Badge hunters: About 11 days to get Computing for Sustainable Water

[Gamekiller]

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[bluestang]

Last update just now at 0:357:12:32:12.

I have 1720 WU on my 2600k, 395 WU on my E7500 machine, 360 WU on my Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 225 WU on my Athlon II X2 250, and no tasks on my E8500.

I have 310 WU Pending Val. or Ver.

Concentrate on GK and O_U for now guys unless your already on mine. I'll take the leftovers when they hit their goals.

EDIT: I see 2 rigs show up today on my account...thanks guys!

[Otis11]

As of right now I have 125 days of work CACHED for GK. All I have to do is run them all. I could clock it down from 3.5 Ghz to 1.4 Ghz and that would get it up to 312 days?

I hate to do that cuz I'd still like the work to get done... Also, I just aborted my last 517 tasks under my name...

[Otis11]

Moving my final 16 cores to U_O.

Edit: found 1426 CFSW tasks I didn't realize I had DLed... those are also up for grabs as of now!

[Snow Crash]

I have not been able to DL any since I switched 3 hours ago. I think it is because I dumped a few HCC when I dropped my account so the rig is not considered "reliable" and the only WUs left are resends which only go to "reliable" rigs. If you're listening Blue and still need the help please turn your project prefs to include HCC (shortest WUs they have) for a an hour so I can grab a few and convince WCG that I really CAN crunch!

[bluestang]

Just added HCC for you. Try a manual update and see what happens. I'll take HCC back off in a little.

[Otis11]

I am saying I have 10 threads with Gk that is 8 plus what is not used by me running MJ12 on another i7 920 this may turn out to be 11 or 12 working in total.

I feel that if I add the 12 threads I have running with Oj presently to origins account, then together with Oj's 8 threads we will get that done too probably as this brings him up to 46 threads or about 4 to 5 days plus pendings.

If anybody and everybody else gets started on bluestang's account as we all finish our badge targets we may just be lucky as his is the hardest target of all ... a lot will depend on when the WU's run out.

Is this a fair assessment? (maybe I am being mean to bluestang?)

Just read this - switched over to BlueStang...?

I have not been able to DL any since I switched 3 hours ago. I think it is because I dumped a few HCC when I dropped my account so the rig is not considered "reliable" and the only WUs left are resends which only go to "reliable" rigs. If you're listening Blue and still need the help please turn your project prefs to include HCC (shortest WUs they have) for a an hour so I can grab a few and convince WCG that I really CAN crunch!

Agreed - my rigs for GK are getting WUs. Few, but some... mine for you got nothing.

Edit: Got some HCC! Will abort them once I start getting CFSW WUs!

Everyone on BlueStang's account, make sure to abort the HCC WUs once you have enough CFSW units to keep you going for a while as otherwise your cache will be full and you won't request any more!

[Otis11]

Just added HCC for you. Try a manual update and see what happens. I'll take HCC back off in a little.

Tell me when it's off so I can put up a 10 day cache... just once SC is done.

[Snow Crash]

1 more minute and I'll be good!
cool ... think I'm all set now!!!
off to bed now, I've been up since 3:00 AM this morning

[bluestang]

I'm have my cache set for 7 days...should I set higher? I don't want that High Priority fiasco I had a week or so ago.

[Otis11]

I'm have my cache set for 7 days...should I set higher? I don't want that High Priority fiasco I had a week or so ago.

I set mine to 9 minimum, 10 Maximum and haven't gotten anything yet... and it turns out every CFSW is running high priority right now as they try to finish them fast...

Edit: change it back and let us know to expand the cache!

[bluestang]

1 more minute and I'll be good!
cool ... think I'm all set now!!!

Ok, I turned off HCC.
Thanks guys

[bluestang]

On WCG Profile Settings...Workunit Cache Settings:

Connect to network about every .05 days
Cache 7 extra days of work

Is that first line wrong? Should it say/be labeled minimum work buffer? Cuz in BOINC Manager under prefs>net usage I have m .05 min work buffer. Or is BOINC Manager labeled wrong?

[bluestang]

I set mine to 9 minimum, 10 Maximum and haven't gotten anything yet... and it turns out every CFSW is running high priority right now as they try to finish them fast...

Edit: change it back and let us know to expand the cache!

So I get it right, what do you want me to set it at?

[Otis11]

So I get it right, what do you want me to set it at?

Yeah you're good. I got some HCC WUs that are crunching now. I'm now seen as reliable, but have hit my daily quota of 5 WUs...

So I should get tasks in an hour and a half. I'll leave my 16 cores through the weekend with a 10 day buffer, and they'll stay on your account after that requesting more CFSW until they run dry. Good Luck!

[Otis11]

One of the two already has a good chunk of WUs... the other got some but all the DLs failed for some reason... so it's still crunching HCC...

[bluestang]

Ok, I'm 4 Martini's (with double the gin) into it...so it's nap time.

Good night and see you tomorrow!

[[XC] Oj101]

All work units turning to high priority is destroying my queue, I've had dozens abort in the last 12 hours due to the run order changing and them missing their due date. This is with an eight day queue, I have to drop to five days for a bit.

Here's my update:

1:237:11:08:35
1:247:07:20:17 + about 10 days
1:257:14:01:48 + about 10 days
1:268:00:51:08 + about 10 days
1:282:00:26:14 + about 14 days
1:295:02:08:16 + about 13 days
1:302:07:29:47 + about 7 days
1:309:05:58:26 + about 7 days

I see a massive slowdown here, depending on which 24 hour block you look at I'm down between 6 and 13 days per day I really hope I get to my goal quickly as I really want to help someone else.

As for what cores I have available, well it would've been quite a few, but...

Athlon64 X2 6000+ At my previous job, I had permission to install and run WCG but forgot to remove it and I see it's still running. As such, I can't change the account it's on
Core i7-2600K Running 100s in my desk, I can move this around
Core 2 Quad Q8400 Decommissioned server at work, no longer switched on at all
HP Proliant DL580 G2 I was counting on this, as it offers another eight threads spread across four CPUs. What I didn't count on was the noise - it's loud enough to be heard in the neighbour's yard WHILE IDLE. It easily drowns out a hairdryer, I can't leave this running :/

Edit - I've just had another 41 Work Units abort due to being late, I checked the Result Status page on WCG.org and I've had 23 PAGES of WU's abort. I'm now manually going through the list and killing all WUs due in the next two hours which haven't started yet (almost 100 ). Work is dropping off very quickly now, I have only 2,892 WUs remaining including the 100 or so I have to abort.

[OldChap]

At this time I am getting a few wu's on the machines running for Oj and for Gk. Because 2 were empty when I changed the caches again I guess they might be receiving some of the discards.

Oj: as soon as you reach target I need you to let me know...until then I will stick

[haschioz]

as of just now, still need 3 days to emerald, then my 8 threads plus 16 threads from rob are freed from my "slavery"

[Snow Crash]

OK, morning update time everyone ... how many days are cached on which account and how many days does each person need?

I have 40 days in the bank for bluestang - If the math doesn't work for sapphire I could move more threads over but I would need to do that ASAP in order to build the cache before the well runs dry.

[OldChap]

haschioz: What name do you crunch under?

[Snow Crash]

haschioz: What name do you crunch under?

guessing from his WCG sig it is haschi
If haschi and Rob don't don't pull those cores we may be able to get sapphire ... let's see what we can do!!!

[Otis11]

OK, morning update time everyone ... how many days are cached on which account and how many days does each person need?

I have 40 days in the bank for bluestang - If the math doesn't work for sapphire I could move more threads over but I would need to do that ASAP in order to build the cache before the well runs dry.

I think you're going to need to throw everything at bluestang - every computer I have access to currently is on either bluestang's or GKs account.

I have:

BlueStang:
71 Tasks at 2 hours each = 142 hours = 5.92 days
Remote server - not currently responding on teamviewer, but I can tell it's at 100% load...
Edit: remote server - 3390 Tasks at 1.3 hours each = 4407 hours = 183 days. Again, this one won't finish in the allotted time. should get 120 days though.

GK:
3681 Tasks at 1.5 hours each = 5521 hours = 230 days
4117 Tasks at 2 hours each = 8234 hours = 343 days
Unfortunately there's no way either one will finish - they have more cached than they can finish before they're due... idk how that happened.
I'll check them regularly and make sure they're returning useful results. For now though, there's nothing to do. There's 28 cores here with 10 days of cache, so I'm good for 280 days on GK's account.

[Plan.B]

I have 43 days to go, and no new work-units are coming to me. I've got between 2 and 4 days in the queue, so it's going to be close. Thank you again all for your help.