2020 Formula Boinc Sprints

[StefanR5R]

It's nice that Universe@home has got small task files and result files. (OK, ULX result files were big. I haven't looked if they still are.) Not so nice is that there are 6 result files per task.

Edit, during the past 12 hours, formula-boinc.org was able to pull stats from the project server only 3 times.

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On another note, here are the contributions to all FB sprints at U@h so far, in million points:

​	November 2017 ​	October 2018 ​	October 2019 ​	March 2020 (~halftime)​
league 1​	66 M​	96 M​	315 M​	(210 M)​
league 2​	40 M​	40 M​	31 M​	(13 M)​
league 3​	3 M​	4 M​	5 M​	(3 M)​
total​	109 M​	140 M​	352 M​	(226 M)​

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 2 of 3 of the Universe@home sprint. There are good news, and bad news.

First the good news: Those who completed tasks from the earlier ULX batch and either had these tasks error out because of the wrong disk limit in the task info, or had the tasks canceled by the server after the fact, may perhaps get credit in retrospect some time next week: The admin Krzysztof is looking into it.

And now the bad news: There were no statistics updates at formula-boinc.org anymore during the last 9 hours, and merely intermittent updates before that. Meaning, universeathome.pl server performance is going down further and further.

Especially the teams represented by the yellow and red lines in the following graph might be disappointed by the lack of updates by now:



Will there be any updates tomorrow?

 

[StefanR5R]

PS:
I am wondering if the top producers are running ULX. They really, really shouldn't. (Except if they are in a team which is not interested in the stats advancing past the Saturday 1200UTC point.)

 

[StefanR5R]

Oh wait, I can't just end this with the bad news. There is more good news:
We entered the top ten of the Universe@home marathon and gained an FB point therefore. :-)

 

[ao_ika_red]

I avoid ULX since day 0 2 and pick the more reliable BHspin sub-project. Works well so far, except for the internet comms. As usual VPN solves the issue. This internet censorship is getting ridiculous.

 

[StefanR5R]

Will there be any updates tomorrow?

Yes, there are updates today --- each hour now. :-)
Here is what we've got so far:

 

[TennesseeTony]

XS is smoking the competition!

 

[TennesseeTony]

PS:
I am wondering if the top producers are running ULX. They really, really shouldn't. (Except if they are in a team which is not interested in the stats advancing past the Saturday 1200UTC point.)

BH Spin pays 1333.33, ULX pays 333, and takes twice as long.

 

[StefanR5R]

BH Spin pays 1333.33, ULX pays 333, and takes twice as long.

Interesting. Before the big cancellation, I found just a single validated ULX on the dozen random hosts at which I looked at at the time, and it had about the same CPU time as BHspin and the same 1333.33 credits. (Right now there are indeed 333.33 and 666.67 variations of ULX out there, both with longer CPU time than BHspin.)

 

[StefanR5R]

Since circa 14:00UTC, response of the project server is deteriorating again, and only half of formula-boinc.org's stats updates went through. If folks are attempting to release bunkers now, they may not see them counted towards the sprint anymore because stats could get stuck at the current standing, if this trend continues.

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Those who completed tasks from the earlier ULX batch and either had these tasks error out because of the wrong disk limit in the task info, or had the tasks canceled by the server after the fact, may perhaps get credit in retrospect some time next week: The admin Krzysztof is looking into it.

Update: He added credits already.

 

[StefanR5R]

Sprint at Universe@home, day 3.

Between 21:15...21:30 UTC, formula-boinc.org succeeded to fetch the final stats update, after failing to get them during the four previous hours. This was either luck, or those who performed the most transfers or requests to the project server stopped doing so around the finish time. Rankings remained as they were, except for UBT and RKN trading places:



We are taking 12 sprint points and 1 marathon point home, and advanced from 9th to 8th in the overall ranking. --- Nice work, TeAm! Welcome, @borandi. :-)

 

[StefanR5R]

We are taking 12 sprint points and 1 marathon point home, and advanced from 9th to 8th in the overall ranking.

Update, 7AA7 even reached 7th in the Universe marathon, giving us 6 points there. Alas, P3D collected points elsewhere in the meantime too, and so we are back to 9th overall.

If the "intelligent heating" at my home wasn't tied up with antivirus protein folding currently, I would have liked to give us a push in one or another marathon now...

But at least we shall soon catch up with Taiwan in the Rosetta marathon:
table, graph

 

[StefanR5R]

(We don't have a marathon thread, so I put this in the sprint thread...)

We passed Boinc@Taiwan and SETI.USA in the Rosetta marathon:
table, graph

We are now 6th in the Rosetta 2020 season, and 8th overall.

 

[StefanR5R]

We are now 6th in the Rosetta 2020 season,

...but about to be stomped by a herd of cows.

(marathon ranks 2-10, source)

 

[Ken g6]

Well, the latest Formula BOINC sprint says "Canceled".

There's still Folding@Home vs. Tom's Hardware and a PrimeGrid challenge is going.

 

[StefanR5R]

Nothing about it at http://formula-boinc.org/forum/ yet.
Maybe it's a joke, but if so, I for one don't find it particularly funny...

Or maybe we unwashed masses voted a project into this sprint which doesn't have tasks now.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Nothing about it at http://formula-boinc.org/forum/ yet.
Maybe it's a joke, but if so, I for one don't find it particularly funny...

Or maybe we unwashed masses voted a project into this sprint which doesn't have tasks now.

It's 2 APRIL 2020 1333 UTC and it's still "cancelled". Just like F1 race season, it's crumbling to a halt.

 

[StefanR5R]

The next sprint is....... cancelled!

No wait — it is NOT cancelled. :-P

04/16/2020 16:00 (UTC) - 04/19/2020 15:59 (UTC)
Asteroids@home

http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=4&year=2020

Yay! :-D

 

[Ken g6]

I forgot to vote for Rosetta again. That's one reason why we need more TAC members.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Oh lucky me! Asteroids is my current project, and I already have a back log (validation pending) of nearly 1.9M points.

If you have not run Asteroids in a while, you need to retrain the server, unfortunately. They will send you tonnes of sse2/sse3 tasks, and also some avx. AVX is of course what you want to get on modern hardware as it runs twice as fast as SSE2.

GPU tasks are NOT worth it, just run CPU. The new cuda100 tasks take twice as long on a GPU, and tie up a thread. Everything gets 480 points.

 

[borandi]

Are these AVX512 ? Or should I be putting 64 core AMD systems on

 

[StefanR5R]

There is no dedicated AVX-512 version among the current application versions. Also, many of the top hosts happen to have AMD CPUs.

 

[StefanR5R]

My prediction: This green curve is going to take a very quick nosedive now.



(data source)

 

[Endgame124]

My prediction: This green curve is going to take a very quick nosedive now.

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(data source)

Is rts available work?

 

[TennesseeTony]

I believe it is short for 'Ready To Send', so, yes.