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March Madness: 2011

I just threw my 2500K into the mix. Computing under "NobleX13".
 
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NobleX13 - Welcome! And thanks for helping!

Defex - Looks like you were able to get more WUs? It seems the project servers uses UTC.
 
NobleX13, you can change your BOINC username, and it shouldn't affect your points. Log in to your account on the Spinhenge web site, and it's one of the options under "Change - other account info".
 
I got more work around 7PM, yesterday and will run out again in about an hour (manual update says 600 limit again, but i still have some in the queue.)
600 would be the quota for 8 processors.

I am waiting for my account to be activated on their forums. I will ask there.
 
SazanEyes said:
NobleX13, you can change your BOINC username, and it shouldn't affect your points. Log in to your account on the Spinhenge web site, and it's one of the options under "Change - other account info".
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Thank you!
 
Do these guys ever activate accounts on their forums? i have been waiting 2 days, i could be doing about 40% more per day if they fix whatever is causing me to only get 600 units a day on my SR2 when it should give me 1800. (75 per CPU x 24)
 
Well it would seem that there has been about 3 posts in their entire forum in 2011 so Im guessing that they dont have a very active board.

Defex we truly appreciate the help but I know that is frustrating man. I've done a bunch of searching on this but I haven't found anyone else with this issue in Spinhenge. If you wanted to keep helping out you could run two different BOINC projects on your SR2. There are lots of very worth projects out there. Docking@home is similar to f@h from what I can tell (although Im no medical expert).

The bottom line is that your SR2 rig is [H]arder than Spinhenge! :)

mashtub651 - Are you having any problems with your SR2?

EDIT: Looks like we do have a couple computers in the Top 20 Computers list. http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/top_hosts.php Nice work everyone!
 
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I've hit that "no more work" threshold a couple times but i'm away from my boxen most of the day so i haven't noticed too much
 
They finally activated my account, and i asked about the erroneous quota on there.
 
Good to hear. Thanks for looking into this DeFex. Hopefully the project has an admin or two floating around their forums regularly.
 
awesome, with only 13 active.
what was the goal again, 2 million total ? or make 2 million ? since we almost are at 2 million now.
 
it was originally 1 million, but I think it is 2.5 now

Look what [H] is doing with 13 people, [H] FTW

If they ever fix my 600 quota on a 24 core, this machine could almost double its output.
 
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ok,looks good then regarding the goal.

to bad with a 24 core don´t get work, hope it get sorted.
my self don´t have such fancy gear, so I haven´t a clue.
 
well with my SR-2 which is going to be switching from quads to hex in a bit i might have more luck
 
if the quota problem gets fixed we will have a huge booost
 
Just joined the team by switching over some WCG nodes. Was going to do it in the beginning of the month but I forgot. I sure hope that quota gets fixed soon because I have been having trouble getting WU's. (or at least more than one at a time)
 
mashtub651 said:
well with my SR-2 which is going to be switching from quads to hex in a bit i might have more luck
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Very nice. :eek:

mmmmmdonuts said:
Just joined the team by switching over some WCG nodes. Was going to do it in the beginning of the month but I forgot. I sure hope that quota gets fixed soon because I have been having trouble getting WU's. (or at least more than one at a time)
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I have seen BOINC do this at times when first attaching to a project. Just give it a little while to communicate back to the server and it should grab a bunch more WUs. Oh and Welcome and thanks for helping!
 
Just threw my other hex core into the fray. My daugther's computer will start on BOINC Wednesday.
 
Definitely getting crushed with these new comers! I used to do okay now look at me I lost 3 spots on Spinhenge.

Congrats to everyone so far! I believe none of the [H]ard Commandos saw this type of turn out coming. The old timers better start to ramp up or we will get pushed to the side. :p
 
I finally got a reply!
The quota per CPU was increased to 100, but still does not multiply to more than 8 CPUs

At least now SR2 people can do 800 per day instead of 600, we should get a 33% boost on those machines, starting today!

(that is if everyone's quota was increased, i think it was because It increased for my other machine as well, could someone double check their quota is 100?)

800 / 24 CPU = 33.33 Units per day per CPU. could still use MOAR! (my machine would be happy with around 40 per CPU per day) so this is still a nice improvement.
 
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Both my machines say 100/day so I would assume that its a global change. Way to go DeFex! That will be a nice boost indeed.

Edit: Also worth noting: We have several people on the top computers list - http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/top_hosts.php
Good work Dookey, mashtub651, Defex, and dmaine!
 
I have added another machine in to the mix now that has been mostly cleared up. now i am really going to get mowed in f@h :)
I think this one might be right on the sweet spot of not running out of work. Dual E5530 @ 3.7something.
 
Maybe starting next month we start looking at a secondary project to allow all you lucky bastards with too many cores to run the limited projects full throttle? This way anyone hitting a limit can set our primary project to the highest resource share they can to max, then let the rest of the CPU cycles roll over onto another project? The secondary project each month can even become the primary for the following month, giving a head start to the hex core SR-2s and such out there...

Another idea might be to run a non-BOINC project as well, such as the client for OGR-27, at the same time - this always seems to slow down my BOINC performance... I'm thinking the with all the fresh blood, err, members, we may want to start talking about how to best move up in the DC Vault, as well! :D
 
I'm thinking I might pull some boxen off of F@H after I hit 50 million (end of the month?) and I'm looking forward to a big Vault push. The biggest opportunity for gains seems to be in the math projects, like GIMPS or PRP. I have an i7 on GIMPS now but it's slow going.
 
