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    8. BOINC Pentathlon

    Today I received notification of the upcoming 8th BOINC Pentathlon organized by our friends at SETI Germany.

    Hi Vaughan, hi AMD Users,

    Less than ten months have passed since the seventh *BOINC Pentathlon* came to an end. Now the Pentathlon is back to its usual date *from May 5 to May 19* and SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to compete in five disciplines at five projects for the eighth time.

    This year, the stable and popular project World Community Grid is set for the City Run discipline, with only one subproject being considered for the Pentathlon.

    The teams may enter their favorite WCG subproject and three additional project suggestions while signing up using the using the registration form at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pe.../anmeldung.php until *April 27*. The suggestions will be taken into account in the project selection as described at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pe...sciplines.html.

    All information about the BOINC Pentathlon is available at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/, while you can find the answers to many questions at https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pe...27_en_FAQ.html.

    Looking forward to seeing you again at the Pentathlon!

    Regards
    pschoefer
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    So I need suggestions as to the WCG sub-project and 3 additional projects we, the AMD Users team, want to nominate.

    I suggest:
    WCG - Smash Childhood Cancer as it has lots of tasks and is a new sub-project
    Primegrid - Sophie Germain or Proth Prime Search Extended LLR
    Leiden Classical - only because it is based in Dirk's home town
    Amicable Numbers - easy points from a GPU project

    Rules:
    The BOINC Pentathlon consists of 5 disciplines:

    Marathon (CPU, 14 days)
    Sprint (CPU or GPU, 3 days)
    City Run (CPU, 5 days)
    Cross Country (GPU or CPU, 5 days)
    Swimming (CPU, 7 days)
    Each team may suggest three projects and one World Community Grid subproject while signing up. The projects are assigned to the disciplines as follows:

    Marathon
    The project is set by the organizers.
    Sprint
    The project with the most votes that provides workunits with a quorum of 1. This may be a GPU project if no other GPU project got more votes.
    City Run
    The World Community Grid subproject with the most votes. The following subprojects are available:
    FightAIDS@Home - Phase 1
    Mapping Cancer Markers
    OpenZika
    Cross Country
    The GPU project with the most votes. If this project has been chosen for the sprint, the CPU-only project with the next most votes that has not been chosen for another discipline is chosen instead.
    Swimming
    The CPU-only project (i.e. the project does not provide any GPU application) with the most votes that is not already chosen for another discipline.
    CPU-only GPU support
    Quorum 1
    Cosmology@Home
    Enigma@Home
    LHC@home
    NFS@Home
    NumberFields@home
    SRBase
    VGTU project@Home
    YAFU
    yoyo@home

    Collatz Conjecture
    GPUGRID
    Moo! Wrapper

    Quorum 2
    DENIS@Home
    Stop@home
    TN-Grid

    Amicable Numbers
    Asteroids@home
    Einstein@Home
    MilkyWay@home
    SETI@home

    Projects are not eligible if they

    were chosen in last year's Pentathlon (Citizen Science Grid, PrimeGrid, Rosetta@home, theSkyNet POGS, Universe@home)
    can not provide a sufficient number of workunits
    support just a few operating systems
    provide non-CPU-intensive (NCI) applications
    use buggy or test-only applications
    do not allow the creation of new accounts
    do not support WebRPC
    To keep it as transparent as possible, we will publish the suggestions of every team when announcing the final project.

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    I suggest:
    WCG - OpenZika, as it has more tasks than SCC,
    Primegrid - Generalized Cullen/Woodall (Sieve) as it runs better on AMD hardware,
    SRBase - it pays better than Leiden and always has work (and it is in the matrix),
    Moo! Wrapper - easy points, always work, even on AMD APUs (except on Ubuntu 16.04 variants and later).
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 04-08-2017 at 09:57 PM.


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    Sounds good. How did you do last year? I see it says last years projects cannot be chosen again so is Primegrid out of the running?
    Last edited by euphoriabuzz; 04-09-2017 at 12:01 PM.

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    You could very well be right about that. It is not in the matrix....
    Last year (2016) we ended as 26th.
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 04-09-2017 at 08:46 PM.


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    The matrix includes Enigma @ home in quorum 1 CPU projects but it has been out of tasks recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vaughan View Post
    The matrix includes Enigma @ home in quorum 1 CPU projects but it has been out of tasks recently.
    All my raspi's are running WEP-M+2 at the moment...


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    Aside from filling up my closet with 20 new servers before the start of this I assume we are hoping to improve marginally over our rank last year so I am not too worried about my novices holding up our reach for gold. But when switching around projects any pointers on how to do that efficiently? I use BOINC Manager to control my server remotely and also handle the 'powerhouse computing' power on my laptop. I have played with the resource share feature, but it seems to take too long to balance everything out.

    If I simply suspend the projects I do not want to focus on will it keep requesting tasks for the projects I left unsuspended even if they all have equal resource share. In other words will it see the equal share and refuse to get new tasks for a project because it so far ahead even though everything else is suspended? Do I need to go the extra step and delete the projects that I do not want it to work on and only have the ones I want running loaded on that machine? I have also tried the BOINCBam account manager but did not like the interface at all so I really do not want to go that route.

    Hopefully the competition will be a nice practice run for multiple server management when I finally collect enough coupons and rebates to fill up my side of the closet and make it look like Mutiny on Halt and Catch Fire.

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    i usually set the pentathlon projects at 10.000% and all other project to 'no new work' and, when I have enough WU's for an active project, I also set that to 'no new work'.
    I sometimes suspend even work on non-active pentathlon projects. It is usually a complete mess afterwards. If there are any aborts on my systems they are server aborts, I crunch all that has been sent to me.
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 04-29-2017 at 10:18 PM.


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    Anyone know where to assign a team in Einstein@Home? The rest of the projects are really easy to figure out, but Einstein seems to be a little less user friendly and intuitive. I have a profile set up, but cannot find the team information. I noticed it was the cross country project so I was making sure it was set up to take over when the time comes.

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    So today I saw this notification which will affect the last few days of the challenge
    On May 15, World Community Grid will begin migrating to IBM Cloud, as part of an effort to modernize and enhance our infrastructure capabilities. Our system will be unavailable for approximately 48 hours while the migration takes place, but otherwise the move will not affect most volunteers.
    We will have to ensure we have enough extra days of work downloaded to cover this period. Could cause issues with uploads etc.

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