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Old Nov 9, 2012, 08:47 AM   #1
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WCG: 8th Birthday Challenge

Dear members of techPowerUp!,

For Nov 16th to Nov 22nd 2012 SETI.Germany is arranging a challenge at World Community Grid on the occasion of the grids eighth birthday:
The 8th Birthday Challenge

We would like to invite your team to participate in the challenge and hope that many of you will be joining.

More information and statistics regarding the challenge can be found here.




Your participation is very much appreciated.

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I believe that team TPU would gladly accept the challenge.
However, official confirmation will have to be made by our captain (CP) or senior members..

Thanks for the invite! I hope you will get the official confirmation soon (when the concerned members see this thread)
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Indeed, PM Chicken Patty if you want to put our team on the list of participants. You should see how well we did in last week's HCC Challenge.
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My pc says no it needs a rest after this other contest is over
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No need to be helping the team if it is in a team challenge, animal007uk. The team will then simply be represented by less participants (i.e. individual crunchers).
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Let us wait for the captain and senior members.
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Let's wait for the captain and senior members.
Agreed- let's see what our captain has to say about this one.
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No need to be helping the team if it is in a team challenge, animal007uk. The team will then simply be represented by less participants (i.e. individual crunchers).
Just saying i am in another contest for techpowerup so wont be able to do this thats all.
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Just saying i am in another contest for techpowerup so wont be able to do this thats all.
Our current challenge is more of a give 110% or more, no holds barred, all in, give prizes/add new members commitment.

In my case, if we were to participate I would give my standard 100% commitment due to this one being so close to the current challenge. We will still make a decent showing in this challenge even if we just work as a Team as we would any other day of the year.

My $0.02

However, if our Captain asks us for a little more- I will give whatever extra I can
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We would gladly accept this challenge. Thank you for the heads up and the invite.
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Thank you very much!!!!

This is a really great news!!!!!!!

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Count me in! I'll throw everything I have at the contest at least until the 21st--then I'll probably have to shut down most of my farm for Thanksgiving Break.
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What do we need to set up for the challenge? If I read it right this is for all projects, correct?
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Indeed, all WCG projects. Although it is okay to limit your selection if you wish (but that would be pointless).
If you have multiple rigs you can set the ones with the preferred gpu's for the HCC gpu wu's and create a maximum output/all projects profile for the others

I'm running a max output profile on the Opty and the 980X atm and HCC only (w/o the app_info tweak) on all of the others. Switched to this a few days ago and it boosted the output on those two rigs by about 25%

Will switch all of the other rigs except the ones with the 7870 and 6870 in them over to the max profile after the HCC challenge ends....
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An option/setting in the WCG profiles:



WCG seems to decide how to setup the projects- working fine for me so far (may break thru 100k today)
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An option/setting in the WCG profiles:

http://img.techpowerup.org/121113/Max output.jpg

WCG seems to decide how to setup the projects- working fine for me so far (may break thru 100k today)
I'll try that out.
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If you have multiple rigs you can set the ones with the preferred gpu's for the HCC gpu wu's and create a maximum output/all projects profile for the others

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Will switch all of the other rigs except the ones with the 7870 and 6870 in them over to the max profile after the HCC challenge ends....
That's kinda what I was thinking: leave the GPU WU's running hard for the most points
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An option/setting in the WCG profiles:

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WCG seems to decide how to setup the projects- working fine for me so far (may break thru 100k today)
My understanding is that that Max Output profile just sets it to run all of the time at max speed. Which is what I have it configured to do anyways

I'll still play with it though to see what I can get
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It's time for the daily updates in the WCG 8th Birthday Challenge!


Off to a great start, but this will clearly be a tougher competition for all of us!
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No, I never let my computer slack off

It's time for the daily updates in the WCG 8th Birthday Challenge!

http://img.techpowerup.org/121116/8th.png
Off to a great start, but this will clearly be a tougher competition for all of us!
So we keeping this in two threads? lol
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