The Scottish Boinc Team

Megacruncher · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:20 am Post subject: The CPDN Blitz.

We are making good progress here.
Our RAC is now 25K which places us 3rd (by RAC, we are still miles behind in 6th by TC Laughing

) in the UK just behind Scotland.
A couple of things give us hope. The first is that over the last week we have outcrunched Scotland by 6K which equates, if nothing else changes, to us overtaking them in 32 years and our RAC will exceed theirs within the next week or so.
The second is that things might well change. Merlyn has joined the charge and although his credit to date has been "only" 1.5K this might well change as he now has no less than 18 computers running CPDN which has got to help! Smile

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Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

Actually it's now 25 hosts that Merlyn has going for CPDN which is making a difference.
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rowpie · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:33 am Post subject:

i might just put my rig back onto wcg at this rate. the size of that mans farm is insane!
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steve · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:57 am Post subject:

[quote="rowpie"]i might just put my rig back onto wcg at this rate. the size of that mans farm is insane![/quote]

Ben · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject:

Contributing to climate change in order to understand it... Ironic! Laughing

Still, looks as though the answers will be coming to them quicker then they thought!

Has anyone actually completed a CPDN wu? Mine usually get to within about 30%-40% and then fail due to XYZ.
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MacDitch · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject:

Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:

The old ones especially the BBC ones were very prone to falling over. Most of my recent ones have gone the distance. It helps that they are much quicker than they used to be - just a couple of weeks now.
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Ben · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

They come in three different flavors (i think) from memory? Although the one i have been doing off and on was the smallest of three, at 40hours in i'm only 10% of the way through so far. Takes dedication!

I might try backing up the project, seems like a good idea. But one thing i thought about was - wouldn't that bugger up their database if it reports as failed, but the backup copy you stuck back on there completes?
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Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject:

I take a Darwinian view of CPDN units - if they fail it's usually for the best and may reflect the fact that there is something wrong with that one. You get your credit as you go along so it's not as if you lose weeks worth of work. And it probably does confuse them to have a WU phone in dead only to have you resurrect it a day or two later.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject:

Alrighty!!
Our RAC ifor CPDN s now up to 28,888 which places us 25th in the world, second in the UK only to UBT and just ahead of Scotland who have an RAC of just 28,307. wav

On the basis that we out crunched them by 12K in the last week I calculate that our time to overtake Scotland has halved from 32 to 16 years in just a few days! Very Happy

We should pick up pace as the full impact of the Merlyn mega-ranch kicks in. I'm going to email dormant TSBT CPDN crunches to try and get them back on the project.
Don't nobody else use this as an excuse to ease off.!
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jockmacmad2 · Boinc Admiral Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 261

Not much RAC, but I switched 4 machines over to just CPDN and stopped Rosetta and MilkyWay on them for the short term.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:

It's enough RAC to make the difference between beating Scotland or being beaten. Very Happy

Also it takes a while for RAC to reflect yourregular contribution. I reckon the teams RAC will be up to 30K by tomorrow, 40K by the end of next week & 50K by the end of the month!
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Megacruncher · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:25 am Post subject:

Our RAC is now 31K! Our time to overtake Scotland has shrunk to 9 years based on the weeks crunching. Smile

If we base it on the days crunching it shrinks to a year & a bit. Very Happy

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rowpie · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:47 am Post subject:

this should be added to the 2009 goals. pass scotland in cpdn.

common tsbt!!
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MacDitch · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: