TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

SirKeldon · Feb 26, 2015

Wow, I know the day didn't finished yet and 94 active folders for TPU today as free-dc says for 1st day challenge, not bad, come on, let's be 100 tomorrow!!!

Congrats team and keep up the good crunch!!!

bubbleawsome · Feb 26, 2015

I'll have to work out WCG. Never used it because it didn't like my PC. I'll see what I can do for the challenge. You guys might have a flood of questions soon.

st2000 · Feb 27, 2015

is it ok to earn 10k points in 24 hours?)

Norton · Feb 27, 2015

st2000 said:
is it ok to earn 10k points in 24 hours?)

All points are welcome- if you want in on the prizes you will need to produce results daily throughout the challenge and reach a minimum goal by the end (5k FreeDC points- which is 35,000 WCG points)

*note- Check the 2nd post on prize elligibility as some of region dependent

st2000 · Feb 27, 2015

heh, i just want to help cause i think it's realy important

if there will be prizes for this, i'm absolutely glad, but it's not the main reason)

Norton · Feb 27, 2015

*** UPDATE***
Prize list update- see post #2 for more details, etc...
Here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...to-crunch-fold-win-stuff.210158/#post-3244957

Grand Prize: Win an Asus Crosshair V motherboard and an AMD FX-8350 CPU* - donated by [B]@twilyth[/B]
*available to Team members in the USA due to shipping costs (PM to discuss if outside of this area)
Newbie Prize: Win a Crunching Rig* (donated by the TPU WCG crunching Team/built by @ThE_MaD_ShOt )
*available to Team members in the USA due to shipping costs (PM to discuss if outside of this area)
Specifications/Details
TBA
Qualifications/additional requirements for the Newbie Prize:
- coming soon
The winners of the Grand Prize(s) will need to declare that he/she will dedicate a minimum of 6 months crunching for the Team WCG-TPU on the rig.

Hardware/Software/Etc prizes (1)
- $25 Paypal gift (x2) donated by @Norton (2)
- $20 Paypal gift donated by @Bow (2)
- $35 Paypal gift donated by @theonedub (2)
- Fractal Design Kelvin S36 AIO cooler donated by @sneekypeet (3)
- Cougar 600M gaming mouse donated by @sneekypeet (3)(4)
- Tt eSPORTS Black V2 laser mouse donated by @sneekypeet (3)(4)
- Mystery prize donated by @sneekypeet (3)
- Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD donated by @64K (3)
Note(s):
(1)-If anyone is interested in donating a prize- please contact me
(2)-Paypal gifts are only available where Paypal is available
(3) Unless stated otherwise, hardware prizes are available to Team members in the USA- shipping would be too difficult otherwise (availability to Canada/Mexico or other areas is possible- PM me to discuss options)
(4) Mice offered are review samples and are 100% functional however they have been disassembled, which means no warranty as the evidence of this is visible.
Game giveaway- hosted by @manofthem
Link: TBA

Thanks again to all of the folks helping out with the prizes and crunching/folding with their rigs!!! :rockout:

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 27, 2015

st2000 said:
is it ok to earn 10k points in 24 hours?)

Absolutely, the more ppd the better.

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

I'm working on the Game Giveaway now, hoping to have it up in the not-so-distant-future.................

Big thanks to all that donated. You'll be named in the thread. :respect:

BarbaricSoul · Feb 27, 2015

in for cash/PP gift prizes only, oh, and the SSD

fullinfusion · Feb 27, 2015

dam tagn my name shit :wtf:

ppl?

thank you

dont you all know what call rejection is?

I'll fire up tonight before bed and @Norton @manofthem thanks for the PM on this challenge. I don't frequent here much anymore but count me in for some numbers.

If someone can PM me with the notepad info to instantly update the points that be great.... and I could use a new ssd

FUCK CANCER!!!!

t_ski · Feb 27, 2015

Arjai said:
Please read. WCG is gonna go down on SATURDAY!!!

Yep, me and WCG are going out drinking on my unofficial birthday :pimp:

fullinfusion · Feb 27, 2015

t_ski said:
Yep, me and WCG are going out drinking on my unofficial birthday

Happy BD Ski

And installed and running now

bubbleawsome · Feb 27, 2015

How do I check the PPD? Or any of my stats? I just see percents.

I think I'm working on a mapping cancer markers? Is that something I should be doing?
EDIT: And one project on each core? I'm guessing that's why there is such a backlong and why more cores matter.

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

fullinfusion said:
Happy BD Ski

And installed and running now

Glad we got you in here Brad, that's sweet! :respect:

bubbleawsome said:
How do I check the PPD? Or any of my stats? I just see percents.
I think I'm working on a mapping cancer markers? Is that something I should be doing?
EDIT: And one project on each core? I'm guessing that's why there is such a backlong and why more cores matter.

We used Free-DC for daily ppd, Milestones, pie etc. Projects are completely personal; you can do all, or you can do those that matter most to you.

