World Community Grid February Team Challenge

xvi · Feb 7, 2013

[Ion] said:
Anything can crunch--I run an Atom and a variety of older Dual Cores.

I can't see your main system specs, but if it's a modern CPU and you have an AMD HD7770+ GPU, you have quite the potential available

The HD7770/HD7850/HD7870 are all three excellent crunching GPUs

Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.6 GHz
DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5
Video cards are a HD 4870 and a HD 4850. Folding@Home dropped support for them, so I can't imagine there's much work for them on WCG (and if there was, I don't think they'd contribute much.)

Going to do some research at home, but are Pentium 4s worth folding on?

theonedub · Feb 7, 2013

Ion, have you and the other people collaborating accounted for international shipping costs for potential winners outside the US? I ship packages regularly to the Philippines, Norway and between and it can get expensive very quickly.

[Ion] · Feb 7, 2013

xvi said:
Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.6 GHz
DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5
Video cards are a HD 4870 and a HD 4850. Folding@Home dropped support for them, so I can't imagine there's much work for them on WCG (and if there was, I don't think they'd contribute much.)

Going to do some research at home, but are Pentium 4s worth folding on?

P4s aren't really worthwhile---they use a ton of power and are no faster than my Atom. I'd shy away. Those GPUs aren't supported for WCG, unfortunately. If you can get a HD7xx0 card that would be awesome--they fly :toast:

theonedub said:
Ion, have you and the other people collaborating accounted for international shipping costs for potential winners outside the US? I ship packages regularly to the Philippines, Norway and between and it can get expensive very quickly.

No, I haven't thought about that. I have the contributions from mjkmike and myself, and I can afford to ship them to within the United States. But I don't really have any provisions for shipping elsewhere.

theonedub · Feb 7, 2013

Quite a bit of international members joining, and most new members aren't filling in their location in the UserCP- so a lot of them could be international, too.

For reference USPS Int'l:
Flat Rate Medium to Canada/Global: $40.95/$59.95
Flat Rate Large to Canada/Global: $53.95/$77.95

Should definitely figure out if shipping outside the US is going to be possible before the contest starts so everyone's expectations are set accordingly.

xvi · Feb 7, 2013

[Ion] said:
P4s aren't really worthwhile---they use a ton of power and are no faster than my Atom. I'd shy away. Those GPUs aren't supported for WCG, unfortunately. If you can get a HD7xx0 card that would be awesome--they fly

That's what I assumed about the GPUs. Oh well. Worth a shot.

Just nabbed a used Core 2 Duo Mobile for my laptop (better than the 32-bit Core Duo it'll replace). I have two Sck478 2GHz P4s that are just sitting around, an AM2 board that I'll see if my old Phenom II X2 550 will run on, a Sck775 3Ghz P4 that can contribute, a Sck754 Sempron, and a heap of Athlon XPs.

I'll tally up the estimated scores in a bit. Power shouldn't be a major issue. Actually, I have a Kill-A-Watt. I can tally up the power usage too. Should be an interesting project.

Edit: I was going to run to the local electronics recycler and see if I could pick up a few 3GHz P4s (about $5 each?), but I'm not sure it'd be totally worth it. Would tally up to an extra 2GHz P4 for a relatively small increase in power though. They probably won't be used for anything after this. Thoughts?

Norton · Feb 7, 2013

theonedub said:
Quite a bit of international members joining, and most new members aren't filling in their location in the UserCP- so a lot of them could be international, too.

For reference USPS Int'l:
Flat Rate Medium to Canada/Global: $40.95/$59.95
Flat Rate Large to Canada/Global: $53.95/$77.95

Should definitely figure out if shipping outside the US is going to be possible before the contest starts so everyone's expectations are set accordingly.

We may be able to use a gift card type thing for international winners. I would be willing to do that for the psu and memory kit I offered considering that they will be new and I haven't got them yet (7770 video card has already been purchased). Also, I can help a little bit with shipping on any items that need to go far.

@ Ion maybe we can stipulate that the winner, if outside the of the donators region, pays the extra shipping cost? I think we did this on the last challenge for some items?

Thanks for bringing this up dub!

@xvi- take a peek at this ppd estimator as a reference (your PII's will do better than the other even if you bunch them together):
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111026

sujo · Feb 7, 2013

I"ll bite, does anyone know the amd radeon 6850 thread count. Tried to use the utility but may have inserted the wrong #'s. The cpu threading is 1 to 1 amd athlon x4 620. I would like to split the cpu (2 cpu X 2 gpu) hope that made sense.

Forgot that my WCG handle is sujo1

Norton · Feb 7, 2013

sujo said:
I"ll bite, does anyone know the amd radeon 6850 thread count. Tried to use the utility but may have inserted the wrong #'s. The cpu threading is 1 to 1 amd athlon x4 620. I would like to split the cpu (2 cpu X 2 gpu) hope that made sense.

If you're using the PC it may be best to just run with 1 gpu wu (3 cpu wu's) for awhile and see how it goes. 6xxx series gpu's get dragged down pretty good by this work. IMO- give it a day or two first and then decide if you want to add a 2nd gpu wu.

BUCK NASTY · Feb 7, 2013

sujo said:
I"ll bite, does anyone know the amd radeon 6850 thread count. Tried to use the utility but may have inserted the wrong #'s. The cpu threading is 1 to 1 amd athlon x4 620. I would like to split the cpu (2 cpu X 2 gpu) hope that made sense.

Forgot that my WCG handle is sujo1

I'm running a 6850 @ 850mhz with 2 WU's and it's averaging 12 mins each. I get about 14-16K Boinc PPD from it daily.

sujo · Feb 7, 2013

Thanx, I have been running this system for about four months.

It does get a bit laggy if you try and play games or watch vids, I usually just snooze the gpu during the need for all resources. yeah I know not crunching?.... bad sujo bad :eek:

BUCK NASTY · Feb 7, 2013

sujo said:
I"ll bite, does anyone know the amd radeon 6850 thread count. Tried to use the utility but may have inserted the wrong #'s. The cpu threading is 1 to 1 amd athlon x4 620. I would like to split the cpu (2 cpu X 2 gpu) hope that made sense.

Forgot that my WCG handle is sujo1

I'm running a 6850 @ 850mhz with 2 WU's and it's averaging 12 mins each. I get about 14-15K Boinc PPD from it daily. I also get 4K from the other 6 cores of the i7-870.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 7, 2013

A 6850 will put out about 9 to 10k ppd doing 1 gpu wu on the card.

sujo · Feb 7, 2013

True, was thinking to sqeeze a couple extra points for ya'll.

BUCK NASTY · Feb 7, 2013

sujo said:
True, was thinking to sqeeze a couple extra points for ya'll.

Squeeze away. We love extra points!

TRWOV · Feb 7, 2013

I left the HTPC runing and apparently it already netted 12562 points. I guess I'll break >25K per day. :rockout:

seby83 · Feb 7, 2013

sign me up

edit: i got i3 2100+gtx 660ti

TRWOV · Feb 7, 2013

when are statistics updated? every X hours, once a day?

Norton · Feb 7, 2013

TRWOV said:
when are statistics updated? every X hours, once a day?

Usually 2-3 times a day. Most of us use this site (FreeDC)- same link that is in stinger608's sig

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=bwcg&team=22175&sort=today

FYI- since there a lot of new users here.... WCG points are 7x FreeDC/BOINC points (7 WCG pts= 1 BOINC pt) - we go by FreeDC/BOINC points for Milestones and Pie posts, WCG points for Daily Numbers posts.

Emperor_Piehead · Feb 7, 2013

?

So how well a nvidia card do cause i keep hearing AMD cards mentioned? Its a gtx 670 and if it does well sign me up my friend would be happy just to get a 7770. I will get him to help also

[Ion] · Feb 7, 2013

Norton said:
We may be able to use a gift card type thing for international winners. I would be willing to do that for the psu and memory kit I offered considering that they will be new and I haven't got them yet (7770 video card has already been purchased). Also, I can help a little bit with shipping on any items that need to go far.

@ Ion maybe we can stipulate that the winner, if outside the of the donators region, pays the extra shipping cost? I think we did this on the last challenge for some items?

Thanks for bringing this up dub!

@xvi- take a peek at this ppd estimator as a reference (your PII's will do better than the other even if you bunch them together):
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111026

That's a good idea. I'm certainly not comfortable with spending $50 sending a GPU to Kazakhstan. And we do have the PayPal gifts as well---and games. Plenty of things that would be easy to get to international winners :toast:

And thanks for the offer--I appreciate it :toast:

xvi said:
That's what I assumed about the GPUs. Oh well. Worth a shot.

Just nabbed a used Core 2 Duo Mobile for my laptop (better than the 32-bit Core Duo it'll replace). I have two Sck478 2GHz P4s that are just sitting around, an AM2 board that I'll see if my old Phenom II X2 550 will run on, a Sck775 3Ghz P4 that can contribute, a Sck754 Sempron, and a heap of Athlon XPs.

I'll tally up the estimated scores in a bit. Power shouldn't be a major issue. Actually, I have a Kill-A-Watt. I can tally up the power usage too. Should be an interesting project.

Edit: I was going to run to the local electronics recycler and see if I could pick up a few 3GHz P4s (about $5 each?), but I'm not sure it'd be totally worth it. Would tally up to an extra 2GHz P4 for a relatively small increase in power though. They probably won't be used for anything after this. Thoughts?

I guess you could, but I don't think it makes sense. Even a HD6770 will be many, many times faster than the P4s. And I think it's a bit wasteful to dedicate hundreds of watts to something that scores as low as a P4 does. But your choice. More HW is always appreciated :toast:

TRWOV said:
I left the HTPC runing and apparently it already netted 12562 points. I guess I'll break >25K per day.

