TechPowerUp Community Crunching/Folding Contest Announced, Score Your Way to a DC-PC

FreedomEclipse · Oct 10, 2009

It involves achieving 60,000 BOINC points and 100,000 F@H points within a contest time frame of 60 days

well. thats me out of the contest, not gonna get any where near 60,000 points unless I make a call to arms & get my AMD X2 3800+, FX-55, Intel Q9550, ATi (x2)4870's running...F@H even then im probably not gonna make it.

BUCK NASTY · Oct 10, 2009

FreedomEclipse said:
well. thats me out of the contest, not gonna get any where near 60,000 points unless I make a call to arms & get my AMD X2 3800+, FX-55, Intel Q9550, ATi (x2)4870's running...F@H even then im probably not gonna make it.

You would have to average 1000 BOINC and 1667 ppd in F@H per day. This is completely obtainable for 75% of the Tech community.

PaulieG · Oct 10, 2009

AphexDreamer said:
Wait so what if we already have 90000 points in folding does it mean we can't qualify since we already started?

Not at all. We calculate the points you have beginning from the contest date. You are in the running unless you are a top 10 overall producer in either teams prior to the beginning of the contest.

Flyordie · Oct 10, 2009

I wonder if my X2 system is still doing BOINC.
edit-
Yep, I pulled the X2 online on Sept 28th and its been folding with both cores @ 100% since then... Its running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. It has the option to use the X1800GTO for GPU assistance also. Which it pulled from on Oct 5th as noted in the 4x fold increase in point production that day.
edit2-
Putting out about 1,000ppd with BOINC on my X2.

JrRacinFan · Oct 10, 2009

Paulieg said:
Not at all. We calculate the points you have beginning from the contest date. You are in the running unless you are a top 10 overall producer in either teams prior to the beginning of the contest.

Gotcha! How will the winner be determined? Random drawing?

dustyshiv · Oct 10, 2009

People,

Whats it with being in the top 10? Why arent these guys allowed to take part in the contest?

Chicken Patty · Oct 10, 2009

dustyshiv said:
People,

Whats it with being in the top 10? Why arent these guys allowed to take part in the contest?

Shiv, this contest serves as motivation for the lower running folks. That can be one of the reasons. i'll let the rest of the peeps shime in on this one.

MilkyWay · Oct 10, 2009

its a good idea i just dont fold or crunch, i dont like to leave the pc on (electricity bill) and i wouldn't fold during pc use

i would fold and crunch if i could afford the bills but i cant and to me its just more numbers a bit like benchmarking but sure it might help research in the years to come or something like that so do it if you want to

its supposed to get people who dont fold or crunch to do it maybe after the competition they would stick to it or something i dunno

n-ster · Oct 10, 2009

I would so do this if I had a desktop lol... My laptop single core DDR and sucky integrated chip will not even be able to reach those points per year even on 24/7 lol

I wished I could fold or crunch... If I had that desktop, I would leave it 18hrs/6days crunch and folding for sure

mlee49 · Oct 10, 2009

Well if this isn't motivation enough I'm sure one would get a fancy badge as well.

Any one want to place bets? I've got an I7 uber clocked and dual 275s ready to pump out some killer ppd.

oily_17 · Oct 10, 2009

dustyshiv said:
People,

Whats it with being in the top 10? Why arent these guys allowed to take part in the contest?

Chicken Patty said:
Shiv, this contest serves as motivation for the lower running folks. That can be one of the reasons. i'll let the rest of the peeps shime in on this one.

Yeah as CP said and also motivation for new members to join and hopefully stay with such great teams

Also being Top10 is more than enough reward :toast:

dustyshiv · Oct 11, 2009

Chicken Patty said:
Shiv, this contest serves as motivation for the lower running folks. That can be one of the reasons. i'll let the rest of the peeps shime in on this one.

I agree...that this would be a great motivation booster for our folks...
The reason that I asked is that this would make the guys in the top 10 to produce more and not drop down their production. U know theres a tendency to slow down once u reached a certain level. But it doesnt matter if you are strongly motivated....again..we are speakin of humans...and not all of them are the same

The real award is the feeling you get knowing that you have contributed for a good cause!! :rockout:

bogmali · Oct 11, 2009

dustyshiv said:
People,

Whats it with being in the top 10? Why arent these guys allowed to take part in the contest?

Dusty-If we included peeps from the top ten it won't be fair as most of them can meet the requirement way ahead of schedule plus we want the winner to have had earned it

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TechPowerUp Community Crunching/Folding Contest Announced, Score Your Way to a DC-PC

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

PaulieG

Flyordie

JrRacinFan

Served 5k and counting ...

dustyshiv

Chicken Patty

MilkyWay

n-ster

mlee49

oily_17

dustyshiv

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