WCG - 17th Birthday Challenge

[Terminator_1]

Dear members of TECHPOWERUP,

For Nov 16th to Nov 22nd 2021 SETI.Germany is arranging a challenge at World Community Grid on the occasion of the grids 17th birthday:

We would like to invite TECHPOWERUO to participate in the challenge and hope that your team and many members of your team will be joining and participting this event.
!!Be aware, only your WCG-Team-Captain can join your team to the challenge!!
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10477


All WCG points of the Mapping Cancer Markers (MCM) sub-project that were credited during the challenge are counted, even if the WU was already calculated before the start of the challenge. However, WUs that are pending at the end of the challenge cannot be taken into account!

More information and statistics regarding the challenge can be found here. https://www.seti-germany.de/wcg/1_en_Welcome.html

Your participation is very much appreciated.

Many Greetings: Terminator from team SETI.Germany

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Game on?!

 

[stinger608]

We getting in on this challenge this year as well @phill ?????

 

[Lorec]

ahh this time of the year again

 

[phill]

We getting in on this challenge this year as well @phill ?????

Mate I have no reason personally why we can't!?! Anyone have any objections?!? Apologies not answered sooner, works been busy and I woke up at 3am this morning on the floor as Sophia decided at 130 she didn't want to go to sleep!!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Mate I have no reason personally why we can't!?! Anyone have any objections?!? Apologies not answered sooner, works been busy and I woke up at 3am this morning on the floor as Sophia decided at 130 she didn't want to go to sleep!!

Hope so or last night's tuning sesh was a waste

 

[1freedude]

Hey folks, I am an off and on F@H contributor, and I would like to donate for the WCG challenge.

I can put two (4 dies) old servers online. They are Xeon 5640s. I dont have that much RAM to feed them.

Hopefully they can get put online within the next week or so.

 

[1freedude]

I have 3 rigs set up and joined the team. As far as this challenge goes, do I have to change user name or anything like that?

 

[BarbaricSoul]

I have 3 rigs set up and joined the team. As far as this challenge goes, do I have to change user name or anything like that?

no, just crunch away

BTW, Hampton Roads huh? What city? I live Smithfield.

And about you not having much RAM to feed the 5640 CPUs, I have a 4*4 GB kit of Corsair LPX DDR3 1600 I can give you for the crunchers.

 

[1freedude]

Thanks for the offer, but it needs ECC I think, 'cause it's HP ProLiant gear. One machine has 10 GB per proc, and not sure about the other. I think I robbed a bit to put in the other. I'll look when I get home, in P-towne, River Pointe area.

Before we moved out to Oregon, we lived in Hampton, then we moved back after my employer canned 75% of the welders cause corona virus.
Wife born and raised P-towne, and I lived there after getting out of Navy in '02.

We looked at a bunch of places in Smithfield and IoW in general, but couldn't match anything to what we ended up with, at any price.

no, just crunch away

BTW, Hampton Roads huh? What city? I live Smithfield.

And about you not having much RAM to feed the 5640 CPUs, I have a 4*4 GB kit of Corsair LPX DDR3 1600 I can give you for the crunchers.

Just for kicks, I dropped desktop hyper-x ddr3 in and it works, but the sticks don't have thermal monitors so the fans are FMP the entire time. If the sticks you are offering dont keep the fans going, I will use them.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Thanks for the offer, but it needs ECC I think, 'cause it's HP ProLiant gear. One machine has 10 GB per proc, and not sure about the other. I think I robbed a bit to put in the other. I'll look when I get home, in P-towne, River Pointe area.

Before we moved out to Oregon, we lived in Hampton, then we moved back after my employer canned 75% of the welders cause corona virus.
Wife born and raised P-towne, and I lived there after getting out of Navy in '02.

We looked at a bunch of places in Smithfield and IoW in general, but couldn't match anything to what we ended up with, at any price.


Just for kicks, I dropped desktop hyper-x ddr3 in and it works, but the sticks don't have thermal monitors so the fans are FMP the entire time. If the sticks you are offering dont keep the fans going, I will use them.

