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LanDroid · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:39 am Post subject: POTM October - Planning

Wearing out the list of virgins... Embarassed

ABC
Climate
Cosmology
Einstein
Folding@Home - Non-Boinc
Milky Way
RC5-72 - Non-Boinc
Rosetta
Spinhenge
uFluids
Vacation - crunch your own faves

Last month we added Folding, a non-boinc project, hoping to stay in the top 100. Do we want to try to crawl back in or are we sufficiently humiliated?

Waddya think about adding RC5-72/non-boinc? See link.
http://www.kwsnforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=16203

Remember next month will probably have a very slow start due to the Prime Grid Challenge...

Yankton · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:14 am Post subject:

SIMAP has had solid work for a few months now (going for a million in it right now). It's probably safe to add on it's own or maybe as a grouping of odd projects for PotM.
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject:

I think having a single POTM is too simplistic. For instance, Sztaki is exclusively CPU, and Collatz runs great on ATI-GPU's. They make a fantastic combination running side-by-side. So much depends on the particular hardware. It hardly pays to run MilkyWay without a 48xx or 58xx card or Nv counterpart. A well thought-out mix would better utilize the shrubberies.
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stooper101 · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:29 am Post subject:

Having a GPU secondary project is great, but they are very selective. For example, I cannot run anything CUDA as I don't have any nvidia (other people may be in the same boat). Many paople can't run Milkyway as it only accepts double precision. That leaves us with only Collatz and dnetc for all-encompassing gpu projects. For add-on projects for the PotM, it starts to get very limited and I have a feeling we'd start to do the same ones over and over. Until there is better selection amongst projects, I say we let the gpu crunchers do what they like/can and try to keep it focused. Not to say that a person can't do a little from column A and a little from column PotM.

It may be fun to (every once in awhile) throw out a double-project month. Which I think we've done before during one of our famous voting fiascoes, and seem to always do it whenever there is a big PG challenge. I think what we are really lacking is some good taunts to keep it interesting.

So, in the end, solution = more PGGBs!
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Queezy · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:46 am Post subject:

I agree with stooper, theres only a few projects that can be ran by everyones gpu's. I have had to swap from my old ones after frying my old nvidia cards. (this was on an older account/email adress- i ended up abandoning the account in lieu for just creating a fresh one with my new email when re-joining)
I know I'm still new, but I came up with my own little plan (which im sure has been thought of before =P ) for how to participate in the PoTM and still get some other projects in too. I decided to let my gpu projects run alongside whatever the PoTM is. This is my first PoTM, but it's been working pretty well so far. Ive had Milkyway and Collatz flying thru WU's with .05 cpu a 1 gpu while Sztaki is over there making me wonder if it's even running on my other cores. lol.
I didn't get to run it near as much as I wanted to this month, had alot of crazy things going on with my settings, but I'm excited to see how my numbers compare over the next few months.
As far as which project I would vote for, I guess I still need to look a little farther into them, but what's the general policy on the non-Boinc projects being chosen?
When I saw that we had just fell out of the top 100 on Folding@home I decided to crank up my new PS3 and see how it would run. Not saying we should make it the PoTM, especially since it's non-Boinc and the fact that PS3's could be running it while we use the BOINC clients to do something the PS3 can't do. Back to my point though, when I saw that we had fell out of the top 100 I wanted so bad to put a video link to the final scene in the Holy Grail and inspire some retaliation. =P
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Sir Hamster's Goat · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:14 am Post subject:

BAAAA!
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LanDroid · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:12 am Post subject:

Dual GPU/CPU projects O' month sounds good, but could get complicated. I guess when a GPU project wins POTM, we can have a run-off for the CPU project to pair with it? When CPU projects win, you can just keep running your favorite GPU project?

Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:17 am Post subject:

I hadn't investigated most of the projects yet, I didn't think it was quite so limited.

So with the PrimeGrid Challenge occupying many of the best CPU's for the first week, I think RC5-72 would be a good choice for POTM. It seems to run reasonably well on CPU's & Nvidia and flies on ATI cards. We would definitely stomp a number of teams, very few are putting up big numbers.
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Yankton · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:30 pm Post subject:

RC5 can be run on PS3s quite well also!

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