Ramjet Memorial Challenge

[Dirk Broer]

Weren't we supposed to organise a WCG challenge in the rememberance of Ramjet around this time?

[Jason1478963]

I was thinking i'm running late on all that. What about something like the 12th to the 20th? Is that getting to close to the busy holiday? Is it still cool enough for our southern hemisphere members? It would be nice to make the race at wcg and boincstats if possible. If just one I think boincstats would be better for the stats.

[vaughan]

"From December 18th 16:28:00 UTC until December 21st 16:28:00 UTC we (Primegrid) will be having a 3 day challenge running the Proth Prime Search (Sieve) application."
This is OK as WCG doesn't have a GPU project so it won't interfere.

ps. It is currently reasonably cool in my town (mid 20's C), let's hope it stays that way for this challenge.

[Jason1478963]

This sounds good to me. Any other suggestions?

[vaughan]

I have created the Ramjet memorial WCG challenge on Boincstats, runs over 7 days commencing Dec 12th.

[Jason1478963]

Thank you vaughan. I may buffer a few work units ahead as I could use some heat.

[vaughan]

No problem Jason. I have put some machines on no new work for Primegrid so as to be ready for the Ramjet Memorial Challenge. I figured by the get go I should have 24 cores ready to crunch WCG.
I will see if I can find some more by the start time.

Come on team, please join in and have some fun.

[Jason1478963]

That sounds good and hope you can keep up :P I'm gonna have more then the last wcg race :P

[vaughan]

That sounds good and hope you can keep up :P I'm gonna have more then the last wcg race :P
I'll see what my little farm can do :)

[vaughan]

We are still 2 days out from the start of the Ramjet memorial challenge and we have 11 teams signed up. That's pretty good I think.

As Founder I have the opportunity to send an email to all AMD Users team members on World Community Grid. Do you think I should use this to publicize the challenge? Jason would you like to write something suitable I can use in a team-wide email. Remember that many people who are signed up for AMD Users in WCG never visit this team site or our Facebook page.

[Jason1478963]

Join us in a memorial race to honor our fallen cruncher Ramjet. It was a year ago when the micro managing of his crunching pharm was cut short. He continued as much as he could through his short battle with cancer and strokes. His crunching pharm continues to run in his memory and will be working hard during this race under jason1478963 as always. His wife, sons, family and friends continue to support this great cause. Please join us in our memorial race to honor him and others that have also fallen. Stop by at https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/971 or http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php/11090-Ramjet-Memorial-Challenge?p=82055#post82055 to tell us who your crunching to honor.

[vaughan]

OK the email has been sent to all 98 team members enrolled at WCG.

[Jason1478963]

Thanks again. We sure appreciate the efforts of everybody to make this possible :) I believe I am cold enough here I could turn on a few more and put off turning the heat on a bit longer.

[Tweeder]

Thanks Vaughan for the email. I saw this was coming up, and had forgotten to get things lined up ready to go for the memorial challenge! While I never knew RamJet i am happy to crunch in his honor as well as the numerous people I know that are currently fighting or have sadly lost their battle with the horrible beast that is cancer.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive competition.

[vaughan]

I do believe we have started our week long challenge in honor of Ramjet :)

Looks like we are running 8th out of 12 after 1 hour 20 minutes.

[Jason1478963]

turning a few on :P

[vaughan]

Nice boost, we are #1 now.

Go AMD Users.

[Dirk Broer]

Nice boost, we are #1 now.

Go AMD Users.

We need more boost: TSBT has passed us..
https://boincstats.com/signature/971/team/731/challenge/sig.png

But we have a nice number of AMD Users active: 38 at the moment!

[SuicideCabbage]

I'm giving her all she's got captain!

[vaughan]

My battlefleet is building, I hope to add another 5 computers today (but they are not modern CPUs).

