[Planning thread] TPU Spring 2017 Crunching Challenge

Recca29 · Mar 8, 2017

Ready, but only the Athlon 5350 is active.

Norton · Mar 8, 2017

Over 20 Teams signed up so far! :toast:

Link:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=8306

4x4n · Mar 9, 2017

Wow, many thanks to all for the great prizes being offered up. :lovetpu:

My production will be down for a few days. Going to be out of town and moving some things around, but I'll be back to full speed in time for the challenge. :rockout:

fullinfusion · Mar 9, 2017

Norton said:
Hey Team,

It's been a while since we participated in or hosted a Challenge- my fault

Time to correct this....

We've opened a Team Challenge at WCG starting on 3/22/2017

Details:

Now to do some planning.

Will there be prizes for Team members who participate?

Absolutely!
We already have some items coming in with more to come and additional donations are welcome

What else?

We want to hear from you. Post your comments and thoughts in this thread.

Bill you can count me in on this round, sorry I'm not going to be testing/running Ryzen for this challenge but a new 7700K should churn some nice points out.

Please @Norton @stinger608 @manofthem PM me a few days before so I can get things rolling here.. I'm kinda scatterbrained ATM so a friendly reminder will get me ready. Thanks guys!

manofthem · Mar 9, 2017

fullinfusion said:
Bill you can count me in on this round, sorry I'm not going to be testing/running Ryzen for this challenge but a new 7700K should churn some nice points out.

Please @Norton @stinger608 @manofthem PM me a few days before so I can get things rolling here.. I'm kinda scatterbrained ATM so a friendly reminder will get me ready. Thanks guys!

Oh yeah, we'll be there for you. Definitely plan on starting the crunch several days prior to challenge, a week if you can help it. One of us will be there too help you get going, and I'll pm you shortly down the road.

I feel you about being scatterbrained because I feel the same way lately. Rough time of year I suppose, but I'm hoping things level off soon.

I'm excited to hear your new 7700k will be crunching with us, that's a nice beast cpu right there for the grid! :respect:

Norton said:
Over 20 Teams signed up so far!

Link:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=8306

Very nice to see there. Looks to be a good challenge!

Norton · Mar 9, 2017

We have a few more prizes to add to the list- will send an update this evening.

To the folks that contacted me recently with donations- I didn't forget about you... :respect:

Work has been super crazy this week and I have been preparing for an "uncomfortable" meeting with one our clients that starts in about 2 hours (fingers crossed that it goes well) :rolleyes:

Killerdroid · Mar 9, 2017

Count me in.

I'll also fire up the 8 core Xeon E5 along with the quad core 8 thread Xeon E3 that's currently folding

manofthem · Mar 9, 2017

There was much I had wanted to do prior to challenge, but man I've been so crazy busy. Things aren't looking too great on changing hardware around.

But oh well, things are going to be what they are. I do want to get the 3rd rig back up but I may decide to run it caseless, which is a great idea with 2 young kids.

twilyth · Mar 9, 2017

manofthem said:
There was much I had wanted to do prior to challenge, but man I've been so crazy busy. Things aren't looking too great on changing hardware around.

But oh well, things are going to be what they are. I do want to get the 3rd rig back up but I may decide to run it caseless, which is a great idea with 2 young kids.

Yeah, I'd avoid doing that if you could. I have extra cases though. The only problem is finding a box for shipping. UPS bases the rate they charge on the size of the box as well as weight with size seeming to be the more important factor. Counterintuitive but I guess when you think about it it makes sense since weight for a truck is virtually unlimited, when you're talking about packages, but space is not.

Norton · Mar 9, 2017

Prize update (3/9)!

Here are the prize donations we have gathered so far:

*Note- Prizes are for contributing to our TPU crunching/folding Teams during the upcoming challenge. Some prizes may have regional restrictions due to shipping costs, local regulations, etc. Please refer to prize rules/requirements when the official challenge thread has been posted

Socket 2011 Xeon (16 core/32 thread) Cruncher Combo* donated by @twilyth
m/b - Supermicro X9DAi
ram - 16 gig (4x4) of ECC ram - Kingston kvr1333D3S8E9Sk2
chips - 2 x QA92 Engineering Samples for the 2687W [v1] cpu
coolers - 2 x Noctua NH-D14

Socket 1366 Xeon (6 core/12 thread) Cruncher Combo donated by @4x4n
- Xeon X5670
- Gigabyte GA-EX58 UD3R
- 3x2gb OCZ Platinum PC3 15000
- Thermalright TRUE 120 cooler