Beware, just picked up a GTX 570 open box for $275. Talk about bang for the buck!! GPUGRID here I come!!

BOINC ON!!
 
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Beware, just picked up a GTX 570 open box for $275. Talk about bang for the buck!! GPUGRID here I come!!

BOINC ON!!
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Impressive work in GPUGRID Dookey! How many GPUs are you running? :)

We are still taking names in Spinhenge. Passed 2.5M points overall and broke into the Top 50 teams today. And we are only halfway through the month! Im hoping that we can get all the way up to 33rd place! Great work everyone!
 
I definitely got a boost yesterday from the new quota, even though i had it suspended for a few hours doing some modeling, my main SR2 got more output than ever before. I havent watched the dual quad very closely it just does its thing :) i think i need to OC it a bit more because it has never crashed :).

I think spinhenge is easier on the CPUs than folding though, my 2600k would occasionally poop out (still tweaking settings) with folding but its reliable with spin.

I think there is a bigger problem with something in the server and the way it does stats. the "8xCPU" multiplier seems to hold back machines with more "cpus" than 8, if you look at the top machine DooKey, it is a x980, now that should do a lot with 12 "cpus" and probably OC to hell, but Masshtub651s E5620 machine has more cores, and though it is probably running a bit slower it should be getting more output with 16 "cpus" yet it is nowhere near that. some of the machines on the list are dual hex core, and they are not getting anywhere near a single hex..
 
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I´m down a bit, my 870 is out of operation,got it compensated a little with a 2-core e5300,little is the keyword :)
on the other hand gpugrid should rise a little after moving over some that way.Got some long runs,take forever,interesting how those turns out,as with most boinc it is new stuff for me :D
 
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folding_rejects said:
I´m down a bit, my 870 is out of operation,got it compensated a little with a 2-core e5300,little is the keyword :)
on the other hand gpugrid should rise a little after moving over some that way.Got some long runs,take forever,interesting how those turns out,as with most boinc it is new stuff for me :D
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Sorry to hear your down man, hopefully you can get it up and running soon. GPUgrid is a great project to have those GPUs running on while still crunching for spinhenge. Each project has different time and requirements for there WUs. Some l know are as short as about 10-15 mins for Primegrid GPUs while others like Cosmology@home take up to 800mb of RAM per WU and run for 10 hours!
 
Impressive work in GPUGRID Dookey! How many GPUs are you running? :)
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I'm just running my two GTX 580's. They are beasts in GPUGRID.
 
You should try Primegrid. Those cards should crush it.
 
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GPUgrid is a great project to have those GPUs running on while still crunching for spinhenge. Each project has different time and requirements for there WUs. Some l know are as short as about 10-15 mins for Primegrid GPUs while others like Cosmology@home take up to 800mb of RAM per WU and run for 10 hours!
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good info there, thanks :)
I like gpugrid, learned that beta wasn´t a good idea,and can do long as it seems now when a gt 220 isn´t doing gpugrid anymore,besides their science part looks ok,like wcg but that one is on hold now with spinehenge.Haven´t looked at the others so much.

btw is down two cores since a quad amd is up too,for the 870, I dunno,quite feed up with that one by now :(
 
I was also trying to put together a list of projects that were more difficult to join such as muon, gimps, SoB or OGR-27. If anyone needs help I can try and dig up the file to register for the non-BOINC projects.
 
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I was also trying to put together a list of projects that were more difficult to join such as muon, gimps, SoB or OGR-27. If anyone needs help I can try and dig up the file to register for the non-BOINC projects.
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IIRC, Muon and dnet/OGR-27 weren't all that difficult to join, but I never did figure out SoB and never attempted gimps...

The dnet client is really easy to configure, about as hard as the old F@H SMP command line client. Once you've signed up and get a password, you just log in on the stats.distributed.net site through the "edit my info" link, go to our team's page, and click where it says "I want to join this team". Or I think you can go to the team page, click join, then it asks you to log in... Or both! You'll likely show up after about a day or so, as the site doesn't always refresh quickly... I'm pretty sure you have to have actually posted some points first before it lets you join a team, but it's been so long, don't quote me on that. :confused:

The Muon client is a simple download, create a user.txt file in the directory with the executable with our team's tag and your username (so I'd add [H]Jathanis, for example) and off you go! I have about 10M points in Muon that were all done simultaneously with BOINC or F@H - yes, it slows those down some, but it was damn fun throwing up 10M pernts in another project! :D

There you go, there's two of four done!
 
i'm afraid i must throttle down systems and pull a few offline. I will finish the month but not at full capacity also congrats to Dookey on the future mowing and to the rest who will follow him
 
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GIMPS is pretty easy. They have a Getting Started page that explains it all. The key is to create an account in their website first, and join it to our team "HardOCP" before starting the client.

The other tip is to go into the Test - Worker Windows dialog to tweak your settings. I'm currently running Double-Check tests only, which take about a week to complete on my mildly overclocked i7 920. GIMPS is hyperthreading-aware, so I set "Number of worker windows" to 4 and "CPUs to use (multithreading)" to 2. If you want quick work, run Trial Factoring only, but last time I ran it, it did not take advantage of hyperthreading.
 
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