SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2014

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of August 23, 2014, 07:00 UC:

Pos ___ Name ____________ Points _
01 ____ Pokey ___________ 1,155,174
02 ____ Lane42 ____________ 941,474
03 ____ petrusbroder ______ 640,545
04 ____ GLeeM _____________ 554,998
06 ____ biodoc ____________ 520,339
06 ____ salvorhardin ______ 262,282
07 ____ Joe _______________ 228,591
08 ____ Ingleside _________ 211,359
09 ____ Orange Kid ________ 121,497
10 ____ [TA]Assimilator1 ___ 78,149
11 ____ strider7 ___________ 63,047
12 ____ Quietdad ___________ 56,215
13 ____ minendo ____________ 30,410

Pos ___ Team __________________ Members ____ Points _
01 ____ GPU Users Group __________ 25 ____ 30,989,895
02 ____ SETI.Germany ____________ 132 ____ 16,659,013
03 ____ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 136 _____ 8,369,774
04 ____ ngb:setiteam _____________ 19 _____ 7,331,802
05 ____ L'Alliance Francophone ___ 34 _____ 6,780,174
06 ____ TeAm AnandTech ___________ 13 _____ 4,864,080
07 ____ Team China _______________ 54 _____ 4,288,907
08 ____ Crunching@EVGA ___________ 13 _____ 3,991,548
09 ____ Planet 3DNow! ____________ 21 _____ 3,523,221
10 ____ BOINC.Italy ______________ 27 _____ 3,266,008
11 ____ BOINC@Australia ___________ 9 _____ 3,003,701
12 ____ Racoon Lovers ____________ 11 _____ 2,707,604

Five of our team members are among the top-100: Pokey, Lane42, petrusbroder, GLeeM and biodoc.
Many of the other teams are still recruiting members. There are 838 crunchers in the race, and 136 teams!
We are doing good. Team China is coming very slowly approx 12000 - 40000 points/day) and may pass us unless we increase our output...

 

[petrusbroder]

I have mailed to Asto-AL (RAC 61K) and asked if he would consider to join the race.
If some or all - of you could PM or mail one or more of the other team members ... please?

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stats Peter!

I had to remove the linux 64-bit seti v7 sse3 lunatics app on my 1090T. I was getting more than a few computation errors. The standard app is significantly slower but no errors.

the lunatics apps are working just fine on my intel processors.

 

[Assimilator1]

Just to make it absolutely clear, to use optimized applications you MUST USE app_info.xml while app_config.xml works alongside regardless of optimized or non-optimized applications.

Err why? I haven't, seems ok so far ........

Have a ton awaiting validation. Should jump ANY MINUTE now, or 5 minutes after the event ends..

Dang! lol

Thx for the stats Petrus

I've just noticed Wiz isn't in with us! I'll PM him - done.

 

[Pokey]

Well, I am now officially impressed.

I was just passed by someone with two computers..................

One of them has "[8] NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z"................

That has to a $24,000 plus rig.

The RAC for that one alone is over 175,000. :awe:

It is amazing all the computing power out there.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of August 24, 2014, 07:00 UC:

Pos ___ Name ____________ Points _
01 ____ Pokey ___________ 1,322,679
02 ____ Lane42 __________ 1,049,392
03 ____ petrusbroder ______ 715,512
04 ____ GLeeM _____________ 639,072
06 ____ biodoc ____________ 623,103
06 ____ salvorhardin ______ 299,706
07 ____ Joe _______________ 266,934
08 ____ Ingleside _________ 238,159
09 ____ Orange Kid ________ 141,208
10 ____ [TA]Assimilator1 ___ 95,603
11 ____ strider7 ___________ 71,333
12 ____ Quietdad ___________ 60,176
13 ____ minendo ____________ 34,174

Pos ___ Team __________________ Members ____ Points _
01 ____ GPU Users Group __________ 25 ____ 35,536,968
02 ____ SETI.Germany ____________ 132 ____ 19,078,901
03 ____ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 136 _____ 9,461,257
04 ____ ngb:setiteam _____________ 19 _____ 8,567,145
05 ____ L'Alliance Francophone ___ 34 _____ 7,774,079
06 ____ TeAm AnandTech ___________ 13 _____ 5,551,134
07 ____ Team China _______________ 54 _____ 4,995,120
08 ____ Crunching@EVGA ___________ 13 _____ 4,696,787
09 ____ Planet 3DNow! ____________ 21 _____ 4,066,483
10 ____ BOINC.Italy ______________ 27 _____ 4,003,199
11 ____ BOINC@Australia ___________ 9 _____ 3,608,543
12 ____ Nordlichter _______________ 5 _____ 3,161,205
12 ____ Racoon Lovers ____________ 11 _____ 3,057,894

Five of our team members are among the top-100: Pokey,

Lane42, petrusbroder, GLeeM and biodoc.
Many of the other teams are still recruiting members.
There are 838 crunchers in the race, and 136 teams!
We are doing good. Team China is coming very slowly and may pass us unless we increase our output...

