TPU's October WCG Challenge planning thread

[OneMoar]

dam I knew shipping the case wasn't cheap but fuck 200 bucks ?

 

[Nordic]

Uhg. My 2500k somehow got set to dont allow new tasks. This has been corrected but I currently have no work.

 

[Norton]

dam I knew shipping the case wasn't cheap but fuck 200 bucks ?

Not as bad as that....

The parts for ST.o.CH's PC were just over $100 to ship from here to there and the case was just under $100 to ship from there to here.

I would be shocked if shipping from me to you was over $30 since I could almost drive it out to you.... it's a little too far for a road trip

 

[Papahyooie]

I'm considering getting back into it. Especially with winter coming up. I haven't crunched in a couple of years, and my meager contribution when I did wasn't much, but that's the whole point right? Every little bit counts! So I may log in and see if I'm still registered to the team, and if I am, you'll have three more quad cores crunching at least.

 

[Tallencor]

I'm considering getting back into it. Especially with winter coming up. I haven't crunched in a couple of years, and my meager contribution when I did wasn't much, but that's the whole point right? Every little bit counts! So I may log in and see if I'm still registered to the team, and if I am, you'll have three more quad cores crunching at least.

Three more Quad cores!!! Um I think you will be okay. We are going to rock this challenge. Getting a ton of support.

 

[Papahyooie]

Yea, a few years back I crunched with some old P4's and a couple of C2D's lol. Now I have my machine, my fiancé's, and my server, all of which could crunch ~70% of the time, all with quad cores. Hell, I may go all out and put the laptop and media center crunching as well lol. They're probably a lot cheaper to heat the house than gas these days lol... And I know my computer room stays consistently 5-10 degrees warmer than the rest of my house... may have to leave the door open now that it's getting cold lol.

Also, I checked, and I'm still registered. Haven't crunched since 09... i'm ashamed... Oh well, I'll see if I can get it set up tonight.

 

[stinger608]

Now how the hell did I totally miss this thread until now?????? Hmm, answer me!

Oh yea, I must be about half brain dead lately..........I know, "lately?"

Well of course count me in.

As for the date; doesn't matter to me at all as long as we kick some serious a$$!!

 

[manofthem]

@stinger608 it's ok bro, we are all getting older and slightly more forgetful I didn't notice the thread for a while til I got a tag from it, so I can understand completely.


I think this Challenge is off to a great start,rekindling some old crunching fires like in the case of @Papahyooie, got @twilyth back on our side, got some new blood with @OneMoar .... Can't ask for much more than what we already have

 

[Papahyooie]

Well, I have to say, setup is a lot easier than it used to be lol... Got it running on the main rig for now. I'll do the other ones tomorrow. Got a question though, I have it set up to use my R9 270 as well, is there any way to know for certain that it's being used? (or any graphics card for that matter... got a gtx460 in the other gamer, a 8800gtx in the media center, and a HD4650 that I *think* should be usable in the server.)

 

[t_ski]

Well, I have to say, setup is a lot easier than it used to be lol... Got it running on the main rig for now. I'll do the other ones tomorrow. Got a question though, I have it set up to use my R9 270 as well, is there any way to know for certain that it's being used? (or any graphics card for that matter... got a gtx460 in the other gamer, a 8800gtx in the media center, and a HD4650 that I *think* should be usable in the server.)

Sorry, but there's no GPU work for WCG at the moment

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Hey @brandonwh64 not to stalk or anything but someone over at the NCIX youtube channel has the same avatar. What are the chances hmmmmmm.

doge is universal. Doge is love, doge is life.

 

[Arjai]

I'm considering getting back into it. Especially with winter coming up. I haven't crunched in a couple of years, and my meager contribution when I did wasn't much, but that's the whole point right? Every little bit counts! So I may log in and see if I'm still registered to the team, and if I am, you'll have three more quad cores crunching at least.

Thanks!!

 

[manofthem]

@Norton for new members, maybe you could throw the link to setup WCG and join team TPU into the OP.... I think this is it below

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=S8TLJ6TFV1



Also, from the last Challenge,....

Thanks Matt, sorry I can't make it this time, but will make sure I join our team for the next challenge

Hey @15th Warlock, just a friendly reminder

 

[Arjai]

@Norton for new members, maybe you could throw the link to setup WCG and join team TPU.... I think this is it below

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=S8TLJ6TFV1



Also, from the last Challenge,....


Hey @15th Warlock, just a friendly reminder

+1

 

[Papahyooie]

Sorry, but there's no GPU work for WCG at the moment

Oh ok. BOINC had an option to use the GPU, so I just enabled it. Is it something WCG will use in the future? Moreover, I know there are jobs for other projects built into BOINC, could I just add jobs specifically to take advantage of the GPU even if WCG isn't getting it?

Or maybe should I just get back into the folding team too, and use it there?

 

[Tallencor]

Oh ok. BOINC had an option to use the GPU, so I just enabled it.

Yeah same here just in case I miss the call when it or if it happens. Can't see it being any trouble leaving it ticked.

 

[stinger608]

Oh ok. BOINC had an option to use the GPU, so I just enabled it. Is it something WCG will use in the future? Moreover, I know there are jobs for other projects built into BOINC, could I just add jobs specifically to take advantage of the GPU even if WCG isn't getting it?

Or maybe should I just get back into the folding team too, and use it there?

They had GPU work units a year or so ago. It was great and everyone hopes they will bring them back again.

What you could do though, is put that puppy to work for TPU's Folding@Home team.

