Announcing the TechPowerUp Mother's Day WCG Challenge 2013

btarunr · May 9, 2013

TechPowerUp World Computing Grid (WCG) Team, among the world's top-ten WCG teams, is celebrating Mother's Day with a huge 10-day crunching contest. Up for grabs are some epic community-sourced prizes, including hardware for your crunching rigs, gaming peripherals, gift cards, and PC games, tons of 'em! To participate, all you need to do is crunch for TechPowerUp from 00:00 UTC, 10th May 2013; to 23:59 UTC, 19th May 2013, and score a minimum of 10,000 BIONC points within the contest period. Winners for each of the dozens of prizes will be chosen at random.

For important information, and to participate, visit this page.

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manofthem · May 9, 2013

Great write up Btarunr, thanks! :toast:

Come on TPU, lets get involved! We could really appreciate the assistance, and we can do lots of good! Plus, Bonus: Lots of available prizes, as BTA said.

We hope to see you soon! :respect:

Norton · May 9, 2013

Thanks for the posting BTA! :toast:

The challenge starts in about 8 hrs- if anyone needs assistance in getting started, feel free to PM a Team member or see [Ion's] Essentials thread here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106593

PLSG08 · May 10, 2013

How does one start with this WCG thing? I've read the website and I wanna help out

Some newbie questions:

1. Do I have to leave the computer open all the time when WCG is doing the computation?
1.5 Or only when I use the computer?
2. Would WCG make my system slower?
3. Can I still game while WCG is on?
4. Would a slow internet connection hinder in WCG?

agent00skid · May 10, 2013

You can go over to the WCG subforum and read and ask questions there.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=68

1: The computer needs to be running to do computation.
2: It can make it slower. Depends on your computer and what you are doing.
3: Again, it depends on the game and your personal feeling. Some people like to stop it while playing. I personally don't.
4: Don't think so. Though might want to opt out of Clean Energy Project - Phase 2, since that project have large work units.

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Announcing the TechPowerUp Mother's Day WCG Challenge 2013

btarunr

Editor & Senior Moderator

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

PLSG08

agent00skid