WCG Christmas Race 2010

yoyo · Post by **yoyo** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:20 pm

Hello,

also in this year you (and all other teams) are invited to the WCG Christmas Race from 1.-24.12.

Team captain can join here
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=3743

Discussion thread in WCG forum is here:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/f ... read,30243

yoyo

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:30 am

We've participated in the WCG Christmas Race for the last three years, and I think that it would be nice to carry on with the tradition (7th in 2007, 19th in 2008 and 28th last year).

So far Rick, Zydor and myself have expressed an interest in participating, but is anyone else up for trying to reverse the downward trend? :?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:25 am

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:19 am

yup :lol:

b.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:03 am

Count me in as a part timer!

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:43 pm

Give it a go, as I run wcg anyway

Running cache down, so as ready to roll...

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:50 pm

Ditto Prof, running the cache down ready. It's an 'All Projects' challenge, so I'll be sticking to 'Cleaner Water' again.

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:24 pm

clean h2o for me as well

b.

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:55 pm

melter65 wrote:...I'll be sticking to 'Cleaner Water' again.

Same here

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:07 pm

yoyo wrote:Hello,

also in this year you (and all other teams) are invited to the WCG Christmas Race from 1.-24.12.

yoyo

We've now joined this race so, thanks for the invite - let's hope we can do a good job this year...!!

regards
Tim

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:38 pm

First WCG Xmas Challenge - so need a bit of hand holding.

For the Challenge, is this one the type where all completed WUs submitted after the start time 0001hrs count, or is this the type where the WU must be loaded up initially after 0001hrs ?

Just making sure I am watching the correct start gun :D

Regards
Zy

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:43 pm

You can load your WUs when you like Zy. All results returned after midnight count.

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:53 am

Many Thanks

Regards
Zy

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:31 am

Zydor wrote:Just making sure I am watching the correct start gun :D

If you're in the chat room anytime Bob or I will tell you a funny story about a certain UBT member who was a bit early for another starting gun!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:07 am

he he he .......o yes that was good :lol: :lol:

b.

gregoryfenton · Post by **gregoryfenton** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:10 am

I'm in.

Erm what do I need to do?

House is freezing due to the snow so I am gonna remove the CPU and GPU coolers to add some warmth to the house :p

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:19 pm

Not a lot - just pick your prefered WCG Project and Crunch.

All the credit earned during the Challenge period is duplicated in a one off total for the Challenge. There are no special rules for this one - just crunch .... whatever is crunched during the time period is counted automatically to the challenge team total.

The only thing that had to happen was the Team entry - from that point all is automatic and anyone regsitered as part of UK BOINC Team at WCG gets their credits over the challenge period counted as part of the team total for the challenge as well as the usual individual totals. No individual entry needed.

Regards
Zy

gregoryfenton · Post by **gregoryfenton** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:20 pm

So I can just download the WU's, disable network communication, crunch them and enable communication tomorrow to report them?

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:18 pm

gregoryfenton wrote:So I can just download the WU's, disable network communication, crunch them and enable communication tomorrow to report them?

You`ve got it! :D

gregoryfenton · Post by **gregoryfenton** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:08 pm

Great - I wasn't 100% sure whether to make that post as it may have been construed as inciting cheating :p

Currently crunching C4CW 6.12 at a rate of 1 per 75 minutes (1 every 5 hours with a quad core).

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:39 pm

Cheating is such an ugly expression.
I like to call it constructive precrunching! :D

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:58 pm

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:Cheating is such an ugly expression....

:angel10: Perish the thought :angel10:

:evil4:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:59 pm

It's something the foreign chappys used to do and it took us a while to realise! :roll:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:13 am

WTF? BOINC UK in third place?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=3743

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:31 am

Any big team has no chance. The % is based on extra output during the race .... If UK boinc did 20k per day before 1 December we would need to crank it up to 40k for 100% lol ... 1 man teams with very low credit are going to leave us standing :?
You think we got it hard :lol:
48 XtremeSystems -3.62% (15,283,144 / 15,856,380)
-3.6%

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:49 am

oh dear...

It seems we finished in 50th place with a net decrease of 5.79% (297,098 as current average vs the previous 315,344 as a baseline score).

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... ngeId=3743

Have to try harder next year I guess.

regards

Tim

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