SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2014

[petrusbroder]

 

[Assimilator1]

And if I'm not mistaken we opened up our lead on China by over 200k!

Thx for the stats Petrus
I'm just not catching OK! In fact I think he's opened up the gap on me?

quietdad
Think you've got enough to pass me?

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of August 28, 2014, 04:00 UC:

Pos ___ Name ____________ Points _
01 ____ Pokey ___________ 1,969,702
02 ____ Lane42 __________ 1,451,001
03 ____ petrusbroder ____ 1,047,023
04 ____ biodoc ____________ 966,744
05 ____ GLeeM _____________ 964,112
06 ____ Joe _______________ 457,413
07 ____ salvorhardin ______ 432,350
08 ____ Ingleside _________ 354,836
09 ____ Orange Kid ________ 219,425
10 ____ [TA]Assimilator1 __ 167,680
11 ____ strider7 __________ 107,092
12 ____ Quietdad ___________ 79,061
13 ____ minendo ____________ 53,436

Pos ___ Team __________________ Members ____ Points _
01 ____ GPU Users Group __________ 25 ____ 51,966,450
02 ____ SETI.Germany ____________ 132 ____ 28,771,266
03 ____ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 136 ____ 14,005,251
04 ____ ngb:setiteam _____________ 19 ____ 13,120,784
05 ____ L'Alliance Francophone ___ 34 ____ 11,840,088
06 ____ TeAm AnandTech ___________ 13 _____ 8,269,875
07 ____ Crunching@EVGA ___________ 13 _____ 7,562,106
08 ____ Team China _______________ 54 _____ 7,400,801
09 ____ BOINC.Italy ______________ 27 _____ 6,907,915
10 ____ Planet 3DNow! ____________ 21 _____ 5,931,221
11 ____ BOINC@Australia ___________ 9 _____ 5,653,730
12 ____ Nordlichter _______________ 5 _____ 4,964,266
12 ____ Racoon Lovers ____________ 11 _____ 4,469,530

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. I do not think that we will lose our position - but there is the possibility of one big dump from someone ...

 

[lane42]

Thanks for the stats Petrus

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stats, Peter.

GLeeM and I have a very close race going. We've "leaped-frogged" about 14 times by my count!

 

[Pokey]

Observations:

Looks like our positions are pretty stable now near the end, so I am setting no new work and backing off.

The Pisces group, which includes Joe and I, is dead last………….. as much due to our small size as anything.

Our TeAm Anandtech held it’s own. The team is in 6th place which is very good. Our points (credit) per user is actually excellent. We just had a small team.

The challenge drew a huge crowd this year and some huge teams……………..

As always, it has been a pleasure searching for ET with all of you. And thanks Peter for all you do.

 

[Assimilator1]

Weird I swore I posted yesterday ...........

An interesting mix of teams have joined in .

OK is definitely pulling away from me, now 52k ahead.
My star group is 4th , just down to luck really! Oh & by coincidence the number of people match my birth year .

Thanks for all the stats Petrus, & it's been fun hunting ET with you guys again .
I shall keep crunching at full tilt until my RAC peaks (I'm curious) & then I shall switch my main rig back to, err something!

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats as of August 29, 2014, 16:00 UC:

Pos ___ Name ____________ Points ____ % of team total
01 ____ Pokey ___________ 2,206,667 _____ 23,69%
02 ____ Lane42 __________ 1,617,743 _____ 17,37%
03 ____ petrusbroder ____ 1,168,711 _____ 12,55%
04 ____ biodoc __________ 1,101,609 _____ 11,83%
05 ____ GLeeM ___________ 1,092,951 _____ 11,73%
06 ____ Joe _______________ 520,936 ______ 5,59%
07 ____ salvorhardin ______ 495,475 ______ 5,32%
08 ____ Ingleside _________ 403,243 ______ 4,33%
09 ____ Orange Kid ________ 249,410 ______ 2,68%
10 ____ [TA]Assimilator1 __ 192,612 ______ 2,07%
11 ____ strider7 __________ 119,711 ______ 1,29%
12 ____ Quietdad ___________ 86,591 ______ 0,93%
13 ____ minendo ____________ 58,222 ______ 0,63%

Five of our team members are among the top-100: Pokey, Lane42, petrusbroder, GLeeM and biodoc.

Pos ___ Team __________________ Members ____ Points ___ points/cruncher __ diff to above team
01 ____ GPU Users Group __________ 25 ____ 58,033,439 ___ 2,321,337.56
02 ____ SETI.Germany ____________ 132 ____ 32,000,676 _____ 242,429.37
03 ____ The Knights Who Say Ni! _ 136 ____ 15,672,047 _____ 115,235.64
04 ____ ngb:setiteam _____________ 19 ____ 14,798,740 _____ 778,881.05
05 ____ L'Alliance Francophone ___ 34 ____ 13,031,329 _____ 383,274.38
06 ____ TeAm AnandTech ___________ 13 _____ 9,313,881 _____ 716,452.38
07 ____ Crunching@EVGA ___________ 13 _____ 8,656,632 _____ 665,894.77 ____-657,249 points
08 ____ Team China _______________ 54 _____ 8,177,388 _____ 151,433.11
09 ____ BOINC.Italy ______________ 27 _____ 7,832,730 _____ 290,101.11
10 ____ Planet 3DNow! ____________ 21 _____ 6,512,246 _____ 310,106.95
11 ____ BOINC@Australia ___________ 9 _____ 6,440,917 _____ 715,657.44
12 ____ Nordlichter _______________ 5 _____ 5,687,887 ___ 1,137,577.40
12 ____ Racoon Lovers ____________ 11 _____ 5,084,837 _____ 462,257.91

Team production ____ % increase ___ # of crunchers ___ position __
2012: ___ 4,445,318 _____ 0.00% _____ 8 crunchers ____ 5 of 24
2013: ___ 4,646,554 _____ 4.52% ____ 13 crunchers ____ 7 of 120
2014: ___ 8,269,875 ____ 86.04% ____ 13 crunchers ____ 6 of 186

We did very well this year!

