5th Birthday Challenge @ WCG

[crille]

Dear AMD Users,

From the Nov 16th to Nov 22nd 2009 SETI.Germany (http://setigermany.de) is arraging a challenge at World Community Grid on the occasion of the grids fifth birthday:
The 5th Birthday Challenge (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=3065)

We would like to invite AMD Users to participate in the challenge and hope that many of you will be joining.

More information and statistics regarding the challenge can be found here (http://setigermany.de/wcg/5th_Birthday_Challenge.html?lang=en).
http://setigermany.de/wcg/birthday-klein.gif (http://setigermany.de/wcg/5th_Birthday_Challenge.html?lang=en)

Your participation is very much appreciated. :)
crille
http://setigermany.de/wcg/badge_crille1006_0.png

[BlackAdder]

Hummm... we gonna answer this challenge ?? I'm game with 3 out of my 4 cores ( phenom2 940) and opteron 180 with both cores.

[plonk420]

i'm game.... was going to challege my friend to rosetta@home, but only WCG has cancer-dedicated crunching, i guess.

[vaughan]

ototero, can you sign our team up for this challenge please? I'm sure we have enough members who are interested to give it a go.

[Ramjet]

I have 32 cores already on it, and a handful more waiting for the light to change. :) I believe Jason has a few more than I do even, so yes we are in. :icon_thumright:

[NeoGen]

The Enigma@home project is about to finish in a few days, so by November 16th I'll have my 3 cores on this too. :)

[plonk420]

am i good to just start crunching whenever? or do i have to wait until start time?


i'm game.... was going to challege my friend to rosetta@home, but only WCG has cancer-dedicated crunching, i guess.

...so i think i'll only do Help Defeat Cancer. plus i think it uses less memory than Rosetta@Home. i raided my i7-920 of memory for my 860 so i could game while i waited for memory to arrive. 3gb -> 1gb. now it's up to 2 (4gb in the 860). HOPEFULLY 2gb is enough to do DC and encode video...

[Ramjet]

[QUOTE=plonk420;66459]am i good to just start crunching whenever? or do i have to wait until start time?


I would say you can start crunching any time, but only the results validated within the allotted time will count for the race. It does take a little time to build up your cache in WCG, it seems once you get a few valid results, it allows you a few more in your cache, so the sooner the better I guess. :icon_wink:

[velociraptor]

I cannnot find us in the participating teams list.....
Are we not in the race??
And do i have to join somewhere for this race or are just all points made in the name of the team counting??
greetings vel....

[plonk420]

i think we're just waiting for ototero to add us. he seems to be the team leader on that project...

[vaughan]

I couldn't find a link to enter our team in the contest, that's why I asked ototero to do it; maybe the team captain has extra fields visible?

[Ototero]

I've read everything on the page suggested, I can't see what needs to be done.

[Ototero]

Ok guys relax, We are joined.

[BlackAdder]

has anyone seen the time on the 16th for it to begin ???

[Jason1478963]

I think I'm ready and have all quads and duals running ;)

[BlackAdder]

My quad is running but my son took back his monitor ( my spare ) so my opteron 180 isn't running yet. Trying to find a decent and yet inexpensive KVM switch.....

[vaughan]

My quad is running but my son took back his monitor ( my spare ) so my opteron 180 isn't running yet. Trying to find a decent and yet inexpensive KVM switch.....
Try a software solution like Logmein or even good old Remote Desktop.

[plonk420]

oh good, the units are only ~31mb at most on Help Conquer Cancer. my i7 with 2gb can breathe easy

[NeoGen]

Anyone with experience on WCG knows if there's a subproject that gives more credits / WU or per hour? or what projects are best for 32 or 64bits OSes?
This info would come in handy to give us a boost. :)

[BlackAdder]

Vaughan, can I boot up the computer without a monitor and still get in with remote desktop ? Or do I first have to enable it beforehand ? My spare box has XP pro and my main computer has Vista business.

[NeoGen]

Yup, you can have any computer boot up without a monitor and still be fully functional locally (blind people have no need for monitors :icon_razz:) or remotely. :)
The only thing I'm not sure is about PC's with more than 1 gfx cards on them, I remember hearing something that the secondary gfx card had to have a monitor attached at bootup for cuda to work or something like that... it's rumours I've heard but I can't confirm or deny.

Vaughan, can I boot up the computer without a monitor and still get in with remote desktop ? Or do I first have to enable it beforehand ? My spare box has XP pro and my main computer has Vista business.

