1 Million in Prime Grid

[Nflight]

Congratulations Vaughan; Nice job :wav: :blob3:

[AMDave]

Another outstanding achievement.
Well done.:)

[Danish Dynamite]

well done vaughan

[liuqyn]

aye, good job, meet ya there next week.

[Brucifer]

Congratulations!!! :)

[AMDave]

And for his next trick....Rank#1.

(the question begs answering...where is jamers???)

[vaughan]

Thanks guys. Onwards we crunch. The timing of the Christmas Quest and the Primegrid Challenge was really useful.

[jamers]

Belated congrats, onward to 2 Million?

Sorry, been out of pocket for a few weeks but now with some time off for the holidays it's time to turn my attention back to BOINC'ing. :icon_santa:

[Tamaster]

Well... It's official. I finally broke the 1M mark (thanks to the HD4850 I finally got crankin').

[vaughan]

Good job Tamaster. The GPUs really crank out the points. :icon_santa:

[Dirk Broer]

Congrats to Tamaster!

You must have been one of the first to get the ATI Card cranking and cracking on Linux! I Just received my 3rd badge at PrimeGrid myself (I decided to skip the 'easy PPS Sieve points' for a while, using the GTX260 for cranking up my DNETC score).
If we keep up our present rate with PPS Sieve we will soon pass Ukraine and BOINC.SK and perhaps the UK BOINC Team in total score.
Meanwhile Team Ars Technica has passed us in average daily result, undoubltly due to their upbuilding effort at the coming Winter Solistice Challenge.
I promise I'll buy an additional GPU to be able to have one dedicated to PrimeGrid, unfortunately I have no PCIE boards free at the moment.
Guess it will have to be a AGP HD 4650, they go at around 45 Euro's 2nd hand at the moment (and around some 75 Euros new).
I may try to replace my HD3870 with something better as well though, saw some 4850 cards for around 50-60 Euros on the 2nd hand market.
I had already promised my son the HD3870 as a temporary card in his upcoming new system I will build for him when he finishes university.

[gamer007]

I joined with my 4850. Been running it on MilkyWay, time to see how it goes on PrimeGrid. :)

[Nflight]

Congratulations Tamaster, Job Well done! :blob3:

[Dirk Broer]

We've just passed team BOINC.SK, and are in hot pursuit to team Ukraine. UK BOINC Team has slackened off a little, so they are still within reach. Behind them looms Team Norway, which will probably be reached sooner than the UK BOINC Team, as their average is quite low. However, we have some 12 million credits to go to be even near their total result.

[Dirk Broer]

And we've passed the Ukraine too! If all members set their -usable- GPU's working on this project we might be able to set a good score for both team and individual members -as PrimeGrid pays very well for the effort- during the Solistice Challenge.

[Dirk Broer]

Hi team,

We are now as a team on the verge of breaching the 100,000,000-mark at PrimeGrid, and have closed in to a mere 4 million on the UK BOINC team. At this speed we will pass the UK team in about 8 days, and Team Norway 8 days later.

[NeoGen]

Seems we are doing good on Primegrid! :)

I just recently made my 1st 1,000,000 credits on a boinc project, and it was right here on Primegrid. And I'm still going. :)

I did notice that a hurricane called bwhite passed by me at an incredible speed and bumped me down a spot on the team rankings. Beware guys! :icon_wink:

[bwhite]

Just getting ready for the upcoming challange in primegrid pps. I think the team will do really well!!

I have my first new box in many years...so am just having fun with it:)

BTW I did use my signal and waved on the way past:icon_lol:

[Area 51]

Well... It's official. I finally broke the 1M mark (thanks to the HD4850 I finally got crankin').


Welcome to the 7 digit club - not that I've been here/there that long :icon_lol:

[Scott]

With both boxes running prime grid it didn't take long to join the 7 digit club

[gamer007]

Is it possible to run both CPU and GPU? I can't seem to get it working together. Maybe the XML file is forcing BOINC to just use the GPU for Primegrid?

[Dirk Broer]

Look under "Account" for the "PrimeGrid Preferences", but by the look of your badges I see that you already have worked at the CPU WUs! 11 for CPU WUs (all Bronze), 1 GPU for PPS Sieve (gold)

[Area 51]

Look out for the default settings in client_state.xml. PrimeGrid reserves 0.7 (ish) CPUs to support each GPU. Consequently, you can quickly find all of you CPU cores assigned to supporting your GPU(s) - if you don't take charge!!!!

How many cores do you have, and how many GPUs do you have?

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Area 51,

The support PrimeGrid reserves depends on your CPU, CUDA Version, driver version and/or GPU. WIth me it was 0.67 (C2Q8200, GTX260, Cuda 3.1, driver 25896) and is now 0.17 (C2Q8200, GTX260, Cuda 3.2, driver 26099). There is continiously one GPU PPS PrimeGrid process going on and four CPU Primegrid and/or Leiden, Einstein, Seti, etc.
My Ati cards sadly have no OpenCL support, so cannot contribute to PrimeGrid (HD 3850 and HD 3870), but do their best at Collatz and MilkyWay.