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Petrus

Good job TeAm!

I recommend grabbing some of the short (by accident?) Asteroids WUs :thumbsup:

 

[Terminator_1]

SETI.Germany congratulates Team Anand Tech to 6th place in the SETI@Home Wow! -Event 2014.Thanks to all Members from your Team who joined in the Event.

Congratulations to all the winners:

http://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/sieger.php?&lang=en

A special Thanks for the valuable assistance
with the promotion of the 3rd Wow! event 2014 goes to petrusbroder.

http://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/orga.php?&lang=en

We would be delighted if you would join in 2015 and again

Many Greetings: Terminator

 

[Orange Kid]

Fun little race. Thanks.
Assimilator1---maybe next year

F@H in December?

 

[biodoc]

F@H in December sounds good to me. :thumbsup:

Great race all.

Sorry about the last minute pass GLeeM.

 

[Rattledagger]

A very smooth race, probably my first SETI-race without any server-problems at all.

Thanks to petrusbroder for the stats. :beer:

Also a thanks to SETI.Germany for organising the yearly WOW-event.



As for Folding@home, my initial response is D:

 

[Assimilator1]

What's wrong with F@H??


Thx for the stats Petrus , we punched way above our weight!

And yea I'll be up for the F@H race , looks like I won't be sticking to any 1 project this year!

OK
Maybe I will of upgraded by next year?

 

[Rattledagger]

What's wrong with F@H??

As this SETI@home race showed, the things you need to do to run SETI@home is:
1: Configure BOINC and let it run, also includes installing optimized SETI@home-applications if so desires.
2: Where aren't a point-2.

As a comparison, for Folding@home you have:
1: Configure FAH-client.
2: Pre-run 10 wu's with your passkey before gets ok points. (already done previous years)
3: Baby-sit client, in case has got permanently stuck during connection, something FAH-client can't handle on it's own.
4: If uses GPU, baby-sit client, remember to pause GPU before you uses computer, and remember to unpause GPU again after you've used computer. ==> very easily this leads to crashed wu since you forgot to pause GPU, and idle GPU since you forgot to unpause GPU.
5: Even if did remember to pause GPU and resume it again, it's a random chance the wu still craps-out.
6: Even if you're only using CPU, if you're using the computer for anything except crunching FAH (and dust-bunnies), the wu either gets stuck while you're using computer or you'll need to leave atleast one core free at all times. ==> idle cpu.
7: FUBAR point-system.
8: If you're unlucky enough to use an Nvidia, you needs to fool-around with various settings to hopefully get core-17 work and not core-15, since even core-15 was EOL last year it's still active and gives crappy points.
9: Frequent server-outages.
10: Toxic "support"-forums, if is unlucky enough and needs to ask about something.
11: FAH has more than once sent invalid work to computers, example sends NVIDIA-work to Amd-GPU. ==> Leads to permamently stuck client, since client can't handle the fact where aren't a core-15 downloadable from the Amd-directory.

After a very smooth and error-free SETI@home-race, thinking about needing to baby-sit the FAH-client isn't my top priority, wherefore my initial response about FAH.

While FAH does have many problems, colder weather and me cooling-off, and forgetting about how smooth the SETI@home-race really was, I won't rule-out come December I'll take part in this years FAH-race also.

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL!
Yes, there is a big difference between a BOINC-race with a solid project (Seti@home, PrimeGrid and a few others) and the annual Holiday Season F@H Race.
But there will be a F@H-Race coming December - because it does so much good for the TeAm - the past years we hace produced som 10 - 12% of the yearly production in December ...
And it is also a lot of fun.

 

[yodap]

Great job guys and gals! Congratz:thumbsup:

 

[Assimilator1]

Yea F@H is more complicated, but I've never, or at least so rare I don't remember having point 3, I just set & forget.
4. Not done GPU crunching since the early days of my old HD 4830 , & realised it was a bit of a waste on an ATI/AMD card (still is bar the 7900s??).
6. Interesting point, I never had a problem on Win XP, but as soon as I moved to Win 7 I noticed it caused pausing & stuttering in games , no probs with surfing or watching vids though, AFAIR (not run it since February).
9. Don't remember that, recent problem?
10. Only rarely used their forum but don't recall a problem *shrug*
11. Damn!

Out of interest, does anyone know when the 1st December F@H TA race was?

 

[petrusbroder]

Yes, I know, as I did the stats ...
December 1, 2005 - January 1, 2006. In the table below are the links to all the 8 races!

Race ________ posts ____ reads
1st Race _____ 517 _____ 3 542
2nd race ___ 1 098 ____ 10 038
3rd race _____ 570 ____ 10 239
4th race _____ 415 ____ 20 713
5th race _____ 721 ____ 64 169
6th race _____ 486 ____ 41 303
7th race _____ 308 ____ 22 167
8th race _____ 401 ____ 16 959
Total: _____ 4 516 ___ 189 140

I think I am the proverbial stats' junkie ...

 

[Assimilator1]

Lol, wow the 5th race had a lot of views!

Been going for longer than I thought!

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks Peter

It was great to see all the old names in the 1st Race thread, sure miss Sid

 

[Pokey]

Good times..............
Unfortunately participation has been declining. :|
Hope we can make it to ten years...........