KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: PrimeGrid Challengene

In about a day another PrimeGird challengene takes place. It will last for 48 hours on one of their faster projects. The individual WU's take only a few minutes to complete. Yet we are not doing so well in the Challengene Series, like a racing series but on BOINC. We are currently 49th, and we get points by where we place each challengene.

www.primegrid.com/

So join us few hardy people, and be sure to set your preferences to this one sub-project for those two days after it starts or else we will not get credit.

Ni
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Yankton · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject:

already set. will hit it with 10 cores doing nothing else.
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Yankton · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

Challenge is cancelled, as per Prime Grid's main page.[/quote]
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

Ueah that sucks, we could have moved up in the stats. Well I got a lot of work done of PSP before it got cancelled.

Ni
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Yankton · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

I did a nice chunk as well. Got a few days of 3x+1 to crunch before it was closed out as well.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject:

I was hoping to find one of those big primes to make the list again.

Ni
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

The challenge has been reschudeled, and will now start in 4 days.

Ni
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

The PrimeGird Challenge has just started and we are currently 47th, and not doing so well if we want to place in the points.

Ni
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Yankton · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

It has all my big muscle. Hope it helps.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject:

Ok I am in with at least 8 cores. I dunno about the other comps as it seems to hit the firewall pretty hard and it needs a lot of "OK's" to run at first. #ni-1

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the 8 cores, PrimeGrid is one of the older KWSN projects but kind of ignored like the good looking step sister.

We have already moved up to 35th for this Challenge so far.

Ni
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:20 am Post subject:

At the moment it is 14 cores, It could end up being more as they all check in
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Yankton · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

I've gotten well over a hundred 'resent lost results' If I understand correctly, this means I'm crunching well over a hundred WUs that I already crunched. If that keeps up I won't be doing much more with this.

Sad

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

Acutally that seems to be a bug in the system. All these WU's have no wingman and you are the onyl one crunching them, or should be the only one unless there is a problem with the server.
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Yankton · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

A post on their forum said that message means someone else lost them/aborted them or some such and now I have them. So I guess it's ok.

I do however, have over 8000 credits PENDING for primegrid now listed in my account. I hope they take care of those soon. Spent a couple of stretches without work as well. Grrrr. Oh well, almost over.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

I set it to No new work and Delayed detach in Boincstats and it went and detached all my machines. I don't know how much got lost. #Mad

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Yankton · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:06 am Post subject:

DOH! I did that once a while back. Won't do it again, now I manually set everything to no new work and just leave it that way until I know it's done. I feel your pain!
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Yankton · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

I took 66th overall. Semi-decent showing overall. KWSN took 26th overall. 7.5 pts towards the challenge total, not awesome, but better than 0.

No word yet on whether anyone found a prime.

#ni-1

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

For the latest Challenge we are currently 18th about 2K behind the Scottish BOINC team. It is a multi-day one. Goes until the 21st UTC time.

Ni
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject:

We are in a tough and close battle for spots anywhere from 19th to 16th, Only about half-day to go or so.

Ni
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