[Area 51]

Hi Area 51,

The support PrimeGrid reserves depends on your CPU, CUDA Version, driver version and/or GPU. WIth me it was 0.67 (C2Q8200, GTX260, Cuda 3.1, driver 25896) and is now 0.17 (C2Q8200, GTX260, Cuda 3.2, driver 26099). There is continiously one GPU PPS PrimeGrid process going on and four CPU Primegrid and/or Leiden, Einstein, Seti, etc.
My Ati cards sadly have no OpenCL support, so cannot contribute to PrimeGrid (HD 3850 and HD 3870), but do their best at Collatz and MilkyWay.

I stand corrected on the precise numeric allocation. The point I was headed towards was simply that a portion of CPU resources will be dedicated to supporting the GPU - and that the default MAY be a little generous, resulting in the possibility of all CPU resources being allocated to support the GPU(s) - hence the question regarding how many cores and GPUs are in use.....

[liuqyn]

they recently changed the CPU hogging since it didn't actually need it to feed the GPUs, so now I have 3 cuda's running along with four others on a quad core.

[gamer007]

Look under "Account" for the "PrimeGrid Preferences", but by the look of your badges I see that you already have worked at the CPU WUs! 11 for CPU WUs (all Bronze), 1 GPU for PPS Sieve (gold)
I have it set to use the CPU and ATI GPU. The BOINC logs say it's only requesting GPU work. I'm wondering if it's the "app_info.xml" I had to download from the Primegrid forums to crunch with my 4870, otherwise it would have a computation error at the start of the WU. Perhaps it's forcing Primegrid to only use the GPU?

EDIT: As a test, I renamed the app_info.xml and restarted BOINC. It looks like my ATI work is continuing to be crunched, and BOINC is downloading CPU work. Looks like I'm set for the challenge with my 4 cores and 4870. :)

[gamer007]

It appears BOINC stopped getting GPU work from PrimeGrid. Everything's still the way it is. BOINC is confusing when it comes to setting up GPU and CPU for one project. :icon_neutral:

[Dirk Broer]

I have no troubles doing PPS Sieve (both GPU and CPU), Cullen LLR, Woodall LLR, 321 LLR, PSP LLR TRP Sieve and Cullen/Woodall Sieve along each other on a Quad machine
Also note that depending on your hardware you may receive a message like:

20-12-2010 22:48:16 PrimeGrid Requesting new tasks for GPU
20-12-2010 22:48:17 PrimeGrid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
20-12-2010 22:48:17 PrimeGrid Message from server: No work sent
20-12-2010 22:48:17 PrimeGrid Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress

Where the limit in case of PPS Sieve is most probably determined by your GPU, as with MilkyWay.

[AMDave]

whoo =o
watch out watch out there's a PCZ about!!!

currently cranking over 4 million per day for around 24 million this week already
came from rank oh say about N'thousand or so with squat-all points and is now in 52nd for the whole project

Just think of him as an alpha-particle that just passed right through the whole planet and then passed through you on the way to the other side of the unknown universe!
heh heh

No sonic boom.
Just a 6th dimension disturbance ripple emanating through the 7th dimension
;)

ruby in 3 days. wish i could do that. sigh.

vaughan, I guess he'll be in your region in about 8 days.
he was accelerating but it looks like one of the battle-cruisers has had some engine trouble from yesterday
maybe we can all catch up hahahaha

Fantastic to see some good old FDC competition again.

[AMDave]

Less than 12 hours to go.

Fire 'em if you got 'em!

[vaughan]

I added another MSI GTX460 Hawk to the battle tonight so hopefully that will help the daily tally. I ordered it last Thursday and it seemed to take ages to arrive in the post today. I guess its Christmas rush for the postal couriers as he rang the doorbell at about 4:30pm and by the time I got there to sign for it he was driving away in his van. The parcel was on the front porch.

I'll install MSI's brilliant Afterburner application tomorrow and get it overclocked asap.

[Dirk Broer]

I have no troubles doing PPS Sieve (both GPU and CPU), Cullen LLR, Woodall LLR, 321 LLR, PSP LLR TRP Sieve and Cullen/Woodall Sieve along each other on a Quad machine.
Received my 5th badge today, almost at the same time I broke the 5 million barrier on PPS Sieve! Have some 5 others badges in the pipeline as well...

[Nflight]

I have got to tell everyone on Prime Grid these are amazing numbers from my little 9800 GT Graphics Processor. I am sure glad I moved from Collatz Conjecture to Prime Grid. Now If I could just find the resources to get some more of my own added points producing material I could move up the ranks a bit faster. Alas business startup costs are not as nice as I would like them to be! So I will be delving into business 90% and only 10% into DCing activities. Men must have their toys too! :blob3: