Christmas Quest Contest

[Danish Dynamite]

i have Pending credit: 1,144.59 worth of TPS llr workunits, how did you manage to get 2500 pending credits ?

[Ramjet]

Alright, which one of you guys shut my power off last night?........anyone?............anyone?.......... ......Buehler?................Buehler?............ .Oh, alright it must have been the snowstorm then. I guess you guys are all in the clear. That ought to give you's a little advantage. Good Luck to all! I'd say that prolly drops me out...but it's a long race yet.

[shotgunner101]

I ran the client 24/7 for 4 days after i saw their was a race and my pc is overclocked so .

[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.)