BOINC Pentathlon 2021

[leadeater]

 Quick Start Guides:

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1333451-boinc-pentathlon-2021-quick-start-marathon/

 

BOINC Pentathlon 2021

Announcements || Stats || Daily Bulletin

 

Dates: May 5 00:00 UTC - 19 May 00:00 UTC

 

4th Year for the LTT Team

Last year the team gain to 6th overall and gain Bronze in Marathon.  Lets go higher this time!

 

About the Pentathlon

The Pentathlon is an annual event for several BOINC teams to compete across five disciplines (five different BOINC projects) to gain points and win medals.  Several teams, but only one team comes out as the winner.  The event last for over two weeks.  If you up to the challenge, come on and join the team in competing in the pentathlon and see if your hardware can handle the heat.

 

BOINC Info and Guides

Team Name: LinusTechTips_Team

 

 

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What is BOINC?

Boinc is a collection of various distributed computing projects, it gives you the opportunity to lend your unused processing power to do calculations in the name of science and progress! This can be to help medical science, physics, mathematics, better understand nature, or pretty much anything you can find a corresponding project to, it's up to you to decide what you want your  computing horsepower to be used for, this gives scientists the chance to gather big amounts of data by giving them access to hundreds or thousands of computers, all of this is achieved by  running some software on your computer, there is also software available for smartphones.

Announced

 

Marathon - SiDock@Home

Type: CPU Work Units

DO NOT stop/restart BOINC client or your computer as you'll lose any current processing done (only applies to this project)

https://www.sidock.si/sidock/

Invite Code: Crunch_4Science

Guide: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1333451-boinc-pentathlon-2021-quick-start-marathon/

Start: 05 May 2021 00:00 UTC
End: 19 May 2021 00:00 UTC

 

 

Javelin Throw - World Community Grid - Microbiome Immunity Project

Type: CPU Work Units

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Start: 06 May 2021 00:00 UTC
End: 07 May 2021 00:00 UTC

 

City Run - PrimeGrid

Type: GPU

http://www.primegrid.com/

Start: 08 May 2021 00:00 UTC
End: 13 May 2021 00:00 UTC

 

Cross Country - TBA

Type: Typically GPU

Place: 

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Start: TBA
End: TBA

 

Sprint - TBA

Type:

Place:

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Start: TBA
End: TBA

 

 

All start times are 00:00 UTC

 

The Disciplines

 

• Marathon (14 days)
  • TBA
• Sprint (3 days)
  • CPU or GPU project with a quorum of 1
• City Run (5 days)
  • CPU project
• Cross Country (5 days)
  • CPU or GPU project
• Javelin Throw (5 x 1 day, only each team's third best daily score counts)
  • CPU or GPU project with a quorum of 1

[GOTSpectrum]

This is from last year and as such the exact details may not be correct, as in the project being used. @GorgonYou planning to create an updated version? 

 

[leadeater]

Wow I'm soo rusty lol. I've like forgotten everything.

 

Well I've set a single 96 core system on the Marathon project that got "announced" early as a test, might as well do all my setup testing on that project since we know it's going to be used.

 

96 cores down, no idea how many more to go, exciting to find out though.

 

 

Lovely htop 

 

Good old Intel CPU efficiency lol

[GOTSpectrum]

I'm expecting to pony up probably 30-40 threads myself, I'll be pausing folding and wiling to drop all four GPUs on a project when it gets announced. 

[rkv_2401]

I can put somewhere between 4-8 threads on the Marathon project, maybe upto 20 in the middle but that won't be full-time. I think I can allocate my 1060 to a project if there's a GPU specific project announced, though.

[WhitetailAni]

10 threads of my Ryzen 5 3600 are yours to command.

GPUs stay F@H though.

 

EDIT:
And my Pentium III, though it's still on the single PrimeGrid task that I gave it on April 6th...

[Prodigy_Smit]

I’ll download Bionic for this.

8 threads of my server full time, 12 of my personal computer at night and the full force of the P4000 at night.

[GOTSpectrum]

I've got 24 threads currently deployed to the marathon with another 16 to come, I may be able to squeeze a couple more from somewhere else we shall see. 

[leadeater]

5 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

And my Pentium III, though it's still on the single PrimeGrid task that I gave it on April 6th...

