The SETI.Germany vs. TeAm AnandTech race in Correlizer. The goal has been reached!!!

[bryanW1995]

Today's production and average---these 6 are in the top 9

ZipSpeed.........5,836.....4,720
Rudy Toody......5,776.....5,639
biodoc..............5,623.....4,393
mk...................5,561.....5,331
biodoc.............5,512.....4,252
bryanw1995....5,107.......421

I'm going to try to go borg my IT guy's q9450 today. If I have a key for his office...

 

[Uppsala9496]

Actually I've been getting 1.00 applications only a few hours ago. I've changed my prefs so I don't get them now.

My settings as of yesterday:
BioMedical Genome Correlations: no
Correlizer Applications: yes
Correlizer Beta Applications: no
Correlizer Embedded Applications: no

And in my current queue I have a 1.01. It's about 13 tasks down. I only keep 0.25 days for my queue too. So, they are still sending some out.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I got a whole bunch of 1.07 tasks, but I have to clear out a whole bunch of the 1.00 tasks. Hopefully that'll be done within the next 10 hours

 

[[2W]SEARCHER]

:biggrin: Hallo TeAm AnandTech,
:biggrin: Hello Petrusbroder,

I wish you all a very nice und sunny Sundaymorning. Peter, I hope you and your Team enjoy the Race with us and you like the Up and Down`s by the Output from your and my Team. :biggrin: I hope nobody feel boring by this Race and all like this Fight with us.

Greatings to all [2W]SEARCHER

 

[sangyup81]

Hello! I've certainly become a better cruncher because of this contest =)

 

[petrusbroder]

:biggrin: Hallo TeAm AnandTech,
:biggrin: Hello Petrusbroder,

I wish you all a very nice und sunny Sundaymorning. Peter, I hope you and your Team enjoy the Race with us and you like the Up and Down`s by the Output from your and my Team. :biggrin: I hope nobody feel boring by this Race and all like this Fight with us.

Greatings to all [2W]SEARCHER

Good Sunday morning to you too, [2W]SEARCHER!
Life is good, I am not bored with the race and I don't think my TeAm-mates are either. We are still increasing production somewhat ... and are more encouraged by the ups and more stimulated by the downs.
The weather is just perfect for crunching (in northern Seden): +2-3ºC, mild winds (which just now blow exactly right for maximal cooling in the computer room). I have been able ti increase the OC for almost all computers ... ()

 

[petrusbroder]

Approximately halv-way racing stats: data from BOINCstats.

Datum ______ Production _________ Production ________ Difference
___________ SETI.Germany ______ TeAm AnandTech _______ SG - TaAm
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Oct 29 _______ 71 688 ____________ 129 941 ____________ -58 253 _ One day before start
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Oct 30 ______ 128 581 ____________ 146 155 ____________ -17 574 _ Race started
oct 31 ______ 150 505 ____________ 138 173 ____________ +12 332
Nov 01 ______ 149 020 ____________ 137 137 ____________ +11 883
Nov 02 ______ 182 147 ____________ 155 870 ____________ +26 277
Nov 02 ______ 171 203 ____________ 155 297 ____________ +15 906
Nov 04 ______ 182 213 ____________ 192 245 ____________ -10 032
Nov 05 _______ 85 955 _____________ 89 195 _____________ -3 240
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Production: 1 049 624 __________ 1 014 072 ____________ +35 552


Standing just now: (From Correlizer-stats):

_ Team ___________ Credits _________ RAC __
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SETI.Germany _____ 5 209 195 _____ 102 773
TeAm Anandtech ___ 4 655 276 _____ 122 383
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Difference: ________ 553 919 _____ -19 610


Catch up: 35 days (according to BOINCstats)

 

[petrusbroder]

Comments to the stats:

1. More than 2 Million points crunched, the difference in production is only 35 552 credits, that is approx 1.7% ... really close.
2. The TeAm is not getting closer to the goal - to pass SETI.Germany - please increase production! We have approx. 5 more days to race.
3. SET.Germany successfully defends their pole-position. Well done! ;o
4. A prediction how things will turn out? Very hard to predict just now. It seems however, that TeAm AnadTech has to increase production by at least 100K to catch up within the raceing period. Is that possible? I don't really know, but I have seen minor miracles happen ...
5. I don't know about you, but at least I have a lot of fun of tweeking the most out of the crunchers and encouraging ther participants in this race.