[Jason1478963]

I hope your mains can hold it. I'm not sure I can fire up the dual cores here

[Jason1478963]

It looks like everyone on the team is hitting this one pretty hard. Nice work everybody. I couldn't ask for a better tribute for our fallen Members, family and friends :)

[Dirk Broer]

It looks like everyone on the team is hitting this one pretty hard. Nice work everybody. I couldn't ask for a better tribute for our fallen Members, family and friends :)

Not hard enough:
https://boincstats.com/signature/971/team/731/challenge/sig.png

[Jason1478963]

Its a very competitive project and as far back as I can remember we haven't been able to get to 3rd position in a race at WCG.
I have a few more going but sure could use about 10 ryzens

[euphoriabuzz]

Sorry I'm late.

[Jason1478963]

better late then missing the whole thing :P

[Dirk Broer]

We are still 2 days out from the start of the Ramjet memorial challenge and we have 11 teams signed up. That's pretty good I think.

As Founder I have the opportunity to send an email to all AMD Users team members on World Community Grid. Do you think I should use this to publicize the challenge? Jason would you like to write something suitable I can use in a team-wide email. Remember that many people who are signed up for AMD Users in WCG never visit this team site or our Facebook page.

By now 16 teams active, SETI.USA at the verge of becoming the 9th team to break the 1 million mark during the challenge.
And, let's not forget: at least 47 AMD team members active in the Ramjet memorial.

[vaughan]

Running 222 cores now.

[Jason1478963]

I'm around 360 cores :)

[Jason1478963]

Very impressive work. 222 cores is for sure throwing some heat and spinning that meter. This is an impressive effort that would make them proud and a serious dent in some research toward finding treatments and cures :) I know Dad would be very proud of this team helping out this much at WCG :)

[Nflight]

You all impress me with the huge outputs that keep us high in the points values. Keep this up for another day and we will have made an impression to beat next year.

[vaughan]

Yay we regained 4th place.

[vaughan]

You just earned a Gold badge for the contribution you've made to Beta Testing.

You just earned a Diamond 5 Year badge for the contribution you've made to Microbiome Immunity Project.

2 badges today. This is fun.

[Jason1478963]

Congrats on the badges. The Beta Testing is a hard one to get. You could build a nice collection at the rate your going :)
We are down to the final hours of the race and have a tight race to keep our 4th position.

[Dirk Broer]

Congrats on the badges. The Beta Testing is a hard one to get. You could build a nice collection at the rate your going :)
We are down to the final hours of the race and have a tight race to keep our 4th position.

We did end as 4th, I almost have a ruby badge for Smash Childhood Cancer now and am slowly crawling to a bronze Beta testing badge.

[Jason1478963]

4th place is a very nice tribute to Ramjet and others I think. I appreciate all the efforts on this race by our team and others as I know crunching can be very costly. I don't think we would have maintained 4th place if it wasn't for everybody that helped in this race. One machine less and we could have been in 5th place :P

Congrats on the badges Dirk, it is always nice to get some upgrades during a race. I am still short 16.5 years on my next badge upgrade. This should be achieved by the end of the heating season with Ramjets Pharm, my brothers and my more efficient machines.

Well Done Everybody

[euphoriabuzz]

I also gained a ruby badge - well done Team.

[vaughan]

Great job everyone. I thoroughly enjoyed this race. Now on the next over at Primegrid.

[Dirk Broer]

Great job everyone. I thoroughly enjoyed this race. Now on the next over at Primegrid.

Why is my name not here (http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2017_8/top_users.html)? It should be (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=usersubprojects&cpid=76d20230028d9ceee3a1aa52fcf14dd4).

[vaughan]

Better ask why over at Primegrid forum.

[Jason1478963]

double check you joined the team?

[Dirk Broer]

I burned off my too-old WUs

[NeoGen]

Bumping up an old thread... can't believe another year is almost gone by already.

