BOINC pentathlon Recap

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alexbeckley Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Jan 13 Posts: 345 Credit: 5,696,421 RAC: 0	Message 2910 - Posted: 19 May 2014, 9:11:54 UTC Last modified: 20 May 2014, 0:43:53 UTC
Wow what an amazing two weeks. A big thank you to the Team at SETI.Germany for hosting an amazing event, and secondly a massive thank you to everyone how contributed to theSkyNet POGS as part of the 5th BOINC Pentathlon, special, one of a kind trophies will be making their way to your trophy cabinets (on theSkyNet.org) soon. More details on the prizes will follow shortly. Congratulations to the winners Planet 3DNow! Who put in a truly galactic effort processing 37,617,784 credits across the two week challenge. As promised I put together some stats about the challenge, if there is something else you are wondering about let me know and I’ll see if I can figure it out. Participation rates during the Pentathlon: Total participants on theSkyNet POGS as part of the Pentathlon: 1936 users Total participants on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon: 5968 users Percentage of theSkyNet POGS participants that were involved in the Pentathlon: 32.4% Total number of teams that participated in the Boinc Pentathlon: 30 teams Credits awarded on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon: Total credit: 342,546,591 credits Total credit award to Pentathlon: 260,477,572 credits Percentage of credit that was awarded to Pentathlon teams: 76% Highest Peak RAC for a single user during the Pentathlon on theSkyNet POGS: 420,360 RAC Mumps (SETI.USA) TFLOPS on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon: Overall peak: 190.20 TFLOPS Previous best: ~112 TFLOPS Overall average: 130.37 TFLOPS Average for Pentathlon teams: 99.08 TFLOPS Server/Project Stats Galaxies processed during the Pentathlon: 5000 galaxies Peak CPU load on the main server: 65% cpu load for an hour on the morning of the 5th Data Transfer from our servers to the outside world: 278GB in and 781GB out Happy Crunching Alex ____________ Cheers Alex theSkyNet.org webMaster ICRAR
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Stargazer-SG Send message Joined: 5 May 14 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,727,488 RAC: 2,930	Message 2943 - Posted: 19 May 2014, 14:32:01 UTC - in response to Message 2910.
Thank you for the detailled statistics. Really amazing! But hey - only 65%? CPU load at the start of pentathlon? We try to crack the server at another pentathlon again (I hope). :D :)
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Eric_Kaiser Send message Joined: 28 Jun 13 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,154,167 RAC: 0	Message 2994 - Posted: 21 May 2014, 13:28:55 UTC
Thank you very much for providing such a detailed analysis. I really apreciate it very much. It's the first project that provides such informations after a finished challenge. Also good to see that this project is capable to service such a high load the pentathlon caused. Really amazing.
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alexbeckley Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Jan 13 Posts: 345 Credit: 5,696,421 RAC: 0	Message 3000 - Posted: 22 May 2014, 1:06:12 UTC
Thanks guys, Its really nice to receive such positive feedback :) Alex ____________ Cheers Alex theSkyNet.org webMaster ICRAR
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[TA]Assimilator1 Send message Joined: 30 Apr 14 Posts: 17 Credit: 3,643,417 RAC: 5,344	Message 3018 - Posted: 22 May 2014, 20:02:33 UTC Last modified: 22 May 2014, 20:03:24 UTC
Interesting stats! :), and you guys really got a massive boost from this! I was one of the 'racers', when I 1st read about this project (for the race) I realised it was right up my street & couldn't believe I hadn't heard of it before! I shall certainly be crunching this cool project again very soon, & I bet I'm not the only one! (once I've burnt through some LHC@H WUs ;) ). Btw what was the average TFLOPS before the Pentathlon? ____________ Team AnandTech - SETI@H, Muon1 DPAD, F@H, MW@H, A@H, LHC@H, POGS, R@H. Main rig - Q9550 @3.6 GHz, HD 5850, 4GB DDR2 1066, Win 7 64bit, BOINC 7.2.42 2nd rig - E5200 @3.73 GHz, GTX 260 c216, 4GB DDR2 800, Win XP, BOINC 7.2.42
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alexbeckley Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Jan 13 Posts: 345 Credit: 5,696,421 RAC: 0	Message 3022 - Posted: 23 May 2014, 0:56:41 UTC - in response to Message 3018.
Hey Assimilator Welcome to the project, if you haven't discovered our main page (http://www.theskynet.org) yet either you should check that out. We were averaging about 50-60 TFLOPS before the challenge, with bursts up to 90ish TFLOPS with previous events. Alex ____________ Cheers Alex theSkyNet.org webMaster ICRAR
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[TA]Assimilator1 Send message Joined: 30 Apr 14 Posts: 17 Credit: 3,643,417 RAC: 5,344	Message 3037 - Posted: 23 May 2014, 16:42:09 UTC Last modified: 23 May 2014, 16:42:28 UTC
Thx :), yea I did find the main page & have a quick read, but I want to read it properly at some point ;). So the Pentathlon slightly more than doubled project processing power! Wow! (btw any answer about the 30day thread lock issue?) ____________ Team AnandTech - SETI@H, Muon1 DPAD, F@H, MW@H, A@H, LHC@H, POGS, R@H. Main rig - Q9550 @3.6 GHz, HD 5850, 4GB DDR2 1066, Win 7 64bit, BOINC 7.2.42 2nd rig - E5200 @3.73 GHz, GTX 260 c216, 4GB DDR2 800, Win XP, BOINC 7.2.42
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Wow what an amazing two weeks. A big thank you to the Team at SETI.Germany for hosting an amazing event, and secondly a massive thank you to everyone how contributed to theSkyNet POGS as part of the 5th BOINC Pentathlon, special, one of a kind trophies will be making their way to your trophy cabinets (on theSkyNet.org) soon. More details on the prizes will follow shortly.

Congratulations to the winners Planet 3DNow! Who put in a truly galactic effort processing 37,617,784 credits across the two week challenge.

As promised I put together some stats about the challenge, if there is something else you are wondering about let me know and I’ll see if I can figure it out.

Participation rates during the Pentathlon:

Total participants on theSkyNet POGS as part of the Pentathlon: 1936 users
Total participants on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon: 5968 users
Percentage of theSkyNet POGS participants that were involved in the Pentathlon: 32.4%
Total number of teams that participated in the Boinc Pentathlon: 30 teams

Credits awarded on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon:

Total credit: 342,546,591 credits
Total credit award to Pentathlon: 260,477,572 credits
Percentage of credit that was awarded to Pentathlon teams: 76%
Highest Peak RAC for a single user during the Pentathlon on theSkyNet POGS: 420,360 RAC Mumps (SETI.USA)

TFLOPS on theSkyNet POGS during the Pentathlon:

Overall peak: 190.20 TFLOPS
Previous best: ~112 TFLOPS
Overall average: 130.37 TFLOPS
Average for Pentathlon teams: 99.08 TFLOPS

Server/Project Stats

Galaxies processed during the Pentathlon: 5000 galaxies
Peak CPU load on the main server: 65% cpu load for an hour on the morning of the 5th
Data Transfer from our servers to the outside world: 278GB in and 781GB out

Happy Crunching
Alex

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Thank you for the detailled statistics. Really amazing!

But hey - only 65%? CPU load at the start of pentathlon? We try to crack the server at another pentathlon again (I hope). :D :)

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Thank you very much for providing such a detailed analysis. I really apreciate it very much.
It's the first project that provides such informations after a finished challenge.

Also good to see that this project is capable to service such a high load the pentathlon caused. Really amazing.

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Thanks guys,

Its really nice to receive such positive feedback :)

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Interesting stats! :), and you guys really got a massive boost from this!

I was one of the 'racers', when I 1st read about this project (for the race) I realised it was right up my street & couldn't believe I hadn't heard of it before!
I shall certainly be crunching this cool project again very soon, & I bet I'm not the only one! (once I've burnt through some LHC@H WUs ;) ).

Btw what was the average TFLOPS before the Pentathlon?
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Main rig - Q9550 @3.6 GHz, HD 5850, 4GB DDR2 1066, Win 7 64bit, BOINC 7.2.42
2nd rig - E5200 @3.73 GHz, GTX 260 c216, 4GB DDR2 800, Win XP, BOINC 7.2.42

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Hey Assimilator

Welcome to the project, if you haven't discovered our main page (http://www.theskynet.org) yet either you should check that out.

We were averaging about 50-60 TFLOPS before the challenge, with bursts up to 90ish TFLOPS with previous events.

Alex
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Thx :), yea I did find the main page & have a quick read, but I want to read it properly at some point ;).

So the Pentathlon slightly more than doubled project processing power! Wow!

(btw any answer about the 30day thread lock issue?)
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Team AnandTech - SETI@H, Muon1 DPAD, F@H, MW@H, A@H, LHC@H, POGS, R@H.

Main rig - Q9550 @3.6 GHz, HD 5850, 4GB DDR2 1066, Win 7 64bit, BOINC 7.2.42
2nd rig - E5200 @3.73 GHz, GTX 260 c216, 4GB DDR2 800, Win XP, BOINC 7.2.42

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