WCG 9th Birthday Challenge Planning Thread

[Norton]

Hey Team,

*note- we are gathering quite a few giveaway prizes (check the list at the bottom of the post)

Now that the CEP2 challenge is done... let's plan for joining up for the WCG 9th Birthday Challenge (11/16 thru 11/22) that SETI.Germany is sponsoring.

Links:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,35626_lastpage,yes#lastpost

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=6195

We participated in prior years and we came very close, with the help of the GPU work, to winning last years WCG 8th Birthday Challenge (2nd place)

Link to the 8th Birthday Challenge results:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=5312

Post your interest here, throw out some ideas for recruiting/prizes/etc..- everything is up for discussion.

**UPDATE**

We will be offering prizes for new and active crunchers in the form of a prize drawing and a game giveaway, We'll start a list here in the planning thread before the challenge thread(s) go live

Prizes:
Grand prize
- cruncher rig (Norton and others)*
*note- rig will be setup with Linux installed and ready to crunch
Specs:
- NZXT Source 210 (White) w/5x 120mm fans
- Corsair TX-550M modular psu
- Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (AM3+) mobo
- PII 1055T (125w) cpu
- stock AMD heatpipe cooler
- 2x4GB GSkill Ares DDR3-1866 ram
- Geforce 8800GT video card- provided by [Ion]
- 320GB Western Digital 7,200rpm HDD (WD3200AAKS)
- DVD/RW drive
*available to Team members in the USA- shipping would be too difficult otherwise
Other prizes
- CM Sentinel Advanced 2 (mouse) provided by manofthem*
- Silverstone Argon AR03 cpu cooler provided by Norton*
- $20 PayPal gift - provided by Bow
- $20 PayPal gift - provided by theonedub
- CM Storm Havok mouse- provided by sneekypete*
- CM Cosmos SE case provided by sneekypete*
*available to Team members in the USA- shipping would be too difficult otherwise

Game giveaway- to be hosted by manofthem details coming soon

 

[t_ski]

I'm in, but it would be nice if we had GPU work again. :/

 

[stinger608]

Post your interest here, throw out some ideas for recruiting/prizes/etc..- everything is up for discussion.

We can also discuss some ideas on the TPU Teamspeak server. We now have a private room dedicated to the TPU WCG team.

 

[Peter1986C]

I will join the challenge once it is up!

 

[librin.so.1]

I'm in!

 

[AlienIsGOD]

always interested in doing challenges

 

[AnnCore]

Participating.

 

[adulaamin]

I'm in, as usual.

 

[HammerON]

Well I am still crunching on my main rig - so that means that I am in
I agree with t_ski that we need GPU WU's!!!

 

[Peter1986C]

POEM@home has them, but that is another project not part of WCG.

 

[brandonwh64]

Well I am in! Will change my WU's back to default today.

 

[sabre23]

I'm in.

 

[manofthem]

Oh I am so undecided.....



I'm in, ready to rock n roll! Let's challenge it up TPU!

Well I am in! Will change my WU's back to default today.

I actually did that last night on both my pcs, and I set pc2 back to part time. It'll go back to full crunching for this next challenge.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Always crunching so I'm in!!

 

[xvi]

I must admit I am new to this whole "Joining other challenges" thing. I assume the process is:
1. Create a new account for SETI under the TPU team.
2. Pause WCG and add SETI to all crunching machines.
3. Party like it's 1999.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I must admit I am new to this whole "Joining other challenges" thing. I assume the process is:
1. Create a new account for SETI under the TPU team.
2. Pause WCG and add SETI to all crunching machines.
3. Party like it's 1999.

This is a WCG challenge that is sponsored by the "WCG team" SETI.Germany. No changes are necessary.

 

[xvi]

This is a WCG challenge that is sponsored by the "WCG team" SETI.Germany. No changes are necessary.

I must have read it too quickly. I don't plan on not crunching, so I suppose I'm game.

 

[Norton]

OK folks we are all signed up... Thanks Captain!

This one won't be an easy A for us, many of the Teams joining are much larger than we are (including SETI.Germany). However, if we put forth a good effort, we should do well and still have a chance at winning as well as benefit the WCG projects and have some fun while doing so.

We have about a month before the Challenge starts so lets put some ideas up for:
- Recruiting new Team members- It would be great if we can get some interest and attract a few new members so throw some ideas out there!
- Idle Team members- same as above... how do you think we can get some of our inactive Team members to contribute?
- Prizes (always a good thing to do!)
- Rig build/donation- I will be reducing my farm by 1 or 2 rigs shortly and will be able to donate at least half, if not more, of the parts necessary to do a giveaway rig. I will be willing to do so if I can get all of the parts together for something nice... details TBD
- Other prizes- let's see what we can do.
- Game giveaway- this is pretty popular so my $0.02 is we do it again.
- Rig maintenance- we have some time to get our rigs into shape for the challenge. Let's see what we can do to help each other get the parts/assistance needed to get those rigs that could be crunching up and running.
- Other ideas? let's hear them

Thoughts?

 

[BarbaricSoul]

What exactly are we working on here? What are the WU for? If it isn't about finding cures for diseases such as cancer or aids, count me out. I don't crunch for just any reason.

 

[sabre23]

@Norton i will try to rope in my friends to crunch on my name just for the challenge period.

 

[Norton]

What exactly are we working on here? What are the WU for? If it isn't about finding cures for diseases such as cancer or aids, count me out. I don't crunch for just any reason.

The projects haven't changed- we will be doing the same WCG work that we are doing now.

Current projects are FAAH and CEP2*

* Would be nice if we get some new projects from WCG at some point soon

 

[Arjai]

I am in! AND, with the awesome deal with 1dub, I will have my buddies computer up and crunching, part time, for me. Until I can get him up to speed, his first computer, I will be crunching on his comp during idle time and will have it load up on start.

I don't expect a huge point boost but in the case of this challenge, every CPU counts!!

I will be passing on the word to my sister and brother's and may have them up and running for this!!

Just a thought, will 7.0.64 work on 7? Also, is their a 7.0.32 for 32bit windows 7?

All of my family member's and my buddy, I believe, will be running 32 bit W7. What version is the stable one? I want ZERO complications on these machines. None of these folks are even remotely tech savvy!

Thanks!

GO TPU!!!

 

[librin.so.1]

Just a thought, will 7.0.64 work on 7? Also, is their a 7.0.32 for 32bit windows 7?

7.0.64 is just a version number. It has nothing to do with the architecture it runs on. And for example, I run 7.0.65, but You don't see me having a 65-bit processor (those don't even exist, OFC)
So yeah, as long as they download the 32-bit version of it, Boinc-7.0.64 will run just fine on x86 Windows.

 

[Arjai]

7.0.64 is just a version number. It has nothing to do with the architecture it runs on. And for example, I run 7.0.65, but You don't see me having a 65-bit processor (those don't even exist, OFC)
So yeah, as long as they download the 32-bit version of it, Boinc-7.0.64 will run just fine on x86 Windows.

I probably should not have posted such a Noob question, since it took me all of five seconds to answer this myself.

However, since I am such an attention whore and desperately need all forms of human interactions, I left the post up. In the hopes that you, or someone, would acknowledge this post!!

 

[Norton]

I probably should not have posted such a Noob question, since it took me all of five seconds to answer this myself.

However, since I am such an attention whore and desperately need all forms of human interactions, I left the post up. In the hopes that you, or someone, would acknowledge this post!!

We will give you the answer on the 12th at 12pm

j/k- best setup/version for a new, noob, or part-time cruncher would be to download and install the version available through WCG when you register. Direct them to this thread:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93395