WCG-TPU 9th Birthday Challenge (11/16-11/22/2013)- Join us/Crunch/Win Stuff

[okidna]

I'm in but with very small PPD

My company is doing some sort of expansion and I'll work out of town until the end of the year to supervise, so at the moment I only crunch with my laptop (dual Core Pentium P6100) and my desktop is "sleeping" at home, didn't want to trouble my wife with computer thingy and it's a wet season here in my country so thunderstorm and blackout will always come knocking, better be safe

Go team TPU!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Ok, I'm in, and not by accident this time!
2600K @ 4.4GHz

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Ok, I'm in, and not by accident this time!
2600K @ 4.4GHz

Alright Bruce! Thanks for joining us.

 

[Bow]

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I'll have the 2nd Opteron Server running WCG tonight. Letting it finish up the last F@H WU before switching over. I'm out of spare power supplies, so I'll be short 2 of the lesser rigs I promised. Still bringing a total of 112 cores to the challenge.

 

[[Ion]]

Awesome, that's still a hell of a lot of cores
I look forward to a fierce challenge

 

[GreiverBlade]

too bad i cant get it shipped before the start and it will not arrive before the end i seems

edit setting up the Xeon for it the Phenom is already set up

 

[[Ion]]

Woot, a multi-CPU system

I have a quad-Opteron 8350 system at home that I ultimately retired after just a few months of use. It's enormous, very loud, and sucks lots of power for limited results. I replaced it with the much nicer 6128HE system.

 

[Norton]

just under 12 hours to go before the start of the challenge.

Make those last minute adjustments Team.... it's going to be a great week!!!



*very strange that I can't get internet access for a couple of my rigs??? Oh well, will have to see if I can get them back online tonight --

 

[[Ion]]

We'll be cutting it close---best case scenario I'll have the i7-920 going in right about twelve hours

 

[d1nky]

ahh what the hell im in again!

hopefully my 2 rigs survive another battering from crunching! still got the speeds from before and the stability!

(but this time ill have breaks and game lol)

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Anything special I need to do to be included in this(other than crunch, which I do all the time anyway)?

Also, Norton, I PM'ed you about adding to the prize lot. A nice very good condition MSI HD7770 and another $20 PP gift.

 

[Irony]

Ooh I'm in. See if I can get this random crashing thing sorted before tonight. It only does it if I leave the computer while its crunching.

 

[mstenholm]

We'll be cutting it close---best case scenario I'll have the i7-920 going in right about twelve hours

That reminds me about that I a similar CPU collecting dust... and some other stuff

 

[librin.so.1]

Disabled network communication for all my crunchers to build quite some WUs up to report when the challange starts
Increased my work to from 2 to 3 days on all, too.

 

[[Ion]]

That reminds me about that I a similar CPU collecting dust... and some other stuff

You know, if you have CPUs like that collecting dust, I could happily give them a new home crunching for the Team

 

[Peter1986C]

I ran into problems of private kind and did not build up Darwin (rebirth of the dorm room PC) yet due to lack of time. The MAC adress needs re-registration to so in a best case scenario the machine is challenge ready on tuesday UTC+1.

 

[mstenholm]

You know, if you have CPUs like that collecting dust, I could happily give them a new home crunching for the Team

It is happily resting in my guest room warmer together with a 7970 but now seems like a good time to re-start it. Betas are back btw.

 

[d1nky]

just found out that I can play BF4 and crunch 100% 4.875ghz!!

little more temps but my loop is good! tonight ill turn on the 2nd rig!

CRUNCH ON!

 

[librin.so.1]

I set my main box to gaming clocks for the challenge. My electricity bill become even more "well fed" than it is now, but for this challenge I am going all-in.

 

[d1nky]

I set my main box to gaming clocks for the challenge. My electricity bill become even more "well fed" than it is now, but for this challenge I am going all-in.

yea its going to cost but its only a few days.

im at 4.875 1.55v its heating my room lol

 

[mx500torid]

Question guys. Why do i have all these "ready to report" messages after a bunch of files? 2471 points seems low to me with 2- 2600k and a 965 BE crunching. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Peter1986C]

Completed WUs do net reported immediately. It is nomal. If you want WUs to get uploaded instantly after completion, add

<cc_config>
<options>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
</options>
</cc_config>

to your cc_config.xml file.

 

[librin.so.1]

GAH! This is the worst possible moment for firmware/hardware problems.

I set my main box to gaming clocks for the challenge.

doing so "awakened" some firmware bugs I wrote about several months ago. It was all fine for quite a while, but the bug is at it again. I updated my BIOS, but that seem to have introduced new bugs in the firmware, while keeping the old ones *groans*

In short - my main box is currently crunching at 1.4 GHz and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it... *flips table*

 

[xvi]

GAH! This is the worst possible moment for firmware/hardware problems.

doing so "awakened" some firmware bugs I wrote about several months ago. It was all fine for quite a while, but the bug is at it again. I updated my BIOS, but that seem to have introduced new bugs in the firmware, while keeping the old ones *groans*

In short - my main box is currently crunching at 1.4 GHz and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it... *flips table*

Sounds like a Cool 'n Quiet bug. Have you tried disabling it? Maybe try setting the multiplier in Windows? (assuming it's multiplier)

p.s. I found a video game for you. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Spoiler: ---->

About 45 seconds in should be the magic number for where the action really starts.