RRAACCEE!!!!!!!!!! - King's Gauntlet 2007

[Assimilator1]

Well hopefully that's grabbed some attention!

Incase you've missed it there's a short 2 week race & its TA vs the rest of the world!:Q............................well ok not quite all of the rest of the world ,but nonetheless our honour is at stake!

The project is SETI ,& remembering that this is just a short race it'd be great to have some people switch over for that brief period ,& it would be good to see old timers join in as well as newer members ,even just 1 rig ,or even 1 core!

Btw this is not meant to be any permanent cannibilising of TA teams from other projects.Just a short stint for a bit of fun & hopefully prestige (we're a long way from being No 1atm though).

Oh ,if it helps anyone to join in I will run my PC for them afterwards to catch up lost time on there project.Unfortunatly I only have my main rig to offer for the CPU trade ,but it's an Intel C2D @3.2GHz so it isn't bad (& for any folders I have a X1950 Pro too).
(Anyone else willing to offer a post race CPU trade?)

Cut off date Oct 28th.

Race details can be found here
If you want to join up ,then by all means let us know here but it is crucial that you sign up in the above linked thread.

Race rules,stats & team listings

 

[petrusbroder]

Good post, Mark! Thanks!

 

[bryanW1995]

I will happily trade any/all of mine to make up for lost time.

rigs:
e6750 @3.5
opteon 180
x2 4000+ @2.43
x2 3600+ running DC
xp 2800+
xp 2400+
A64 4000+
p4 dual core 3.0

all rigs except A64 4000+ and x2 3600+ crunch 24/7 or nearly so. here's a list of RAC
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu...user.php?userid=494498

 

[Smoke]

I guess that sandbagging WUs is against the rules?

Like "a rule" has stopped it in the past! :laugh:

 

[Assimilator1]

Yea sandbagging is against the rules
Naughty mod!:Q

Though our race team is growing nicely now
pre-race stats are showing we are being heavily outgunned atm by our old rivals DPC & S@NL amongst others.Currently we are 8th out of 14 teams on RAC.

More! more! ,more!

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Though our race team is growing nicely now
pre-race stats are showing we are being heavily outgunned atm by our old rivals DPC & S@NL amongst others.Currently we are 8th out of 14 teams on RAC.

Some of us are waiting until the race actually starts before unleashing the hounds. Though I accidentally let a few escape today, I'm holding the leash pretty tight.

-jim

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL, so do I!

 

[LANMAN]

Hey everyone..

Just put a 2.13 centrino online. Trying to get back into DC again.

--LANMAN

 

[Smoke]

Got me a new Q6600 but the memory won't arrive until tomorrow ... doesn't seem to like the flavor I have on hand.

Took down a perfectly good Pentium D 2.8GHz system (upgrading). Hate down time. :|

 

[LANMAN]

3.4Ghz added this morning... crunching away...
More PC's tomorrow..

--LANMAN

 

[caferace]

Even with the brakes on I've managed to gain 118,961 positions in SETI the last week. Amusing...

-jim

 

[Smoke]

Well, I've robbed "Peter" to pay "Paul". :shocked:

Swapped memory sticks around until I found a pair that the new Q6600 likes. Doing a quick backup before I start stretching it a little.

So the race is on at 0000 UTC?

Go TeAm! :beer:

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Smoke
So the race is on at 0000 UTC?

Maybe mis-read something, but isn't it 1 week "pre-race" 1st., while the "real" race starts 5. November?

 

[petrusbroder]

The Kings International Gauntlet 2007 will take place from Sunday November 4th, 20:00(GMT+1) till Sunday, November the 18th, 20:00(GMT+1). There is a daily statistics update at 20:00(GMT+1).

From the FAQ and Rules ...

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Rattledagger

Originally posted by: Smoke
So the race is on at 0000 UTC?

Maybe mis-read something, but isn't it 1 week "pre-race" 1st., while the "real" race starts 5. November?

More like "didn't read anything". :laugh:

I've been busy recruiting and building.

So I guess the next week is sort of like "time trials" at the Indy 500 ... determines the running order or in this case the makeup of the actual teams?

 

[danzigrules]

Hi LANMAN

 

[bryanW1995]

I'm already given' 'er all I got, kepain! however, I might be able to co-opt one or two others for a very limited time...why can't they just move up the Q9450 release date to 11/2?

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
I'm already given' 'er all I got, kepain! however, I might be able to co-opt one or two others for a very limited time...why can't they just move up the Q9450 release date to 11/2?

:beer:

 

[Alyx]

Dang, I'm only at 3k/day and I'm running out of machines to grab. Only one more Core2 duo and maybe a friends machine at work...

Need more!

 

[Assimilator1]

Jim
lol ,I haven't switched mine over yet either

LANMAN
Hey great to see ya! ,it's been a while I think?
What rigs have you got these days?

Smoke
Nice upgrade ,a mate of mine has loaned me his Q6600 he just bought! ,the mbrd he was sold with it apparently doesn't support quads! ,so until he sorts that out in a few weeks I get to play with it
Will be interesting to see what I can o/c to on my MSI 650 mbrd.

bryanW1995
Q9450? what's that?:Q

 

[Khyron320]

Slowly shifting my boxes over to SETI as they finish their Climate prediciton work units (which are huge in case you dont know)
1.4ghz P3 in
2.0ghz P4 (partial uptime) in
2.6ghz P4 in
2.4ghz p4 ETA 5 days
Q6600 ETA 5 days
Opteron 144 ETA 4 days
C2D 6300 ETA 4 days
X2 4400 ETA 12 days


I'm Cutting it really close allot of the climate WU happen to finish in 5 days, which works out perfect

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Khyron320
Slowly shifting my boxes over to SETI as they finish their Climate prediciton work units (which are huge in case you dont know)
1.4ghz P3 in
2.0ghz P4 (partial uptime) in
2.6ghz P4 in
2.4ghz p4 ETA 5 days
Q6600 ETA 5 days
Opteron 144 ETA 4 days
C2D 6300 ETA 4 days
X2 4400 ETA 12 days


I'm Cutting it really close allot of the climate WU happen to finish in 5 days, which works out perfect

Tim, you have a lot of work ahead of you with all those "ETAs".

 

[Assimilator1]

Nice fleet you have Khyron320
Good to see an ole P3 still crunching away ,I bet that P3 Tualatin comes close to the performance of the 2GHz P4?

 

[Khyron320]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Nice fleet you have Khyron320
Good to see an ole P3 still crunching away ,I bet that P3 Tualatin comes close to the performance of the 2GHz P4?

It does beat the P4 in the BOINC benchmarks but it wasn't beating it in climate prediction (probably memory bandwidth?) climate prediction work units grow to around 800mb over time and i actually cut off that box mid unit because it was going nowhere. Its a PIII - S (512K cache)

PIII was always better than Netburst it just took intel a few beatings from AMD to realize it

 

[Assimilator1]

lol ,yea ,though having said that the Northwood core was a good one ,it certainly gave the XP a good run for its money.I recall the XP3200 could only match the P4 2.8GHz ,but then the Ath64 turned up.