This is what I have

 

[phill]

We getting in on this challenge this year as well @phill ?????

Just hope this works to our advantage!! We are actually in a challenge right now but I've been so brain dead, I've been forgetting to put up the damn results!! Apologies guys... Trying to remember things at 1am or 2am to post isn't the best at all...... I'll try and get a thread for that started after I've done the updates

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Before we moved out to Oregon, we lived in Hampton, then we moved back after my employer canned 75% of the welders cause corona virus.

Still COVID crazy here, only state with an OUTDOOR mask mandate!

 

[1freedude]

I've sandbagged a bit, and have 57 threads going!

For my recollection later:

242 pending validation
Started challenge w/ 631k points 200 days 1078 results.

 

[mstenholm]

So it has started, well for some including @1freedude the preparation started some days earlier. I think that THIS link shows the amount of sandbagging. We started out on 8 place like last year. During the challenge we climbed to 6th. If you want to follow the race then THIS link shows hourly updates.

I've sandbagged a bit, and have 57 threads going!

For my recollection later:

242 pending validation
Started challenge w/ 631k points 200 days 1078 results.

I have something similar pending plus a little (60 WU) sandbagged. Looking forward to see your 13 new threads. I found my 2720QM and re-pasted the CPU. MX4 is not designed for laptop but that is what I have. I have to let it run with only 4 thread, I don't like to see how far it down-clocks running 100%. In the past I could run it max, so I think there were a reason it was put away.

Edit: or rather an update. We smashed the first team on our way to world domination. Chinese Dream is down, next bump on the road is USA. A couple of the big-hitters did some serious sandbagging so they are 2800K/day down already. A dumb calculation (simple one that does not take sandbagging into account) predicts 205 hours to overtake. We will catch them before that.

 

[stinger608]

Looks like we are in 7th place!!!!!!!!

Awesome job Team TPU!!!!

 

[1freedude]

How do GPUs do with MCMs? My cards are still folding, but if they would help w this challenge, I'll switch them over

Hey TPU, come join us! We need a bit more juice. Mapping cancer markers is the name of the game. Browse the World Community Grid section in the forums to get an idea if you can help. Challenges like this one are a way to show others how easy it is to crunch.

 

[mstenholm]

How do GPUs do with MCMs? My cards are still folding, but if they would help w this challenge, I'll switch them over

Hey TPU, come join us! We need a bit more juice. Mapping cancer markers is the name of the game. Browse the World Community Grid section in the forums to get an idea if you can help. Challenges like this one are a way to show others how easy it is to crunch.

They don’t
OPN is the only WCG project that can utilize GPU and that is only for a limited time.

 

[stinger608]

We are still holding on to 7th place!!!

Great job Team TPU!!!!!!

 

[phill]

Apologies guys I'm not a little more on the ball with the updates for this one!! I'll try and keep up for the rest of the challenge... I hope everyone is doing alright!!

 

[stinger608]

Apologies guys I'm not a little more on the ball with the updates for this one!! I'll try and keep up for the rest of the challenge... I hope everyone is doing alright!!

No worries brother!!!! You do plenty with all the WCG graphs and updates. I can post this for the challenge so it doesn't add more work to your already heavy load man.

 

[Lorec]

Was a little bit out of my mind past couple days, and I missed official start
Anyhow, still got couple days to go so I will give it my 101%

Tweaking device profiles turned out to be an unpleasant surprise, since the wcg site changed.
It is cleaner now yeah, just that took me a while to find where necessary settings were...

 

[1freedude]

My prediction: USA 5th, TPU 6th, Rechenkraft 7th

 

[mstenholm]

My prediction: USA 5th, TPU 6th, Rechenkraft 7th

I hope that you are right but Rechenkraft had a higher daily average than us before the Challenge and they showed that they can switch to MCM when needed so we will only end up 7th unless we get more threads to run MCM. There is plenty of potential with the 26% that is running OPN, ARP and HST but I doubt that sufficient will shift. On a sidenote welcome to @porterbasset.

 

[stinger608]

Still holding strong in 7th place!!!!!!

Awesome work Team TPU!!!!!!