Christmas Quest Contest 2008

The Christmas Quest Contest was the first contest that had a sponsored prize, and as such participation in it required registration, as well as submission to some rules defined by the prize donor. The contest was designed in a whole new style, with whole new rules, and the information presented to the participants during the race was extremely detailed down to the workunit level. Each participant could only apply with one PC, and it was mandatory to be an AMD Dual Core CPU, no other kind or brand of CPU was allowed.

Table of contents Christmas Quest Contest 2008 Calendar and projects Final standings 1st - vaughan 2nd - meshmar 3rd - Jason1478963 4th - liuqyn 5th - txt.file 6th - Bender10 7th - Danish Dynamite 8th - Nflight 9th - BlackAdder 10th - shotgunner101 11th - NeoGen 12th - Jim_Clark External Links

Calendar and projects

The contest was planned to run from December 1st 2008 00:00:00, to December 31st 2008 23:59:59, on one single project, Primegrid. This project however holds within a number of sub-projects that the users can choose from, and for this specific contest each participant was free to choose whichever sub-project(s) it wished.

Sub-project	Description
TPS LLR	Twin Prime Search (LLR)
PPS LLR	Proth Prime Search (LLR)
Woodall LLR	Woodall Primes Search (LLR)
321 LLR	3*2^n+1 Primes Search (LLR)
PPS Sieve	Proth Primes Search (Sieve)
Cullen LLR	Cullen Primes Search (LLR)
PSP LLR	Sierpinski Primes Search (LLR)
PSP Sieve	Sierpinski Primes Search (Sieve)

Final standings

The scoring was simply the total amount of credits that each participant could generate with the one PC registered for the contest. In the following chart it is shown the final standings after contest end, sorted by credits.

The following tables will show each participant's PC specifications and credits in slightly more detail, divided by sub-projects. The extent of the detail however is not comparable to the fully detailed stats that can be found on the External Links section at the bottom of the page.

1st - vaughan

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Editon, Service Pack 2
BOINC Version	6.2.19

Sub-project	Total WUs	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour	Total Credits
TPS LLR	1,819	1.45	19.61	2,639.00
PPS LLR	1,295	2.09	21.87	2,707.56
Woodall LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
321 LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
PPS Sieve	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Cullen LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
PSP LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
PSP Sieve	6,096	14.28	72.98	87,050.88

Totals	9,210			92,397.44

2nd - meshmar

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System	Linux 2.6.22.5-31-default
BOINC Version	6.2.15

Sub-project	Total WUs	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour	Total Credits
TPS LLR	1	1.45	19.42	1.45
PPS LLR	6	2.06	21.36	12.34
Woodall LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
321 LLR	2	180.95	18.57	361.89
PPS Sieve	92	159.00	41.46	14,628.00
Cullen LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
PSP LLR	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
PSP Sieve	4,988	14.28	73.25	71,228.64

Totals	5,089			86,232.32

3rd - Jason1478963

CPU Type	Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 175
Operating System	Linux 2.6.27-7-generic
BOINC Version	6.2.12

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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4th - liuqyn

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 Editon
BOINC Version	6.2.19

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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5th - txt.file

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Operating System	Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64
BOINC Version	6.4.1

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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6th - Bender10

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Editon, Service Pack 2
BOINC Version	6.3.21

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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7th - Danish Dynamite

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2
BOINC Version	6.2.18

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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8th - Nflight

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2
BOINC Version	6.2.18

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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9th - BlackAdder

CPU Type	Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 180
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Home x86 Editon, Service Pack 3
BOINC Version	6.2.18

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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10th - shotgunner101

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Operating System	Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
BOINC Version	6.2.15

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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11th - NeoGen

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 3
BOINC Version	6.4.1

Sub-project	Total WUs	Total Credits	Avg. Grant/WU	Avg. Cred./Hour
TPS LLR	1,819	2,639.00	1.45	19.61

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12th - Jim_Clark

CPU Type	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 3
BOINC Version	6.2.19