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quelProject administrator
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First, wow and thanks everyone who participated! A special thanks to the Polish National Team for their work on the OpenCL app version for ATI cards.
The server held up nicely and as far as work hand out and return the only glitches that were raised relate to ATI cards having trouble receiving work and the massive bandwidth demands for the uploads.
Statistics are now final in the data for the team and user stats on the project home page. You will note that the timestamp on it is 10 mins after the end of the challenge but after comparing the team data from 16:05:03 to 16:10:03 there we no changes. There were some changes in points from 16:00:03 to 16:05:03 and this is because we counted all work by the reported time and not all the validation on the server side completed until the 16:05:03 update. These few changes are 10947.5 points for the Polish National Team, 3124.5 points for the SETI@klamm.de, 7823 points for Ars Technica, and 10947.5 points for TaiwainROC. Additionally, we have an archive of most of the statistics from the challenge available for public visibility, scrutiny, historical data, etc. via this archive.
From the start it looked like the Polish National Team was really putting some massive computation power to work and it began to look like Sicituradastra. was to be held at the number two rank. In the end Sicituradastra. did manage to finish in the top spot with a lead of approximately 353 (GPU) WUs in total where each team completed approximately 22000 WUs if just looking at credit of GPU WUs against the total.
On the user side [GPU Force] Robert 7NBI and STE\/E put out insane crunching efforts! They finished first and second.
The battles within various ranks of team and user are much more than just those at the top but equally interesting and best told by all those who wish to do so here. Congratulations to everyone!
The server saw some 40% increase in computational power from clients during the 3 day build up to the challenge and during the challenge. Initially it was only about a 12% increase towards the start.
Our biggest glitches related to getting boincstats.com data working correctly and some rather strange data for the last hour stats on our part. Then, of course no countdown clock, a wrong clock, etc.
Everyone wants to know if there will be another challenge and given how well this one seemed to go the answer is YES! No, we do not have a date or time yet. For now there is lots of work to do besides planning another challenge :) | |
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Yeah!
Together we made it
We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall
Forever we waited (haha!)
And they told us we were never going to get it
but we took it on the road
*yeah, yeah, yeah, yo!*
We Did It!
Congratulations to Sicituradastra. and our members for taking the #1 spot! ;-))
Also congrats to Robert for #1 User, - and to the Project for a great working
challenge! ;-)
Thanx to everyone who run this challenge - and made it great fun!
And hopefully it has been helpful for the project admins too. ;-)
Moon*
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I'm happy to see everything went well. It's been a bumpy road for you guys so props. goes out to you. One of my favorite projects keep up the good work.
Cheers and congrats to the winners and the Admins. | |
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My congratulations go out to all who participated in this challenge. We did a great job. Also congratulations go out to the admins who worked so hard to make this come to pass.
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Congratulations to Sicituradastra. You were the best.
Congratulations to admins - great job! | |
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Seems to be a difference between "work units waiting for validation" on the summary site & my own statistics, just looked on the summary site says 10 units waiting for validation, my own stats indicate 36, whats' up? | |
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The update must be behind because I also have work waiting to be validated.
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Hey Guys
I was on vacation and missed the challenge :-( when's the next one, soon please.
Cheers
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Hey Guys
I was on vacation and missed the challenge :-( when's the next one, soon please.
Cheers
Rob
We don't have any planned but it went well, was popular, and is frequently requested that we host another.
Our reasons for the first/previous one, along with the credit increase, were both to celebrate having a new stable server and to really hit the server to see what it can handle. We actually never reached a breaking point for the server and were quite happy to see that.
As someone who enjoys participating in the Primegrid project challenges and wishes more projects had such events, I am quite interested as an admin and as a fellow cruncher to host another challenge.
However, the simplicity of not having a min quorum of 2 and using a limited server side validation routine are no longer how we run the project. Additionally, we have a rather curious problem: we can generate faster than we can optimize applications to use the generated tables, work on new algorithms, and coping with disk growth (our full completed data set is now some 9TB!). As an example: finished data of about 243.25 GiB has a raw upload size of about 1836.78 GiB, and when fully expanded on the server is roughly 3673.55 GiB prior to the server side work that creates a finished data set.
I certainly want to host a project challenge again and just need to find the time, right generation for a challenge, and a solid reason for the challenge. I do not expect we will ever reach a regular project challenge schedule because our end result is a large data set instead of something simple such as prime or not-prime. | |
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