Niceee 

 

Should be a team award for oldest running and contributing hardware

[GOTSpectrum]

@leadeateryou planning to write something instead of that placeholder post? 

 

I'm going to ask can they give us a WAN shout out and a post with some details on would be helpful. 

[GOTSpectrum]

Also we are firing on all 40 cylinders threads now for the marathon, trying to acquire another 4-6 threads. 

 

I'm probably able to be rather dynamic with my projects most days, but we need a captain to take the helm.

[WhitetailAni]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Niceee 

 

Should be a team award for oldest running and contributing hardware

Well, you are the mod...

 

 

Jokes aside, once I get my iMac G5 going it will also run BOINC (because F@H doesn't support PowerPC).

 

As for my P3, it's been running this BOINC task for 392.5 hours and is at 81%.

I started it on... April 9th?

[Ithanul]

Blargh for busy life and all that jazz.  I will have some computers up for the Pent.

 

Should have the 1950X 16c/32t and the E5-2670V3 12c/24t again for this year through at it.  Right now need to get an beefy air cooler for the 5800X 8c/16t on order.  I might get the 5960X up.....just trying to recall if I have that darn x99 Gigabyte mobo, can't seem to find it atm.

 

Offset, only the 2070 Max-Q and a Titan X Pascal this time around to help out with some GPU WUs.

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

@leadeateryou planning to write something instead of that placeholder post? 

Ahh 51% no, 49% yes lol.

 

Or someone else can and I can copy that in to my post then hide the one I copied.

 

Dunno, rather busy

[Ithanul]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

Ahh 51% no, 49% yes lol.

 

Or someone else can and I can copy that in to my post then hide the one I copied.

 

Dunno, rather busy

Give me a moment and I can try to tweak from the old Pent thread for this new one.

 

Want me to post here the updated tweak one?

[Gorgon]

10 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

This is from last year and as such the exact details may not be correct, as in the project being used. @GorgonYou planning to create an updated version? 

 

I'll likely only participate in COVID-related events. The process is pretty much the same across all the BOINC applications.

 

I wouldn't bee surprised to see either Rosetta or OpenPandemics be the Marathon this year.

[leadeater]

3 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

I wouldn't bee surprised to see either Rosetta or OpenPandemics be the Marathon this year.

Marathon is already known, it's SiDock@Home

[miker07]

I'll be throwing around 150 threads at this, and gpus will depend on projects selected. I have a mix of amd or nvidia I can select from, but warmer temps could limit how many I can comfortably throw at it. Hoping for Einstein or Milkyway for my 2 watercooled Radeon VII's. It's been tempting to sell them with the current market, but they are just soo good at those projects and a bit of mining as well. If I ever setup a dedicated boinc rig, they may live out the rest of their days in there.

[Windows7ge]

13 hours ago, leadeater said:

 

Don't be flexing your cores now Leadeater, I have so many I can't even fit them all on one screen. 

 

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

Don't be flexing your cores now Leadeater, I have so many I can't even fit them all on one screen. 

lol jokes on you I just spun up 8 DL560 Gen8's and will be starting up 3/4 of the other DL580 Gen9, with more other servers to come.

[Windows7ge]

7 minutes ago, leadeater said:

lol jokes on you I just spun up 8 DL560 Gen8's and will be starting up 3/4 of the other DL580 Gen9, with more other servers to come.

This year we surpass The Scottish BOINC Team!

[leadeater]

18 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

This year we surpass The Scottish BOINC Team!

Doubt it, I'll still have less than last year and this year every man and his dog will have Ryzen/Threadripper. I foresee doing worse this time round.

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Doubt it, I'll still have less than last year and this year every man and his dog will have Ryzen/Threadripper. I foresee doing worse this time round.

Perhaps, but we won't know that until it's over. Don't count us out before it even begins.

 

Besides, this year we have EPYC. :3

[leadeater]

@Windows7ge

Progress update:

• 1x 96 cores
• 1x 72 cores
• 7x 32 cores
• 5x 12 core

Total: 452 cores (cores not threads)

 

[Shlouski]

Sidock wants an invitation code to join, on a glance I didn't see anyone mention anything about this in the thread, so how do I get one?