Many things happened this year, but today Ramjet came to my mind. I believe that may have been triggered because today I videochatted with my older sister in Portugal, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this year and appears to have beat it to the best of her knowledge, after surgery and several rounds of chemo.
We can be blessed as individuals and win small personal battles every now and then, but it will take a much greater and combined effort from everyone to win the war itself.

With that in mind, shall we rally together and create the second annual Ramjet memorial WCG challenge? :)

[Dirk Broer]

Bumping up an old thread... can't believe another year is almost gone by already.

Many things happened this year, but today Ramjet came to my mind. I believe that may have been triggered because today I videochatted with my older sister in Portugal, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this year and appears to have beat it to the best of her knowledge, after surgery and several rounds of chemo.
We can be blessed as individuals and win small personal battles every now and then, but it will take a much greater and combined effort from everyone to win the war itself.

With that in mind, shall we rally together and create the second annual Ramjet memorial WCG challenge? :)

Sounds like a good idea to me!

[vaughan]

Yes, I'll join. When is it?

[NeoGen]

You set it up in Mid December last year, we can shoot for around the same dates unless different dates are preferred?

[plonk420]

ouch @ cancer. good to hear the fight has gone well. wishing the best for her!

[SuicideCabbage]

Since it appears the challenge is not yet declared publicly, now is the time to strategize. I supported this last year with the same devotion I do the Pentathlon, and plan to do so again. That being said, assuming one of the climate projects is not launched before then, and does not contain a GPU app, my vote is for a run-time challenge. At full-burn I am clearing four months per calender day, however most of the cores are on the weaker side, so results returned and points I cannot thrive in. (Also a run-time challenge doesn't have me min/maxing clocks to the point of meltdown 23h a day) Obviously I am one person, so let's get the the conscientious of the collective, and give us the best chance possible at coming out on top.

EDIT: I could probably thrive in a results returned as well, would just need to figure out what I can chew through the fastest with my hardware and OS, and focus solely on that. However if the challenge is only on cancer related research and not WCG as a whole, my server-class chips take 8-10h to clear a Mapping Cancer Markers unit, while my desktops can clear them in 3.5-5h at current clocks.

[NeoGen]

ouch @ cancer. good to hear the fight has gone well. wishing the best for her!
Thanks plonk420! Now comes the constant vigilance.

SuicideCabbage, the "collective" :icon_lol: might wake up around the holidays and weekend. I'm sure we should hear some more interesting points about it in a couple of days.

[Jason1478963]

Another memorial challenge would be great as too many people are dealing with or being lost to cancer. Thanks for the bump on the thread NeoGen. I am glad to hear that things seem to be well with your sister and hoping for great health in the future.

I feel a runtime competition would be OK as new projects can be run to help out during that event. I know Ramjet would love these challenges as he believed in the many WCG projects we have contributed to.

[Jason1478963]

Should we try for the same time period as last year if possible?

[Dirk Broer]

Should we try for the same time period as last year if possible?

Sounds like a good idea, makes the challenge more recognizable for those who participate

[vaughan]

Yes, totally agree.

[Dirk Broer]

I feel a runtime competition would be OK as new projects can be run to help out during that event. I know Ramjet would love these challenges as he believed in the many WCG projects we have contributed to.

Runtime competitions can only be done via WCG (BOINCStats only does credit-based ones). Pretty crowded there at the moment (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewAllTeamChallenges.do)

[Jason1478963]

I'm OK with whatever you guys would like to do. I appreciate all the hard work that goes into these events from setting them up to micro managing the pharms.

[Dirk Broer]

I'm OK with whatever you guys would like to do. I appreciate all the hard work that goes into these events from setting them up to micro managing the pharms.

Let's vote then!
I would like runtime preferably on MCM (Mapping Cancer Markers), I might be able to reach to the 10-year badge with a bit of effort. MIP (Microbiome Immunity Project) and SCC (Smash Childhood Cancer) I might be able to get to sapphire.

