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Welcome to the Leonids Shower Challenge
The Leonids is an average shower, producing up to 15 meteors per hour at its peak. This shower is unique in that it has a cyclonic peak about every 33 years where hundreds of meteors per hour can be seen. That last of these occurred in 2001. The Leonids is produced by dust grains left behind by comet Tempel-Tuttle, which was discovered in 1865. The shower runs annually from November 6-30. It peaks this year on the night of the 17th and morning of the 18th. The waxing gibbous moon will set shortly after midnight leaving fairly dark skies for what could be a good early morning show. Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Leo, but can appear anywhere in the sky.
Arithmetic progressions
In mathematics, an arithmetic progression (AP) or arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference between the consecutive terms is constant. For instance, the sequence 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 … is an arithmetic progression with common difference of 2.
An arithmetic progression of primes is a sequence of primes with a common difference between any two successive numbers in the sequence. For example 3, 7, 11 is an arithmetic progression of 3 primes with a common difference of 4.
For an arithmetic progression (AP) of primes, AP-k is k primes of the form p + d*n for some d (the common difference between the primes) and k consecutive values of n. The above AP-3 is 3 + 4*n for n=0,1,2.
How to Participate?
To participate in the Challenge, please select only the AP 27 (AP27) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section. The challenge will begin 17th November 2018 12:00 UTC and end 20th November 2018 12:00 UTC. Application builds are available for Linux , Windows and MacIntel CPUs and GPUs. CPU apps are only available for 64 bit CPUs. High end Nvidia GPUs will have a very large advantage.
Tasks will take ~29 hours on average for CPUs and ~75 minutes on average for GPUs. If your computer is highly overclocked, please consider "stress testing" it. If you haven't run the AP app before, we strongly suggest running it before the challenge while you are monitoring the temperatures. You don't want to turn your machine into a meteor!
Please, please, please make sure your machines are up to the task.
Time zone converter:
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NOTE: The countdown clock on the front page uses the host computer time. Therefore, if your computer time is off, so will the countdown clock. For precise timing, use the UTC Time in the data section to the left of the countdown clock.
Scoring Information
Scores will be kept for individuals and teams. Only tasks issued AFTER 17 November 2018 12:00 UTC and received BEFORE 20 November 2018 12:00 UTC will be considered for credit. We will be using the same scoring method as we currently use for BOINC credits.
A quorum of 2 is NOT needed to award Challenge score - i.e. no double checker. Therefore, each returned result will earn a Challenge score. Please note that if the result is eventually declared invalid, the score will be removed.
At the Conclusion of the Challenge
We kindly ask users "moving on" to ABORT their tasks instead of DETACHING, RESETTING, or PAUSING.
ABORTING tasks allows them to be recycled immediately; thus a much faster "clean up" to the end of a Challenge. DETACHING, RESETTING, and PAUSING tasks causes them to remain in limbo until they EXPIRE. Therefore, we must wait until tasks expire to send them out to be completed.
Please consider either completing what's in the queue or ABORTING them. Thank you. :)
For more information about the AP27 search, please visit these links:
- AP 27 Search
- AP 26 Search
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression
- Jens Kruse Andersen's Primes in Arithmetic Progression Records
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Tasks will take ~29 hours on average for CPUs and ~75 minutes on average for GPUs.
I never ran AP27 on CPUs. Anyone know if this application works well with multi-threading like LLR?
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Tasks will take ~29 hours on average for CPUs and ~75 minutes on average for GPUs.
I never ran AP27 on CPUs. Anyone know if this application works well with multi-threading like LLR?
Good luck everyone!
There's a thread already on this but the short answer is I don't believe you can multi-thread AP's.
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8269
And if you are interested here's a thread on cpu times posted by a few folks who tested.
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8275 |
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Tasks will take ~29 hours on average for CPUs and ~75 minutes on average for GPUs.
I never ran AP27 on CPUs. Anyone know if this application works well with multi-threading like LLR?
Good luck everyone!
There's a thread already on this but the short answer is I don't believe you can multi-thread AP's.
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8269
And if you are interested here's a thread on cpu times posted by a few folks who tested.
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8275
The AP27 CPU app is NOT multithreaded.
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Are the AP27 GPU tasks fairly CPU dependent? I am trying to understand why my GTX1080 paired with i7 6700k is much faster than GTX1080 paired with Ryzen 1700 (1200 seconds vs 2000 seconds) perhaps there are other factors slowing me down... |
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You're using driver version 41634 on the machine with the GTX 1080 / AMD Ryzen.
The 4xxx NVidia driver series made my GTX 1060 3G about 30% slower when crunching AP27.
Try driver 39924 on your machine to see if solves the slowness.
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See these
https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8249
http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8214&nowrap=true#120755
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399 drivers helped a lot! Down to 1100 seconds (this card is clocked higher than the one in the i7 machine) |
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Where is my Post ?
I:m Suspend ?
please answer
is not Fair Play
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Where is my Post ?
here: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8269&nowrap=true#122533
I:m Suspend ?
No.
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ok, thanks
understand
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What an auspicious start. It's a little early for the challenge, but we just found an AP26!
More details shortly. When I'm fully awake. After I hit the GO button on my crunchers when the challenge starts!
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Off we go. :-)
First results were in after less than a quarter of an hour.
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Greetings, Jens
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I have a Ryzen (1800X) too ... + Asus(R.O.G.) GTX 1070 ......
- and was also wondering the same thing: WHY so slow?
Rolling back to 399.24 driver immediatelly!
Thanx a lot! :-)
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After the first day:
Challenge: Leonids Shower
App: 11 (AP27)
(As of 2018-11-18 12:53:04 UTC)
72175 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 8916 (12%) / 63259 (88%) / 0 (0%)]
Of those tasks that have been sent out:
4755 (7%) came back with some kind of an error. [337 (0%) / 4418 (6%) / 0 (0%)]
40281 (56%) have returned a successful result. [1584 (2%) / 38697 (54%) / 0 (0%)]
27142 (38%) are still in progress. [6995 (10%) / 20147 (28%) / 0 (0%)]
Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:
16088 (40%) are pending validation. [660 (2%) / 15428 (38%) / 0 (0%)]
24189 (60%) have been successfully validated. [924 (2%) / 23265 (58%) / 0 (0%)]
2 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 2 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
2 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 2 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
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Well, it appears that a good percentage of those errors were mine. Had a generally unmonitored host running PPS-Sieve for a long time so didn't notice that OpenCL got borked in a windows 10 update. Took a few driver reinstalls and reboots and it's back on track. Just wish I had checked it out sooner so as to not miss so much credit :(.
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APs found so far during the challenge. To be in this list, the AP's finder had to return the task during the challenge, and it has to have also been validated by the double checker. The double check could happen after the challenge; what counts here is when the finder returned the task.
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| 20 | 1977 |
| 21 | 488 |
| 22 | 117 |
| 23 | 30 |
| 24 | 5 |
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I don't have information on APs of length 24 or below that have been returned but are awaiting wingmen for validation, but there's undoubtedly a bunch of them. There is one pending AP25 waiting for a wingman.
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Between my own results and seeing it in the results you've posted, I've always been fascinated about the ~4:1 ratio of AP(n):AP(n+1) finds. Is there a known mathematical reason for this? I know there are an infinite number of APs, but I haven't come across any quantitative information in my searches.
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One could try a semi-log plot and see if the points are on a line, and if the slope is consistent with that 1/4.0 hypothesis. /JeppeSN |
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Len # Ratio:
20 2702
21 705 3.832624113
22 156 4.519230769
23 31 5.032258065
24 8 3.875
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One could try a semi-log plot and see if the points are on a line, and if the slope is consistent with that 1/4.0 hypothesis. /JeppeSN
Interesting. Worth spending some time on I'd say.
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Day 2L
Challenge: Leonids Shower
App: 11 (AP27)
(As of 2018-11-19 12:58:31 UTC)
126686 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 14390 (11%) / 112296 (89%) / 0 (0%)]
Of those tasks that have been sent out:
8773 (7%) came back with some kind of an error. [766 (1%) / 8007 (6%) / 0 (0%)]
86966 (69%) have returned a successful result. [5480 (4%) / 81487 (64%) / 0 (0%)]
30948 (24%) are still in progress. [8144 (6%) / 22803 (18%) / 0 (0%)]
Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:
21984 (25%) are pending validation. [1388 (2%) / 20597 (24%) / 0 (0%)]
64977 (75%) have been successfully validated. [4092 (5%) / 60885 (70%) / 0 (0%)]
5 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 5 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
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With less than a day remaining in the challenge, it's time to remind everyone...
At the Conclusion of the Challenge
We would prefer users "moving on" to finish those tasks they have downloaded, if not then please ABORT the WU's (and then UPDATE the PrimeGrid project) instead of DETACHING, RESETTING, or PAUSING.
ABORTING WU's allows them to be recycled immediately; thus a much faster "clean up" to the end of a Challenge. DETACHING, RESETTING, and PAUSING WU's causes them to remain in limbo until they EXPIRE. Therefore, we must wait until WU's expire to send them out to be completed. Thank you!
