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[sirmonkey1985]

metallicafan's Tip of the Day

For those of you that want to run the RC5-72 CUDA client just use the old beta client and turn your system clock back a week or two.

yeah.. tried that.. and then i break all my HTTPS urls.. so thats out of the question..

 

[Razor_FX_II]

metallicafan's Tip of the Day

For those of you that want to run the RC5-72 CUDA client just use the old beta client and turn your system clock back a week or two.

You know I was wondering about that the other day but forgot to try it.
I just set my month back to December. Worked great. (if you do this be sure to turn off internet time syncing)
Excellent tip!! Thanks metallicafan

your going down Razor, on DIMES!!!

Come on and bring it. Lets go get alan2308!!

 

[metallicafan]

Yeah I think my BOINC client is unhappy as well about it. After I changed my system date the client just hung on CPU benchmarking. So I might just run it for a few days and then switch it back.

Sazan - I would think that if we were going make a group effort on a single project it might be best to use the BOINC client as probably almost everyone already has that client. Although it does look like could move up few spots pretty easily in Wieferich@Home. I might DL the client this weekend and give it a shot. How long do the WUs take?

 

[Razor_FX_II]

yeah.. tried that.. and then i break all my HTTPS urls.. so thats out of the question..

Do you mean in Dimes?
I shut down Dimes and Majestic-12 before turning my month back, got RC5-72 running then restarted Dimes and Majestic-12 and they are back up and running again.

Anyway, I wonder if Wieferich@Home would be a good target for a commando raid? Our team is #27 out of 43, but there's some steep climbing ahead. It's hard to tell which teams above us are active and which ones aren't.

Yeah I can't tell who's active either.
I have to say you sure have made one heck of a push in Wieferich@Home which is great since I had to back off that for a day or two.
I have it rotating in during the evening for awhile when I run GPU-Seti units and shut down the GPUGRID units for a few hours (GPUGRID still uses a lot of CPU time).

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Do you mean in Dimes?
I shut down Dimes and Majestic-12 before turning my month back, got RC5-72 running then restarted Dimes and Majestic-12 and they are back up and running again.

nah.. the certificates for the sites i use in https dont like me turning the date back.. also boinc freaks out as well if you go to far back.. so ill just wait for the next beta or final version for rc5-72..

 

[alan2308]

Anyway, I wonder if Wieferich@Home would be a good target for a commando raid? Our team is #27 out of 43, but there's some steep climbing ahead. It's hard to tell which teams above us are active and which ones aren't.

The good thing there is with so few teams, each place we jump would be a big boost in points.


This is what each team is doing currently. This says we're already the 11th top producing team.

 

[Kendrak]

The good thing there is with so few teams, each place we jump would be a big boost in points.


This is what each team is doing currently. This says we're already the 11th top producing team.

Hummm....

To get our production to match the top teams we need a 10 fold jump.

How many clients will that take?

 

[Razor_FX_II]

I should have known to look there. Thanks for the links alan.

alan2308 if you know can you help me understand the Dimes - MeasurementsAS Nodes and Links
How do I get the links portion done?

 

[Razor_FX_II]

Hummm....

To get our production to match the top teams we need a 10 fold jump.

How many clients will that take?

I would guess 1 core on a good duel or quad core would do about 250 points/day each core in 24 hours.

 

[Kendrak]

I would guess 1 core on a good duel or quad core would do about 250 points/day each core in 24 hours.

We need aprox 125 cores (clients) to tie the #1 team......

This seems doable.

 

[alan2308]

I should have known to look there. Thanks for the links alan.

alan2308 if you know can you help me understand the Dimes - MeasurementsAS Nodes and Links
How do I get the links portion done?

The measurements are every IP you come across with pings and traceroutes, or the little dots on your graph.

Per Wikipedia: an Autonomous System (AS) is a connected collection of IP routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet. So I'm assuming that the AS nodes and links is how many AS's you've mapped completely.

 

[alan2308]

We need aprox 125 cores (clients) to tie the #1 team......

This seems doable.

But thats just to tie their production. See MaxPC and their 25 year overtake for the [H]orde in F@H that lasted all of a couple weeks.

 

[Kendrak]

But thats just to tie their production. See MaxPC and their 25 year overtake for the [H]orde in F@H that lasted all of a couple weeks.

I understand.

However this is something that needs to be done in steps that have clear, definable, and obtainable goals.

125 new cores should not be to hard for the [H]orde if a true effort is made.

Once that goal is reached then we can make plans on overtaking #1 since all we have to do is make up the overall point difference at that time.

 

[alan2308]

I understand.

However this is something that needs to be done in steps that have clear, definable, and obtainable goals.

125 new cores should not be to hard for the [H]orde if a true effort is made.

Once that goal is reached then we can make plans on overtaking #1 since all we have to do is make up the overall point difference at that time.