[Jason1478963]

What are the options for runtime at WCG. One project, multiple projects or all projects. Can we still pull this off in early December? With new projects in the pipeline do we want to do all projects to include betas and or new projects if they launch? As Ramjet enjoyed chasing Betas and new project badges It would be nice to keep these in mind as well.

[Dirk Broer]

What are the options for runtime at WCG. One project, multiple projects or all projects. Can we still pull this off in early December? With new projects in the pipeline do we want to do all projects to include betas and or new projects if they launch? As Ramjet enjoyed chasing Betas and new project badges It would be nice to keep these in mind as well.

All projects is fine by me too.

[NeoGen]

All projects (and beta projects) sound like fun. +1 :)

[Dirk Broer]

All projects (and beta projects) sound like fun. +1 :)

Projects are pretty thin at the moment, OET (Outsmart Ebola Together) has silently been completed now too I discovered.

[Jason1478963]

It sounds like three new projects in the works as well.

[Dirk Broer]

It sounds like three new projects in the works as well.

Which? https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/viewAllProjects.do

[Jason1478963]

I don't recall seeing any beta related to these
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=558&mynews=Y

It seems like the updates may be in preparation for some new project launches.

[Jason1478963]

How do we create this and are we still shooting for the 12th to the 20th to be around the same dates as last year?

[Dirk Broer]

How do we create this and are we still shooting for the 12th to the 20th to be around the same dates as last year?

Both at WCG itself (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewAllTeamChallenges.do) and at Boincstats (https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/overview) there are already (WCG)Challenges in that time window. We still can do e.g. a beta-special in the original time frame though at WCG.
A runtime based 'all projects' challenge in the 12-12/12/20 period look already been taken:



Challenge Name:
Challenge Type:
Challenge Project:
Start Date:
End Date:
Accepted Teams:



Dec 2018 By-time All-projects

Run Time

All Projects

12/01/2018

12/31/2018

60



Pebor Challenge 122018

Run Time

All Projects

12/01/2018

12/31/2018

34

[Jason1478963]

seems like one more overlapping project wouldn't hurt :P

[vaughan]

I was unable to create a challenge in WCG at Boincstats as there are already challenges by Crunchers Sans Frontieres and The Scottish Boinc Team.

[Dirk Broer]

I was unable to create a challenge in WCG at Boincstats as there are already challenges by Crunchers Sans Frontieres and The Scottish Boinc Team.

And can it be done at WCG itself?

[SuicideCabbage]

Is it because you tried to create a run-time during a window a run-time is already in place? If that is the case my vote is results returned across all projects (so I can find the fastest one and just chew them up) or anything really, as I will support regardless.

As far as the climate research, it was announced back in April I believe, then pretty much radio silence, there was a post from an admin about two months ago saying "watch beta over the next week or two" and I have been, for many sets of two weeks, back to radio silence.

[vaughan]

Challenge created at WCG, starts Dec 18 ends Dec 25. I invited all WCG teams that had AMD mentioned in their team name! I hope all of our 500+ users got the invitation email? It is a RUN-TIME challenge for ALL SUB-PROJECTS.

[Dirk Broer]

And here (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9283) it can be seen

[Jason1478963]

Thanks again for all the support on this and making this happen.

[NeoGen]

I invited all WCG teams that had AMD mentioned in their team name!
I hope a lot of Ryzens, Threadrippers and Epycs join us for this one! :)

[Dirk Broer]

Challenge created at WCG, starts Dec 18 ends Dec 25. I invited all WCG teams that had AMD mentioned in their team name! I hope all of our 500+ users got the invitation email? It is a RUN-TIME challenge for ALL SUB-PROJECTS.

I think we should invite Planet 3DNow! too, and perhaps all teams that have IBM in their name.

[Jason1478963]

cranking up the pharm a bit in preparation :)

[plonk420]

finishing up some final tasks on another account and getting some more sleep after a late night trying to backup as many of Tumblr's NSFW blogs as we could at/for ArchiveTeam (https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Tumblr)

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[plonk420]

dang, was hoping for some results 12 hours in...