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Petrus

GLeeM waves at biodoc as he goes by :thumbsup:

 

[biodoc]

GLeeM waves at biodoc as he goes by :thumbsup:

I don't think I'll be passing you GLeeM. One of my linux boxes ran out of AP GPU WUs and the other maybe has 24h of AP WUs left. Unless they fire up the AP splitter again, I won't be passing anyone. :hmm:

Thanks for the stats, Peter.

 

[lane42]

Thanks for the stats Petrus

 

[Rattledagger]

Err why? I haven't seems ok so far ........

Hmm, not sure which part the "why" points to, but let's see...

If you uses optimised applications, you uses app_info.xml
If you do not use app_info.xml, you do not use optimised applications.
The Lunatics-installer automatically generates the app_info.xml based on your choises and puts the file in the correct location, but of course it's possible to manually specify things if so desires.

If you wants to run more than 1 wu per GPU, you've got two choises:
1: If you're using optimised application, you can edit your app_info.xml to run multiple wu per GPU.
2: Or, regardless of optimised or not, you can make an app_config.xml to run multiple wu per GPU.

Now of course, if you don't want to run multiple wu per GPU, you don't (*) need an app_config.xml and everything will work perfectly without such a file. Optimised without app_info.xml on the other hand doesn't work very well...


(*): Even if you don't run multiple wu per GPU, app_config.xml has one extra feature, if example you wants to all the time use max 6 of 8 cores for one application and run another BOINC-application on the remaining 2 cores, you can also use app_config.xml for this.

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the stats Petrus , btw I've not heard back from Wiz yet, you heard from Astro?

We can't seem to hold back Team China!

Hmm, not sure which part the "why" points to, but let's see...

If you uses optimised applications, you uses app_info.xml
If you do not use app_info.xml, you do not use optimised applications.
The Lunatics-installer automatically generates the app_info.xml based on your choises and puts the file in the correct location, but of course it's possible to manually specify things if so desires.

Ah, you didn't mention that earlier , that'll be what I have then.
The 'why' was in relation to app_info, I didn't manually install/edit it.

Would it be worth it running 2 WUs a time on my old GPUs??

Interesting that I can restrict core usage to particular projects via the app_config, I've certainly wanted to do that in the past & no doubt will do again, thanks for the info RD .

Pokey
That's crazy, $24k on 1 rig! , I guess he's loaded! What's his other rig?

 

[Rattledagger]

Would it be worth it running 2 WUs a time on my old GPUs??

Hmm, I've also got an Ati-5850, but did never get it to work very well crunching. Now I've not tested the seti-v7-application under this card, but atleast with previous application if ran 2 sooner or later one of the tasks seemed to get stuck and just increasing run-time, so I wouldn't recommend it.

I've no experience with Nvidia so won't comment here.

Interesting that I can restrict core usage to particular projects via the app_config, I've certainly wanted to do that in the past & no doubt will do again, thanks for the info RD .

Yes, but remember it does also has it's limitations, atleast unless the latest BOINC-clients has been improved... One limitation is, if you've got "too much" work cached for the limited project, even you've got one or more idle cpu you won't ask any other project for work.

 

[GLeeM]

One limitation is, if you've got "too much" work cached for the limited project, even you've got one or more idle cpu you won't ask any other project for work.

I have had similar happen even though I was not using <max_instances>.

The CPUs were idle because when they updated they would not get WUs, it would say "project is not highest priority"? Even though it was the only project that was "Allow new tasks"?
I gave up and started another project!

 

[Rattledagger]

The CPUs were idle because when they updated they would not get WUs, it would say "project is not highest priority"? Even though it was the only project that was "Allow new tasks"?

This would normally indicate a buggy client, unfortunately where's been a few of these even among the "recommended" versions. Personally I can't remember if I've ever had this message or not, but I've not been keeping-up with new clients so is probably blissfully ignorant of many of the problems...

 

[Assimilator1]

RD
Ah ok, yea that doesn't make it a very good option afterall then .

My 5850 seems to be crunching nicely , about 4.6 faster than my CPU comparing a 100 credit WU (didn't check AR though), & that was at default clocks as I forgot to set it back to its o/c speed of 850 MHz until today! .

