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Game Giveaway for TPU's "Winter's End" WCG Challenge

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I’m a TPU cruncher, and I will be crunching on 76 cores/ 96 threads during this Challenge

Please opt me out on the games- can't seem to find the time to play anything lately :twitch:

What would I do if I had 10k for crunching hardware? Well, knowing me I would give about 20% of it back to help the Team.. the rest would go to:
- Electric bill (20%)
- Another 4P
- a dual s2011 Xeon rig with a pair of good folding gpu's
- a new desk chair... my current one sucks :shadedshu:

Thanks much to @manofthem for hosting yet another awesome game giveaway! :toast::respect:
 
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- a new desk chair... my current one sucks :shadedshu:

Very important stuff that people tend to overlook. Be comfortable my friends.
 
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I am a Cruncher. Currently running 5 Cores and 2 Threads. 2 Cores and 2 Threads Crunching in memory of Uncle K. The other 3 Cores are crunching in my account.

I want to win Mirror's Edge. I might not have anything to play it on but, I think I know somebody who would want this. Besides me.:D

OK, 10 Grand. I would budget out 4 grand to build two bitchin' Gaming rigs, that would crunch also, and the rest would be used towards 3 or 4 4P boards and the sweetest chips I could by. The remainder would be spent on building a cooler/ Wine Cellar for them to reside in.

BTW, not in for the Grand Prize. I would just have to gift it back.

:lovetpu:
 
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- a new desk chair... my current one sucks :shadedshu:
Speaking of new chairs...

Broyhill Big & Tall Executive Chair

This is what I just got!! :D
 

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Congrats on the new chair @Arjai! :toast:

I think it was last year that my wife got me a new chair for our anniversary, and I can't tell you how awesome of a gift it was. I was blown away by the comfort difference. Now I can just sit here and sit here and sit here and.... :)
 
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I know, right? I should be in bed!! :laugh:
 

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I know, right? I should be in bed!! :laugh:

That's so funny, the wife literally just called me as I was reading that post. "Babe...? Come to bed!" :laugh:
 
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I’m a TPU cruncher, and I will be crunching on between 4 cores/8 threads during this Challenge.

I would like to enter for:
Deadlight or Dungeon of the endless

Well..if i have free $10k for crunching, i would built 1 Mini system, 1 regular AMD PC, and 1 regular Intel PC, repaint and airbrush all to match WCG theme, and rent an open booth in the mall for a full month roadshow to exhibit what is all WCG about to regular folks.
 

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I think it was last year that my wife got me a new chair for our anniversary, and I can't tell you how awesome of a gift it was. I was blown away by the comfort difference. Now I can just sit here and sit here and sit here and.... :)
After reading the other thread, I think that chair has probably been "soiled" too...

Just dropping by to say thanks to Matt for putting the game giveaway together once again! :toast:
 
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I’m a TPU cruncher, and I will be crunching on 4 cores/8 threads and about 50% with 4 cores on a snap dragon 801 during this Challenge. I could not start my other 3 laptops for the challenge. All seem to have HD issues, I'm sad.

Put me down for the game below,
just cause 2
medal of honor
and the grand prize of GTA V

If I had 10k to spend. I would build a rack of 4p crunching farm. Not the newer Interlagos, but the older generation that gives a better points per power draw. I would need to 1st build a solar panel sun tracking set up in the back yard to power all of the CPUs and a small ac unit in the day time.
 

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I am a TPU cruncher, and will be crunching on 6 cores/10 threads (4770k and Pentium G630) during this challenge

Entering for:
Titantall
Toxikk
The Bureau

and definitely in for GTA.

If i was given 10k, I would try and make a 4 CPU cruncher (Xeon 6 core 12 thread CPUs) in a rack server. Though 10k might only be enough to afford half of it :banghead:

I drool over these systems. Ever since working at Microsoft as a lab Engineer. Dell makes great servers.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r920/pd
 

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I forgot to include 2 games from @krusha03, very sorry buddy. Just edited the OP to now include:

  • GRID
  • Kane and Lynch Collection

TThanks to krusha03 for the donation and again I'm sorry for having missed it. :oops:




Edit: also thanks to @krusha03! He updated the picture to include the forgotten games, looks awesome! Thanks bro! :respect:
 
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i would only like to enter for Titanfall

m a TPU cruncher, and I will be crunching on between 4 cores/4 threads during this Challenge.

the split x2 has hardware damage so i cant use it :(
 

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Awesome give away @manofthem !!!!!

I’m a TPU cruncher, and I will be crunching on 16 cores/32 threads during this Challenge.

