February Competitions

[NeoGen]

I already started running on Mersenne, threw all my current 14 cores at it! Let's stomp BOINC@POLAND!

[AMDave]

published. Thanks for the 'heads up' Dirk.
Added a few to Mersenne myself just now.
13 hours to the start.
PLENTY of time for everyone to jump in so we can make a fist of this.
http://boincstats.com/bam/challengeChat.php?chid=187

[Dirk Broer]

Thanks for promoting it to an article AMDave!
I've some real long eXtreme trial division test WUs crunching, should be ready when the challenge starts.

[AMDave]

If you are reading this, please join in on the Mersenne race today.
We are currently running 6th.

I'm All-in now. First time I've been 'All-in' on one project for about a year.
I suspect it was this project around this time last year when I surprise attacked Vaughan and held Team Rank #1 for a couple of hours.
1 (x6) box has to switch back to another project on 6th otherwise the cached WUs will expire. But I'm all good 'til then.

[AMDave]

I forgot how much pending credit you can build up on mersenne.
I'm up to 60K already. I hope some of it gets validated soon.
How about you, NeoGen? You are pulling some good numbers too.

[NeoGen]

Yup, I threw all I had at home to Mersenne plus my intel i5 machine at work. Never had this many cores to throw at a project at one time!
I broke 100K already and still going strong, and just like you I got about 40K on pending credits.
We are 1 day away from challenge end, and have established a solid 5th place on it. Not bad considering some of the teams we were fighting against!

So, after this what project are we going to stomp next?

EDIT: Just saw on the previous page, Correlizer challenge by the end of the month? How about we shoot to break the Team's first Million credits on it?

[NeoGen]

We are also signed up for "The March Milky Way" challenge, starting on the 9th. I don't have GPUs capable of running that but anyone that can please join in and push for our Team.

[Dirk Broer]

You only need a OpenCL capable GPU, a HD 4650 is enough.
Errr.....and it needs to support Double Precision, so make that a HD 4730/50/70 as minimum.
And from the poison-green camp: A GT 430 as minimum, budget-wise.

[NeoGen]

Yea... my good old GeForce 9600 will definitely not cut it for milkyway. And throwing CPU cores at it does little to no dent, so I'll sit this one on the bench and watch the pros play.

[Dirk Broer]

Better use it for Seti or Einstein (like I do with my GT 9500)!
A GT 430 though will work, and consume as little power ~49 Watt (and less than a GT 9600 ~98Watt)
A GT 440 will work slightly better, but uses ~65Watt

A GT 520 will even work at ~29Watt, but will hardly perform (DP only 19 GFlop, GT 430 does 34 GFlop, GT 440 39 GFlop)