From the PG website thread
 
Tour de Primes 2019

Welcome to the 11th annual Tour de Primes. 2 is the first prime number...and the only even one. This makes it unique among prime numbers. Therefore, February is declared Prime month...being the 2nd month of the year. :) And there's no better way to pay homage to a prime number than to go out and find one. :) More precisely, a Top 5000 prime.

For the month of February, an informal competition is offered. There are no challenge points to be gained... just a simple rare jersey at the end of the month to add to your badge list. No pressure or stress other than what you put on yourself. :)

For 2019, we're bring back the badges introduced in 2018:


 

•  Red Jersey -- discoverer of largest prime
•  Yellow Jersey -- prime count leader (tiebreaker will be prime score)
•  Green Jersey -- points (prime score) leader
•  Polk-a-dot Jersey -- on the 19th of February we'll have a "Mountain Stage" and award the Polk-a-dot Jersey to the one who finds the most primes on that day (tiebreaker will be prime score for that day).
•  Prime badge -- awarded to everyone who finds an eligible prime during the month of February. This is a counter badge, so if you find more than one prime it will show how many you've found, up to 99.
•  Mega prime badge -- awarded to everyone who finds a mega prime during February. This is a counter badge.
•  Mountain Stage prime badge -- awarded to everyone who finds an eligible prime during the Mountain Stage. This is a counter badge.
•  Mountain Stage mega prime badge -- awarded to everyone who finds a mega prime during the Mountain Stage. This is a counter badge.

Results will be available at http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/tdp_2019.php.

As with the last few years, for all primes (BOINC and PRPNet) we're using the new reporting system whereby the prime's date of discovery determines whether it's eligible for the Tour de Primes. Prior to 2014, the date of verification for BOINC primes was used while the discovery date was used for PRPNet primes. The current system is more intuitive and fairer.

Note that SGS-LLR and GFN-15 are too small to be reported to the Top 5000 primes list and are therefore not eligible for the 2019 Tour de Primes.

Currently, the fastest opportunities to find Top 5000 primes is with the PPSE (LLR), and GFN-16 (65536) projects. Of course, should someone find a prime in the mega-prime searches, this would certainly give them a good shot at the green jersey. Not a guarantee, however, as in 2018 there were several mega primes found in the Tour de Primes. Overall, in 2018 we averaged close to two mega primes per week for the entire year, so you might need more than "merely" a mega prime to take home green. In 2018 there were 16 mega primes found during Tour de Primes.

All ports in PRPNet are available for the competition.

To participate in BOINC PPSE (LLR), GFN-16, or any other eligible LLR or Genefer project, all you have to do is select it in your PrimeGrid preferences. AP27 sequences are not reportable at T5K, so are not eligible for Tour de Primes.

Good Luck, have fun, and enjoy! :D

Let's see if I can break last years record
Sadly I do not think my last X299 Dark will be ready for this but I am setup and ready.

I will put some effort in.  Good luck on the polkadots bill1024.

I'm ready to rock!

So basically GFN16, PPS, and PPSE are the highest chance of getting primes. And then MEGA for a good high prime number.

thanks or Posting bill1024
 
Good Luck everyone 

This starts in a hour and a half from now. 7PM EST  7PM Eastern USA time that is 00 Universal time

This challenge has started. Good luck everyone.
 
I have to order a new rad myself to get the x79 on water.
Going with a 3x140 to add on to one. 2x120 and one 1x120
I may just take the 1x120 out all together. I do have an Titan 6gb blower card and a full 980/titanX block that I bet will work with it.
So with 2 titans I want enough cooling.

I am doing 90 to 122 seconds on my 1080Ti Just doing 1 task at a time.
Do you have a thread open to feed the GPU?
I am on driver 390.xx I do believe
 
<app_config>
<app>
<name>genefer17low</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>genefer17mega</name>
<max_concurrent>12</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.25</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>pps_sr2sieve</name>
<max_concurrent>12</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.25</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>genefer16</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.25</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>genefer18</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>ap26</name>
<max_concurrent>12</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>llrPSP</name>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrMEGA</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrMEGA</app_name>
<cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrSR5</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrSR5</app_name>
<cmdline>-t 12</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>12</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>12</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrPPSE</name>
<max_concurrent>3</max_concurrent>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrPPSE</app_name>
<cmdline>-t 2</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>2</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>2</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrCUL</app_name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrGCW</name>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrGCW</app_name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cmdline>-t 12</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>12</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>12</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrWOO</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrWOO</app_name>
<cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llr321</name>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llr321</app_name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cmdline>-t 12</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>12</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>12</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
<app>
<name>llrESP</name>
<fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>llrESP</app_name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
</app_version>
</app_config>

I am not seeing that issue Bill

bill1024
2 min a task and it runs at 2025ghz 40c or under, it is a 1080Ti SC Hybrid

That is about the same here, I was up to 9 tasks waiting to report and then stopped getting new ones till I clicked update.
 

bill1024
Is it fixed now?

Yes and no, they did have to restart a Server earlier today and why this happens around 0900 this morning.
At least that what was Posted on the PG Forum, also EU users do have a faster access and better connection to their servers.
 
https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8409&nowrap=true#125922
We just brought Do You feel Lucky? online, and I had to bounce the server a few times.  That can cause your computers to back off for a few minutes.

It's temporary.

Round trip time for reporting or requesting tasks for me is 1 or 2 seconds, and that's from the other side of the planet.  If you're in Europe it might be faster.
 
I have seen the normal time to be 10 to 30 Seconds over his 1 or 2.

I am DL PPSE tasks in 2 seconds.
From the time it hots 100% and uploads and is gone is 3 seconds. That is one after another.  (One Mississippi seconds)
Maybe a network issue in your house, IP provider having issues. Time to reboot your router?
I think it is on your end Bill.

bcavnaugh

bill1024
2 min a task and it runs at 2025ghz 40c or under, it is a 1080Ti SC Hybrid

That is about the same here, I was up to 9 tasks waiting to report and then stopped getting new ones till I clicked update.

I did a little digging, had it in a 2.0 x16 slot.. back in it's proper 3.0 home again. 02:00-2:10, not OC 

devlin85

bcavnaugh

bill1024
2 min a task and it runs at 2025ghz 40c or under, it is a 1080Ti SC Hybrid

That is about the same here, I was up to 9 tasks waiting to report and then stopped getting new ones till I clicked update.

I did a little digging, had it in a 2.0 x16 slot.. back in it's proper 3.0 home again. 02:00-2:10, not OC 

Let's see some Primes

Any idea how to get the CPU genefer16 to run on multi-thread, or is that not even possible. Doesn't seem to pay attention to the normal <cmdline>-t 8</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus> config..