KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: PrimeGrid

Looking at BOINCstats, Primegird now has more overall credit than SETI. Even though SETI has been around longer.

That is a lot of numbers crunched.

Ni
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

PSA and all the challenges help in gaining large chunks of credit where seti does not
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PhastPhred · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject:

To participate in the Winter Solstice Challenge, please select only the PPS (Sieve) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section.
The challenge will begin 19 December 2011 05:30 UTC and end 22 December 2010 05:30 UTC.

Location Local time Time zone UTC offset
London (United Kingdom - England) Monday, December 19, 2011 at 5:30:00 AM GMT UTC
Asheville (U.S.A. - North Carolina) Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:30:00 AM EST UTC-5 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT) Monday, December 19, 2011 at 05:30:00

Ready them Shrubbers up, Campers!!
We're down to counting the Hours!
About five for mi! Ni!
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PhastPhred · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:22 pm Post subject:

I have 3 Laptops and 4 Towers all ready to go... Maybe THIS time I can help some... Will we take over Numero Uno?

Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:13 am Post subject:

Sir Plomos,

I doubt many Knights are in the PSA projects. You and I are the only real active ones. I am the leader of all known Knights in the PSA projects.

Ni
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PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:18 am Post subject:

Too many Acronyms! - You're talking about Prime Grid's PSA (Project Staging Area) stuff on PRPNet, right? I can see where it is a manual setup, but is there an advantage to doing these this way instead of BOINC? Or are these just making projects READY for BOINC, like a Beta, kinda?
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

@Wabbit

I suppose you are right that not too many run it, but from looking around I found it interesting that both KSWN Raw Data and Sir John Galt are both above you in the rankings for PSA

KSWN Raw Data - 105
[KWSN]John Galt 007 - 121
Wabbit98 - 170
Plomos - 361

@Sir Phred

Yes PSA stands for project staging area and has to do with PrPNet and manual sieving. I like PSA because i can run through WUs faster normally unless i'm trying to run one of the bigger projects for it, but yes some things are passed on to BOINC and others are not (the rabbit can correct me if i'm in air here) However if you run the BOINC WUs just fine and wish to stay with that go right ahead
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:24 am Post subject:

Sir Plomos are they still active in it though?

Sir Phread,

PSA is a place for smaller prime finding projects. Ones that would not really benefit by the full programming of BOINC. Sometimes they get moved to BOINC like SGS started off in the PSA area. Also the credit is better for me than if I just run BOINC. Because you get credit not for the length of time it took to complete the WU, but the number. So say you are crunching a 121*n+1 your credit will be much higher completing that WU on PSA than say in BOINC since you get credit for the size of your number no matter how long or short it takes to complete it.

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=1215

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=1222

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=3008

Ni
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

It would appear you are right sir Wabbit, they do not seem to be actively running PSA work any longer. So that does make you head active member. I'm currently working on a GFN 85912^524288+1 WU that still has 8,314,880 steps to go so it should be nice credit if i can get it to finish
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PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject:

TY guys - I'll read up on it more - We have a thread for the Challenge Updates? Or just use this one? #ni-1

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject:

Sir Phread you can use this thread for Challenge news. Or you can create your own.

Sir Plomos, those are nice big WUs if you have the patience and stamnia to finish it. I think a long long time ago I did one or two and that was enough for me.

Ni
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John Galt 007 · Prince Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin

Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

I gathered some PSA credit a couple months ago but have not seen it added to the BOINC credit so not really sure what's up with that. My WU is getting closer, but still a great ways to go lol. Still looking for my bronze PSA badge
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Sir Plomos, it has been awhile since I have been granted any BOINC credit. I blame Christmas and all these holiday vacations.

Ni
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PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject:

A few hours away from our first full day - Two days to go!
We are at eleventh, so ALMOST IN FIRST! Laughing

Here's the KWSN that have thus far completed WUs

PhastPhred · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:40 am Post subject:

PrimeGrid Challenge
Team Rank: 12 The Knights Who Say Ni! 21173251.00

22 [KWSN]John Galt 007 The Knights Who Say Ni! 5808233.00
65 Williamd007 The Knights Who Say Ni! 3000190.00
80 JT Labs The Knights Who Say Ni! 2642864.00
114 jupiter The Knights Who Say Ni! 1968664.00
141 KSWN - Yellow! No, blue. Aargh!! The Knights Who Say Ni! 1756291.00
149 KWSN Raw Data The Knights Who Say Ni! 1682129.00
163 KWSN-Gemjunkie[TeaM] The Knights Who Say Ni! 1557402.00
214 DoW The Knights Who Say Ni! 1176479.00
500 Blurf The Knights Who Say Ni! 455085.00
536 mildew The Knights Who Say Ni! 414633.00
701 Luis Carlos Pazo Duran The Knights Who Say Ni! 259567.00
842 Sir Stooper The Knights Who Say Ni! 188776.00
919 Gary W. Parker, Jr. The Knights Who Say Ni! 158437.00
1663 KWSN imcrazynow The Knights Who Say Ni! 33710.00
1709 Pooh Bear 27 The Knights Who Say Ni! 30339.00
2060 Sethi_Salou The Knights Who Say Ni! 13484.00
2150 KWSN - MajorKong The Knights Who Say Ni! 13484.00
2326 [KWSN] Colleen The Knights Who Say Ni! 6742.00
2464 Mike Parker The Knights Who Say Ni! 6742.00
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