AMD Users RACE - Finished!!

[gamer007]

Everybody better stock up before tomorrow. Outage at Rosetta. Unfortunately during this week's race.

May 19, 2009
Outage Notice: the project will be down for maintenance starting at around 11:00AM PST tomorrow the 20th. It may take a few hours. We will be replacing some memory for our database server and doing a full backup of the database.

[NeoGen]

Of all the time in the world, it HAD to be in this exact week we're having a race.

Murphy's law never fails!


Oh well... hopefully the downtime will be only a few hours as they say, and it won't affect the race.

[sentient_life]

No problem. I upped my cache from 1 day to 6 days before the race began, just in case...

[gamer007]

Anyone understand how Rosetta gives out credit? I find it very mysterious.

I'm experimenting with longer WUs (I started with 1hr WUs, been increasing by an hour each day during the race) and noticed when I hit the 4 hours/WU, things went screwy.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/wo...wuid=230453951 - ~3 hours, 107.47 credits
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/wo...wuid=230514691 - ~4 hours, 106.06 credits

I fail to see how doing an extra hour of work means I get less credit than a WU that took less time.

[NeoGen]

The first race is over, and the second one is going to start in less than 12 hours

Here's the link for the championship points page (also in my sig).
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest20...estoverall.htm

As I said in the contest specs, the top 5 participants of each race get points, and the sum of those points after the 4 races will determine the winner of each category.

There's plenty of points to conquer yet guys.

[NeoGen]

Guys... We're about 6 hours to start and I'm missing host IDs for the POEM race.

AbadI)on, BlackAdder, PcManiac, vaughan and Moops, please send me your host IDs asap.

EDIT:
I'm checking what I can on the POEM website...
- Moops - 10796 ? Confirme me if I'm right, please.
- vaughan - you have to unhide your hosts
- AbadI)on - You have no account on our Team yet?

[velociraptor]

due to the fact that the race starts in less than 6 hours(don´t no the exact timing now)
is it save to fill the buffer, and the wu´s after the beginning will count or should i wait??

[NeoGen]

Fill it up Vel.

I will have to start with or without our fellows. I'll leave placeholders for their hosts and collect the data of the people I can. As soon as I have their IDs I'll fill it in with their WUs.

As the saying goes, "The show must go on".

[velociraptor]

Done, thanks for the quick reply.
a little bit weird that the others aren´t giving you their ID´s...
nevertheless, looking forward to rock poem´s wu-storehouse .
and hopefully i won´t miss the point-awarding ranks again.....
vel

[NeoGen]

Is it just me or are the POEM WUs taking a really long time?
I have one that is crunching for almost 6 hours, and is only at 49%.