World Community Grid 10th Birthday Challenge -- 16 November - 25 November!

[xvi]

Over already? McKayla Maroney comes to mind.
Kidding aside, we did really awesome. Excellent work, all!

 

[Norton]

On a post-Challenge note.....

We will plan on holding the prize drawing tomorrow evening.

* If you are selected for a prize and are unavailable at the time of the drawing- don't worry, we will give you reasonable time to check in and claim your prize.

 

[Easy Rhino]

I was just going to say... BRING ON THE PRIZES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[[Ion]]

Alright, as suggested by Norton earlier, we'll be delaying the prize drawing until tomorrow evening. Sorry. Ought to be fun anyways!

We have a lot of prizes, so your odds are pretty solid

 

[stinger608]

In all honesty, I feel it is more about that amazing team coming together for these awesome challenges than it is about the prizes!!

I have said it before and will say it again; "I am sooooooooo proud to be a part of the best WCG team in the world!!!!"

 

[15th Warlock]

Third place, that's just epic!

Great work team, I'm also really proud of having been part of this challenge, thanks to everyone who contributed with compute time to crunch for this challenge and to our team leaders

 

[Tallencor]

In all honesty, I feel it is more about that amazing team coming together for these awesome challenges than it is about the prizes!!

I have said it before and will say it again; "I am sooooooooo proud to be a part of the best WCG team in the world!!!!"

Could not have said it better Stinger.
I'm already pumped for the next one. Cheers everyone A well deserved 3rd.

 

[Norton]

Third place, that's just epic!

Great work team, I'm also really proud of having been part of this challenge, thanks to everyone who contributed with compute time to crunch for this challenge and to our team leaders

This our our best "non-GPU" finish for the WCG Birthday Challenges!

We took 2nd and nearly won when gpu work was active.... some of us still think there was a conspiracy in play

 

[15th Warlock]

This our our best "non-GPU" finish for the WCG Birthday Challenges!

We took 2nd and nearly won when gpu work was active.... some of us still think there was a conspiracy in play

I can only imagine how amazing it would be to put all of my GPUs to our team disposal for a challenge, maybe one day the rules will change

 

[Tallencor]

This our our best "non-GPU" finish for the WCG Birthday Challenges!

We took 2nd and nearly won when gpu work was active.... some of us still think there was a conspiracy in play

I don't know what you mean? So banking all my wu's a week before the challenge like the other two teams did is unfair?

 

[Norton]

I don't know what you mean? So banking all my wu's a week before the challenge like the other two teams did is unfair?

WCG ran out of gpu work before the end of the challenge that time.... our ppd dropped like a rock and SETI.Germany managed to pass us.

 

[manofthem]

Glad I could be a part of this!

You can always be a part of us

Alright, as suggested by Norton earlier, we'll be delaying the prize drawing until tomorrow evening. Sorry. Ought to be fun anyways!

We have a lot of prizes, so your odds are pretty solid

Delays are inevitable so no worries there

WCG ran out of gpu work before the end of the challenge that time.... our ppd dropped like a rock and SETI.Germany managed to pass us.

I remember those days. I haz(d) such a sad!

 

[[Ion]]

Yeah, if the GPU work comes back, I'm confident I can manage a nice million PPD (BOINC). Admittedly with a few hundred $ in GPUs, but such is the cost. That would be awesome

 

[Nordic]

I remember all amd gpu's for WCG, of which I had several at the time. For no particular reason I seem to have all nvidea now. Did nvidea gpu's work for WCG?

 

[manofthem]

I remember all amd gpu's for WCG, of which I had several at the time. For no particular reason I seem to have all nvidea now. Did nvidea gpu's work for WCG?

I see to remember Nvidia not yielding the same results, as the 6xx series wasn't all that powerful with compuet maybe?

I remember everyone with like 7970s was balling, myself included The gold old days!

 

[Norton]

I remember all amd gpu's for WCG, of which I had several at the time. For no particular reason I seem to have all nvidea now. Did nvidea gpu's work for WCG?

Not as well, the gpu work was ideal for OpenCL and the GCN architecture

 

[Nordic]

I see to remember Nvidia not yielding the same results, as the 6xx series wasn't all that powerful with compuet maybe?

I remember everyone with like 7970s was balling, myself included The gold old days!

Not as well, the gpu work was ideal for OpenCL and the GCN architecture

That would make sense if it was opencl. Nvidea crippled their compute section, specifically effecting open cl performance. If gpu wu's come back I might have to flip back over to amd.

 

[twilyth]

I see to remember Nvidia not yielding the same results, as the 6xx series wasn't all that powerful with compuet maybe?

I remember everyone with like 7970s was balling, myself included The gold old days!

Tru dat. I could be wrong but I think I was doing something like 300k+ PPD or roughly 10x what I normally would have done. I almost felt guilty slurping up that many points every day . . . almost . . . hehehe.

 

[manofthem]

Tru dat. I could be wrong but I think I was doing something like 300k+ PPD or roughly 10x what I normally would have done. I almost felt guilty slurping up that many points every day . . . almost . . . hehehe.

Absolutely, those days were good. Below are some shots from back in the day, ranging from Nov '12 though like Feb '13

Spoiler

Shortly after I started, just after @t_ski

Then more competition

Then @[Ion] came to take over the world, as he always does

 

[[Ion]]

So much Science...brings a tear to my eye

 

[Nordic]

Ion, I ask you for 300,000 and you scoff. Psh, you had 600,000 back then! I see no reason why you can't now.

Gosh, I was getting a ton of ppd from my 7970 back then. I think I got around 230,000 ish. I was experimenting with spreading 16 wu's over 4 highly overclocked 2500k cores for maximum ppd. I was told you should never go over 10 wu's, but it worked because of my highly overclocked cores. I was a pioneer! Or so I tell myself at night before I go to sleep...

 

[xvi]

I remember those days.

IIRC, I switched to F@H because WCG discontinued work for my aging 4850 and 4870. Seems like that was so long ago.

 

[theonedub]

It was a conflicting time back then for me. Nvidia cards were crushing F@H WUs at the time and I had just picked up my 580 Lightning (one of my favorite cards of all time). Wanted to keep GPUs on F@H and CPUs on WCG to distribute the distributed computing effort

Think I experimented a little and got ~4 units running at a time on the card, but ultimately stayed F@H. Those with 7970s (that weren't mining crypto) had astronomical PPDs!

 

[Ja.KooLit]

I might be a little late for the party but wanted to say Good job team and I am proud to be part of it as well.

 

[Ja.KooLit]

I might be a little late for the party but wanted to say Good job team and I am proud to be part of it as well.