- (2) CoolerMaster Liquid Master Pro 240 AIO coolers donated by @sneekypeet

- (2) AZIO EXO1 Gaming mouse donated by @stinger608

- Gigabyte R9 270 2Gb OC graphics card donated by @Caring1

- (2) Radeon 7950 graphics cards donated by @twilyth

- Radeon 7870 graphics card donated by @twilyth

- NEW! - 2x2GB DDR3 RAM kit and Radeon X1650 graphics card donated by @XZero450

- NEW! - Windows 10 Pro key donated by @Bow

- (2) $25 Paypal gifts (or equivalent) donated by @Norton

- (2) $25 Paypal gifts (or equivalent) donated by @theonedub

NEW! - (1) $25 Paypal gift donated by @Bow

And

A Challenge game giveaway hosted by @manofthem

Awesome job Team!!!

If I missed anyone please let me know via post or PM

:lovetpu:

stinger608 · Mar 10, 2017

Wow!!!!!!!!!! This is shaping up to be one amazing challenge giveaway!!!!!

A huge thanks to everyone donating prizes to help this and all the other amazing community giveaway's such a success!!!!!!!!

Everyone just frigging rocks!!!!!!!! :respect:

I

TPU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Papahyooie · Mar 10, 2017

I saw this thread and got excited to join. So I just looked at my free DC page, and the machines I thought have been crunching this whole time have been down for a month!

Norton · Mar 10, 2017

Papahyooie said:
I saw this thread and got excited to join. So I just looked at my free DC page, and the machines I thought have been crunching this whole time have been down for a month!

Post over on our Team thread, one of us should be able to assist in getting you setup. Unfortunately I'm mobile atm so my response will be limited.

Thanks for contributing! :toast:

Papahyooie · Mar 10, 2017

Norton said:
Post over on our Team thread, one of us should be able to assist in getting you setup. Unfortunately I'm mobile atm so my response will be limited.

Thanks for contributing!

So.... somehow the power strip that powers the machines got turned off (it has a switch on the strip).... They're in a back room. I blame one of the five animals that live in my house... I guess I should check my stats more often. Rectified the situation and booting up now.

Bow · Mar 10, 2017

All in

jboydgolfer · Mar 10, 2017

i might have to dust off some cores

for this challenge :laugh:

, there are some sexy looking goodies up there :lovetpu:

not 24/7 available, but technically i have 10 cores & 14 threads for crunching for a portion of each day...just hope i can fidn the time to turn them on/off when needed...

manofthem · Mar 14, 2017

Challenge is fast approaching!

Between tomorrow night and Thursday, I hope to transfer the downed rig to my desk and get it crunching again, and I hope it stays running for the duration of the challenge. I'm going to put it out of the way of the kids so I don't anticipate anyone messing with it, but you never know... :rolleyes:

Norton · Mar 14, 2017

Going to try to add an FX-8150 and 8350 before the challenge- will probably add them to the TPU_remembers_Kreij account so expect some help from Dean for this one

peche · Mar 14, 2017

well have been a little lost, but amazing price chart there, thanks to all people here making us have this tonsh*t of fun!
Have a quite terrific day all people arround there! special thanks to our captain for such a great comeback ! missed you bill !

:lovetpu:

Regards,

brandonwh64 · Mar 14, 2017

I am down for this. I had almost completely forgot about my cruncher so I checked it when I got the email and it was turned off. I turned it back on and set the bios to power state "ALWAYS ON" and had my account auto login. This should make it crunch 24/7 now. I am down to just the one cruncher I7-3770

yotano211 · Mar 14, 2017

I wish WCG, had gpu work units. I am building a crypto currency mining rig to test out and I would run work units for the event. 6 rx480 would kill it those work units.

LightningJR · Mar 14, 2017

I've got 18 cores nearly ready for this. 6 of those cores will be 24/7.

Skywalker12345 · Mar 14, 2017

Just dusted off the old WCG account and will fire it up!

mauriek · Mar 15, 2017

Read the email from captain today, for sure i will participate and answer the call.

manofthem · Mar 15, 2017

brandonwh64 said:
I had almost completely forgot about my cruncher so I checked it when I got the email and it was turned off.

I think that WCG email was a brilliant idea. Glad to see it worked and glad to have you back up and running.

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[Planning thread] TPU Spring 2017 Crunching Challenge

Recca29

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

4x4n

Xtreme Refugee

fullinfusion

Vanguard Beta Tester

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Killerdroid

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

twilyth

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Papahyooie

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Papahyooie

Bow

jboydgolfer

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

brandonwh64

Addicted to Bacon and StarCrunches!!!

yotano211

LightningJR

Skywalker12345

mauriek

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

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