And it's only 25k total points that you have to make (reported by Free-DC, BOINCStats, and the BOINC manager--175k as according to WCG)

seby83 said:
sign me up

Sure!

What are you running?

Emperor_Piehead said:
So how well a nvidia card do cause i keep hearing AMD cards mentioned? Its a gtx 670 and if it does well sign me up my friend would be happy just to get a 7770. I will get him to help also

Not great, but better than CPUs. I have a system with an i7-2700k and two GTX470s and untouched (no use) it gets just over 40k PPD most of the time. About 18-18.5k PPD per GPU and then a few K from the CPU

blibba said:
Count me in. Crunching on a Phenom II X4.

Welcome aboard!

blibba · Feb 7, 2013

Count me in. Crunching on a Phenom II X4.

Peter1986C · Feb 7, 2013

theonedub said:
Quite a bit of international members joining, and most new members aren't filling in their location in the UserCP- so a lot of them could be international, too.

For reference USPS Int'l:
Flat Rate Medium to Canada/Global: $40.95/$59.95
Flat Rate Large to Canada/Global: $53.95/$77.95

Should definitely figure out if shipping outside the US is going to be possible before the contest starts so everyone's expectations are set accordingly.

I think I better politely decline HW prizes, unless they are not bought yet, perhaps.

Norton · Feb 7, 2013

Here's a nice update

ErikaT from WCG admin has posted our challenge on the WCG Facebook and Twitter pages! :toast:

Re: Team TPU invites you to join us in the "Team TPU WCG Challenge"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello all,

We have posted about this upcoming team challenge on our Facebook and Twitter pages!

Thanks - and good luck to all!

ErikaT.

Link:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=411649

Emperor_Piehead · Feb 7, 2013

Well even though it does perform well i will just leave my computer for about 2 weeks that will be plenty of points. Also is their any specific project i'm new to this stuff?

[Ion] · Feb 7, 2013

Emperor_Piehead said:
Well even though it does perform well i will just leave my computer for about 2 weeks that will be plenty of points. Also is their any specific project i'm new to this stuff?

We run all of the WCG sub-projects. Different members have different reasons for crunching, and consequently may focus on Help Conquer Cancer or Fight Aids At Home, while others of us run everything :toast:

System Name	Rainbow
Processor	Intel Core i7 8700k
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z390M GAMING EDGE AC
Cooling	Corsair H115i, 2x Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM
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Mouse	Razer Deathadder 2013
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Case	CaseLabs Merlin SM8 \|\| Aluminum Unibody
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000
Mouse	Corsair Harpoon Wireless RGB
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe RGB w/ Cherry MX Silent
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Memory	32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB DDR4 3000\|\| 2x16GB Corsair DDR4
Video Card(s)	Vega 64 EK FC\|\| Intel Iris Xe
Storage	250gb WD Black NVMe & (2) 2TB Intel 660p NVMe \|\| 2TB Corsair MP600 Pro
Display(s)	34" Dell Ultrasharp U3415W
Case	CaseLabs Merlin SM8 \|\| Aluminum Unibody
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000
Mouse	Corsair Harpoon Wireless RGB
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe RGB w/ Cherry MX Silent
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \|\| WIndows 11 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	WCG & F@H Only

System Name	Rainbow
Processor	Intel Core i7 8700k
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z390M GAMING EDGE AC
Cooling	Corsair H115i, 2x Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM
Memory	G. Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB (F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR)
Video Card(s)	ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity
Storage	2x Samsung 950 Pro 256GB \| 2xHGST Deskstar 4TB 7.2K
Display(s)	Samsung C27HG70
Case	Xigmatek Aquila
Power Supply	Seasonic 760W SS-760XP
Mouse	Razer Deathadder 2013
Keyboard	Corsair Vengeance K95
Software	Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	4 trillion points in GmailMark, over 144 FPS 2K Facebook Scrolling (Extreme Quality preset)

World Community Grid February Team Challenge

xvi

theonedub

habe fidem

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

theonedub

habe fidem

xvi

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

sujo

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

sujo

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

ThE_MaD_ShOt

sujo

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

TRWOV

seby83

New Member

TRWOV

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Emperor_Piehead

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

blibba

Peter1986C

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Emperor_Piehead

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

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Memory	2x16GB GSkill FlareX 3200/c14- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3600/c16- 2x16GB Team 3600/c18 and etc..
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Keyboard	Corsair K65
VR HMD	N/A
Software	Windows 10 Pro or Ubuntu
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Case	Case?
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Mouse	Mionix Naos 3200 / Generic PS2
Keyboard	Roccat Ryos TKL Pro / Evoluent Mouse Friendly Keyboard (Logitech OEM)
Software	Windows 7 Ult x64
Benchmark Scores	Nah.

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