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[AMDave]

Hans Ivar Riesel's 90th Birthday Challenge starts May 24th 2019 00:00 UTC
To celebrate Hans Ivar Riesel's birthday, PrimeGrid is having a 7 day challenge from May 24th 2019, 00:00 UTC until May 31st, 00:00 UTC. Work units from the TRP (LLR) project, which are downloaded and completed during the challenge will count towards your challenge score. Help us celebrate, maybe find a really big prime number eliminating one of the Riesel k's for Riesel's birthday and earn a cool new badge!Best estimate is 30% chance someone finds a prime during the challenge.For more information and discussion, please see the official challenge thread: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8556

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[Dirk Broer]

All set for ruby, instead of amethyst...

[vaughan]

OK team we're at 11th now, got quite a few AWS instances with Xeon Platinum 8124M running. I've hit the go pedal and we should get in the top 10 soon.

I need some help to get and stay in the Teams top 10.

This link is good:

https://statsgr.id/

[plonk420]

how much ram does this use per thread? or is it multithreaded anyways?

[Dirk Broer]

OK team we're at 11th now, got quite a few AWS instances with Xeon Platinum 8124M running. I've hit the go pedal and we should get in the top 10 soon.
I need some help to get and stay in the Teams top 10.
This link is good:
https://statsgr.id/

We're with six -make that seven now (http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2019_3/top_users.html), still at #11 (http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2019_3/top_teams.html)

[vaughan]

how much ram does this use per thread? or is it multithreaded anyways?

Not much. To use multi-threading you need an app_config.xml in the C:\ProgramData\BOINC\Projects\www.primegrid.com folder (ProgramData is initially a hidden folder) which you can create here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I-CrG89rhFgS2x5_pGn8pyI6vVl7Y_Qn02vEm41ScLY

[vaughan]

Come on guys, we are gaining on Team Mixi at 10th but not fast enough to overtake before the week-long race ends.

I might have to engage the afterburners (put more AWS instances on it).

[KarmannGaz]

I've fired up my backup machine as well now and got that running Primegrid TRP full time too, so another 4 processors on top of my original 16. Not a lot, but every little helps? We're only 30,000 points behind...

[vaughan]

Yay we just took 10th in teams.

[KarmannGaz]

Now up to 9th... :icon_lol:
Seven of us on the individuals list too, and all in the top 300, brilliant!

[Dirk Broer]

Now up to 9th... :icon_lol:
Seven of us on the individuals list too, and all in the top 300, brilliant!

I can still hear them screaming: Ni!Ni!Ni!Ni!Ni!Ni!, but we've lined the fleet for #8 now...