Christmas Quest Contest

[NeoGen]

Well, we contacted primegrid's admin Rytis before the contest, so at least he was warned that this could happen.

it appears that prime grids validation isnt too happy at the moment (1 Dec 2008 7:13:02 UTC) only has 573,175 Workunits waiting for validation, all of the ones i have dumped are in pending credits

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573,150 Workunits waiting for validation 1 Dec 2008 7:21:09 UTC it is getting there slowly lol at least it is heading in the right direction lol

[NeoGen]

I'm kind of disappointed with Primegrid's validation... by the numbers I have, you guys flushed over 2500 WUs in the first 12 hours of contest, but only 31 have been granted.

I haven't created the stats page yet, I'll wait a few more hours to see if this gets better. The only one with granted credit (the 31 WUs) at the time was shotgunner101.

[shotgunner101]

It looks like the validater is working again it has given me 1500 of my 2500 credits so . Anyways looks like its a close race so far.

[meshmar]

It finally gave me over 3K credits, so maybe it's finally working. Hope it says that way.

[NeoGen]

I am still readying the stats guys, I need a few more hours.

The validator seems to be picking up speed indeed, but that brought me another problem that I wasn't aware of at the time. Workunits from other subprojects that were probably pending for some time started to trickle into the hosts credits, which messed up the numbers "a little". (for example, the totals showing an average of 20 credits/WU)

So I have created a routine to validate every workunit to make sure it's TPS only and discard other kinds. The problem is that it's taking a few hours to go through the >3000 WUs you guys already crunched.

[meshmar]

Workunits from other subprojects that were probably pending for some time started to trickle into the hosts credits, which messed up the numbers "a little". (for example, the totals showing an average of 20 credits/WU)

So I have created a routine to validate every workunit to make sure it's TPS only and discard other kinds.

TPS only? Where did that come from? I have mine set for 64-bit apps with a fallback to others if the 64-bit apps aren't available, which means NONE of mine are TPS.

Rules to running this race!

1) Primegrid Boinc is the project of choice. You choice of OS to run, Windoze or IX.

no mention of a specific project here

6) The winner will have accumulated the most points on their specific previously posted computer id for the month of December, ending with the last projects posted xml output of crunch efforts. This will of course be based on your computer-id’s end total points minus your starting total, which will yield your months output.

Again, no specific project, just " last projects crunch efforts"

[Ramjet]

I didn't see that anywhere in the rules either, I was running mostly woodall, (I think that's what it's called) or whatever it would send me.

[AMDave]

You are right!
Although it was discussed in the prep-meetings, it is not in the top post here.

We will sort that out.
I am sure NeoGen has all the files and can remove the TPS filter.
He is not online a.t.m. but we will get this to him a.s.a.p.

Just keep crunching the way you are crunching.
And good luck everyone

(wishing I had an X2 handy.)

[NeoGen]

I'm back guys!

Oooh boy... big mess I did here I guess. I was really under the impression that it was TPS only.

But fear not everyone, for I am a Database master, and one rule is to never ever delete anything.

I have the backlog of all workunits crunched by you guys since the start, the filter I added was only a field called "isTPS", with values "true" and "false". And when calculating I checked if "isTPS" is "true" then sum, else skip to the next. That's all it takes.

I will take out the filter and sum everything up then. And maybe tonight I'll finally put up the stats page! Yay!

[Ramjet]

Finally! Back up and running...the power outages seemed to have corrupted my hdd, had to reinstall everything and start over, thankfully my device ID didn't change so I can still compete. Been down since sunday night so I probably don't have a chance of winning now, but it will still be fun to see what the old Opty can do. Still haven't gotten my finished wu's validated, what's up with that?