Hi all,

Just to remind everyone that there is a Primegrid challenge beginning on April 29th that will last for 48 hours. See the following post:

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.p ... true#14975


Team Canada came in 26th for the first challenge of the year and 18th for the second challenge...our current overall position is 22th!

http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/challenge.php#team

For those of you concerned about the hot CPUs during the last challenge, it's worth noting that this challenge consists of "seiving" tasks rather than the "LLR" tasks in the previous challenge--the former being less intensive on the CPU (I have no problems running them on my old and poorly cooled laptop). Also, if you have a 64-bit computer (and OS) there is a HUGE advantage in processing speed for these tasks (unlike the LLR tasks). It's nearly twice as fast.

Neway, let's see if we can't crack the top 10 for this challenge, go Canada!

Cheers!
Alan

I confirm ! Vey huge different on 64-bit !
With my laptop T9400 2.53Ghz (Gentoo 64b), I produce 1100pts/d on rosetta but 3200pts with this kind of WU !!

I'm in, actually, I crunch these already right now, waiting for the challenge and then for the POTM

dudumomo - wow, nice! I wish my laptop had that kind of production...

You bring up another good point though, these WUs have a very high credit to time ratio. Extra incentive for the challenge:)

Glad to see ya back LePandaRoux!

I'll throw a few cycles that way this time around...

So far I'm the only member of Team Canada with any points and I'm way down at #233! The contest is on (only an hour old) so start uploading your finished work!

I'm actually between Lunarcom (2827) and user312 (2655) with my 2741 points.

Alan is way ahead with 4826 points.

Stuck between Lunarcom and user312, this could mean this day is the best of my life!!! Well... you know what I mean
Either my cpu has become awesome or these two beasts don't put that many of their farm on the challenge :p I wonder which explanation it could be!

Canada is actually 25th.... this could be fun to go higher than this in the rankings... There's still more than one day remaining to the challenge, it's still time to put a little work on this to help the team.
PrimeGrid is good credits too, if you care about the numbers you won't regret it at all.




I just got Eric and his quad into the challenge for the balance of the time. He wasn't a PrimeGrid user yet, but I convinced him anyway

For some reason (probably my sub-par internet connection), I had a ton of WUs that just built up and didn't upload until I forced an update...I will have to be mindful of this toward the end of the challenge!

We are still hanging on to that #25 spot, but we are closing in on #24! Keep up the good work guys and gals!

Cheers!
Alan

You're ahead of both of us now! I've only got my quad on board and had a little trouble at start up. Can't say what's up with Lunarcom - likely he's running all sub-projects and not only the Prime Sierpinski Project (Sieve) project that gets credit for the race (I know I started out that way!). I can't think of any other way to explain how he's only getting ~3000 credits in the race when his RAC is over 60,000+!

Yes, I think Lunarcom runs all project as well. Maybe he's not aware of the challenge. He should try to dry up the project queued jobs. I wonder if he has this in mind when he decides to crunch on a particular project Maybe he could do some 'damage' to smaller projects on BOINC.

Eric should be a good addition; his quad does twice the work I do with my 3 duals... Anyway, it's just fun to be part of it.



Not quite user312! You came up strong and are ahead of me forever now. Well, under you in the rankings is where I belong anyway The team's pushing to the 24th place. Good job.

My crunching power is vastly dimished these days - I'm basically down to my main quad and a dozen or so 4-5 year old boxes that are only on part time. As such, my RACs not much higher than yours - just upgrade one of your boxes to a quad and you'll likely kill me in RAC!

FYI - Teams now in 23rd place and closing in on ESL!

Damn...I have only 2855 pts !
Quickly Dual !!!

22nd place and rising... we might be able to catch SETI.USA at this rate!

Next two spots are 15K ahead, it's a big step... Maybe Lunarcom will hit the "Update project" button and we'll have a 20K-credit jump

The good thing is we gained 3 places and are pretty comfortable with a 16K-credit lead on the 23rd.

Alan you have a nice farm crunching for you, did you build that at home or is it spread over people you know? (not sure spread over is the good way to say what I'm trying to say, but I'm sure you get the point )

Only a few hours left - time to update the project to get those results in!

Yeah, the next two higher places used to be much closer, but now they've seemed to to get some separation on us. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a last minute push from Lunarcom:)

As for the farm, only two of the computers are actually owned by me (neither of them are very powerful, unfortunately). The others are computers that I use where I work and I've managed to convince my supervisor to allow me to load BOINC on them. I'll soon be adding a c-i7 that I've been saving for...I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of damage I can do with 8 cores overclocked to 3.4 GHz!

Half an hour left - get those wus reported!

Results are in. All in all a good effort, but we'll definitely need more crunchers to make it much higher as the next team above us beat us by almost 20,000 credits!

On with the rankings:

Team Canada placed 22nd overall with 85698.47 credits.

Team Member rankings as follows:

Lunarcom 74th with 31240.96 credits
Alan 114th with 19618.41 credits
User312 211th with 10251.83 credits
LePandaRoux 229th with 9366.57 credits
Menipe 270th with 6939.26 credits
Jeff 394th with 3055.56 credits
Eric 408th with 2827.1 credits
Dark Cell 767th with 713.91 credits
Gene Moreau 916th with 485.46 credits
Bren 970th with 428.34 credits
Proact2k 1330th with 171.33 credits
Devon 1378th with 171.33 credits
Dlindber 1436th with 142.78 credits
Andrew 1491st with 114.22 credits
Suntang 1690th with 85.66 credits
Sean 1728th with 57.11 credits
Adam 2027th with 28.55 credits


Great work everyone!

user312 - thank you for tabulating of all our stats! I'm not sure those are the final numbers though. I think the results page was not updating correctly or something because my amount was around the 19000 mark this morning and it hasn't changed much since. Maybe this is just wishful thinking though:)

NEway, 22nd is still pretty darn good...way to go everyone!

No problem. You're right - stats weren't completely up to date ! I waited a couple of hours past end time to make sure the validator had a chance to catch up, but I guess I didn't wait quite long enough. Regardless, the results aren't too far off from what I posted.

Team result has been upped to 86069.71 (up 370), but ranking stays put at 22nd. Looking through the top couple the only ones who seemed to have slightly higher stats are you and Menipe (although Menipe is the only one to have gone up in rank from #270 to #265).

Regardless, a good effort from all those who took part!

Always fun to run PrimeGrid especially in these challenge!

Time to crunch POTM for a while now!

Good work all participants!