PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread 2016

[Ken g6]

In case you hadn't noticed, the race is on!

Stats for team TeAm AnandTech
Rank___Credits____Username
65_____79_________Ken_g6

Rank__Credits____Team
14____119________The Knights Who Say Ni!
15____119________PrimeSearchTeam
16____119________BOINC@Poland
17____79_________TeAm AnandTech
18____79_________LinusTechTips_Team
19____39_________Vihdin lukio

And I don't know if you've noticed or not because I'm the only one on the TeAm with points so far.

 

[TennesseeTony]

We are officially 1/12th finished with this race!

Here's the 2 hour stats:

Stats for team TeAm AnandTech
Rank___Username____Credits


16 ___10esseeTony____14927.66
119 __zzuupp ________ 2155.33
139 __Ken_g6 _______ 1676.37
140 __GLeeM ________ 1676.37
192 __geecee ________ 957.92
312 __SlangNRox _______ 39.91


Rank__Credits____Team
8 OcUK - Overclockers UK 30493.94
9 The Knights Who Say Ni! 26582.41
10 BOINC@Poland 26422.76
11 TeAm AnandTech 21433.56
12 BOINC@MIXI 19876.94
13 Ukraine 18040.91

 

[Orange Kid]

aw snap. I forgot about this.

 

[Ken g6]

6-hour stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
16_____58433___10esseeTony
125____7264_______zzuupp
130____6984_______GLeeM
147____5947_______Ken_g6
209____3312_______geecee
332____359________SlangNRox
361____159________Orange Kid

Rank__Credits____Team
8_____105770_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
9_____101819_____BOINC@Poland
10____101779_____OcUK - Overclockers UK
11____82461______TeAm AnandTech
12____70287______BOINC@MIXI
13____67573______Ukraine
14____60309______Christians

Is it just me, or are GLeeM and zzuupp faster than they've been in previous races? Maybe it's just that my fast RAM doesn't matter as much here.

 

[waffleironhead]

Better late than never. Just noticed there is a race on.

 

[TennesseeTony]

The "10 hours in, bedtime for me, 14 hours to go" stats

18____10esseeTony____103615.52
123___zzuupp___________12293.37
126___GLeeM___________12013.97
142___Ken_g6___________10337.60
208___geecee____________5747.55
247___Orange Kid________3632.13
273___waffleironhead____2474.64
353___SlangNRox___________638.62

EDIT: You know, a fixed, WYSIWYG font would be nice for these stats tables.....

 

[TennesseeTony]

...Maybe it's just that my fast RAM doesn't matter as much here.

What are you running at Ken?

Too hot, woke up, turned down A/C...again. Got curious and did a quick memory swap. The Xeons can't be overclocked, so the only way to improve Mem performance is in regards to the CAS latency.

I'd picked up some CAS 10 (vs 14-15) but it was too tall to fit under the massive Noctua heatsink on Bee and WUSS, so it has just been sitting. So I tossed it into Mjolnir to see what effect if any it would have.

Keep in mind I only recently was smart enough to get my MB to run the CPU at STOCK speeds, and the previous memory was most likely running at CAS15/1066, new memory is CAS10/1066.

The short answer is that at the same clock speed, the CAS made about a 40 second? avg improvement, or 3.5% faster. My system is still Hyper-Threaded.

I'm going to have to go back after this race and run some tasks from the last race, in which Ken's times were simply amazing, and see what improvement there is there at CAS10.

Turned off HT, and as I've long suspected, Haswell-E takes a serious performance hit.

 

[Ken g6]

What are you running at Ken?

CAS 15, but it's DDR4-2666. I don't really feel like exploring RAM overclocking right now.

