Competition for four sensors

[JugNut]

Good on ya Lawry & thanks very much for trying,  it's truly appreciated.  Your right mate life wasn't meant to be rosie,(easy) but wasn't meant to be bloody impossible either.

A mod finally answered today,  saying that my problem seemed the same as a huge pile of others & that reverting to version 6 of boinc could fix the problem.  The problem with that is going back down to version 6 from version 7 requires special steps & can have many problems.  I remember there's a guide somewhere.  Apart from that i'm pretty sure DistrRTgen, POEM & others now require v7 to be installed for there GPU apps to work at all & I use them all the time.  So its bye bye to Rosie from me too.  The Rossetta forums are full of people with the similar problems that are not very happy.

@D_Worms:  I hope you don't feel as i'm complaining about the competition as i'm most defiantly not.   I have already crunched some Rossetta in the past & was about to crunch some more anyway.   So I would have had the same problem with or without the competition.  So thanks again for the good jesture & if the Boinc gods don't have a sensor for me then i'm totally fine with that.  There's no point in being upset about what fate has in store.  I will crunch Rosie with the PC I have left as thats all I can do.

Good luck to all... Bring on the games

PS If Dingo would like to move all my posts an answers to them to say Rossetta thread that would be cool by me & would leave things open for just comp talk.  It's up to you.

[Dingo]

New link as I am not used to the google cloud docs and needed to make another one:   https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aje5lwZVzoGHdEc4Sm1GSzNiQWt6VS13dnM2TExzTEE

I will leave the thread as it is for reference if in future we wonder why so few took up the offer.  Hard to give things away for free.

[WikiWill]

I'm up and running.  Luckily I don't have any newer machines so I miss out on the fun some of you are having! But I forgot how big the project was - 1.2GB disk space just to set up and get a few WUs    Better check my download quota!!

Really bad luck there JugNut, and its sad to see you won't be crunching in this little comp but at least you did try your best to get it going. I hope the project can get itself sorted out before long.

Dingo, the spreadsheet link works for me.  Although are you missing a column for 2/11? I don't see it.  Sorry to hear about the VM. That is a real hazard with the virtual approach and I have been burnt too, when I mistook disk files for snapshots I didn't want and deleted the whole machine :(  Oh well I learned a lesson or two there  :cry2:

[Cruncher Pete]

OK.  I am not quite happy taking on a new project with a sensor that seems to create a lot of problems.  To star with, I do not understand anything to do with Virtual anything let alone clodes for it might produce unwanted rain.

I will stay in the competition butIi ask, can I give my price away to my choosing if I happen to win one of those prizes?

[Dingo]

WikiWill  - good catch I did it when I was tired.  

Cruncer Pete -    The sensor will work straight out the box on a windows pc.   Just plug the radiation sensor into a usb port and it will start to beep.  Attach to the project and get a work unit.  Change you preferences to stop the beeping on the project.  On the Computer Page that you have attached place the sensor on the Map near where you live, zoom into the map so it is near you.  If you do not put the sensor on the map your credit is cut in half, not that you get much anyway.  There are Badges for this project but will take time to get them. 

[veebee]

Have been a bit distracted with a sick puppy (ALWAYS the top winning ones too..).

Is this opportunity still open ?

I will be happy to steer all I have towards Rosetta if it wil help B@A to continue to be one of the "top teams" in any manner whatsoever...

will await an answer regarding switching my resources over.

[Dingo]

Too late the notice has been on the board since October 25 so Bad luck, sorry but the last day was the 31 Nov for nominations.

[JugNut]

Well it seems my race still has life left in it yet.  Being the competitive type I did some lateral thinking (or maybe I wasn't thinking at all).  I overclocked my unstable rig to record levels.  But instead of bringing to it's knee's like you'd expect it's now more stable, it seems it likes the extra voltage & loose memory timmings a lot.  Sure I could cook an egg on the side panel & the fans are screaming at near 100% levels but it's chewing Rossetta's like there's no tomorrow.   

Add that to the fact that I ended up getting credit for all the failed work units I did on the other PC.   Why?  Well it seems that application error's are classed as well the applications fault & not my PC's so 24hrs later you get the credit you would have got.(a least that's my understanding of it).   So if my luck holds out and my PC doesn't spontaneously combust I may still be in the running.  Who knew boinc could be so exciting?  biggrin

[owner]

Send some of that heat over here JN.

My central heating systems playing up and the temp outside only got to 6.5 degrees today.

Hope your computer all hangs together for the duration Best wishes Mike.

[veebee]

hmmm, maybe against competition rules, but seeing as I can no longer competer "for myself", I wonder would it be kosher to assign my rigs to someone elses accounts for the period of the "race"...?

[Dingo]

OK I forgot to put a post for the stats Yesterday.   The stats for yesterday and today are below.  Tight race on day two between Scott T and Tin Man, Jugnut just slowed down a bit and was pipped at the post with 2941.62.  The overall leader Cruncher Pete is way out in front at this stage.

The daily/overall winners are

Day 1

Cruncher Pete   31681.22
JugNut      5097.64
Scott T      3833.11
Tin Man      1998.38

Day 2

Cruncher Pete   24,900.82
WikiWill      7,922.59
Scott T      3,570.89
Tin Man      3,033.32

Overall Winners after Day 2

Cruncher Pete   56,582.04
WikiWill      9,664.93
Scott T      7,404.00
Tin Man      5,031.70

The spreadsheet is here:   https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aje5lwZVzoGHdEc4Sm1GSzNiQWt6VS13dnM2TExzTEE

[Dingo]

Day 3 stats and there is no change in the daily or combined winners.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aje5lwZVzoGHdEc4Sm1GSzNiQWt6VS13dnM2TExzTEE#gid=0

[Dingo]

Day 4 stats and Jugnut has bumped Tin Man from fourth place in the daily stats but the overall stats are the same as yesterday..

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aje5lwZVzoGHdEc4Sm1GSzNiQWt6VS13dnM2TExzTEE#gid=0

[owner]

Hi Dingo.  I have a question regarding box Q on your spreadsheet.

Should this not show the total of the daily points earned?

At the moment it shows the overall total of points in the project at the end of each day.

Want the final result to be fair and correct after all

Regards Mike.

[Dingo]

It shows the sum of the daily total which is the credits the competitors will generate over the seven days.  So it is adding up D,F,H,J,L,N  and P to arrive at the total in Q.