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[Recca29]

I finally got my 50 year for MCM so now I've switched over to just UGM

I figure I should be able to generate about 5 years worth of work per month so I guess I'll be set for only UGM for a while - at least until the 20 year mark anyway. Then I'll switch back to a mix of both.

Thats some big numbers. How many threads are u running dude?

 

[twilyth]

Just 64 threads right now. I have 2 dual hex cores idle right now. If I restart one of them, that would bring it up to 88. I'll wait to see what the next electric bill looks like. If it's under $300 I'll think about doing it. But owning a house costs either a lot of time or a lot of money and I just had a crew of 6 guys here the other day with a crane, cherry picker and industrial mulcher working all day to take care of the trees and shrubbery. You don't want to know what that cost. But fuel oil should be a lot cheaper this year, so maybe I won't mind running the extra machine for a few months over the winter. We'll see.

 

[[Ion]]

Five-year badge in UGM!

I'm going to get up to 10 years and then switch back to MCM

 

[AnnCore]

Well hello there UGM!

 

[twilyth]

I'm doing about 5 years per month currently - although I'm hoping the addition of the quad core snapdragon processor will help with that (LOL!!!). I've got a little over 2 years in on UGM so I've got at least another 3 months to hit 20 years before I can switch back to MCM.

 

[[Ion]]

Ten years for UGM and coming up right close on it in UGM

Then the long march to 20 years for both of them, I think

 

[Arjai]

 

[AnnCore]

UGM all nice and shiny now!

 

[[Ion]]

Well done
Which ones are you focusing on now?

 

[AnnCore]

Well done
Which ones are you focusing on now?

Can't say I am. Taking the balanced approach.

 

[[Ion]]

Can't say I am. Taking the balanced approach.

A very good strategy--results work out well in the end

I for one am impatient--far more exciting IMO to race for one at a time.

 

[[Ion]]

10 years in MCM!

 

[twilyth]

Can't say I am. Taking the balanced approach.

That's normally what I would do too, but I'm worried that with all of the people selecting UGM exclusively, we could run out of work units before hitting certain achievements.

It seems that folks who have UGM selected exclusively get priority, which obviously makes sense. But as a result, people who have UGM selected along with one or more other projects, don't get a proportional share of the wu's. So let's say you have UGM and MCM selected. In theory, you should get half one and half the other in terms of work units. But in fact what happens is that you get more like 1/6 UGM and 5/6 MCM - because so many wu's are being allocated to the exclusive UGM crunchers. So you end up making much slower progress in terms of reaching different badge levels on UGM than if you crunched that exclusively,.

 

[AnnCore]

That's normally what I would do too, but I'm worried that with all of the people selecting UGM exclusively, we could run out of work units before hitting certain achievements.

It seems that folks who have UGM selected exclusively get priority, which obviously makes sense. But as a result, people who have UGM selected along with one or more other projects, don't get a proportional share of the wu's. So let's say you have UGM and MCM selected. In theory, you should get half one and half the other in terms of work units. But in fact what happens is that you get more like 1/6 UGM and 5/6 MCM - because so many wu's are being allocated to the exclusive UGM crunchers. So you end up making much slower progress in terms of reaching different badge levels on UGM than if you crunched that exclusively,.

I'm not sure they get priority over others (WCG decides this?) but obviously there are only so many WUs and when they are gone, they are gone, so yeh, might not get certain badges. Badges are nice, but in the end, any work contributed, badge or no badge, is satisfaction in itself. I'll "celebrate" badge milestones as they come, but not going to lose any sleep over them. When I see how some crunchers have over 10 years on one thing or another it's definitely impressive, but it might the WU of some guy on a PII that makes the difference!

Edit: BTW, really nice numbers you got twilyth!

 

[twilyth]

I'm not sure they get priority over others (WCG decides this?) but obviously there are only so many WUs and when they are gone, they are gone, so yeh, might not get certain badges. Badges are nice, but in the end, any work contributed, badge or no badge, is satisfaction in itself. I'll "celebrate" badge milestones as they come, but not going to lose any sleep over them. When I see how some crunchers have over 10 years on one thing or another it's definitely impressive, but it might the WU of some guy on a PII that makes the difference!

Oh, you're absolutely right. It's really a matter of personal preference.

But if you think about it, people who choose UGM exclusively HAVE to get priority - right? Because what would happen otherwise? If they have just UGM checked, you can't send them work from other projects as long as there's UGM work, so by default, they get priority.

That's not a big deal if only a few people do that, but get enough people doing it and it reduces the pool of work available to the people who have more than just the UGM project selected.

And BTW, I've seen this firsthand. When I had UGM and MCM selected, I had far more MCM than UGM wu's. I don't remember the exact proportion but it was really lopsided. I was making almost no progress on a daily basis in terms of the number of UGM hours I was racking up. And it wasn't too hard to figure out why. So I had to follow everyone else who was basically gaming the system and switch to just UGM if I wanted to reach certain goals in a reasonable amount of time. I don't really like doing this, but sometimes you have to go with the flow.

However I do agree with your overall sentiment as I said before. It doesn't really matter what you crunch with or how many points you rack up. What matters is that you participate. It's just that for some of us, part of our motivation is to be bluntly honest, a bit OCD oriented - at least in my case. I have enough machines that have enough power that I can shoot for some decent badges so I don't want to miss out on them just because I was playing by the rules when everyone else wasn't.

 

[[Ion]]

Silver in OET

If the scheduler would give me more of them, I would have far better than merely silver, but mostly I'm still getting MCM WUs. Ah well, they'll get it up to speed at some point.

 

[[Ion]]

Updates: Ruby in OET and Diamond-20 in MCM:

Gonna keep running the MCM/OET mix through the new year and then add UGM back in, I think.

 

[manofthem]

Updates: Ruby in OET and Diamond-20 in MCM:

Gonna keep running the MCM/OET mix through the new year and then add UGM back in, I think.

But it in, bud, rub it in



Some of us don't have badges at all for OET

 

[[Ion]]

We all do what we can do
And I've been pretty aggressive with device profiles, trying to get lots of them.

 

[twilyth]

Don't feel bad. I'm running just over 90 threads I think and I've barely been able to squeeze out a bronze. Not sure I like how that came out (yuk, yuk) but you get the idea.

 

[n3rdf1ght3r]

I don't check the wcg section for a while (minus the giveaways that pop up on the recent discussions) and next thing i know [ion] is ranked first on the team.

 

[twilyth]

Recently passed 2M wu's. Woo-hoo!!!

 

[[Ion]]

Congratulations! That's an insane amount of work you've done!

IIRC the GPU WUs really helped with that metric

 

[Norton]

Team TPU passed 4000 years runtime today!!!

Great job Team!

 

[[Ion]]

The most remarkable thing is, our position by pts relative to our position by runtime. Clearly we're running equipment that is, overall, far more powerful than most other teams.
4000 years is a long time