As part of the Primegrid Challange series there is a challange that starts when the AA completes. The details can b found at the 2010 Challenge Series (http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/challenge.php).
We have been participants in the challanges so far this year just by crunching the projects that are a part of the Challange. I was unaware of the challanges till today. The Team is in 33rd position in the Teams Challange and we have redback, a Team menber in the 68th position of users in the last Challange. He is also in the top 100 overall for the challanges this year. :congrats
So if you are trying to decide what project to run after the AA try Primegrid with just project "TRP Sieve" (The Riesel Problem (Sieve))selected in the PrimeGrid preferences. (http://www.primegrid.com/prefs_edit.php?subset=project&tnow=1275625694&ttok=33375f258d06cf005b9218631d512023) I will be putting some resources if not all my CPU processing to the challange.
It's been a while since I have done any primegrid.. might put some resources behind it.. will look into it.
I'll be in it .
Count me in too.
I have switched the i7 over for the Primegrid challenge as mentioned here by Dingo. I will continue Rosetta to 200k and then switch all machines to Primegrid for the remainder of the challenge period.
I'll try this one to.
I was testing Primegrid last night and it was running around eleven degrees hotter then Rosetta. Like 59 degrees instead of 48 and climbing. >:D
First time my cpu went hotter than my gpu. :shock Good to simulate summer conditions with overclock I guess.
I just hope the water in the cooler won't evaporate and melt the cpu. :wink
I see how it goes, or I'll have to lower the overclock and voltage maybe.
Good luck with the challenge everyone.
"You've missed me, am I too late?"
"No, jump up on the cart."
Joined in last night. Still over 2 days to go. Yeh runs hot alright if I use 8 cores, but it's a nice earner. Currently running in 6 core config for a tasty 8.5k per day.
This Challenge Series seems to be well organised and the participants enjoy it. None of the Challenges conflict with AA times and all remaining ones for this year are 3 days or less except the 13 day Calendula challenge. I'm going to give them all a go if I remember, more credit for me and the team, yay. :jester:
Well done everyone who took part in this challenge. The team finishd in 25th place and we beat L'AF. biggrin
Congrats to redback who finished with the highest total of all the members who took part. :rocks
Yes, well done to all 11 members who took part and to redback who finished in the top 100 thus earning individual Challenge points.
Next Challenge is in about 5 weeks. It is the Full Moon Challenge and is a 24 hour one. Anyone who wishes to participate needs to select Proth Prime Search (LLR) in their PrimeGrid preferences. The correct subproject is marked "Full Moon Challenge".
25 July 18:00 UTC PPSE LLR Full Moon 24 hours
20-22 August 18:00 UTC 321 Sieve Dog Days of Summer 2 days
24 Sept-7 Oct 18:00 UTC PSP LLR Calendula 13 Days
17 November 18:00 UTC SGS LLR Leonids 24 hours
18-21 December 23:38 UTC PPSE Sieve Winter Solstice 3 days
Yes Congrats to all that participated, might have to try them all from now on............
Little reminder for anyone who wishes to participate in the PrimeGrid Full Moon Challenge. This one is only a 24 hour Challenge so will be over before you can say Jack Robinson. ;D
It starts at 25 July 18:00 UTC which is 4 am Monday morning Sydney time, so I will be running PrimeGrid from late Sunday night. If you wish to take part you need to select only Proth Prime Search (LLR) in your PrimeGrid preferences. It is marked as Full Moon Challenge.
Only this subproject is counted in the Challenge.
Only WUs downloaded after the challenge start time will be included, so before I go to bed I will be using the recommended procedure of suspending all other CPU projects and setting both "every" and "Additional work buffer" to 0.00 then clicking OK in BOINC Manager>Advanced>Preferencesb>network usage tab. When I get up on Monday I will increase the cache a little.
Good luck to all Full Moon Challenge crunchers, aarooo!
PrimeGrid Full Moon Challenge (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=2620&nowrap=true#24985).