We're about to blow away our original goal of top 50 overall by Feb 14 so we should be shooting for #1 overall in the Vault. No time line goals this time, just get there. This doesn't even require top ten in every project, see here what Ars has to stay at the top.

 

[SazanEyes]

Thanks for the Free-DC link to the Wieferich@Home stats, alan. That helps a lot.

The Wieferich work units aren't too slow - the quick ones run in less than a day, and the longer ones in less than two days, I think - but they don't generate many points per WU. It really helps to run multiple clients. It looks like I'm generating 300+ points a day with two clients running 24/7 on a 3.2GHz C2D. In another couple days my average score should stabilize, because I was only running one client at first.

The overtake table says we'll move up to #22 in another month, and to #19 in two months, but it starts getting steeper and steeper. Just moving to #22 should be good for about 1000 points on DC Vault, though.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

Has anyone been able to wrap their mind around Seventeen Or Bust - Sieve ?
I have a few links but still have no idea how to create a team or do what is required to earn points.
http://www.seventeenorbust.com/sieve/
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=51
http://mklasson.com/proth_sieve.php
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3501

I think once we figure out how to do this we can start up
Prime Sierpinski Problem - PRP & Prime Sierpinski Problem - Sieve

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Has anyone been able to wrap their mind around Seventeen Or Bust - Sieve ?
I have a few links but still have no idea how to create a team or do what is required to earn points.
http://www.seventeenorbust.com/sieve/
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=51
http://mklasson.com/proth_sieve.php
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3501

I think once we figure out how to do this we can start up
Prime Sierpinski Problem - PRP & Prime Sierpinski Problem - Sieve

scratch that nvm..

 

[metallicafan]

I understand.

However this is something that needs to be done in steps that have clear, definable, and obtainable goals.

125 new cores should not be to hard for the [H]orde if a true effort is made.

Once that goal is reached then we can make plans on overtaking #1 since all we have to do is make up the overall point difference at that time.

True 125 cores is probably wouldnt be too difficult for the [H]orde but keep in mind that there are about 12 of us (give or take) that are working on other projects besides F@H and WCG right now. So . . . its all relative.

Kendrak would you be interested in running it on a CPU core or two? I could throw probably 3 cores at it. Maybe you, Sazan, and I could get the ball rolling a little. It looks like we could move up to #14 without even breaking a sweat. Specially if we had 10 CPUs or so on it.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

We need aprox 125 cores (clients) to tie the #1 team......

This seems doable.

well once i get the electrical bill down for this month ill turn all my systems back on next month and start pumping away at all the various other projects that dont require a crap load of cpu.. since even with my sempron 3100+ at 3.1ghz dang thing still takes a minimum of 9 hours on a WCG project.. so i think ill go after the small stuff for now on with that system..

 

[alan2308]

Has anyone been able to wrap their mind around Seventeen Or Bust - Sieve ?
I have a few links but still have no idea how to create a team or do what is required to earn points.
http://www.seventeenorbust.com/sieve/
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=51
http://mklasson.com/proth_sieve.php
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3501

I think once we figure out how to do this we can start up
Prime Sierpinski Problem - PRP & Prime Sierpinski Problem - Sieve

Getting Started
Reserving a range
Software to work on your range
Submitting results

The two PSP's look pretty much the same, you just submit it back on a different page. It's too bad I just found it all now, a couple weeks ago when I was off between semesters I would have had all the time in the world to get going with this.

Maybe I'll give Wieferich@Home another shot tomorrow and knock a couple dual cores off that 125 we need.

 

[Kendrak]

I think I will turn some CPUs on.
I need to get my farm back up to 100%. I'm doing some rebuilds, but after that I will.

I don't have a single CPU folding right now so it won't be a big deal to turn 8 or so cores on.

 

[alan2308]

I think I will turn some CPUs on.
I need to get my farm back up to 100%. I'm doing some rebuilds, but after that I will.

I don't have a single CPU folding right now so it won't be a big deal to turn 8 or so cores on.

I think this will make you Commando #13. Its getting hard to keep track now.

 

[metallicafan]

Maybe we need a member list!

I will throw a couple CPUs at Wieferich@Home this weekend. I was going to convert one of my boxen to 64 bit Linux but maybe I'll hold off since it appears there is no Linux client for that project.

 

[Jathanis]

I think this will make you Commando #13. Its getting hard to keep track now.

Maybe we need a member list!

I was just thinking as I saw the GenMay thread come back from the dead how nice it would be if we could bribe the powers that be to do custom forum titles to all the [H] commandos, but a) over half seem to already be [H]DCotM, b) there's getting to be a hell of a lot of us, and c) it'd never happen, since we're all disavowed on projects other than F@H...

Might be a fun way to get some CPU cores on board for an attack on a project or two - All who enlist as a Commando during a certain time get a custom title...

