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What is this event all about?

The BOINC Pentathlon is a two week long BOINC team competition. Five different projects will be crunched over the two week period.

The BOINC Pentathlon consists of 5 disciplines:

1. Marathon (14 days)
2. Sprint (3 days)
3. City Run (5 days)
4. Cross Country (5 days)
5. Javelin (5x1 day, only each team's third best daily score counts)

The fun and challenging aspect of the Pentathlon is resource management. The 5 "disciplines" are run over a 14 day period, so each "discipline" overlaps another discipline. Figuring out what to run, and when to run it, is what makes the Pentathlon a unique and challenging BOINC points race.

• Run-times and projects for each discipline are announced 5 days (Marathon and one other project) or 3 days (Sprint and one other project) before their respective start. Each day of Javelin Throw will be announced three days in advance. Announcements can be found on the, main page, via Blog, or Feed .
• This allows some time to stock up on completed WU's, but it can also be dangerous if you forget to turn in the completed tasks before the deadline. It also adds another twist to resource management, if you are trying to stockpile WU's, while simultaneously running the current active disciplines.

New to BOINC?

Check out the BOINC Essentials Thread for information about BOINC, how to install and use the BOINC client, and what projects are available on the BOINC platform.


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:boxing3: 11th BOINC Pentathlon - May 5th-19th, 2020 :boxing3:

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Disciplines to crunch:

OCN Final Overall Ranking: TBD

Marathon: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - TBD
Starts: 5/5
Ends: 5/19
Project Support Thread

Sprint: Ibercivis
OCN Final Ranking - TBD
Starts: 5/16
Ends: 5/19
Project Support Thread

City Run: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - 10
Starts: 5/7
Ends: 5/12
Project Support Thread

Cross Country: Amicable Numbers
OCN Final Ranking - TBD
Starts: 5/12
Ends: 5/17
Project Support Thread

Javelin Throw: [email protected]
OCN Final Ranking - TBD
Starts: Various Start Times
Ends: Various End Times
Project Support Thread

Project Choosing Rules

The biggest change to the Pentathlon this year is how the projects will be chosen.

• The projects for this year's Pentathlon will be chosen by the event organizers
• Projects from last year's Pentathlon are eligible for this year's Pentathlon
• There may be more than one GPU project

To be eligible for the prize drawing and to have your individual stats tracked, sign up and fill out the form at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...xHbFX9Aj59Dt9B8AQO0GFnJw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Prizes Being Donated for the Pentathlon:
1x $75 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
3x $50 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net
6x $25 Paypal - Donated by Overclock.net

 

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Link to individual OCN team member stats:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...3-HMM6obnLDurI3x4PvjQSU0I/edit#gid=1645089971


*Edit* Changed link to new sheet

 

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Less than two weeks until the start of the 2020 Pentathlon. :wheee:

 

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I'll try to help where I can... I never did get that bunkering thing tho.

Not a big deal, any work done goes to the total. :thumb:

Yay pentathlon time! I've been running rosetta for the covid projects. Hopefully there's a big push for rosetta.

With the projects being picked by the organizers, it will be interesting to see what we are running.

Wow, I haven't been here in so long. I've been on-and-off crunching, but I think I'm back to full-time status for a while. I just got a gaming laptop from a friend, and it almost out-specs my desktop!

If it's not too off-topic, how's everyone doing? Seems like it's been really quiet, with a lot of inactive/lurking users.

Traffic on OCN has gone way down in the last two years. Glad to see you back for the Pent.

I'm in - lets put my 6900k, 3770, 4770, 5930k's to work

:cheers:

 

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Making the Marathon thread now, but heads to everyone that if you start piling up tasks now, they won't count for the Pent.

Current deadline for all of the tasks that I already had and the ones I just grabbed is 5/2.

 

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Dude - I'm gonna need a tutorial on how to "productively" contribute to this (again).

I'll put something together later today, with the different ways to stockpile tasks after the project is announced. There are a few ways to do that, that range from dead simple to a bit more complicated.

 

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First post in the daily summary is up: https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/1211-BOINC-Pentathlon-2020-Crunch-time-again!

 

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I had been running it for a few weeks, and didn't notice any issues.

They do have at least one decent file server:

• Rack mounted 4U SuperMicro server
• Specs: Dual Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 256 GB RAM, X10DRD-IT, 2 x 10 GbE
• Storage: 72 x 1TB SSD via LSI SAS 9207-8i
• File system: ZFS on Linux v0.7 (raidz2, 9 vdevs with 8 disks) served via NFSv4
• OS: Ubuntu Server 16.04

I couldn't find any other info about additional back-end hardware, but hopefully ProtonMail, Rackspace, and other large new donors are helping on the back-end in addition to just running BOINC in their datacenters.

 

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The first leg of the Javelin throw will start at the same time as the Marathon, and the project is [email protected] https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/

 

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Credits look pretty low for the GPU. Not sure which is batter to run GPU or CPU. Is this project like Asteroids, where I good CPU can outproduce a good GPU?


*Edit* Just posted the thread for the Javelin Throw: https://www.overclock.net/forum/365...numberfields-home-project-support-thread.html

 

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Maybe I can answer my own questions.

"I would say you're not at a disadvantage if you run CPU only. My 32 core Threadripper is wracking up more credit than my 3 GPUs combined, but of course it all depends on your particular cpu/gpu combination."

https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/forum_thread.php?id=416&postid=2651#2651

 

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I agree with @mmonnin, my CPU can out produce my GPUs, but the GPUs will just add to the total.

 

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^^ That is the most fool-proof way.

 

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[email protected] is the City Run project. It runs May 7th-12th.

 

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I run Universe on all rpi's. I wonder how much bunkering I can do on them.

Universe WUs are small, so you shouldn't run into any storage issues. Here's a quick example from one of my machines. This is x86_64 but I imagine if anything the ARM tasks would be smaller.

• 450 Completed Tasks
• 390 Queued tasks
• Total space used (including Universe binaries) = 665 MB

 

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Now that I have 3 projects running, if the powers that be decided to release another project (like a GPU one) I would need to block uploads or add additional clients. Does anyone have the URLs to add to the host file to block uploads just in case?

Check the OPs of the project support threads. :thumb:

 

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I'm in, though I may not be able to participate during the entire event.

:cheers:
It all goes to the total, so thanks for any crunching you can do.

 

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I am always nervous about letting my tasks go, even after we get the all clear from SETI.Germany.

 

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Prizes added to the OP. :applaud:



Per-user stats will be posted sometime after the next hourly update. My stats might be a little out of sync with the official stats. If the official stats server is running on the same clock as the countdown on the Pentathlon homepage, then it is running about 3-4 seconds slow. I adjusted my time for pulling the baseline, so we'll see if I guessed right in about 10 minutes.

 

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hey guys, would the app config file to limit rosetta to 18 threads be:

<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>18</project_max_concurrent>
</app_config>

That's it. :thumb: