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Projects of the Month for February 2017

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February Projects of the Month

SRBase

Start: 35 - Goal: 30 - End: | An invite code will need to be entered when you join this project. The code can be found on the project's homepage. Currently the code is: pillepalle. We ran this project in February of last year, but after 1 year we have dropped back out of the top 30. I haven't ran this project recently, but I do remember it being one of the more taxing projects I have ever run.

yoyo@home

Start: 27 - Goal: 23 - End: | After a good push last month, we are now in a position to make a big jump in rankings.
:D
The goal might be a little low, I bet we can make it to 22nd.
;)






NumberFields@Home

Start: 28 - Goal: 26 - End: | It has been a long time since we ran NumberFields. I was able to grab some tasks, so fingers crossed that there are tasks for the whole month.

GPUGrid

Start: 25 - Goal: 24 - End: | Picking up a spot in GPUGrid is probably a stretch, but Rechenkraft has been steadily gaining ground on our 25th spot. GPUGrid can be a finicky project. I took a quick jaunt through the forums and it looks like there are a few issues, but nothing too major from what I saw.
:thumb:


This is a bit of a different mix, but lets see what we can do.
:D
 
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Gosh... must we have TWO CPU math POMs at the same time?

Quote from SRBase news....

"On 31th of Dezember 2016, conf [MM], a member of the team SETI.USA found the last prime for base S844.
The prime 40*844^246524+1 has 721416 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database."

Woopy Doooo!!! (not!)

I know there is a crying need to find a BILLION DIGIT LONG PRIME of some sort, but NOBODY has ever told me of what REAL USE any prime over 1000 digits is good for other than a math exercise... There are MANY math sites out there doing the same thing more or less...

Numberfields seems to me to have more value...

I'll run a little SRBase just to get on the board... but only a few days of it... Numberfields I'll give a little more attention to.

GPUGrid is cool...

JMHO...

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For SRBase, I'd definitely recommend a solid state hard drive, because otherwise you'll constantly have hard drive noise, especially if you get a bunch of the short work units (that for some reason, run for only 3 seconds or so then finish)
 
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Originally Posted by Tex1954 View Post

Gosh... must we have TWO CPU math POMs at the same time?

Quote from SRBase news....

"On 31th of Dezember 2016, conf [MM], a member of the team SETI.USA found the last prime for base S844.
The prime 40*844^246524+1 has 721416 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database."

Woopy Doooo!!! (not!)

I know there is a crying need to find a BILLION DIGIT LONG PRIME of some sort, but NOBODY has ever told me of what REAL USE any prime over 1000 digits is good for other than a math exercise... There are MANY math sites out there doing the same thing more or less...

Numberfields seems to me to have more value...

I'll run a little SRBase just to get on the board... but only a few days of it... Numberfields I'll give a little more attention to.

GPUGrid is cool...

JMHO...

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Originally Posted by mmonnin View Post

I kinda feel the same about Primes. I'll run it for the badges and WUProp hours.

I think large primes can be used for Cyber Security.
The month just started, so we could kick one of the Math projects to the curb.
:D


Any suggestions for other projects? They don't necessarily have to be projects we can move up in. Maybe one of the CERN projects, Cosmology, or Universe? In the past I have somewhat steered clear of the VirtualBox projects, even though they are personally very interesting to me, because of some of the issues with running the VBox wrapped tasks. We are firmly in 6th on Universe, but CNT is steadily gaining on us.
 
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LHC or Universe are ones I could definitely get behind ^_^
 
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I have been running SRBase and Primegrid lately to collect hours in WUprop, they are projects that have a lot of sub-projects. But I don't disagree with not finding a lot of value in 100 thousand digit prime numbers.

I am cool with anything you want to do.

I ran some LHC over the weekend and their current tasks at times were using as much as 3G of memory, not to mention the 240M download.
 
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I'm fine with the projects for POTM. A month is fine for me but not something I'd continue with past the month unless for badges/WUProp hours. At some point I would have dumped by Q66 on SRBase for all it's apps as I did for PrimeGrid. Might as well be now. And it looks like a wingman finally completed by SoB task that I finished like 2 months ago. Last badge for PG with that.

I'm looking forward to when Universe finally gets its GPU app rolling. Then I'd guess it would dwarf the CPU RAC so I've stayed away except to keep a tablet crunching.

Edit: I checked SRBase and I only see Sierpinski Base - short with available tasks to be sent.
 
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Originally Posted by WhiteWulfe View Post

For SRBase, I'd definitely recommend a solid state hard drive, because otherwise you'll constantly have hard drive noise, especially if you get a bunch of the short work units (that for some reason, run for only 3 seconds or so then finish)
And boom goes the hard drive running a Q66 and GTX570. It was running WCG and Milkyway but thats some odd timing. Man I don't want to mess with Linux again.
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Edit: GPUgrid STILL seems to have a poor server setup. No work at all. Back to E@H.
 
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All I am getting is project has no work from GPUGrid, looks like one of those projects where you need to spam the update button. I am going to try this, it will update every 5 minutes. Probably get home from work and be inundated with work units...

$ cd /var/lib/boinc-client
$ sudo su
$ watch -n 300 boinccmd --project http://www.gpugrid.net/ update

edit - after running this for a 1/2 hour I got a task, woo hoo!
 
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Originally Posted by bfromcolo View Post

All I am getting is project has no work from GPUGrid, looks like one of those projects where you need to spam the update button. I am going to try this, it will update every 5 minutes. Probably get home from work and be inundated with work units...

$ cd /var/lib/boinc-client

$ sudo su

$ watch -n 300 boinccmd --project http://www.gpugrid.net/ update

edit - after running this for a 1/2 hour I got a task, woo hoo!
GPUGrid doesn't have enough WU's to support all the crunchers. The WU's coming at us now are likely timeouts and wingman duplicates after a WU is completed. There is discussion about it in their forum....

Depends on what they are running I suppose... always trouble getting work from them if you not there at the beginning of a run...

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Originally Posted by bfromcolo View Post

All I am getting is project has no work from GPUGrid, looks like one of those projects where you need to spam the update button. I am going to try this, it will update every 5 minutes. Probably get home from work and be inundated with work units...

$ cd /var/lib/boinc-client
$ sudo su
$ watch -n 300 boinccmd --project http://www.gpugrid.net/ update

edit - after running this for a 1/2 hour I got a task, woo hoo!
If you want to make managing BOINC easier in Linux, you should add your user to the BOINC group.

# gpasswd -a whoeveryouare boinc

Once you're added to the BOINC group you won't have to sudo your way into the BOINC files, so it is much easier to create scripts and edit config files.
:thumb:
 
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Originally Posted by mmonnin View Post

GPUGrid has a limit I think how many WUs you can have at once. Since there is a bonus you don't want days of work anyway. And due to that any other project would have to be set to 0% so only work that can immediately run is downloaded so that GRUGrid is run next.
Yes, the problem I have with it is when my system sits all night not running anything because the update interval increases with continued failed attempts to get work. I get tired of sitting there hitting update.
 
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Originally Posted by Tex1954 View Post

I tried and tried... couldn't get any GPUGrid... but good on yoyo and numberfields ... soon as I get 1 mil in DrugDiscovery, I'll add more to POTMs...

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I ran my updater above for about 20 min and picked up a couple short GPUGrid tasks.
 
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