[PrimeGrid] Good Riddance 2020! Challenge starts January 14th

[BOINC_News]

The first challenge of the 2021 Series will be a 5-day challenge celebrating the end of the abomination which was the year 2020. The challenge will be offered on the PPS-DIV (LLR) application, beginning 14 January 00:00 UTC and ending 18 January 23:59 UTC. To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Fermat Divisor Search LLR (PPS-DIV) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section. Comments? Concerns? Discuss on the forum post for this challenge. Best of luck!

Source: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9528

[crashtech]

I'm not sure if this is a good place to put this, but I am wondering why this computer:

http://www.primegrid.com/show_host_deta ... tid=533260

Is taking 8 hours to finish WUs! It is a little underclocked, to 3.6GHz I believe, and running 6 tasks of 1 thread each. If this keeps up, I'm going to have it do other things instead!

[emoga]

@crashtech The i7-8700K only has 12MB of L3 cache. Each DIV task currently requires 3.5MB, therefore its not able to run all tasks from L3 cache alone.

Try running 3 tasks of 4 threads.

Great job in the challenge by the way

[crashtech]

@crashtech The i7-8700K only has 12MB of L3 cache. Each DIV task currently requires 3.5MB, therefore its not able to run all tasks from L3 cache alone.

Try running 3 tasks of 4 threads.

Great job in the challenge by the way

Aww, crap. I forgot about the stupid anemic cache! Thanks, and thanks!

[Skillz]

Didn't realize the team was running this. I switched some of my rigs over to it late last night.