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Hi Leonidists!
With significantly less than an hour to go for your work to qualify, are you biting your nails with a job that is predicted to end very close to the deadline?
Won't you be annoyed if the work complets at 1155 UT and doesn't upload till 1257? !!????!!!!!
Normal BOINC client behaviour is to wait for an hour before uploading, so that if other work finishes in that hour they can all be uploaded together. This saves net traffic and load on the servers. But very annoying when time is critical.
There is a fix!
Well actually there are four fixes -- one is the manual one of being at your computer at 1157 to update PG, and the second is to write a BASH or BAT script to do the same. But those are workarounds rather than fixes, and there are more elegant fixes built into the client itself.
You can reduce this 1 hour wait to just 1 minute either by using a startup switch or a tweak in the config file.
I recommend using the file, but please do remember to set the option to zero afterwards, to save that server load, please.
See this BOINC wiki page for details of both methods
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My computers found:
9831*21441403+1 is a quadhectokilo prime prime, ie >400,000 digits ;)
252031090528237591 + 65521*149*23*19*17*13*11*7*5*3*2*n is prime for every n in { 0..20 } (an arithemtic progression of 21 primes) |
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Hi Leonidists!
With significantly less than an hour to go for your work to qualify, are you biting your nails with a job that is predicted to end very close to the deadline?
I had one CPU task that I knew was going to be really close.
It ended up finishing at 11:59:59 and being reported at 12:00:03. Oh well.
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Final totals:
Challenge: Leonids Shower
App: 11 (AP27)
(As of 2018-11-20 12:19:40 UTC)
172928 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 17659 (10%) / 155269 (90%) / 0 (0%)]
Of those tasks that have been sent out:
12719 (7%) came back with some kind of an error. [1657 (1%) / 11062 (6%) / 0 (0%)]
133916 (77%) have returned a successful result. [10047 (6%) / 123869 (72%) / 0 (0%)]
25544 (15%) are still in progress. [5800 (3%) / 19744 (11%) / 0 (0%)]
Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:
20513 (15%) are pending validation. [1255 (1%) / 19258 (14%) / 0 (0%)]
113396 (85%) have been successfully validated. [8792 (7%) / 104604 (78%) / 0 (0%)]
7 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 7 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
Some totals on the APs found:
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| 20 | 7068 |
| 21 | 1710 |
| 22 | 378 |
| 23 | 107 |
| 24 | 19 |
| 25 | 4 |
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As before, those were discovered during the challenge and have been validated, rather than having been part of a challenge task. There undoubtedly more unvalidated small (length 24 or shorter) APs waiting for wingmen.
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Well done dh1saj, you passed me out in the last few minutes :)
Good chase :)
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[H]atp1916 from TeAm AnandTech smashed it with 26,356,317 provisional points! More than total current credit showing on your AP badge, and AP24 discovered.
Street Creed to TeAm AnandTech with 86,625,318. Truly Beastful.
Better bring it to the next Challenge Brah
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The cleanup begins! I expect the cleanup to take 3 to 6 weeks.
Leonids Cleanup:
Nov 20: Leonids Shower: 19854 tasks outstanding; 18650 affecting individual (296) scoring positions; 9307 affecting team (75) scoring positions.
Nov 21: Leonids Shower: 12899 tasks outstanding; 10631 affecting individual (287) scoring positions; 5614 affecting team (61) scoring positions.
Nov 22: Leonids Shower: 11024 tasks outstanding; 8846 affecting individual (280) scoring positions; 4817 affecting team (60) scoring positions.
Nov 23: Leonids Shower: 10593 tasks outstanding; 8510 affecting individual (278) scoring positions; 4638 affecting team (60) scoring positions.
Nov 24: Leonids Shower: 10265 tasks outstanding; 8141 affecting individual (275) scoring positions; 4502 affecting team (60) scoring positions.
Nov 25: Leonids Shower: 10015 tasks outstanding; 7893 affecting individual (272) scoring positions; 4402 affecting team (59) scoring positions.
Nov 26: Leonids Shower: 7133 tasks outstanding; 5041 affecting individual (247) scoring positions; 2191 affecting team (49) scoring positions.
Nov 27: Leonids Shower: 3549 tasks outstanding; 1843 affecting individual (181) scoring positions; 606 affecting team (33) scoring positions.
Nov 28: Leonids Shower: 1423 tasks outstanding; 500 affecting individual (116) scoring positions; 78 affecting team (15) scoring positions.
Nov 29: Leonids Shower: 699 tasks outstanding; 189 affecting individual (69) scoring positions; 8 affecting team (6) scoring positions.
Nov 30: Leonids Shower: 421 tasks outstanding; 100 affecting individual (47) scoring positions; 4 affecting team (3) scoring positions.
Dec 1: Leonids Shower: 261 tasks outstanding; 61 affecting individual (34) scoring positions; 3 affecting team (2) scoring positions.
Dec 2: Leonids Shower: 183 tasks outstanding; 50 affecting individual (30) scoring positions; 3 affecting team (2) scoring positions.
Dec 3: Leonids Shower: 168 tasks outstanding; 47 affecting individual (30) scoring positions; 3 affecting team (2) scoring positions.
Dec 4: Leonids Shower: 124 tasks outstanding; 37 affecting individual (22) scoring positions; 3 affecting team (2) scoring positions.
Dec 5: Leonids Shower: 73 tasks outstanding; 17 affecting individual (10) scoring positions; 0 affecting team (0) scoring positions.
Dec 6: Leonids Shower: 30 tasks outstanding; 3 affecting individual (2) scoring positions; 0 affecting team (0) scoring positions.
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The results are final!
Top 3 individuals:
1: [H]atp1916
2: vaughan
3: tng*
Top 3 teams:
1: TeAm AnandTech
2: Sicituradastra.
3: Czech National Team
Congratulations to the winners, and well done to everyone who participated.
See you at the Winter Solstice Challenge!
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I'm reviewing my software tool that generates the overall stats for the challenge series in each year.
I'm getting some errors.
Among them, one happens when redoing the overall 2018 stats.
Challenge Leonids Shower results seems to have an inconsistence in the individual vs team results.
The individual results for the Leonids Shower challenge list user Tejas (rank 280) of team Hagerhill KY (teamid=4548) with a score of 92,989 points.
But in the team results of the same challenge, team Hagerhill KY is not listed, although Tejas scored 92,989 for it and this team would be ranked 64th.
Why isn't it there ?
Am I missing something ? (it happens pretty often :) )
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The individual results for the Leonids Shower challenge list user Tejas (rank 280) of team Hagerhill KY (teamid=4548) with a score of 92,989 points.
But in the team results of the same challenge, team Hagerhill KY is not listed, although Tejas scored 92,989 for it and this team would be ranked 64th.
Why isn't it there ?
That user may have changed teams many times. Today he seems to be in "The Scottish Boinc Team".
What happens if a user gets a task while in one team (or when outside a team), but is in a different team (or outside teams) when he returns the result? When the challenge ends, he might be in a third team (and it could be that he returns no results (in due time) for his last team). /JeppeSN |
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I note that Tejas is no longer a member of Hagerhill KY. He joined The Scottish Boinc Team. Maybe the User stats don't get changed when you change teams after the fact, but Team stats do?
Users can also change teams during a Challenge, which creates all kinds of headaches for the scoreboards. As long as the treatment is consistent I don't think it matters a great deal. |
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I'm aware of the user changing teams during the challenge.
(A user might even change his own name during the challenge and that's why I work with the user id, instead of relying on his/her name.)
Regarding a user changing teams during a challenge, I just hadn't realized the impact it could have when calculating the user rank within his team for a challenge, in some specific cases.
The problem I'm having is to calculate Tejas' rank within his team in the 8th challenge of 2018 (Leonids Shower), since his team is not listed in the challenge's teams results.
One explanation I can think of is that Tejas crunched for some other team during the challenge (say, AnandTech) and after crunching the last task, he switched to team Hagerhill KY.
As nobody else in team Hagerhill KY crunched in the challenge, Hagerhill KY didn't score in that challenge.
The individual stats for the challenge lists Tejas with his points in the challenge and the current team he/she was in at the time the stats where generated.
That would explain Hagerhill KY not being listed as a team with score.
Guess that in cases like this, I'll just consider it not possible to calculate the user rank within his team in the challenge and report this as "rank in team = (--)".
I'm not sure why I didn't stumble in this before (I mean, getting this as an error in my tool).
So, the overall individual stats for 2018 is not 100% correct, since it shows Tejas ranked 1st in his team in the Leonids Shower challenge.
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Team scores are tabulated on a task by task basis. Each individual tasks contains a teamid as well as a userid. I'm fairly sure the teamid is set when the task is sent to a computer. If a user switches teams during the challenge, some of his tasks will be for different teams.
Worse yet, there's been cases where a team was deleted during a challenge. That actually broke the official challenge results once.
So, yeah, there's some strange stuff that can happen with the statistics.
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Thank you for the input on this issue, guys !
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