2020 Formula Boinc Sprints

[biodoc]

Nice bunker drop @StefanR5R .

 

[StefanR5R]

Nice bunker drop @StefanR5R .

Could have been nicer if I had been prepared for WCG on Wednesday already, rather than on Thursday night/ Friday morning. %-)

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And now the wait for the final stats update commences.

 

[biodoc]

It appears there wasn't another stats update. I could be wrong though since I didn't write the numbers down.

 

[StefanR5R]

The last stats update as of this moment was at ~02:00 UTC, 12 hours ago.


Edit,
these are all stats updates after I started watching them on Sat UTC 09:00+:
Sat UTC 14:00+, Sat UTC 20:00+, Sun UTC 02:00+.

 

[StefanR5R]

Oh nice, 7AA7 is 7th according to last day's WCG output globally:
https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/team/list/12/0/0

Also,
XS's output is at 4.9 M, up from 1.2 M/day normally, B-)
ours is 3.0 M up from 0.6 M/day,
P3D right behind us in the sprint: 1.6 M up from 1 M/day normally.

 

[StefanR5R]

Sorry for spamming this thread...

The last stats update as of this moment was at ~02:00 UTC, 12 hours ago.

While the scores haven't updated at all since then, there still was a change at 13:00 UTC = the official finish of the sprint:
The heading of the web site changed from

Sprint on project World Community Grid
from 03/12/2020 13:00 (UTC) to 03/15/2020 12:59 (UTC)​

to

Sprint from 03/19/2020 21:00 (UTC) to 03/22/2020 20:59 (UTC)
Project will be known on 03/18/2020 21:00 (UTC)​

at this time. Perhaps this means that the FB script was done for good with sprint #1 at the announced time. Or perhaps not.

 

[Ken g6]

The next sprint is Universe@Home.

I blame @crashtech.

 

[TennesseeTony]

UNIVERSE pays exceptionally well for a CPU project, but even more so when using a Linux OS. Expect some bunkers in the final hours from our opponents, there will be some major points hiding until the last moment, so do not get comfortable!

 

[ao_ika_red]

Wow, so no SETI farewell sprint then?

 

[ao_ika_red]

Any luck with Universe' ULX tasks?

 

[biodoc]

Any luck with Universe' ULX tasks?

No, mostly computational errors on linux. They're still debugging.

https://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=507

 

[StefanR5R]

Krzysztof of Universe@home canceled a lot of faulty tasks today, server-side.

But not just ULX tasks, also very many BH2spin tasks.

If you happen to have a bunch of Universe@home tasks on your computers (regardless if downloaded but not yet started, or already finished successfully but not yet uploaded), then [Update] the project (regardless if you have network transfers enabled or suspended right now).

The client will then get notified by the server which of your precious tasks have lost the admin's blessing and are already in "canceled by server" state.

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Edit, now the server no longer responds to scheduler requests or file transfers. The web site and forum are still up though.

Edit 2, scheduler and transfers work, but highly unreliable with frequent timeouts.

 

[Ken g6]

Sebastian seems to be on time this time. 0's are loading onto the FB site, slowly. Edit: But not our TeAm, yet.

 

[Ken g6]

Aha, after half an hour we're finally listed. Dump away!

 

[ao_ika_red]

I was shocked when all my tasks got aborted by Universe. Universe is usually very reliable, but not when it matters I guess.

 

[emoga]

Every task I crunched in the last 24 hours was cancelled by the server lol

 

[ao_ika_red]

Every task I crunched in the last 24 hours was cancelled by the server lol

We really need the sad emoji back.

 

[Ken g6]

I kept crunching. Now I'm trying to upload, but the server's too slow.

 

[Ken g6]

All this is making me feel a little numb. You know, no sends, no feeling.

But at least one of my ULX's actually validated. So we have more than zero points, theoretically.

 

[TennesseeTony]

FB still shows 0 points across the board, 3.5 hours after the start. Hold your bunker(s) if you have them.

 

[StefanR5R]

I was shocked when all my tasks got aborted by Universe. Universe is usually very reliable, but not when it matters I guess.

The same mistake (disk limit of the tasks set too low in the task properties) has been made at U@h before.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Whoa, points are showing now, and SUSA/Scots are waaay up on top.

 

[VietOZ]

That was all Scots, Tony. We're trying to catch up, but davidBAM had a huge bunker. If the server behave, we may have a chance. If not, tough to catch them on this one. SUSA is busy with SETI, they're not interested in this Sprint or should I say FB as a whole.

 

[StefanR5R]

Sprint #2 of the 2020 season, Universe@home, day 1.

Excuse the unusual format, but I didn't want to switch to logarithmic y-axis.



We just inched our way past U@h's resident team (Poland) from 7th to 6th. Meanwhile, the server is not quite responsive, making it evidently difficult for formula-boinc.org's script to collect data. The first few hours were the worst, as you can see.

 

[ao_ika_red]

The same mistake (disk limit of the tasks set too low in the task properties) has been made at U@h before.

2018, I certainly forgot about that. Thanks for the graph Stefan.