[Dirk Broer]

We're in 2nd place after the first wcg update with results: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9283

[SuicideCabbage]

I too was expecting to see results at the 12h point, but I am happy to see we started off strong in second place. Unfortunately I think we may have a difficult time holding that unless we have really stepped up our game, 3rd and 4th place teams are not all that far behind us, and our first day outperformed our average output by about 200 days.

[vaughan]

Do the WCG stats only update once a day? Pretty granular IMHO.

[Dirk Broer]

We're in first place after a full day! https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9283

[vaughan]

Go AMD Users !

[SuicideCabbage]

Just saw that, got on here to retract my previous statement, well done!!!

[Dirk Broer]

Our Scottish friends received an upgrade of their forces in the form of Bryan (aka Bowmore) from SUSA (aka Seti@USA), known to own at least two Threadripper 2990WX systems...
And boy, do they produce credit:shocked::shocked: There's also a 'UK' team (UKBT?) that has managed to pass us, so we're back at #3.

Buy those Ryzen 7 1700, 1700X and/or 1800X's before they're gone, and crunch on, I'd say..

[plonk420]

sadly, i probably won't be able to put my 2400G in something til after xmas... gave my mom my AB350-DS3H + Athlon 200GE for HTPC

[Dirk Broer]

Those micro-ATX socket AM4 boards cost next to nothing. The more expensive ones have four RAM slots and still can be bought below 75 Euro's here -except the B450 and X370/470 ones
(where Gigabyte is the exception: three X370 boards below 75 Euro's, amongst them the wulf in sheep's clothing: your old Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H, which has a X370 chipset and not a B350 as you might think).
My own ASRock A320M Pro4 still is hard to beat for price/performance and can be bought for a price as low as 58 Euro's at the moment.

If you've given your mom your DDR4 RAM too, well, then it is another story of course...we're still waiting for RAM prices to return to a reasonable level.

[Dirk Broer]

Back in 2nd place (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9283)!

[Jason1478963]

We need more power

[plonk420]

Those micro-ATX socket AM4 boards cost next to nothing. The more expensive ones have four RAM slots and still can be bought below 75 Euro's here -except the B450 and X370/470 ones
(where Gigabyte is the exception: three X370 boards below 75 Euro's, amongst them the wulf in sheep's clothing: your old Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H, which has a X370 chipset and not a B350 as you might think).
My own ASRock A320M Pro4 still is hard to beat for price/performance and can be bought for a price as low as 58 Euro's at the moment.

If you've given your mom your DDR4 RAM too, well, then it is another story of course...we're still waiting for RAM prices to return to a reasonable level.

she has 1 of the 2 stick set i got... the other stick will probably go to an APU if i ever have an extra after replacing my slowest main computer, the i7-860

[Dirk Broer]

Sell the i7-860 system (combination board, CPU + RAM) and buy a new AM4 mobo from the money! You have a Ryzen 5 2400G and a stick of DDR4, what else do you need?

[plonk420]

ah, maybe if i can sell it with mobo locally (and maybe cooler, too). cpu by itself doesn't seem to be worth it, but with mobo seems to be a better price

[Dirk Broer]

The Scotties dropped a MOAB (Mother of all bunkers) upon us:
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To think that I thoughtwe were ready to overtake them yesterday...a massive 15 years runtime in 24 hours challenge time!
And the fat lady hasn't even sung yet

[Jason1478963]

That is an amazing drop. I can't imagine how many machines that was.

[Dirk Broer]

At least four 'heavies' dropped their bunker almost simultaneously as their own WCG challenge at BOINCStats started at that time and they wanted to ensure first place at both our challenge and theirs (https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/1047) (which will run till the end of the year).

[Dirk Broer]

Shall we organize a 2019 Ramjet Memorial challenge? It is very quiet (challenge-wise) in December at BOINCstats (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/overview).
December even looks quiet at WCG itself (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewAllTeamChallenges.do?listType=2&sortBy=endDate&filterType=0&filterOpen=-1&filterDays=0&pageNum=1)

[vaughan]

Good idea Dirk.

Do we want 7 days challenge from 18-25 Dec inclusive? Late entrants allowed and basis on time crunched? (like last year?)

[Dirk Broer]

Sounds good to me. 'basis on time crunched', so at WCG itself, not on BOINCstats where it is all credits based.

[Jason1478963]

I guess I better order another ryzen ;)

[vaughan]

"Unfortunately, an error occurred while processing your request. You can try again or you can Contact Us and tell us about the error."

I completed the Contact Us and will wait for their feedback regarding creating the Ramjet Memorial Challenge 2019.

UPDATE: This was at World Community Grid.

[vaughan]

Please check the BOINCstats challenges to confirm I set up the Ramjet Memorial Challenge 2019 correctly.

[Dirk Broer]

Please check the BOINCstats challenges to confirm I set up the Ramjet Memorial Challenge 2019 correctly.

Not only at BOINCstats (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1069), but also at WCG (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9776), twice (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=9777)
Perhaps we ought to change one of the WCG challenges into 'Points' or 'Results Returned'. Someting fishy at WCG challenges though: you can't select our challenges here (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewAllTeamChallenges.do?listType=2&sortBy=startDate&filterType=0&filterOpen=-1&filterDays=0&pageNum=2)

[vaughan]

OK the WCG admin must have sorted out the problem with the first challenge and I created the one with 2019 in it today. I don't seem to be able to edit one to points so both are run time.

[Jason1478963]

The boincstat start time is approaching soon 5.5 hours currently. Is WCG already a go?

[Dirk Broer]

The boincstat start time is approaching soon 5.5 hours currently. Is WCG already a go?

WCG is hampered by its glacial refresh rate -9 hours ago at the moment. In the BOINCstats (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1069) challenge TSBT has dropped their first bunker, that of DavidBAM.

[Dirk Broer]

Chris, where are you and your 24-core server that used to do such good work for WCG?
We've dropped from 7 to 8 in our own challenge...

[Jason1478963]

We should see a little bump soon ;)

[Dirk Broer]

That was an impressive bump (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/team/compare/challenge/1069/0?id%5B%5D=731&id%5B%5D=10148&id%5B%5D=6212) last night...

[Dirk Broer]

Should we start to worry? The French are coming! And they are bringing Germans with them... (https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/team/compare/challenge/1069/0?id%5B%5D=731&id%5B%5D=6212&id%5B%5D=6268)

[vaughan]

I've turned my pharm from PG to WCG now that the Summer Solstice challenge concluded.

[Dirk Broer]

DavidBAM, Scole and Megacruncher from TSBT have come to our aid to keep us in 1st place, the French-speaking Alliance and our German brothers of Planet 3DNow! are making it a close race.
At the WCG-challenges we hold a firm #2 behind team China.

[Jason1478963]

:) Added a few more cores to help hold the lead. I hope we have enough to hold them off.

[Jason1478963]

DavidBAM, Scole and Megacruncher from TSBT have come to our aid to keep us in 1st place, the French-speaking Alliance and our German brothers of Planet 3DNow! are making it a close race.
At the WCG-challenges we hold a firm #2 behind team China.

A big thanks to all the crunchers who participated in this awesome showing for the ramjet memorial challenge. We would also like to thank other teams members who jumped in to help us maintain our spot as we needed every machine we had on it to hold spots #1 at boincstats and #2 at WCG. A big thanks to Dirk Broer and Vaughn for reminding us to set this up and all the great work they do for AMDUsers and the crunching community. This sure would have made Ramjet happy to see this level of participation at WCG. I am thankful we were able to run a large percentage of his crunching farm for the memorial race 3 years after his passing. The ramjet family sends thanks and appreciation for the great level of participation in this challenge.

