BOINC Pentathlon 2025

[Skillz]

Signing us up for the 2025 Pentathlon this year. Needed to start a thread for the sign up process.

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  SRBase                   _ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄                      3 days Sprint
MilkyWay    _ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄                               5 days City Run
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Thanks Stef for the graph above.

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Stef's post edited in until I get sometime to properly fill this post out.

Rules are like last year. (Except last year, they had to cut the then new Steeplechase short to 5 instead of originally planned 7 days — I don't remember why [edit: 7 days of SiDock were planned but there was a geoblock in place between Russia and Ukraine, so it got replaced by MilkyWay crammed into the last 5 Pentathlon days] — and this year they intend to run Steeplechase for 7 days.)

Our forum threads of past Pentathlons: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Current medal count

 

[Markfw]

Due to budget and power requirements, Not sure I can be "all in" but I will try and contribute. When is it again ?

 

[mmonnin03]

26 days from now

from 05 May 2025 00:00 UTC
to 19 May 2025 00:00 UTC

 

[Markfw]

So 14 days or 1/2 month. My last electric bill was $1150 when I had all my boxes going, and that was 7 days. THIS is my problem. I could have a $2000 electric bill.

 

[mmonnin03]

There's a good chance PG will be one of the projects (as it has the past 4 years) but I don't think all the other projects push the power budget as like PG.

 

[Markfw]

There's a good chance PG will be one of the projects (as it has the past 4 years) but I don't think all the other projects push the power budget as like PG.

Right now I have 10 boxes boing, but only 6 video cards running F@H. and nothing is running PG until yesterday when I started playing with PG on the Turin. Electric bill this way was $750.

 

[Skillz]

No team has even won 4 in a row. Only 3 in a row has been achieved. We're one of the teams who have won 3 in a row. Going for a 4 straight win will be a Pentathlon first.

4 straight wins in championship games of major sports has never happened either. Only 3 consecutive wins and even that's fairly rare. So getting 4 in a row in something as major as this event within' our community would be huge.

With that being said. I plan to sweat it out and run everything I've got plus the kitchen sink, toaster, microwave and anything else I can cobble together.

 

[Markfw]

No team has even won 4 in a row. Only 3 in a row has been achieved. We're one of the teams who have won 3 in a row. Going for a 4 straight win will be a Pentathlon first.

4 straight wins in championship games of major sports has never happened either. Only 3 consecutive wins and even that's fairly rare. So getting 4 in a row in something as major as this event within' our community would be huge.

With that being said. I plan to sweat it out and run everything I've got plus the kitchen sink, toaster, microwave and anything else I can cobble together.

That being the case..... I rarely cache or bunker. I have 5 4090s, 4 4080s, 6 9554's (well one is slower, a 9534) a Turin and a 9654. Oh, and 5 7950x, and a 7950x3d I think and a 9950x.

If there is any way I power then up, 2 more 7950x and 2 3090TIs.

IF I can run then all, you need to tell me where to put them and when. Remember, rarely bunker, not good at it and changes to config are slow.

 

[StefanR5R]

Rules are like last year. (Except last year, they had to cut the then new Steeplechase short to 5 instead of originally planned 7 days — I don't remember why [edit: 7 days of SiDock were planned but there was a geoblock in place between Russia and Ukraine, so it got replaced by MilkyWay crammed into the last 5 Pentathlon days] — and this year they intend to run Steeplechase for 7 days.)

Our forum threads of past Pentathlons: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

 

[cellarnoise]

Rules are like last year. (Except last year, they had to cut the then new Steeplechase short to 5 instead of originally planned 7 days — I don't remember why [edit: 7 days of SiDock were planned but there was a geoblock in place between Russia and Ukraine, so it got replaced by MilkyWay crammed into the last 5 Pentathlon days] — and this year they intend to run Steeplechase for 7 days.)

Our forum threads of past Pentathlons: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Wow, thanks for all the links to past years! I'm slowly going through them!

This event is one of the reasons, that I spend on DC...

 

[cellarnoise]

Update from the host!

16. Boinc-Pentathlon - Der tägliche Bericht zur Lage

30.04.25 #wennderschmerznachlässt 2023 hatte ich Chat-GPT gefragt, ob er/sie/es etwas mit dem Pentathlon anfangen kann. Dieses Mal habe ich mal geschaut, was der Elon so gemacht hat. Seine Autos sind ja nicht so meins, da mir 6 Zylinder in meinem J**p lieber sind, aber Grok hat es echt...

www.seti-germany.de

 

[burninatortech4]

I'm down to participate. I have 2x 2400GE's (Lenovo Tiny's) and a 5700G (Asrock X300) I can run 24/7 for the competition duration. Power is a bit expensive here though so I'll have to wait until the last minute.

 

[Skillz]

The marathon project should be announced later tonight around 8 or 9PM EST.

 

[Markfw]

The marathon project should be announced later tonight around 8 or 9PM EST.

We can bunker this one ? So we start crunching it once its announced ? I hope its WCG, as I have 6000 downloaded of that.

 

[Skillz]

Yes we can bunker in the Pentathlon.

 

[Markfw]

getting the farm powered up.

 

[StefanR5R]

                    Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
           02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
 WCG MCM   __ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄   14 days Marathon
  SRBase                   _ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄                      3 days Sprint
MilkyWay    _ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄                               5 days City Run
Einstein                        __ __ __ ▄▄ ▄▄ 30 ▄▄ 30 ▄▄ ▄▄    7 days Steeplechase
     NFS               __ __ __ ▄▄                               1 day  Javelin Throw
                             __ __ __ ▄▄                         1 day
                                   __ __ __ ▄▄                   1 day
                                          _ __ __ ▄▄             1 day
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(last updated after May 16, 00:00 UTC)

 

[Markfw]

so the farm is all up, and almost nothing is running, but the AC is already on fullblast ! Its 77f and still rising outside !(due to hit 85f)

edit:If WCG is the project,its now added to all computers, and 10,10 is the network setting for bunkering.

 

[Icecold]

The marathon was announced, it's the Mapping Cancer Markers subproject on World Community Grid. Task deadlines are 6 days so we're good to start running it now.

 

[Ken g6]

I can't believe it's WCG. I can't get any work.

 

[Markfw]

I can't believe it's WCG. I can't get any work.

More than half of those are since before1pmwhen skillz posted.

Now I can't get a bunker of 1000 like the older machines. But its up and giving units.

Not that it will be the project, but it has been dependable for months now.

 

[Ken g6]

Must've been a brief flood. Work's coming in now.

 

[Markfw]

Must've been a brief flood. Work's coming in now.

From my experience with the project, its been hard to get work until you are a "trusted computer".That may have been relaxed if they were told to expect a flood of requests ????

 

[Ken g6]

From my experience with the project, its been hard to get work until you are a "trusted computer".That may have been relaxed if they were told to expect a flood of requests ????

It's hard to get a lot of work until you are a "trusted computer". I wasn't getting any tasks at all for awhile.

 

[Markfw]

It's hard to get a lot of work until you are a "trusted computer". I wasn't getting any tasks at all for awhile.

the ones with low total tasks are new computers, that I turned on today. This supports that statement.