2018 Pentathlon Race thread

[Skillz]

Good idea. Done deal. Thanks.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I used to hate "TAAT". Heck, I didn't even know that was me/us they were talking about for quite some time.

 

[crashtech]

Well, how about TeAT?

 

[TennesseeTony]

Ugh. I've lost a Linux host, and some work. Universe Black Hole tasks...avoid them even if they do run twice as quick. Started running out of disk space, and the warnings intensified until I hit zero disk space, and nothing would run, then finally all I get is a guest login screen that does nothing. Yeah! ///runs off to check on the fresh install's progress///

 

[TennesseeTony]

Uhm, no teats for me, thanks.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Well, how about TeAT?

That will cause some disruption.

 

[crashtech]

Playing the devil's advocate carries certain risks, but I think we can rest easily with TAAT from now on.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Got a bit distracted with youtube videos, finally have the 'lost' system up and running Uni.....errrrr, one of the projects....again.

 

[StefanR5R]

Jeeper's bulletin on day 2:
https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/862-BOINC-Pentathlon-2018-Day-2
"It's red alert east of the river Oder." ( = Polish border river.)

BOINC@Poland increased their Universe production since, at the cost of their NumberFields output.

Also, a bit of motivational speech to L'AF in the conclusion.

This got them going, obviously.

 

[StefanR5R]

The translators were quick today. Jeeper's bulletin, day 3:
https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content.php?864-BOINC-Pentathlon-2018-Day-3/

 

[Skillz]

Yes! They referred to us as [H] now. Woot woot

...it's the little things man. lol

 

[Howdy]

Announcement of the 3rd project in the discipline Sprint

The 3rd project of the BOINC Pentathlon in the discipline Sprint is:
Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/)

All credits granted between
11 May 2018, 0.00 (UTC) and
14 May 2018, 0.00 (UTC) will be taken into the BOINC Pentathlon validation. Please note that pending credits cannot be taken into account! The statistics for this project can be found at
http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/challenge.php?challengeid=3&lang=en.

Have fun crunching this project and chasing these medals:

 

[TennesseeTony]

Oh gawd no......not a 3rd project already.

I LOVE losing my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ken g6]

Hmm. I was just glancing over the voting rules once more, and noticed something which had escaped my attention before: There are 4 CPU races: For 14, 7, 5, and 3 days, respectively. (Or up to 17, 10, 8, 6 days, if the announcement period of up o 3 days is fully used for bunkering.) The CPU project with the most team votes (and quorum 1) will be assigned to the shortest race (3 days +, sprint). second most team votes -> second shortest race (5 days +, city run) third most team votes -> second longest race (7 days +, swimming) Teams don't get to vote on the longest race (14 days +, marathon, chosen by the organizers, and overriding the team votes for city run and swimming).So in short, the most popular CPU project gets the smallest time slot. (Or the 2nd most popular gets the shortest slot, if the most popular one was a quorum 2 project.)

StefanR5R is correct. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what happened 2 years ago to Rosetta. It only got 3 days of attention.

You're psychic! Any thoughts on lottery numbers I should pick?

 

[TennesseeTony]

Crap, I already got my tickets earlier today....

 

[zzuupp]

I typically do Rosetta on the full WUs.

Is there any advantage to do smaller ones?

 

[Ken g6]

I typically do Rosetta on the full WUs.

Is there any advantage to do smaller ones?

Only getting them in under the wire at the end of the race. I started with day-long WUs.

 

[zzuupp]

Only getting them in under the wire at the end of the race. I started with day-long WUs.

Yeah, I'll just be lazy and try to get two round and then revert to the marathon.

Thanks.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Oh gawd no......not a 3rd project already.

I LOVE losing my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do hope Sebastien will synchronise this week's FB Sprint with Pentathlon Sprint.

 

[StefanR5R]

From the yet-to-be translated Jeeper bulletin, day 4:

Schwimmen
[...] TAAT (#11) kämpft verbissen, um den Rückstand auf die Polen zu verringern, aber so richtig gelingt es nicht die Lücke zu schließen.

Swimming
[...] TAAT (#11) are fighting frantically to reduce the deficit to the Poles, but they don't quite succeed to close the gap.

 

[StefanR5R]

Official translation of Jeeper's bulletin, day 4:
https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/867-BOINC-Pentathlon-2018-Day-4

Swimming: "TAAT (#11) are fighting tooth and nail to reduce the distance to the Poles but they are not quite succeeding in closing the gap."

Marathon: "The fight for #5 is also a three-way skirmish. TAAT are currently holding the best cards in this fight but OCN (#6) and especially CNT (#7) are catching up."

Overall: "TAAT (#9) have had to let the Czechs pass and will now be casting an eye over RKN (#10) and MK (#11)."

This is based on stats at 12:00 UTC. Meanwhile, The Czechs had to let the TeAm pass.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Hee Hee! Nicely coordinated bunker drops everyone! Let's hope our now steady output can maintain our position, and that CNT doesn't have any bunkers to drop on us.

In Universe we went from 11th to 8th (barely), passing Poland, Rechenkraft, and CNT.

 

[Howdy]

Nice!!

 

[StefanR5R]

User count of each team, according to free-dc's stats from yesterday:

474 users yesterday in the Marathon, 678 users in the Swimming event, according to the chart above. Surely most users are running both projects. So, are there really so few participants this year?

ChristianVirtual of the [H] took another head count earlier today. His numbers (credit and user count), slightly reformatted and totals added:

Marathon (NumberFields@home)                      Swimming (Universe@Home)
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
SETI.USA               42,939,952     33          SETI.USA               41,552,000     43
Planet 3DNow!          28,441,721    115          Planet 3DNow!          35,534,016    117
[H]ard|OCP             21,746,544     37          L'Alliance Francophone 15,020,672    118
SETI.Germany           17,964,952     74          Team China             13,114,000     81
Team China             17,774,932     55          [H]ard|OCP             11,550,000     26
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
TeAm AnandTech         10,142,328     14          SETI.Germany           11,209,328    108
Overclock.net           8,995,658     25          Overclock.net          10,446,000     31
Czech National Team     7,961,384     50          Czech National Team     7,116,000     87
L'Alliance Francophone  4,963,616     50          Rechenkraft.net         6,836,664     51
Meisterkuehler.de Team  4,004,827     10          BOINC@Poland            6,778,624    143
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
Rechenkraft.net         3,174,402     33          TeAm AnandTech          6,449,336     18
USA                     2,513,436     14          BOINC@AUSTRALIA         4,335,332     37
Chinese Dream           1,742,917      2          BOINC.Italy             3,090,000     62
Crunching@EVGA          1,672,820      6          Meisterkuehler.de Team  3,048,000      9
BOINC.Italy             1,587,918     15          Chinese Dream           2,896,666      1
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
AMD Users               1,577,222     12          Crunching@EVGA          2,649,332     16
Ukraine                   937,290      7          USA                     2,608,000     65
BOINC@AUSTRALIA           843,624     21          Ukraine                 1,206,000     15
Das Kartell               518,489      3          BOINCstats              1,197,336     29
UK BOINC Team             496,632      7          LinusTechTips_Team      1,151,333     14
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
BOINC@MIXI                272,711      3          LITOMYSL                1,014,000      4
Team 2ch                  266,870     11          AMD Users                 800,668     18
LITOMYSL                  264,240      4          SETIKAH@KOREA             739,336     86
BOINCstats                235,552      9          Das Kartell               695,333      3
Crystal Dream             132,023      3          Team 2ch                  672,667     17
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
LinusTechTips_Team         87,977      5          BOINC@MIXI                354,667      3
SETIKAH@KOREA              84,159      2          UK BOINC Team             277,334     23
U.S. Army                  82,489      1          BOINC Confederation       221,333      3
BOINC@Pfalz                53,053      1          BOINC@Pfalz               109,333      2
BOINC@Poland               51,048      6          Crystal Dream              94,667      7
----------------------------------------          ----------------------------------------
BOINC Confederation        17,057      1          U.S. Army                  29,333      8
                                  ------                                            ------
                               total 629                                       total 1,245

The head count at the TeAm seems off though. From free-dc's stats of today, yesterday, and the day before we are 15, not 18.

Edit, ah, I see that the project server talks of 18 active users.

This means that ChristianVirtual's user count is systematically too high, though more so (or only) at Universe; not so much (or not at all) at NumberFields.

With that said, our 14 active participants are kicking some booty!

I say this conclusion still stands.

Edit 2,
it's impressive how many users Planet 3DNow! is able to activate. A stark contrast to their Formula Boinc presence.

 

[Ken g6]

Boy, the Pentathlon can get really confusing sometimes. I just discovered 45 old Universe tasks I'd forgotten I had! Alas, none of them were even close to done, but they should all validate more quickly than new tasks.