Come join the March to the Solstice (24 Nov - 19 Dec). We'll be pushing PPS (LLR) as far along as possible before the final Challenge of the year, the Winter Solstice Challenge (19 Dec - 22 Dec). We have established intermediate goals for PPS (LLR) and are within striking distance of completing them by the end of year 2011.This by no means is a "walk in the park". :) It will take a concentrated and sustained effort to reach these goals. For more details, please see this post.
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Well, I do not know about you, but with an average crunch time of 421 hours, I do not think I will run this.
It is larger that their Seventeen or Bust project, which is 262 hours.
Something is really wrong here.
below is copied from their web site on Dec 11, 9:50 am Eastern Time.
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Proth Prime Search (Sieve)The Winter Solstice Challenge project
Supported platforms:
- Windows: 32bit, 64bit (+CUDA23, AMD OpenCL1)
- Linux: 32bit, 64bit (+CUDA23, AMD OpenCL1)
- Mac: 32bit, 64bit (+CUDA32, AMD OpenCL1 - 64 bit only)
1 Requires AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) drivers.If APP driver not available for your card, then the ATI Stream SDK is needed.
Recent average CPU time: 421:10:27
I think that CPU Time for the PPS's is old & outdated, it doesn't take anywhere's near that amount of time, more like 10-12 Hr's but not sure on that ...
Need to know if the Team as a whole is going to push on this one or not, doesn't make any difference to me, I'm running other thing's as well as PG on my GPU's so I can go either way ... ???
I think 2'nd place is possible, SICI probably have a Lock on 1'st with the GPU Power they have ...
Last edited by STE\/E; 12-11-11 at 10:20 AM.
It that time using CPU or for GPU/CUDA/ATI?Originally Posted by STE\/E
I only have an quad AMD Phenom 9650 running at 2.30 GHz. My only very-low-end CUDA died after 2-3 months of 15K daily PG work, when it got work. That was the spring of 2010.
The reported time is for CPU. Your AMD will crunch much faster then that. Credit wise, the project has cut granted credit approx. in half.
Personally, I don't think it's worth it to run cpu's on pps sieve. I'm already running pps sieve on my nvidia, so by default I'll join the challenge.
I think we should join the team to every challenge that comes along, regardless of how many people show interest.
...If only to build up the teams spirit of competition through awareness.
I did over 2M with PPS Sieve with the old time/credit rating. It would be nice to see that rate come back.
I am doing some PG right now, since it has been over a month since I did any, when I did it every day.
Nobody has to join the PG Challenge as it's a Project Challenge put on by the PG Project Staff, if your running the Project & the PPS Sieve Wu's your Automatically Entered into the Challenge & your credits towards the Challenge will be listed, also the The Team you are on will be listed & your Credits added to the Teams Challenge Credits during the Challenge. The only Challenges the Team has to be Manually Entered into is the ones put on by BOINCstats ...
Remember also for the PG Winter Solstice Challenge only Wu's Downloaded after the Challenge starts & returned before the Challenge ends are counted towards the Challenge, so there's no Bunkering finished Wu's before the Challenge begins either ...
That's how some Teams do it like the LAF Team, their somehow Automatically (Don't know how they do it either) entered in every BOINCstats Challenge & those that want to run them run them & those that don't want to run them don't run them ...Lets just join them all and let those who wish to participate have fun
Last edited by STE\/E; 12-12-11 at 03:20 AM.
Excellent, that makes it easier on us. Thanks for letting me know.
More good info.Remember also for the PG Winter Solstice Challenge only Wu's Downloaded after the Challenge starts & returned before the Challenge ends are counted towards the Challenge, so there's no Bunkering finished Wu's before the Challenge begins either ...
I found the instructions (LINK). It says the founder can sign up via the founders BAM! menu. Perhaps future challenges are listed and can be signed up for in advance on that page. An admin will have to check.That's how some Teams do it like the LAF Team, their somehow Automatically (Don't know how they do it either) entered in every BOINCstats Challenge & those that want to run them run them & those that don't want to run them don't run them ...
Okay boys make a decision ... the suspense is killing me. A boycott only hurts the ones staying out since PG is going to get almost everyone and their brother crunching this thing . Why not make a statement and show them what they lost and how SUSA can still kick butt? Since I don't have a horse in this race this is just my personal opinion of course!
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