TechpowerUp's 10th Birthday WCG Challenge (5/14 thru 5/23)- crunch/fold and win some cool stuff!!!

BUCK NASTY · May 14, 2014

Vinska said:
Even though I dumped several days worth of work, it seems to have done jack shit, as most of it was FAAH. Meanwhile, FAAH is on a horribly low point rewards roll again HAHA.

I still have FAAH set as the only project. Just changed it to all projects to see if it helps.

Peter1986C · May 14, 2014

Norton said:
May 14th (0:00 GMT) thru May 23rd (24:00 GMT)

Starts in 2hrs 50min from now

EDIT- fixed the end date on the thread title... my bad

The WCG site uses UTC, since that is the only consitent time zone (in the "summer" mode of DST, GMT is an hour ahead of UTC).

thebluebumblebee · May 14, 2014

aaah! How do I install WCG on Ubuntu?

Peter1986C · May 14, 2014

Use the Software Center.

thebluebumblebee · May 14, 2014

got it

Norton · May 14, 2014

Chevalr1c said:
The WCG site uses UTC, since that is the only consitent time zone (in the "summer" mode of DST, GMT is an hour ahead of UTC).

Updated it in the OP- Thx!.... too many f#&^'g time zones! :shadedshu:

Next time I'm going to use stardate :rolleyes:

BUCK NASTY · May 14, 2014

Norton said:
Updated it in the OP- Thx!.... too many f#&^'g time zones!

Next time I'm going to use stardate

Good thing I waited to dump until 9:30PM EST, but then there is the lag while validating, so it shouldn't have been a factor. I'm looking forward to Team TPU putting some big numbers on the board this morning!

librin.so.1 · May 14, 2014

good ol trusty date --utc --iso-8601=minutes always does the trick

Norton · May 14, 2014

BUCK NASTY said:
Good thing I waited to dump until 9:30PM EST, but then there is the lag while validating, so it shouldn't have been a factor. I'm looking forward to Team TPU putting some big numbers on the board this morning!

I dumped at around 8:15PM EST and FreeDC picked it up for yesterday's totals but WCG counted it as today's.... which should be counted in the challenge totals.

The FreeDC morning update looks great today!!! :toast:

thebluebumblebee · May 14, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
aaah! How do I install WCG on Ubuntu?

Chevalr1c said:
Use the Software Center.

Notice what I was asking a 3:30 in the morning. For what ever reason, your response made me realize that I should be searching for BOINC, not WCG. :shadedshu:

The other thing that threw me is how the "file menu" is moved to the top of the screen.

Lightofhonor · May 14, 2014

Current rigs - 2 i5-4570s (Personal and brothers rigs), an i5-3~~~m (Work pc), and an i5 2~~~m (Mac Mini). Less cores than last year, but should be crunching more now!

MxPhenom 216 · May 14, 2014

Is it still true that AMD cards are better at this BOICing stuff? Or has NVIDIA caught up? Or does it depend on what service/app you use?

Eroticus · May 14, 2014

MxPhenom 216 said:
Is it still true that AMD cards are better at this BOICing stuff? Or has NVIDIA caught up? Or does it depend on what service/app you use?

Yep same story as bitcoins.

librin.so.1 · May 14, 2014

It goes slightly better if You dish out 'dem shekels for a "compute-enabled" card like a Titan, otherwise, no. Dishing out even more shekels for a Tesla card should make slightly better a bit more.

And by "slighly" I mean it's still crap.

Peter1986C · May 14, 2014

But, some BOINC projects are actually nVidia optimised and CUDA only. But it is true in case of the former WCG GPU WUs, probably POEM GPU WUs and certainly Folding at Home.

MxPhenom 216 · May 14, 2014

Chevalr1c said:
But, some BOINC projects are actually nVidia optimised and CUDA only. But it is true in case of the former WCG GPU WUs, probably POEM GPU WUs and certainly Folding at Home.

My friend refered me to Prime Grid as a place to go to for nvidia cards. I guess when i jave money to fit my file server eith more power to do crunching while i dont need it for file stuff, ill look for some second hand amd gpus like a 270x/280. also second hand 1155 xeon chip.

stinger608 · May 14, 2014

Norton said:
The FreeDC morning update looks great today!!!

You got that right boss!!!!!!!!

thebluebumblebee · May 14, 2014

Chevalr1c said:
But, some BOINC projects are actually nVidia optimised and CUDA only. But it is true in case of the former WCG GPU WUs, probably POEM GPU WUs and certainly Folding at Home.

Not completely true anymore. With the latest core, AMD and Nvidia are about equal watt for watt, but, Nvidia puts a much heavier load on the CPU (kinda important around here :laugh:

) Also, at this time, AMD seems more committed to OpenCL than is Nvidia. Nvidia is promising that they are going to fix this but that has been going on for quite a while now. Therefore, I'm looking to get AMD GPU's, not Nvidia.

Arjai · May 14, 2014

Let's see if this page of number's changes tomorrow...

Eroticus · May 14, 2014

BTW some one ever had GPU work ? on Bionic ?

manofthem · May 14, 2014

Eroticus said:
BTW some one ever had GPU work ? on Bionic ?

We did when the HCC project used gpu WU's but since then there hasn't been anything for us. We keep hoping other projects will take advantage of it but...

MxPhenom 216 · May 14, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
Not completely true anymore. With the latest core, AMD and Nvidia are about equal watt for watt, but, Nvidia puts a much heavier load on the CPU (kinda important around here) Also, at this time, AMD seems more committed to OpenCL than is Nvidia. Nvidia is promising that they are going to fix this but that has been going on for quite a while now. Therefore, I'm looking to get AMD GPU's, not Nvidia.

yep, if there was a 7870/270x prize to win in this challenge and I won it, my mission to turning my file server into a cruncher too would be every so much closer!

Norton · May 14, 2014

Can't have a Birthday without cake!!!

Don't be a Milton.... Make sure you get a piece!

Irony · May 14, 2014

Wow I'm dumb. I looked and it said, 5-14 thru 5-23 and I'm like crap I missed it that was last month... then I looked again today, and I'm like holy crap it's starting today!!!?? Lol...it was like 4am when I checked, in my defense

I've got my main rig crunching, gonna fire up the other two shortly. Wish i coulda gotten spooled up before

Edit: I've got my laptop running; and athlon quad with lots of fans on it running; and my main rig. Good thing it's cold down here in the basement...

fullinfusion · May 15, 2014

I'm sure not happy with my PPD and the rigs been spooled up sense last week. I wonder if that .1 of a bus speed bump from 100.0 to 100.1 is messing my PPD? Shitty thing is I'm 800miles away to see with is going on. I should be in the 6k PPD easy unless all that aids jobs have real crappy project points. Any ideas ppl?

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TechpowerUp's 10th Birthday WCG Challenge (5/14 thru 5/23)- crunch/fold and win some cool stuff!!!

Are you planning to crunch or fold during the upcoming challenge?

Happy Birthday TPU and count me in!!!

Happy Birthday TPU and maybe next time...

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

Peter1986C

thebluebumblebee

Peter1986C

thebluebumblebee

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

librin.so.1

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

thebluebumblebee

Lightofhonor

MxPhenom 216

ASIC Engineer

Eroticus

librin.so.1

Peter1986C

MxPhenom 216

ASIC Engineer

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

thebluebumblebee

Arjai

Eroticus

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

MxPhenom 216

ASIC Engineer

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Irony

fullinfusion

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