 

[alan2308]

I was just thinking as I saw the GenMay thread come back from the dead how nice it would be if we could bribe the powers that be to do custom forum titles to all the [H] commandos, but a) over half seem to already be [H]DCotM, b) there's getting to be a hell of a lot of us, and c) it'd never happen, since we're all disavowed on projects other than F@H...

Might be a fun way to get some CPU cores on board for an attack on a project or two - All who enlist as a Commando during a certain time get a custom title...

Never happen.

The only custom title around here other than HDCotM is Banned. And a few creative ones for genmayers that you don't want.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

For anyone doing EulerNet - I canceled 300,000+ seconds of work tonight on a calculation that it was doing because I feared it would never end. (maybe it was unsolvable)
Deleted all in the directory but the .exe and .ini, restarted got new problems to solve and bang it has solved 2 other calculation in the last few hours.
The lesson I have learned from this is that if it runs way longer than normal on a calculation then it's probably not normal.
I hated to see all that time go bye-bye but I just couldn't rationalize wasting anymore time on it if it was never going to finish and give me the time I put in to it for a score.

 

[alan2308]

Attention all commandos. The Lattice Project has work. I repeat, The Lattice Project has work.

For those who are wondering what this is all about, The Lattice Project is one that we've been unable to add to our DC-Vault page because we have no credit because there was no work. The units I'm getting are estimated at around 50 hours on my E6400 and BE-2400.


Edit: Beware though, these things use 700MB - 1GB of RAM.

 

[Kendrak]

Edit: Beware though, these things use 700MB - 1GB of RAM.

I hope I get the proc I need today so I can finnish up the rebuilds, and start up some clients.

 

[Tobit]

Hopefully there will still be some Lattice work available later this evening. I'm making some changes to the farm here tonight and can throw my Core i7 at the project in about 7h when this current F@H WU finished.

 

[alan2308]

Hopefully there will still be some Lattice work available later this evening. I'm making some changes to the farm here tonight and can throw my Core i7 at the project in about 7h when this current F@H WU finished.

You can have it.

I had one compute error, and another unit I had to abort after it sat there for an hour with a status of "waiting for memory." Moral of the story, don't run these on a box that is someone's daily driver. I'll let the third one I grabbed continue running, but that's it for me.

 

[Tobit]

You can have it.

Bummer. My Core i7 with 6GB should be able to handle it, I hope.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

Bummer. My Core i7 with 6GB should be able to handle it, I hope.

Yeah you shouldn't have any problems.
I'm running a couple on a duel core with 4gb memory and they seem to be running fine.
GARLI is going to take estimated 25 hours to complete. Will have to wait and see what kind of points I get for these.

There are 3 different units you can choose from in The Lattice preferences page.

Applications:
GARLI : yes
HMMPfam : yes
MARXAN : yes
Edit The Lattice Project preferences

Maybe try grabbing one of the other kinds.

 

[SazanEyes]

I'll jump on this too tonight. My new machine has 4GB.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

im working on the projects that take as little time as possible.. since im going to shut down boinc and everything else on this system and turn off my last system tonight.. see if i can get my electrical bill under 200 dollars for this month..

 

[Jathanis]

Never happen.

The only custom title around here other than HDCotM is Banned. And a few creative ones for genmayers that you don't want.

I kinda figured that, just throwing it out there... Don't you need like 64K post to get to the choose yer own custom title on vBulletin?

The units I'm getting are estimated at around 50 hours on my E6400 and BE-2400.

Ha! The GARLI unit I just grabbed is estimating 188 hours! I'm gonna stop all other BOINC tasks on that machine until it finishes, just to get some points on the board...

According to the main page, there's only 18,881 WUs for this round GARLI & MARXAN, with the GARLI ones requiring a minimum of 1.2 Gig of RAM. Of these, 1730 are already done (?), and 2325 are in progress as of 1pm pacific. They also say there'll be about 38,000 MARXAN jobs next week. Everyone here so far getting the GARLI units? I'm going to try to change preferences when I get home on a different core to try and grab a MARXAN for comparo purposes...

 

[Tobit]

Hopefully there will still be some GARLI units available in a few hours. I can't run MAXRAN as they do not have a Linux client for it. I can only run GARLI and HMMPfam at the moment.

 

[Kendrak]

im working on the projects that take as little time as possible.. since im going to shut down boinc and everything else on this system and turn off my last system tonight.. see if i can get my electrical bill under 200 dollars for this month..

What is this "off" that you speak of?

 

[Xilikon]

What is this "off" that you speak of?

Maybe it's a secret code by MPC to control our minds ??

 

[Jathanis]

The GARLI unit I just grabbed is estimating 188 hours!

That's it, I'm out - first GARLI had a computational error within minutes (on a non-OCed machine - don't shoot me, it's a work machine!), second one crashed the whole computer twice, even with the computer doing nothing else... Off to try the other WUs...

 

[SazanEyes]

I got a GARLI unit too, estimating 107 hours to complete. I tried changing my preferences to only MARXAN, but it seems like it wouldn't give me a second WU.