Please remember the priorities:
1. Have fun!
2. Crunch your very best.
3. Have fun.
4. Recruit your best.
5. Have fun.

So: Asslaminate, borgh, borrow, get permissions for borghing and asslaminating, persuade your friends, make peace with your adverseries (to get access to their computers), install new software (and get paid in credits), etc, etc, But above all:

Have Fun!

 

[sangyup81]

Let's not forget we were ranked #4 not too long ago and quickly blew past #3 and #2 =)

 

[Uppsala9496]

It's been a good race so far. With a bit over a week to go, I'm not sure we will be able to catch up, but who knows.
My daily average keeps creeping up a bit each day. I'm curious to see what it is at on the 18th. If it ever gets a bit cooler outside I can bump up my overclocks more.

 

[WildW]

Just added a single-cored Athlon 64 to the cause because my bedroom is cold I have a Pentium 4 machine I can drag out if I get desperate.

 

[petrusbroder]

Just added a single-cored Athlon 64 to the cause because my bedroom is cold I have a Pentium 4 machine I can drag out if I get desperate.

:whiste: Would you please do me the favour of getting desperate? ()

Seriously: all WUs crunched are very important. Thanks for pitching in!

 

[VirtualLarry]

switched my laptop from PrimeGrid to Correlizer.
Still undecided on my HTPC. It gets hot, and then the fans get noisy. I'm not currently running any DC on that, even though it runs 24/7 and handles my MagicJack.

I wish that we could use GPUs.

 

[ZipSpeed]

TeAm AnandTech

RAC = 132,068

Total Credit = 4,918,786

SETI.Germany

RAC = 115,653

Total Credit = 5,482,824

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SG has a 564k lead in total credit. At one time, we were holding steady at about 535k difference. Either people on our team are stepping/slowing down or SG is adding more CPU threads because that lead SG has been growing daily since late last week.

Safe to say that unless we recruit and/or add more CPUs, we'll be sitting at a firm 2nd place.

 

[waffleironhead]

yesterday we output 201,265
seti.germany 210,842

 

[sangyup81]

TeAm AnandTech

RAC = 132,068

Total Credit = 4,918,786

SETI.Germany

RAC = 115,653

Total Credit = 5,482,824

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SG has a 564k lead in total credit. At one time, we were holding steady at about 535k difference. Either people on our team are stepping/slowing down or SG is adding more CPU threads because that lead SG has been growing daily since late last week.

Safe to say that unless we recruit and/or add more CPUs, we'll be sitting at a firm 2nd place.

I think it's more SG stepping it up. Our RAC is really high compared to before

 

[ZipSpeed]

I think it's more SG stepping it up. Our RAC is really high compared to before

You're probably right. Unfortunately.

I have another new rig to add in the near future. Just waiting on a motherboard to be shipped from Newegg. It's a Phenom II 720 BE with the potential to unlock the 4th core. Hoping to get an overclock around the 3.4 GHz range.

 

[sangyup81]

You're probably right. Unfortunately.

I have another new rig to add in the near future. Just waiting on a motherboard to be shipped from Newegg. It's a Phenom II 720 BE with the potential to unlock the 4th core. Hoping to get an overclock around the 3.4 GHz range.

Is the 3.4 GHz because of the stock cooler? My x2 560 unlocked and overclocked warms up the entire second floor of my house haha

 

[ZipSpeed]

I have an aftermarket cooler ready. Got a cheap Corsair A50 for $20 last month. 3.4 GHz is the minimum I'm hoping to squeeze out that chip. Bonus if I can get more out of it!

The 720 BE is an interesting build I'm working on. The goal of this build is to build it as cheap as possible. It's taken about 4 months to collect all the parts I need but I finally got the last part (mobo) last night.

 

[Uppsala9496]

I have been tweaking all 3 of my multicore rigs to get the most out of them.
My X2 555 BE with all four cores unlocked is only at 3.4ghz. A little disappointed in the speed. Oh, and the hyper 212+ cooling it has a slight wobble/vibration. Everything is tightened correctly. No issues with the same cooler on my X6. Ordered a second fan to see if it balances out the wobble because right now I'm giving it another day before I shut it down and do a complete teardown to figure out the cause.