[Dirk Broer]

Shall we organize a Ramjet Memorial Challenge again this year, or in January? BOINCstats doesn't seem the platform anymore for this, but World Community Grid itself (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewAllTeamChallenges.do) is alive and kicking, challenge wise. Present TN-Grid challenge at BOINCstats has 19 competing teams, Operatiion Equinox Challenge2020 (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10217) -were we are 7th presently- has 75 competing teams.

[vaughan]

Yes we should plan for this important event on the AMD Users team calendar.

Personally, I'd like to commit my pharm to it but I will be concentrating efforts on the final PrimeGrid race for this year - Great Conjunction Challenge - beginning 21 December 13:22 UTC and ending 31 December 13:22 UTC.

[Dirk Broer]

Yes we should plan for this important event on the AMD Users team calendar.

Personally, I'd like to commit my pharm to it but I will be concentrating efforts on the final PrimeGrid race for this year - Great Conjunction Challenge - beginning 21 December 13:22 UTC and ending 31 December 13:22 UTC.

If we look at the challenge calendar December 2020 is already booked twice, if not trice. Better organize one in a new, hopefully happier, 2021.

[Jason1478963]

I sure appreciate you guys thinking of this challenge. I know January is always a good time for us in the northern hemisphere as we can use all the heat we can get. I'm game for when it works for you guys. It may also give some time for the father in law to get his hands on a 5000 series Ryzen to aid in the challenge and a bit of pharm reorganization for me.

[NeoGen]

January of 2021 sounds good... 2020 has been a :cussing: year!

It more and more feels like next year is going to be amazing, if nothing else just by comparison.

[vaughan]

Hi team - we seem to have overlooked this thread so it is time to restart discussion. When can we run the Ramjet Memorial Challenge?

The PrimeGrid challenge is over for January and the whole month of February will find my GPUs dedicated to PrimeGrid but that leaves the CPUs to crunch (provided it isn't as hot as today 36°C at 4pm).

How long do you want to focus on WCG for Ramjet? I think last year was 7 days. I can start any day. From memory we posted it as a WCG Challenge and invited the usual suspects to join and it garnered a good response.

[Dirk Broer]

WCG challenges generate lots more teams to join in than the BOINCstats challenges do -the latter seem to go steadily downhill too, occurence-wise.
Do we make it a credit challenge, or a runtime challenge?

[NeoGen]

I need to create a new WCG account, messed up the last one. But that'll take just a few minutes so I'm ready any time too.
Seven days sounds good.
I'm old fashioned so I would always prefer credits over runtime, but either one is good.

[vaughan]

I think we should let Jason decide: points or run-time challenge?

I presume All Projects is the preferred setting. I agree with 7 days. Let's start 24th and run to midnight of 31st to complete January.

Jason please send me a PM notification on the forum so I can setup the challenge asap.

Of course summer has brought a hot spell for a few days here in Sydney. 29C today but Monday and Tuesday they predict low 40s

[Dirk Broer]

At least it is 'winter' on the Northern hemisphere, with temperatures around 5 degrees (Celcius).
No snow or ice yet...but no cooling problems either for a week of WCG.

[Jason1478963]

I am sorry for the late response. I'm good with what you guys would like to do... runtime on all projects or open pandemic (covid) as many of us have been affected by this monster? I know it is difficult for our southern hemisphere friends to deal with the heat and timing is everything to avoid the hottest days.

[Dirk Broer]

Judged by the impressive line of badges, Ramjet would have liked to crunch all projects.

[vaughan]

I have created the Ramjet Memorial 2021 challenge at World Community Grid starts 25th January ends 1st February.
Invited a bunch of teams and made it an open challenge (all teams can join) and allow late entrants. All projects, run-time based.

[NeoGen]

I joined the team and just starting to download some work

[vaughan]

So far we have these teams enrolled:
AMD Users
BOINC@AUSTRALIA
UK BOINC Team
Toyama
Sweden#Crunch
Level1Techs Team
Boinc@Lightedtolighten
Boinc Portugal

[Jason1478963]

Launching the antique computers on this one.