If I had $10K to spend, I would probably look at building a large assortment of Intel socket 1366 systems all running hex core chips. The boards are a bit too high priced, but damn; you can pick up the hex core (6 core/12 thread) chips for well under a hundred each! With 10K a person could make a pretty healthy Team TPU Crunching farm!!! :rockout:

I would like to enter for Mirror's Edge, and Deadlight.
And naturally I want to enter for the pre-order of GTA V :clap: :peace: :clap: :peace:
 
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Just added in 3 more games donated by @ThE_MaD_ShOt :respect: :respect:

  • Supreme Commander2
  • Tomb Raider
  • Startopia
:lovetpu:


And I just pm'd @krusha03 to see if he can add them in the main pic the way he did the others earlier today. He did a great job on that ;)
 
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Just added in 3 more games donated by @ThE_MaD_ShOt :respect: :respect:

  • Supreme Commander2
  • Tomb Raider
  • Startopia
:lovetpu:


And I just pm'd @krusha03 to see if he can add them in the main pic the way he did the others earlier today. He did a great job on that ;)
It seems we are a sleep cycle away :) @ThE_MaD_ShOt thanks for the extra games. Which tomb rider is it?
 
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The game is terrific, actually one I've replayed. First TR game I did play however :laugh:





We need more entries.! :toast:
No don't enter, higher chance for me to win tomb raider :p
 
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Very nice giveaway @manofthem, a bunch of good games out there =)

I'm a TPU Cruncher and I'll be active with 14 cores / 16 threads during this challenge.

If I had 10K to spend, I won't buy any hardware, instead of that I'll go to OVH or Hetzner (or any other dedicated servers cheap provider) to rent machines. Let's say I can pick for 50$/month between 4 and 8 threads, so 6 threads as average. With 830 per month I could rent 16,6 servers so almost 100 threads computing. That means within a year I could get 100 threads that had been computing for a whole year, so 100 years for 10K$ ... I know this is in an ideal world with no hardware failures and much more stuff implied, but I think it will be more profitable than build one or several machines, just my 5 cents since 2 of my crunchers are OVH machines, and besides I have hardware replacement guarantee if it fails also I don't have to worry about those electricty bills :D

Btw, just in for GTA V, geez, how I waited that game!!!

Keep up the challenge and the good causes :toast:
 
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How to Enter: You have just inherited $10,000, but the catch is the money must be spent building compute horses for crunching. Tell us below about how you would spent that money. It could be one rig, several rigs, or a whole lot of @Mindweaver's Durons :laugh:

1. Get a f***ton of Carrizo-L[1] based [dev]boards capable of network boot
2. Build a specialized cabinet with fans blowin' for cooling and having "sockets" built in where these boards could be simply "plugged in" as modules, auto-connecting networking + power connectors; also have a special compartment for a larger board and a network switch
3. get a "beefier" Carrizo[1] (non L) based board and a network switch
4. attach an additional enterprise-level NIC to that "beefier" board
5. plug in all the module boards
6. place the "beefier" board and the switch in that "special compartment"
7. connect the primary NIC of the "beefier" to an ethernet cable going out of the cabinet for external control and the additional NIC to the switch, which is in turn gets connected to all the "modules"
8. INSTALL GENTOO FUNTOO
on the "beefier" / hivemind board
9. run a beowulf cluster with all the "modules" running as diskless, network-booted nodes
10. ???
11. PROFIT!!!

[1] implies waiting until that stuff gets released

P.S. not entering for anything
 

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1. Get a f***ton of Carrizo-L[1] based [dev]boards capable of network boot
2. Build a specialized cabinet with fans blowin' for cooling and having "sockets" built in where these boards could be simply "plugged in" as modules, auto-connecting networking + power connectors; also have a special compartment for a larger board and a network switch
3. get a "beefier" Carrizo[1] (non L) based board and a network switch
4. attach an additional enterprise-level NIC to that "beefier" board
5. plug in all the module boards
6. place the "beefier" board and the switch in that "special compartment"
7. connect the primary NIC of the "beefier" to an ethernet cable going out of the cabinet for external control and the additional NIC to the switch, which is in turn gets connected to all the "modules"
8. INSTALL GENTOO FUNTOO
on the "beefier" / hivemind board
9. run a beowulf cluster with all the "modules" running as diskless, network-booted nodes
10. ???
11. PROFIT!!!

[1] implies waiting until that stuff gets released

P.S. not entering for anything

Good to hear from you bud :)

Most of that went over my head, but it sounded pretty intense! :laugh:
 
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