Here it is!
Like every year for the past two years, AMD Users comes up with a competition to shake things a little and for everyone to show what they've got!
This year is no exception so here we announce the AMD Users Competition 2007!
Well, last year's boinc championship was great, so I took that model and made some fine tuning to it, and added a few new things.
This year's competition will be, like last year, a Championship once more, with short 5 races where in each race the top 10 will earn points, 10 points for #1, 9 points for #2, and so on... until 1 point for #10 on the race, and everyone below will not get points. The Championship Winner will be the one who has the biggest sum of points in the end of the 5 races.
Now last year I felt that the races were too short... 5 days only, so this year I'll try something a little bigger. Each race will be 7 days long, and after that there will be 2 days of break for resting and setting the machines ready before the next race.
Last year we only raced on boinc projects... so I thought "What about the people that don't like boinc?"
So this year, there will be parallel races on boinc and non-boinc.
Each race will have effectively 4 winners, two boinc and two non-boinc. Oops, I didn't talk about the regulars vs pharmers yet...
Yes, like last year, there will be a "Regulars" and a "Pharmers" league. Anyone capable of crunching above 700 credits/day on average is a "Pharmer" (Last year the mark was set at 600/day). Remember that this is an average, I can't specifically know what each person makes. But for example if after 3 days, an individual has 2300 credits, he's a Pharmer. For non-boinc projects I'll have to define the mark yet.
The "official" race clock is my own. My timezone is now GMT+1, and every race starts at 00:00 of the scheduled day, and ends at 23:59 of the last day (Remember... times are in GMT+1). That is the time when I make the absolute first and last stats collection for each race. Intermediates will be done when I'm home to start the process, never less than once a day.
Here's a preliminary schedule for the races. If anything beyond my control happens (projects go down, lack of work... etc) I may be forced to change it... let's hope not. (EDIT: Several changes already happened and the contest hasn't even started... it's impossible to escape destiny!)
May 19 -> May 25
RACE 1 - Rosetta@Home vs D2OL
May 28 -> June 3
RACE 2 - PrimeGrid vs Moneybee
June 6 -> June 12
RACE 3 - SpinHenge@Home vs Pi Segment
June 15 -> June 21
RACE 4 - Tanpaku vs TSC
June 24 -> June 30
RACE 5 - Proteins vs Folding@Home
July 3 -> July 9
Pi Segment (Race 3) Rerun
*Due to technical difficulties of the project the Pi Segment race was suspended.
*We are now going to restart it to give everyone a competitive chance.
Championship pages with current standings:
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Originally Posted by Murray