[Ramjet]

Anyone with experience on WCG knows if there's a subproject that gives more credits / WU or per hour? or what projects are best for 32 or 64bits OSes?
This info would come in handy to give us a boost. :)

I have found of the projects still running, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy is one of the better points projects, in both 32 and 64 bit, Nutritious Rice is probably second. Hope that helps :)

[txt.file]

Anyone with experience on WCG knows if there's a subproject that gives more credits / WU or per hour? or what projects are best for 32 or 64bits OSes?
This info would come in handy to give us a boost. :)

the stats from wcg (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProjects.do) i say that HCMD has the highest ppd. but it could be that HCMD just has the fastest volunteer-PC.

[plonk420]

i'll have to pause/reduce work while i'm playing L4D2, just FYI. AFK friends come first ;)

[Ramjet]

WOW that was quite a dump we had, jumped us all the way into 9th place. Too bad we couldn't hold that. :)
http://setigermany.de/wcg/statistiken/challenge.php

[crille]

Congratulation AMD Users: Rank 9 after the first challenge day!

Please visit also the AMD Users team statistics (http://setigermany.de/wcg/statistiken/teamstats_en_Z95RSMBR9N1_AMD+Users.html).

Best regards
crille

[NeoGen]

Hey, I just noticed we're participating in 2 challenges at the same time, we're on the YUNA contest too on WCG... and we're #1!! :)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=3097

This challenge is a single project race, on Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, until January 1st 2010.

Go Team!! :icon_mrgreen:

[BlackAdder]

Yea I was proud of our 9th place last night !!

Go TEAM !!:qgreenjumpers:

[plonk420]

i *suppose* i could do CMD for the contest... already had gold (which is all i was caring for other than cancer-related projects), but i guess i can take one for the team...

[Ramjet]

Hey, I just noticed we're participating in 2 challenges at the same time, we're on the YUNA contest too on WCG... and we're #1!! :)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=3097

This challenge is a single project race, on Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, until January 1st 2010.

Go Team!! :icon_mrgreen:

Did you also notice that YUNA challenge is based on No. of results returned, and not points? In case anyone is wondering why the numbers are so low.

[AMDave]

Thanks for the info Ramjet.

Better late than never :icon_redface:
I added 8 cores about 1 hour ago.

[NeoGen]

We are still doing great on the 5th birthday challenge, we're ranked 12th out of 159 teams as of the last update. Only 1 more day to go I think.

And on the YUNA challenge we are unstoppable. #1 and with a large distance. :)

[NeoGen]

FINISHED!!! :blob3:

Thanks to everyone that participated for our Team, we achieved rank 12th out of 159 teams. This was a fierce challenge with some very strong teams. I was hoping we could reach top 10, but even so I think we did great. :)

Now don't forget about the YUNA challenge in which we're currently running too (and #1 so far! :icon_mrgreen:) and the December challenges that will begin in about a week from today.

[liuqyn]

good job all, and I plan to stay here through the end of the year with most if not all cores.

[crille]

Congratulation: 12th place. I hope you enjoyed the challenge and you will join the 6th birthday challenge in 2010.

Best regards
crille

[Jason1478963]

Good race..... I will be on WCG to the end of the year too. I will be switching as soon as we finish up all the projects at WCG.

[Nflight]

I broke off my personal attempt and selfish behavior to help the TEAM out. I am now crunching Muscular Dystrophy Part II. I sure would like to keep our Team in the #1 place current scores look like this!

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/te...allengeId=3097 (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=3097)

If you can't see the link see a snippet here :

Scoreboard Rank Team Name Current Score 1 AMD Users (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=Z95RSMBR9N1) 13,468 2 Ukraine (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=J8H4J4QPN1) 3,702 3 He's My Son (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=1Q3M7GCFV1) 3,271 4 UK (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=L721SPD4BN1) 1,931 5 All IBM (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=15ZK0LF4BN1) 674 6 Vulture Central III (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=V821SPD4BN1) 660 7 Chicago-IL-USA (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=R15RSMBR9N1) 655 8 BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=DF99KT5DN1) 492 9 Dell XPS Systems (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=DKDRMD4KV1) 473 10 We not Me (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=5PM92ZTRP1) 286 11 Arts et Metiers PARISTECH (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=TWC2KZC7V1) 283 12 Ohio River Fishing (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=ZBQMVBXCKT1) 281 13 USA - BOINC Team (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=0PDW7LXQP1) 266 14 BTSse (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=N4BX9KBJ5V1) 261 15 Deutschland (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=SD5RSMBR9N1) 234 16 Hjelp andre (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=43TVVN4VBT1) 216 17 CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=1DMBC9VMN1) 201 18 BOINC Italia (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=LWGB8V6VR1) 198
Go TEAM Effort :wav: :blob3: