Formula-BOINC 2017

My strategy is to be #1 in all the projects. HAHA

TN-Grid is a good one though. We'll gain 7 points over taking them and they'll lose 7 points after we do so we will close a 14 point gap.

With SETI if I can get us to 3rd place quickly then I can subtract 14 points on that gap or 1st place subtract 24 points to the gap.

The winner of the FB IMHO is whoever can dominate the sprints. Their are 20 sprints for a total of 500 possible points that are permanent once the sprint is over and you're in 1st in them all. Their are 42 Marathon projects that total 1050 points if you get 1st in them all. Sprints can count for 1/3 of your score.

I'm gonna just play around on the marathons we're under 5th place until a sprint is announced then I'll switch over to them for 3 days.
 
I like your spirit and determination. Go for it!

Save some for next year when we are in league xxx.
 
That is why I was suggesting holding off on SETI until he was looking for another GPU project. But that is up to him.
 
Fastgeek is firing up on 12 cylinders in POGs Skynet marathon. We were at no. 5 spot three days ago and now we are at 2nd and will overtake the top team in about a day.

Comparison of the top 4 teams can be found here.

I guess it is good to build a sizable buffer between us and the 2nd team.
 

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pututu said:
Fastgeek is firing up on 12 cylinders in POGs Skynet marathon. We were at no. 5 spot three days ago and now we are at 2nd and will overtake the top team in about a day.

Comparison of the top 4 teams can be found here.

I guess it is good to build a sizable buffer between us and the 2nd team.
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I didnt know about this so I am switching over to help as well.
 
The next sprint should be announced in ~2 days. So, don't get too settled on POGS just yet.
 
Is Quake Catcher Network still active? I've been running it for a few days now and nothing. Their WU's seem to take forever to complete. No "time left" listing, but it's been running for over 2 days now and they're sitting around 3 - 4% completed. What gives?
 
Are you running it on your PC? If so, you should disconnect. It requires a special detector. And any PC running without that detector essentially is just running a dummy file that can display the screensaver essentially. If you were running it on an HP laptop (with the 3d HDD software), IBM/Lenovo laptop, Macbook, or an Android tablet/Phone with a version older than 5, then you could use the accelerometers in them (which the work units detect). And they don't credit the same as other projects since they validate different. So, they must run a script every week or two to grant credit. And the project is no longer funded at all and no further development will happen unless someone just takes interest. Basically it will run on autopilot until someone decides to quit wasting the power. Since it is NCI, I still run it on capable devices until it does shut down.
 
Oh. Well that makes sense. The oldest Android phone I have is a Galaxy S5. If I were to pick up some older Android phones could I still use QCN on them and accumulate points?
 
Skillz, take a look at my hosts list at QCN.. http://quakecatcher.net/sensor/hosts_user.php?userid=19624

Keep in mind that you can get brand new prepaid cell phones as cheap as $10 on a pretty regular basis. However most of them are now starting to utilize Android 5+. The last ones I picked up were quad cores with v.5. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy gear for that project specifically. It can go down any day without notice since nobody is really doing anything with it anymore. We will be lucky if anyone actually ever uses the data from it. And even Pre v5 sometimes doesn't work.
 
I've "turned my gaze" onto another project in hopes of picking up another decent pile of points. It's actually the first project I ever crunched on in BOINC. We'll see what happens. :)
 
Just 1 point behind the leaders now. My prediction is that we may take pole position upon the next Moo! update;)
 
I jumped over to Enigma and helped pull the team up from somewhere around 8th-10th up to 4th. Think I'll leave the systems there for another day or so to help secure our spot. Will switch to the Sprint, provided that project is a good one for CPUs that is. Guess we'll find out in ~15 minutes. :)
 
Seems to be CPU only.

Seeing a setting saying use at most 16 CPUs on multiple CPU rigs. Should I change this to 64?

Gilthanis
 
There is an adjustment in the settings for length of task based. A number of hours. Not sure how well it works. All mine came in at 8 hours ETA.
 
Priller said:
I thought that meant CPUs not cores?

Mine is showing 6 hours 3 min.
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Pretty sure BOINC sees each core as a CPU. Hence why on multiple CPU systems it doesn't say "2" CPUs when listing your hosts, but adds up all the total cores in the system and counts those as total number of processors.
 
Skillz said:
Pretty sure BOINC sees each core as a CPU. Hence why on multiple CPU systems it doesn't say "2" CPUs when listing your hosts, but adds up all the total cores in the system and counts those as total number of processors.
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With LHC if I set Max # CPUs to 4 then each task would use 4 cores.

With Rosetta, Am I setting the project to use all cores or each task use X amount of cores?
 
Well my 48 core box currently has 11 tasks. CPU load is showing 10.69 meaning 11 cores running ~100%. Pretty sure each task only uses one CPU.
 
And those settings are only needed changed if you are using global settings rather than local settings which most people tend to use.
 
Rosetta, eh? That was one of my "Did my million, I'm outta here" projects. :p So are we going to fight for the gold on this or not?
 
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