 

[twilyth]

I've been following the WCG forum fairly closely since the GPU cancer project patiently waiting for when they would introduce another and you definitely get the sense that there is a lot of frustration about the fact that WCG hasn't made more of an effort to bring in another such project. When you think of all of the AMD video cards that are still out there that were being used for bitcoin, litecoin and other types of cryptocurrency mining, this is really a huge untapped resource and is something that might help to renew interest in the project.

As it stands, the number of active members in WCG continues to decline. It was nearly 90k in 2009 and we are now down to not even 65k as you can see here - http://s137.photobucket.com/user/Sekerob/media/WCGYearsMembers.png.html

Just in the past 2 months we've lost about 2000 active users. The only reason the decline hasn't been steeper was because of the Computing for Good XRP giveaway which pretty much everyone on the forum trashed as being Satan incarnate. Oh, we shouldn't be paying people to crunch, yada, yada. In an ideal world, that's definitely true, but the number of people out there who are truly altruistic and only do things for the purest of motivations are few and far between. Fortunately many of them tend to congregate in teams like this, but if the overall trend is a decline in people contributing to working on projects like MCM, FAH and others that may come along, in the end, the goals of WCG end up not being served.

I've gone on my mini-crusades over there to try get WCG to putting some effort into building more of a community - the kind of community TPU and other teams have. But I suspect it's fallen on deaf ears. However as the participation rate continues to decline, the people at IBM who actually control the project will hopefully take notice - just like they did last year when they forced WCG to conduct their survey - a survey, which btw, had no user input whatsoever in terms of what issues and concerns should be included. Maybe next time they will actually try to involve us in trying to solve a problem that affects us all.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I've been following the WCG forum fairly closely since the GPU cancer project patiently waiting for when they would introduce another and you definitely get the sense that there is a lot of frustration about the fact that WCG hasn't made more of an effort to bring in another such project. When you think of all of the AMD video cards that are still out there that were being used for bitcoin, litecoin and other types of cryptocurrency mining, this is really a huge untapped resource and is something that might help to renew interest in the project.

As it stands, the number of active members in WCG continues to decline. It was nearly 90k in 2009 and we are now down to not even 65k as you can see here - http://s137.photobucket.com/user/Sekerob/media/WCGYearsMembers.png.html

Just in the past 2 months we've lost about 2000 active users. The only reason the decline hasn't been steeper was because of the Computing for Good XRP giveaway which pretty much everyone on the forum trashed as being Satan incarnate. Oh, we shouldn't be paying people to crunch, yada, yada. In an ideal world, that's definitely true, but the number of people out there who are truly altruistic and only do things for the purest of motivations are few and far between. Fortunately many of them tend to congregate in teams like this, but if the overall trend is a decline in people contributing to working on projects like MCM, FAH and others that may come along, in the end, the goals of WCG end up not being served.

I've gone on my mini-crusades over there to try get WCG to putting some effort into building more of a community - the kind of community TPU and other teams have. But I suspect it's fallen on deaf ears. However as the participation rate continues to decline, the people at IBM who actually control the project will hopefully take notice - just like they did last year when they forced WCG to conduct their survey - a survey, which btw, had no user input whatsoever in terms of what issues and concerns should be included. Maybe next time they will actually try to involve us in trying to solve a problem that affects us all.

I agree as we are the end users so it should be us who are primarily involved in surveys and such. Also I have a small stock pile of gpu's laying around bought just for WCG. They really need to get the ball rolling on gpu wu's again.

 

[Tallencor]

but the number of people out there who are truly altruistic and only do things for the purest of motivations are few and far between.

Hmmmmm. What a waste. If u have it donate it.

 

[Peter1986C]

More folks would send in fake results though, if it were (partly) for money.
The community thing is a real issue though, as other projects have at least some rudimental comm feel to them. And if it weren't for TPU, the push would not have been as strong.

 

[twilyth]

I think it could be done - giving people rewards for crunching. It wouldn't have to be as in-your-face as paying people since as you say, things like that can always be scammed. But I like the Charity Engine model. I don't like that it's for profit and that they rent time out to corporations, but I think that WCG could offer random prizes to people that corporate sponsors could donate.

After all, everything that WCG does goes into the public domain and a lot of companies benefit from the work that's done. Even if they can't patent anything that WCG produces, the work can lead to other advancements. So it would make sense for pharma companies for example to offer small donations to help stimulate interest.

Then WCG could run a periodic lottery. Maybe each completed work unit or each hour of cpu time would count as one ticket in the lottery. But that's just one idea. I'm sure there are many others. The point is that you can appeal to people's love of these sorts of gimmicks to get them interested without selling out the basic idea of WCG.

 

[HammerON]

They had GPU work units a year or so ago. It was great and everyone hopes they will bring them back again.

What you could do though, is put that puppy to work for TPU's Folding@Home team.

When we had GPU work units I was able to really gain some points:

This first rig listed had three 7970s for most of the time....

 

[Papahyooie]

While I'm getting my rigs spun up, I've never been in on one of these contests before. How does it work? Number one wins, or pick from the top 10, or what?

 

[Tallencor]

While I'm getting my rigs spun up, I've never been in on one of these contests before. How does it work? Number one wins, or pick from the top 10, or what?

Yeah, I believe we/ @Norton Challenges other teams and we have a crunch off. The team with the highest points @12 pm UTC on the last day wins. Whomever partisapates gets their name placed in a "hat" and through a random process names are drawn then through team donations are able to win awesome prizes. Crunching rigs like the memorial challenge, Hardware and games. I don't believe we as a team need to win the challenge to actually have the fun of the draw.
Edit: Crap. I meant 12 am UTC