And yes, 1 WU per thread.

And sorry, I'm taking forever to post the games. @thebluebumblebee made me promise to post the Stones early tonight (

, just kidding), and I was working on that for a bit because of the plethora of Stones tonight :eek:

Now trying to finish the picture for the giveaway so I can post. Seee ya'll soon.

fullinfusion · Feb 27, 2015

manofthem said:
Glad we got you in here Brad, that's sweet!

We used Free-DC for daily ppd, Milestones, pie etc. Projects are completely personal; you can do all, or you can do those that matter most to you.

And yes, 1 WU per thread.

And sorry, I'm taking forever to post the games. @thebluebumblebee made me promise to post the Stones early tonight, and I was working on that for a bit because of the plethora of Stones tonight Now trying to finish the picture for the giveaway so I can post. Seee ya'll soon.

thank's Matt, thats the site I wanted to view :respect:

fullinfusion · Feb 27, 2015

I think the program remembered my rig cus it gave a shit pile of work all at once.

thebluebumblebee · Feb 27, 2015

manofthem said:
made me promise to post the Stones early tonight

Wait, what? No no no, I was trying to warn you that you'd have LOTS to do, so not to wait until the last minute.

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

thebluebumblebee said:
Wait, what? No no no, I was trying to warn you that you'd have LOTS to do, so not to wait until the last minute.

I know bro, you were right; the list was extensive. I was just joking and trying to be cute about it :laugh:

I didn't mean anything negative about it towards ya :respect:

Also, game giveaway is up
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...inters-end-wcg-challenge.210235/#post-3246259

thebluebumblebee · Feb 27, 2015

manofthem said:
I know bro, you were right; the list was extensive. I was just joking and trying to be cute about it I didn't mean anything negative about it towards ya

Also, game giveaway is up
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...inters-end-wcg-challenge.210235/#post-3246259

I thought so....

bubbleawsome · Feb 27, 2015

Well, my tentative overclock seems rock stable so far, I guess I'm going! :peace:

With WCG going down tomorrow and me being at school I might eat up my WU buffer, but I have two left for each core and it's estimating 2 hours each so I might be able to add a few more into the buffer if I catch it early tomorrow morning.

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

bubbleawsome said:
Well, my tentative overclock seems rock stable so far, I guess I'm going!

With WCG going down tomorrow and me being at school I might eat up my WU buffer, but I have two left for each core and it's estimating 2 hours each so I might be able to add a few more into the buffer if I catch it early tomorrow morning.

You'll know if your overclock is unstable running BOINC. It'll error out or just crash the pc, so if that hands happened, sounds like youre solid.

And your post reminder me that I wanted to up my buffer to a few days just in case the Saturday downage takes longer. It would suck to run out of work mid challenge. :banghead:

bubbleawsome · Feb 27, 2015

Ok, I coulda swore I read it in this thread, but maybe it's the sleep deprivation. (

)
Was someone talking about how the points are counted differently? Like 3k WCG pints count as 1k BIONIC points? Maybe I should wait until I sleep to ask these things, but you guys have my curiosity. Also, how do I increase the work buffer?

Either way, I'll see you guys in the morning. Happy crunching! :clap:

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

bubbleawsome said:
Ok, I coulda swore I read it in this thread, but maybe it's the sleep deprivation. ()
Was someone talking about how the points are counted differently? Like 3k WCG pints count as 1k BIONIC points? Maybe I should wait until I sleep to ask these things, but you guys have my curiosity. Also, how do I increase the work buffer?

Either way, I'll see you guys in the morning. Happy crunching!

Yes, that was @Norton who said it but I don't remember where exactly.

1 BOINC pt = 7 WCG pts. WCG pts will thus be 7 times higher; Free-DC shows BOINC pts.

He alludes to it here but I'm thinking of another post...

Norton said:
All points are welcome- if you want in on the prizes you will need to produce results daily throughout the challenge and reach a minimum goal by the end (5k FreeDC points- which is 35,000 WCG points)

Caring1 · Feb 27, 2015

Yep, someone explained to me earlier about the points, it seems they count them in dog years, divide by seven.
So if you have 7,000 WCG points, that counts as 1,000 points for some unknown reason.

manofthem · Feb 27, 2015

bubbleawsome said:
Ok, I coulda swore I read it in this thread, but maybe it's the sleep deprivation. ()
Was someone talking about how the points are counted differently? Like 3k WCG pints count as 1k BIONIC points? Maybe I should wait until I sleep to ask these things, but you guys have my curiosity. Also, how do I increase the work buffer?

Open BOINC > Tools > Computing Preferences > Minimum Work Buffer / Max Additional Work Buffer. Buffer is measured in days

Also found that bit we were talking about finally:

Norton said:
You need to reach 100,000 FreeDC/BOINC points here to get your badge:
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=bwcg&name=968859

Quick tip- 1 FreeDC/BOINC point= 7 WCG points

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TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

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