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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:44 am Post subject: Next PrimeGrid Challenge

The next PrimeGrid challenge will start at the end of the month on Jan. 26 and end on the 31st of Jan. It will be one of there longer WU's the 321 prime search. This is the first challenge of 2009 so to place higher in the standings this year it is important to get an early start.

Visit http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=1185 for more details.

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Idan · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:02 am Post subject:

Hmmm, interesting...
I'm in for a 5 days crunching of PrimeGrid...

Please notice the following:

Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:32 am Post subject:

so...

I start running them on Jan 26? or do I start on the 25th?

Just how do these challenges work, Is it just those turned in during that time, should I cache,

"you got some Splanin' a do"

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Idan · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

Read all the details HERE

Yankton · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject:

I'm in.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject:

Only WU's completed for that specific sub-project will count towards the challenge score. They start it at midnight UTC time or something like that. So it will be around 9am my time for me to start or so. They now have a countdown clock on the main PrimeGrid page. So you can see when it will start. No caching before it starts, WU's downloaded before the challenge time will not count towards the score.

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Idan · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:57 pm Post subject:

That's it? only 4 ppl are in?

I know we can do better than that... #ni-1

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Idan · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject:

Erm... don't know what's going on with those 321 LLR Prime Grid WU...
EXAMPLE of WU error

I just tried to crunch 1 WU on each of the computer that will be crunching in the tournament to see how it goes and after 1 second I get a computation error message... as I can see, most of the ppl got computetation error for the same tasks I've got computation error...

Did anyone else try to crunch any of those lately to see how it behaves? Surprised

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Yankton · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject:

Have you tried other WUs?
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:47 pm Post subject:

Well I am sure more people will actually crunch the WU once the challenge starts than visit the forums.

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Idan · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

Yankton · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject:

I'll try one when I get home, but I've done 321 in the past with no issues.
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Idan · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:31 pm Post subject:

I don't know, yesterday, I d/l one WU for my computer and it started, now it worked for over 11 hours, when I got home today, about 7 hours ago, I tried to d/l 321 work to several machines and got the same error, I can see the same task was sent to other clients and was returned with the same result...

Just see if you're able to crunch one, at least to start... mine went computation error after 1 second of crunching... Rolling Eyes

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PhastPhred · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

OK, Sir Wabbit (et al), I'm in again...

I'll put a hold on my Laptop's other WUs and grab a half-dozen WUs for 321

After I see how these go, I can try and switch over a couple other Borged units too, before the Start Deadline that is...

Fingers crossed, sorta, kinda, almost, maybe...

#ni-1

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

According to the linky above the wu's will take between 7 & 12 hours.

I will only put the ones that are local on it, so 1- 9850, 1-5000 and the core 2 lappy for sure. I will see about some of the others.
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Yankton · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:20 am Post subject:

ran one last night. took seven hours, and that same machine has all cores doing OGR simultaneously.
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Idan · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:18 am Post subject:

PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:28 am Post subject:

My frrst WU (of 6) has been running since 7PM last night, now 16 hours.

AMD Athlon 64 @ 3200, 768MB, WinXP SP3, Absolutely EVerything turned off!

Sigh... Sad

Maybe my ol' H/P Laptop will not help the Team much...

I'll plug in what results I can for a week, then back to business as usual...

Sigh...
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Idan · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:32 am Post subject:

Looks like the problem is solved! Surprised

I'm amazed... the problem was:

Yankton · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:45 pm Post subject:

That's still hard on the old hard drive. I can't think of any reasons to have that set to less than 60.
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