1 Billion Points Challenge

[fastgeek]

Remind me which site it is that tracks all of the BOINC projects? I recognize the chart in post #9; but am so rusty I can't recall where it is.
(but according to signature generating site, I've not cracked 1B combined. Weak!)

 

[wareyore]

Remind me which site it is that tracks all of the BOINC projects? I recognize the chart in post #9; but am so rusty I can't recall where it is.
(but according to signature generating site, I've not cracked 1B combined. Weak!)

Free-DC, I believe is what you are looking for.

List of projects:

Time to get crunching!

 

[pututu]

Remind me which site it is that tracks all of the BOINC projects? I recognize the chart in post #9; but am so rusty I can't recall where it is.
(but according to signature generating site, I've not cracked 1B combined. Weak!)

If you are referring to number of projects hitting xxx credit milestone, see here for your stat: https://stats.free-dc.org/userbycpid/dd680a69e802b3f2b6af7c1e851a66d3

I don't have any project with 1B but I do have 9 projects over 100M.

Here is a list of active BOINC projects https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
Generally the number of good BOINC projects are getting less over time but there are a few that are still going strong after so many years like primegrid, einstein, moowrap, NFS, etc. WCG is still struggling after the migration from IBM to Krembil.

 

[pututu]

Wonder why it took so long to get my FIRST 1B project (GPUgrid)

Didn't run collatz back then but kind of glad that I didn't since the algorithm used was questionable.

 

[wareyore]

GPU Grid is #2 BOINC for me.

 

[pututu]

Einstein is my #2 1B project. Took me almost 9 years and 3 months to reach 1B points. It's a worthy and well managed project.

Looking to be #2 in the team, maybe chase after Holdolin

 

[danwat1234]

1.4 billion BOINC points achieved for World Community Grid and 1.3 billion for Einstein. All CPU no GPU. It has taken a lot of doordash and Uber Eats deliveries to pay for these SFF computers and monthly electricity cost.
Majority are sky Lake based and individually undervolted optimally. Lean Windows 10 21H1 no Windows updates (disabled & defender) to mess them up.

AM4 CPUs are not ideal. I discovered Zen 3 is inferior to Skylake in compute efficiency for code that doesn't have lots of Instruction level parallelism (ILP) I guess.
AM6 is planned upgrade.

Edit! pututu has demonstrated to me Zen 2 can be nearly twice the efficiency of tuned Skylake for these workloads.


https://www.boincstats.com/stats/-1/user/detail/23193/overview

https://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userbycpid&cpid=33c55b16c9b0fcc5446bc4e21803fec4

I have a setup guide within this playlist youtube dot com/playlist?list=PLOvucQtyZA1-g2sgcCYPgVNRyOX0INXz8&si=E7hkYOEy6XRSIiKz


View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOvucQtyZA1-g2sgcCYPgVNRyOX0INXz8&si=E7hkYOEy6XRSIiKz

 

[pututu]

1.4 billion BOINC points achieved for World Community Grid and 1.3 billion for Einstein. All CPU no GPU. It has taken a lot of doordash and Uber Eats deliveries to pay for these SFF computers and monthly electricity cost.
Majority are sky Lake based and individually undervolted optimally. Lean Windows 10 21H1 no Windows updates (disabled & defender) to mess them up.

AM4 CPUs are not ideal. I discovered Zen 3 is inferior to Skylake in compute efficiency for code that doesn't have lots of Instruction level parallelism (ILP) I guess.
AM6 is planned upgrade.

Off topic but worth mentioning that AM4 and AM5 cpus are quite efficient actually. I previously owned Intel xeon SB/IV/Haswell/Broadwell generations and they are power hungry at least when compare to Zen2/3/4 that I currently have.