I have primegrid set to only give the Proth Prime Search (LLR) so I am ready. I will just stop the other projects for a day, I think I will need to do that before I go to bed tomorrow night.
My Dinosaurs are ready to go!
Dennis.
I'm ready too with BOINC Manager already attached to PrimeGrid and Proth Prime Search (LLR) selected in project preferences. Just have to remember to change over to PrimeGrid after the German Grand Prix.
Stats will be available on the PrimeGrid home page (http://www.primegrid.com/) next to the clock within 30 minutes after the start.
BOINCstats (http://boincstats.com/) provides hourly updates of Project Challenges (http://boincstats.com/stats/challenges.php). There you can view user and team credit and ranking trends.
Am ranked 358 so far :hbang:
Have been :compbash: but it won't work faster!
Den.
I was 91st or something in the first half hourly update but am now 202nd. The team is 32nd, not bad considering work fetch issues. :thumbsup:
Work fetch has been sporadic since the start, I think the work units of this type are too short for a Challenge, the servers can't cope.
Aha thought I was going to run out but just got 91 tasks which tops me up to 168, that will keep me going for about 3 hours.
Provisional results of Full Moon Challenge in challenge points:
27 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 22243.63
138 Dingo 5986.32
182 redback 4077.20
209 AgentQ 3467.85
211 kashi 3447.67
265 DidierT 2481.91
353 shoelace 1307.18
357 Dennis Newton 1265.16
578 pperine 180.04
763 Elgyn 21.68
889 Cosmicvandal 4.31
890 Elftron 4.31
Server congestion due to short WUs meant the challenge was compromised for many but 27th was still a good team effort. Well done everyone. :congrats :congrats
The next Dog Days of Summer Challenge has WUs that take about 3 hours on my computer so that should work much better. Higher BOINC credit too on 64-bit, just over 8K per day on 6 cores of my W3520 @ default clock. ;D
Well done those who took part :congrats
Wonder if we would get a better response for the next one if we put out a team email to the members?
Dennis.
Quote from: Dennis on July 28, 2010, 09:44:56 AM
Well done those who took part :congrats
Wonder if we would get a better response for the next one if we put out a team email to the members?
Dennis.
I try and keep the emails to a minimum but I will add the Primegrid Challanges to the next team email for the next AA.
20-22 August 18:00 UTC 321 Sieve Dog Days of Summer 2 days
Started 5 minutes ago.
Am crunching them on my dinosaur, taking around 7 hours each wu, my windows 7 64 bit lappy just crunches them for hours then goes into "computation error" and I get no credits.
Dennis.
I've started a bit late, but I'm in to. :rocks Wu's seems stable on my machine.
Yeh I almost missed the start too. I thought it started tomorrow morning at 4am, not this morning. Only noticed by accident when visiting the PrimeGrid site to check on a long pending Seventeen or Bust task.
I like these short challenges, just a quick little sprint on one project and then back to your current project of choice.
No shortage of work or server trouble like last time. Stable as a rock on my computer and granting about 65 cr/hr. :thumbsup:
Grrr at primegrid, am getting computation errors on my old XP dinosaur now. :furious:
Not going to keep going with the challenge if I am doing hours of crunching then get nothing.
Dennis.
Well done to all 11 Dog Days of Summer entrants. :congrats :congrats
Once again team member redback earned Challenge points by finishing in the top 100 and the team finished in 26th position. :thumbsup:
Congrats to those that participated :congrats
I gave up, they were going into computation error after the WU was finished, got 3 or 4 done though but noticed that I didn't rate a mention in the standings.
Dennis.
That's strange you didn't show in the results, they usually don't make errors.
Are you sure you downloaded the tasks you completed successfully after 18.00 UTC on 20 August (4am on 21 August Sydney time)? Only tasks downloaded after the challenge start time count towards the challenge score.
The next one is the most challenging of all because the Prime Sierpinski Problem (LLR) tasks will take 2-3 days to complete on my computer. :shock