[NeoGen]

It would be so good if WCG would have GPU workunits... I have all options open to receive everything including beta test units, but alas, no GPU work seems to come my way.

[vaughan]

Also it would be good if WCG updated their stats more often, this 12 hour wait between updates is frustrating.

Great output from Jason who has hit the afterburners - the old blade server must be at full bore.

Personally, after a stifling hot Tuesday where we hit the high 30s that evening our third world power supply grid decided it was my suburb's turn for a blackout. So with the evening temperatures at 35C we had no electricity for 4 hours yet they still charge a dollar a day supply charges. The computers on UPSs shut down gracefully the rest died. Finally when power was restored I found that half the network was down as one of the 24 port stitches was screwed. My son worked out the issue was somehow the machines changed their IP addresses and changed VLANS. He sorted it out yesterday and things are running again as they should be.

It was weird as Alexa was able to control half the house automation but the Philips Hue lighting misbehaved. This took longer to resolve as he discovered that when you say to Alexa "Alexa turn on the kitchen light" Alexa talks to Amazon's servers over the internet and they talk to Phillips servers and then the reply comes to the Hue Bridge to apply the command. Would've been simpler if it happened on the local network instead of involving two external companies servers.

[Jason1478963]

We have fired up the old blade server and more. That antique seems to add more heat to the house then I would like to deal with. We sure appreciate all the effort on this challenge. This is an amazing amount of work done in a short time for this challenge. Unfortunately the open pandemic research never materialized a GPU work unit that I know of.

Sorry to hear about the power outage as these always seem to cause problems for all of us. I seem to have some issues with my Hubitat smart home stuff as well if the UPS doesn't last through the power outage.

[vaughan]

Great to see your post Jason, I'm sure Ramjet would be amazed by the response. Nature has been kinder since Tuesday with temps of 22-25C so I'm fully committed.
The computer room is a comfortable 29.4C today.

[Jason1478963]

A big thanks to everyone again for your participation on this challenge:wav::wav:. He would surely be happy to see this kind of response and honored to see the team do so well in it. I think he would also be impressed to see his wife helping to run his antique crunching farm. This was an amazing amount of work accomplished by all teams involved during this.

I can only imagine trying to fight that kind of heat in a race. I'm near freezing and have similar temps do to that antique power hungry blade server. This is an amazing accomplishment trying to have big rooms full of these while fighting the heat of summer.

Hopefully this will be a better year for everybody :)

[Dirk Broer]

I'll post another new badges message on our facebook page coming weekend, for those badges just missed.

[NeoGen]

I'm going to be running WCG for a few more months, I lost my previous account so I got to build this one up again. Have also been running Folding@home on my work laptop for over 6 months now and I've slowly snuck up on a lot of people, all the way up to #7 on the team already. :)

[Jason1478963]

sorry to hear about the account loss. I hope this one goes much better for you.

[NeoGen]

sorry to hear about the account loss. I hope this one goes much better for you.
Yea, the last one was my fault, I think sometime in the beginning of GDPR implementations a few years ago I was supposed to log in and go in my account to do something but I didn't see their warning emails until much later, they had already closed my account and account recovery didn't work either.
Now I'm going to push this one for a while to build it up, just wish they had GPU applications available :icon_rolleyes:

[Dirk Broer]

just wish they had GPU applications available :icon_rolleyes:

Your wish has been granted -at least at Beta level (http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=351&postid=7866#7866)

[NeoGen]

That's awesome! I just looked up my account and saw that I had some of those Beta GPU workunits processed and are pending validation. I'll keep WCG running and open to Beta tests to see if it catches more. :)

[Dirk Broer]

The betas run fine on the Vega 11 of my Ryzen 5 3400G under Windows, but fail on the Radeon R7 Kabini IGPs of my Athlon 5350's under Linux -kept running forever after reaching 100%...