 

[Ken g6]

One more before the end: 7/8-done stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
19_____224314___10esseeTony
136____26502______zzuupp
140____25624______GLeeM
157____22032______Ken_g6
166____20635______geecee
204____14768______waffleironhead
218____12892______Orange Kid
431____638________SlangNRox

Rank__Credits____Team
8_____437252_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
9_____406359_____BOINC@Poland
10____376304_____OcUK - Overclockers UK
11____347407_____TeAm AnandTech
12____333118_____Christians
13____306735_____Team JPN
14____281629_____AMD Users

 

[Ken g6]

Final (per-verification) stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
19_____258480___10esseeTony
143____29376______GLeeM
148____27939______zzuupp
158____25265______Ken_g6
159____24786______geecee
201____18280______waffleironhead
213____15566______Orange Kid
452____638________SlangNRox

Rank__Credits____Team
8_____495606_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
9_____477445_____BOINC@Poland
10____430826_____OcUK - Overclockers UK
11____400332_____TeAm AnandTech
12____394585_____Team JPN
13____387999_____Christians
14____338466_____Ukraine

400K!

 

[TennesseeTony]

400K!

SWEET!

Thanks for the stats and the organization. So Ken, is that output of yours JUST from your i3? I had 12 systems, but barely got 10x the points.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the stats updates. The late start really hurt me Have to pay closer attention on the next Prime race.

 

[Ken g6]

SWEET!

Thanks for the stats and the organization. So Ken, is that output of yours JUST from your i3? I had 12 systems, but barely got 10x the points.

Nope. In order from best to worst:

1. i3-6100
2. i5-2540M (HT off, fan at full, with ThrottleStop)
3. Core 2 Q9400, stock
4. Athlon II x2, with a Windows Update problem that ate half the CPU most of the time.

The i3 was about equal to the next two systems combined.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm sorry TeAm, I kind of slept through this one.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Turned off HT, and as I've long suspected, Haswell-E takes a serious performance hit.

Well, that did appear to be the case running Sophie Germain's, but the reverse is true on PPS Mega, 13,000 seconds w/HT but less than 5000 seconds without. Huge boost in performance.

 

[TennesseeTony]

8. 18-23 November 18:00:00 AP27 Wallis is Born Challenge 5 days

GPU race will be upon us soon, the AP27 Challenge starts Friday, get your preferences set!

 

[Orange Kid]

Running a few AP27 on the 970 to see how they behave and are taking about 42 minutes to complete.
Going to fire up the 1070 (Yes, Tony I finally broke down) and will report back on that one.

EDIT: The 1070 is coming in around 28 minutes.
Looking at wingman times...it's slower than a 1070 on an Intel platform, slower than a 980ti, faster than a Radeon Tahiti by about 3, faster than a 1080 by about 1.5, faster than a GTX TITAN Black by about 2 go figure. Over all impressed.

 

[TennesseeTony]

 

[Orange Kid]

Start time on this challenge is Friday Nov 18th at 12 noon CST.

A count down clock

A world clock - time zone converter

 

[iwajabitw]

Ill just allow new tasks for Prime at 7am cst when I leave for work Friday, have teamviewer to make sure its running.

 

[Ken g6]

The PrimeGrid AP26 AP27 race has started!

 

[Orange Kid]

...and away we go.
Not good that I'm the top guy............TONY!!!!!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yeah, uhm, a lil late is all.

I knew it started Friday, I just didn't know TODAY was Friday. I love my jobs.

EDIT: Whew. These puppies run HOT. It's going to be a very cool weekend, but right now.......

 

[waffleironhead]

Sadly my 6950 does not have enough ram to run the program. I ran a test unit for primegrid just fine with only 1gb, but they limit the program to 1.5 for some reason.

 

[Ken g6]

6-hour stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
11_____331526___10esseeTony
44_____80860______Orange Kid
71_____56602______iwajabitw
94_____40430______Ken_g6
162____12129______zzuupp

Rank__Credits____Team
4_____1609114____Aggie The Pew
5_____1140126____Czech National Team
6_____525590_____BOINC@MIXI
7_____521547_____TeAm AnandTech
8_____509418_____US Navy
9_____343655_____The Knights Who Say Ni!
10____331526_____Rechenkraft.net

As a TeAm we're doing very well! As for me...at least I'm ahead of somebody.