 

[geecee]

I added a 1035T-based box to the correlizer mix this weekend, as I picked up the cpu last week during newegg's sale. It was basically a drop-in cpu upgrade for an old X2 cpu, and in fact, it's using the X2's stock AMD cooler (my budget for a crunching is not very big I'm afraid). I'm not much of an OC-er, but I decided to give it a shot - I bumped the FSB to 240, and set the NB/HT multipliers down to 8, and ran the cpu at a modest 3.1ghz. It seemed to run stably, and I stressed it for about 1-2 hours. When everything seemed ok, I decided to stress it and do work at the same time, so I installed BOINC and let it run correlizer. It was going fine for about 3-4 hours, and coretemp and speedfan both showed the core temp to only be around low-mid 40s C. I went out to do some yard work, came back, and the box was just hung. Not sure what happened, but I restarted with the same settings and it booted into Windows fine, and temps all showed only mid 30's idle. Not wanting to take a chance, I backed the machine down to where it is now, just shy of 2.9ghz (220mhz FSB), and its been running correlizer overnight and today without issue. Without a better cooler, I don't think I can get it much past where it currently is. Anyone have any ideas? I'm guessing I would have to shell out for an aftermarket cooler to get it to reliably OC more?

 

[sangyup81]

I have been tweaking all 3 of my multicore rigs to get the most out of them.
My X2 555 BE with all four cores unlocked is only at 3.4ghz. A little disappointed in the speed. Oh, and the hyper 212+ cooling it has a slight wobble/vibration. Everything is tightened correctly. No issues with the same cooler on my X6. Ordered a second fan to see if it balances out the wobble because right now I'm giving it another day before I shut it down and do a complete teardown to figure out the cause.

I'm getting over 3.9 with an x2 560 unlocked to 4 cores. How much voltage are you pumping in? My voltage is 1.52v under load without LLC. I think the bios setting is 1.625v but I've never seen it over 1.6v even idle or in the BIOS HW monitor.

P.S. I do 48 hours Prime 95 blend as my stability check and use a Corsair H50. Temps hit 60 C at the worst of times but these days is at 56C

 

[RobertE]

Considering the difference in team size, we are doing one hell of a good job giving them a run for their money. Keep the pressure up.

 

[wayliff]

I've joined the SETI.USA forum to see if I can recruit someone from there ... at least for the race. The worst they can say is no.

I am on hold for some time until I can post...hopefully soon.

Edit: I sent a PM to "Cruncher Peter" over @ SETI.USA. We'll see what happens.
Edit2: My pm generated a thread in SETI.USA. (http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php?2416-Correlizer-Challange)

 

[ZipSpeed]

I added a 1035T-based box to the correlizer mix this weekend, as I picked up the cpu last week during newegg's sale. It was basically a drop-in cpu upgrade for an old X2 cpu, and in fact, it's using the X2's stock AMD cooler (my budget for a crunching is not very big I'm afraid). I'm not much of an OC-er, but I decided to give it a shot - I bumped the FSB to 240, and set the NB/HT multipliers down to 8, and ran the cpu at a modest 3.1ghz. It seemed to run stably, and I stressed it for about 1-2 hours. When everything seemed ok, I decided to stress it and do work at the same time, so I installed BOINC and let it run correlizer. It was going fine for about 3-4 hours, and coretemp and speedfan both showed the core temp to only be around low-mid 40s C. I went out to do some yard work, came back, and the box was just hung. Not sure what happened, but I restarted with the same settings and it booted into Windows fine, and temps all showed only mid 30's idle. Not wanting to take a chance, I backed the machine down to where it is now, just shy of 2.9ghz (220mhz FSB), and its been running correlizer overnight and today without issue. Without a better cooler, I don't think I can get it much past where it currently is. Anyone have any ideas? I'm guessing I would have to shell out for an aftermarket cooler to get it to reliably OC more?

I find that Phenom II CPUs don't have accurate temperature readings with CoreTemp or any temperature monitoring software. From what I've read and personal experience, I would add about 10C to what your reading in CoreTemp.

Unfortunately, the stock heatsinks for the most part are junk if you're serious about overclocking. I'm not 100% sure but I think the X6 HSF are bit beefier than the X2 or X4 HSF. If so, cooling a 6 core CPU with a HSF designed for lesser CPUs might be an issue. I would keep an eye out for a sale for a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ or Corsair A50 for $20. What kind of voltages are you applying? May need a slight increase to the CPU and chipset. As a reference, at 3.5 GHz, my X6 needs 1.425V for the Vcore and 1.25 for the chipset.