race is on!