3696324349 1574551906 23 Aug 2014, 16:08:32 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 8:24:11 UTC Completed and validated 1,282.95 110.98 84.88 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)
3696291884 1574536347 23 Aug 2014, 15:39:44 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 8:01:42 UTC Completed and validated 1,232.09 107.50 92.39 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)
3696230789 1574506830 23 Aug 2014, 14:47:25 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 7:20:46 UTC Completed and validated 1,326.80 113.18 88.74 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)
3696179932 1574482022 23 Aug 2014, 14:05:19 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 6:44:07 UTC Completed and validated 1,329.72 115.00 98.75 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)
3696094770 1574441875 23 Aug 2014, 12:54:27 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 5:43:49 UTC Completed and validated 1,498.65 123.82 100.39 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)
3696085391 1574437374 23 Aug 2014, 12:46:56 UTC 25 Aug 2014, 5:15:12 UTC Completed and validated 1,250.30 109.97 80.69 SETI@home v7
Anonymous platform (ATI GPU)


From here

Btw, I thought you were joining us in the race?

 

[GLeeM]

I don't think I'll be passing you GLeeM.

GLeeM = 756,856
biodoc = 756,645

 

[petrusbroder]

Due to spamming the registration page for the Wow-event was closed August 22. Some trolls have started to register people at the rate of one/minute, most of them fake accounts. This has generated quite a few problems and thus the registration page was closed. I will try to get a way in - talk to some folks I know @Seti-Germany, but I am not promising anything at all.
This is so sad ...

 

[Assimilator1]

Damn , why the hell would someone do that?? Fake accounts are going to have 0 output surely? Unless they've hijacked machines?

 

[Rattledagger]

Btw, I thought you were joining us in the race?

Yes, I've for many years mostly crunched as Ingleside, except in Folding@home, but I do ocassionally crunch under Rattledagger also but this is for other teams.

 

[Pokey]

Thanks for the stats Petrus , btw I've not heard back from Wiz yet, you heard from Astro?


Pokey
That's crazy, $24k on 1 rig! , I guess he's loaded! What's his other rig?

He also has a Xeon(R) CPU X5482 with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700............

So I guess all you need is one big rig.....

On the other hand there is another close to me who has many, many computers and almost no video cards. There is more than one way to skin a cat........:sneaky:

 

[biodoc]

GLeeM = 756,856
biodoc = 756,645

Well, I ran out of Astropulse GPU WUs today.

I can't imagine how I can keep my lead over you for the next day or 2.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yes, I've for many years mostly crunched as Ingleside, except in Folding@home, but I do ocassionally crunch under Rattledagger also but this is for other teams.

Ah ok so you are already in , I didn't realise you mostly crunched under another name now. I'm curious, why do you do that?

Pokey
Ah ok, an older rig (especially the grx card) but no slouch either.
Odd that the other guy doesn't GPU crunch , or maybe he just doesn't GPU crunch for SETI? I'd look but SETI's down atm for its maintenance.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of August 27, 2014, 04:00 UC:

Pos ___ Name ____________ Points _
01 ____ Pokey ___________ 1,797,507
02 ____ Lane42 __________ 1,355,491
03 ____ petrusbroder ______ 952,794
04 ____ GLeeM _____________ 883,862
05 ____ biodoc ____________ 876,380
06 ____ Joe _______________ 410,096
07 ____ salvorhardin ______ 397,866
08 ____ Ingleside _________ 325,413
09 ____ Orange Kid ________ 199,288
10 ____ [TA]Assimilator1 __ 148,416
11 ____ strider7 ___________ 96,556
12 ____ Quietdad ___________ 74,914
13 ____ minendo ____________ 47,701

Pos ___ Team __________________ Members ____ Points _
01 ____ GPU Users Group __________ 25 ____ 48,052,897
02 ____ SETI.Germany ____________ 132 ____ 26,426,724
03 ____ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 136 ____ 12,848,155
04 ____ ngb:setiteam _____________ 19 ____ 11,972,430
05 ____ L'Alliance Francophone ___ 34 ____ 10,842,502
06 ____ TeAm AnandTech ___________ 13 _____ 7,566,284
07 ____ Crunching@EVGA ___________ 13 _____ 6,829,464
08 ____ Team China _______________ 54 _____ 6,815,518
09 ____ Planet 3DNow! ____________ 21 _____ 5,527,845
10 ____ BOINC.Italy ______________ 27 _____ 6,280,683
11 ____ BOINC@Australia ___________ 9 _____ 5,142,718
12 ____ Nordlichter _______________ 5 _____ 4,520,123
12 ____ Racoon Lovers ____________ 11 _____ 4,135,846

Five of our team members are among the top-100: Pokey, Lane42, petrusbroder, GLeeM and biodoc.
There are 838 crunchers in the race, and 136 teams!
We are doing good. Crunching@EVGA and Team Chine have changed place due to a big production by the Crunchers.

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stats, Peter!

The AP splitter is running again and producing more AP GPU WUs so I'm a happy cruncher. :biggrin:

 

[GLeeM]

The AP splitter is running again and producing more AP GPU WUs so I'm a happy cruncher.

Looks like we "leap-frog" again
Ribbit ... croak ... nee-deep ... kvack (Swedish translation, google 'frog sound kvack')

Thanks for the stats, Petrus :thumbsup: