2019 Formula Boinc Sprints

StefanR5R · Oct 10, 2019

I continue to get many request timeouts with the Universe@home server.
No comparison to yesterday. Apparently only a very small number of participants makes use of bunker day in the first place.

Orange Kid · Oct 10, 2019

So I figured out my not getting to the Universe site. My bookmarked URL was old and had HTTP instead of https. I am going to venture the same is happening at FB to pull stats. So until and maybe never, the stats pull is looked at, it will not be working.
I'll suspend all universe and hope it doesn't report. Then on to PG.

StefanR5R · Oct 10, 2019

Thanks, @Orange Kid.

As far as I can tell, all requests to http://universeathome.pl/universe/*something* URLs get a response of 301 Moved Permanently, Location: https://universeathome.pl/universe/*something*. If the Formula Boinc site code does not support such redirections, then this sprint is dead in the water.

PS,
the U@h marathon at FB has data. And it is quite current too:
Gridcoin: total 11,860,591,130 (FB), 11,862,532,130 (U@h)
TeAm AnandTech: 188,322,477 (FB), 188,322,477 (U@h)

crashtech · Oct 10, 2019

Hmm, I wonder if it's just a bit of code that needs fixed in the FB backend?

biodoc · Oct 10, 2019

FB sprint stats are up!

StefanR5R · Oct 10, 2019

It updated outside the full hour:

Pos.	Team	Points	Total credits
1	Gridcoin	25	40,000
2	SETI.Germany	18	9,333
3	Planet 3DNow!	15	8,000
4	XtremeSystems	12	5,333
5	BOINC@Poland	10	4,000
6	Czech National Team	8	2,666
6	BOINC@AUSTRALIA	8	2,666
6	Rechenkraft.net	8	2,666
9	Dutch Power Cows	2	2,666
10	L'Alliance Francophone	1	2,666
11	SETI.USA	-	1,333
12	Team China	-	1,333
12	BOINC.Italy	-	1,333
0	Team 2ch	-	0
0	USA	-	0
0	Canada	-	0
0	Boinc@Taiwan	-	0
0	The Knights Who Say Ni!	-	0
0	UK BOINC Team	-	0
0	Russia Team	-	0
0	Overclock.net	-	0
0	TeAm AnandTech	-	0
0	Crunching@EVGA	-	0
0	OcUK - Overclockers UK	-	0
0	[H]ard\|OCP	-	0

Pos.	Team	Points	Total credits
1	Gridcoin	25	13,742,999
2	Planet 3DNow!	18	3,651,666
3	BOINC@Poland	15	2,308,666
4	BOINC@AUSTRALIA	12	2,040,000
5	SETI.Germany	10	1,861,333
6	XtremeSystems	8	1,689,333
7	Rechenkraft.net	6	1,354,000
8	UK BOINC Team	4	874,666
9	USA	2	575,333
10	Overclock.net	1	520,666
11	Czech National Team	-	510,666
12	SETI.USA	-	408,000
13	L'Alliance Francophone	-	369,333
14	Dutch Power Cows	-	314,666
15	Team China	-	298,000
16	[H]ard\|OCP	-	256,333
17	Crunching@EVGA	-	143,999
18	BOINC.Italy	-	132,000
19	OcUK - Overclockers UK	-	114,666
20	Russia Team	-	63,999
21	Team 2ch	-	54,333
22	Canada	-	53,333
23	The Knights Who Say Ni!	-	52,000
24	TeAm AnandTech	-	41,333
25	Boinc@Taiwan	-	23,999

Edit, the 22:04 UTC and 22:19 UTC stats however were identical (and different from the 21:19 UTC stats). That is, updates are now occurring circa at the full hour, as usual.

TennesseeTony · Oct 10, 2019

I LOVE starting at the bottom! 24th place and climbing! 17th now.

Markfw · Oct 10, 2019

TennesseeTony said:
I LOVE starting at the bottom! 24th place and climbing! 17th now.

I am looking at the wrong place ? I see 23rd here http://formula-boinc.org/projets.py?prj=199&year=2019

biodoc · Oct 10, 2019

7th place now.

TennesseeTony · Oct 10, 2019

Markfw said:
I am looking at the wrong place ? I see 23rd here http://formula-boinc.org/projets.py?prj=199&year=2019

That is the Marathon, Mark, go here: http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=17&lang=&year=2019

StefanR5R · Oct 10, 2019

Judging from the progress of the teams which do not actively participate in sprints, the FB site captured the initial stats at 15:00 UTC already. Only the web-facing table wasn't filled properly until some time after 21:00 UTC.

Edit,
or maybe initial stats were taken from somewhere else, corresponding with a point in time before 15:00 UTC.

Edit 2,
forget that I wrote the previous sentence. The progress rates are rather unsteady.

StefanR5R · Oct 11, 2019

Here are daily team stats taken from FreeDC, sorted by Today's points.
I added a column for the ratio of Today's to Average points, and marked teams with an asterisk whose ratio is above the median. (Median is 1.6.)

#	Project Rank	Team		Today : Average	Today	Yesterday	2 Days Ago	Average
1	1	Gridcoin		1.3	18,565,667	14,528,000	13,933,667	13,842,571
2	9	XtremeSystems	*	248.4	17,225,333	118,667	64,000	69,333
3	12	The Scottish Boinc Team	*	41.3	12,537,333	257,333	298,667	303,238
4	2	Planet 3DNow!		1.4	4,995,333	3,703,000	3,608,000	3,650,429
5	3	BOINC@Poland		1.3	3,335,000	2,743,000	2,560,667	2,514,952
6	7	BOINC@AUSTRALIA		1.3	2,993,333	2,271,333	2,464,667	2,387,048
7	21	LITOMYSL Boinc Team Czech Republic	*	12.4	2,601,333	146,667	85,333	210,286
8	6	SETI.Germany		1.3	2,581,333	1,981,000	1,945,333	1,964,762
9	25	TeAm AnandTech	*	890.0	2,542,667	4,000	4,000	2,857
10	17	Rechenkraft.net	*	2.0	2,486,000	1,206,667	1,056,667	1,229,619
11	32	UK BOINC Team	*	15.5	1,918,667	104,000	98,667	124,048
12	5	L'Alliance Francophone	*	2.6	898,667	301,333	372,667	347,524
13	13	USA		1.3	814,000	705,333	667,333	631,143
14	10	Czech National Team		1.4	807,333	624,000	629,333	590,190
15	4	SETI.USA		0.8	670,667	550,667	820,000	876,667
16	8	Overclock.net	*	2.3	639,000	430,333	217,333	275,048
17	49	BOINC.BE	*	5.6	613,333	172,000	135,333	109,810
18	22	[H]ard\|OCP		0.6	496,333	270,333	353,000	767,952
19	34	Crunching@EVGA	*	111.7	489,333	4,000	1,333	4,381
20	19	SETIKAH@KOREA	*	1.6	477,333	330,667	323,333	291,857
21	18	Team China		1.3	440,667	304,667	296,000	338,524
22	23	Dutch Power Cows	*	1.7	426,667	210,667	296,000	253,333
23	15	Ars Technica		1.3	425,333	317,333	381,000	330,476
24	24	Meisterkuehler.de Team	*	1.8	406,000	181,000	221,333	225,476
25	54	Astronomy.Ru Forum		1.3	377,333	267,667	266,667	284,857
26	116	Brasil [SETIBR]		1.4	339,333	270,333	265,000	242,429
27	101	Erster Kontakt	*	1.9	316,000	221,333	178,667	170,381
28	29	BOINC Synergy		1.6	240,000	170,667	145,333	148,952
29	48	Andorra al Univers		1.1	209,333	158,667	150,000	194,143
30	44	Russia	*	2.0	186,667	93,333	110,667	93,048
31	26	Team Norway		1.1	186,000	162,667	172,667	173,762
32	39	LinusTechTips_Team		1.2	185,333	150,667	97,000	148,857
33	20	BOINC.Italy	*	1.7	176,000	98,667	108,000	100,810
34	14	OcUK - Overclockers UK	*	3.0	169,333	41,333	30,667	56,762
35	38	Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science		1.1	168,000	151,667	157,333	153,286

StefanR5R · Oct 11, 2019

The XtremeScotsmen from Anguilla are demolishing Gridcoin once again. :-)

Orange Kid · Oct 11, 2019

Day one of Universe@home.
Fourth place now from starting waaaaaaaayyyyy down the list.

From FreeDC

StefanR5R · Oct 11, 2019

The stats are funky.
Unlike the hours before and after, there were at least two updates for all teams after 15:00 UTC. And what's more, the second of these updates had a negative update for most of the teams.

(I say "at least" two updates because I have been taking only two snapshots each hour.)

rank 15:04	rank 15:19	team	score 15:04	score 15:19	delta
1	1	XtremeSystems	42,162,666	42,258,666	96,000
2	2	Gridcoin	34,601,000	24,326,000	-10,275,000
3	3	Planet 3DNow!	9,343,999	6,676,666	-2,667,333
7	4	TeAm AnandTech	4,602,666	4,626,666	24,000
4	5	BOINC@Poland	5,991,000	4,316,666	-1,674,334
6	6	Rechenkraft.net	4,895,333	3,994,666	-900,667
9	7	UK BOINC Team	3,866,667	3,790,667	-76,000
5	8	BOINC@AUSTRALIA	5,249,999	3,684,666	-1,565,333
8	9	SETI.Germany	4,317,333	2,909,666	-1,407,667
10	10	L'Alliance Francophone	1,690,000	1,466,000	-224,000
11	11	USA	1,500,666	1,088,666	-412,000
12	12	Czech National Team	1,411,999	1,012,000	-399,999
15	13	Crunching@EVGA	952,000	956,000	4,000
13	14	SETI.USA	1,243,333	907,333	-336,000
14	15	Overclock.net	1,179,000	803,000	-376,000
16	16	Team China	839,666	636,666	-203,000
17	17	[H]ard\|OCP	756,333	560,667	-195,666
18	18	Dutch Power Cows	728,000	497,333	-230,667
19	19	OcUK - Overclockers UK	379,999	358,666	-21,333
20	20	BOINC.Italy	275,999	185,333	-90,666
21	21	Russia Team	187,999	145,333	-42,666
22	22	Canada	157,332	110,667	-46,665
23	23	The Knights Who Say Ni!	133,333	90,667	-42,666
24	24	Team 2ch	100,666	54,000	-46,666
25	25	Boinc@Taiwan	50,666	32,000	-18,666

The U@h forum has an inconclusive thread about negative stats updates.
https://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=454

VietOZ · Oct 11, 2019

The reason was when FB first has the stats up, it took points from 24hrs before the Sprint starts. Meaning it counted all the points since the Sprint got announced instead of when the Sprint starts. Teams had low output during that period of time, (bunker) end up with positive scores. Teams had high output at those time, will have negative scores.
Gridcoin average about 16M/day ... we're on the 28th hour of the race ... and 34M? We all knew GC doesn't bunker ... so something wrong there.

Edit: woot, got my like button

biodoc · Oct 11, 2019

What a weird way to jump into 4th place.

StefanR5R · Oct 11, 2019

@VietOZ, thanks for the explanation.
Relevant FB forum thread: http://formula-boinc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1145#p1147

VietOZ · Oct 11, 2019

Np, @StefanR5R ! stoneageman spotted it right away when the stats first came up. But we didn't bother to post on the FB's forum. Our guys are kinda worn out lately and i'm too lazy to register, lol

StefanR5R · Oct 11, 2019

Call it lazy or impatient. Account approval takes indeterminably long there. I never registered either.

biodoc · Oct 11, 2019

Now would be a good time to register. The admin is watching.

TennesseeTony · Oct 11, 2019

I missed something....register for what?

VietOZ · Oct 11, 2019

VietOZ said:
to post on the FB's forum.

Orange Kid · Oct 12, 2019

Day two Universe@home
We have slipped to fifth, but, 3rd, 4th, and 5th are in a tight race. With this and PG happening at the same time our resources are stretched mighty thin. What may happen in the final hours?

From FreeDC

StefanR5R · Oct 12, 2019

@ao_ika_red, good to see you being around!

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