metallicafan
[H]ard|DCer of the Month - May 2010
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It almost December and to World Community Grid fans that means its once again time for the WCG Christmas Race! Every year in December the World Community Grid team from Rechenkraft.net hosts a Christmas Race for a fun holiday challenge between WCG teams. The challenge is run through the WCG grid website and through their own stat updates so its a fair and friendly race for the good of the grid around the holidays. This year's race is a Points Challenge meaning that a team's score will be the total points from the teams completed work units, just as you would expect.
The [H]orde has participated in the race since 2008 and has always had great support form the DC subforum. Here are link to the results of past years: 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Here are some links for further information:
WCG Homepage
Christmas Race 2012 Results Page (updated once per day I believe)
Current Projects and Research
BOINC software download
GPUs NOT supported (and FAQ)
FreeDC HardOCP Stats Page
There are several great projects currently running on the grid. Universities are researching cures for diseases, ways to better filter water, renewable energy and even protein folding.
This year there is a slight new wrinkle to the grid. Until a month or so ago the WCG only used CPU applications. Recently the Help Cure Cancer project released an OpenCL GPU application. I have been running this application for the past month or so and its has been very stable on my Nvidia card and I've been told it performs even better on AMD cards. Now it seems the project is probably out of GPU work until after Thanksgiving (so dont worry if you dont get any GPU work right away). So with both CPU and a GPU application running on the Grid the [H]orde should be all set for a great showing! Anyone who wants to join in the fun (even if its only temporarily) would be more than welcome!
BOINC Client software Install Instructions
1. Go to this webpage to Register for an account and Select your projects: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do
Dont forget to join the HardOCP team #1411 (be careful as there are some old inactive [H] teams with similar names)
2. You can download the software from the WCG page but I would recommend getting it from the BOINC Download page listed above.
3. Once you have downloaded the software, go ahead and install the software. I would select all the defaults in the installer except I would select Advanced options and unselect the "BOINC Screensaver" option. You guys know the drill here regarding screensavers and performance. This is the [H]ardforum after all.
4. Then it will probably ask you to reboot and then the software will launch upon the reboot. Go to the Advanced View of the software, click on Tools and Add a Project. Select the WCG project and then enter your username and password when asked.
5. Thats it. The client should then go ahead and runs checks and performance benchmarks, download the client apps and WUs and start crunching.
A big thanks in advance to everyone who participates! If you have any questions let me know. Im sure there with be several BOINC guys monitoring this post and can help with install and config questions. I'll try and update this top post with any additional links/info that may be helpful. Crunch on!
Edit: The race runs from Dec1st to Dec 24th.
The [H]orde has participated in the race since 2008 and has always had great support form the DC subforum. Here are link to the results of past years: 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Here are some links for further information:
WCG Homepage
Christmas Race 2012 Results Page (updated once per day I believe)
Current Projects and Research
BOINC software download
GPUs NOT supported (and FAQ)
FreeDC HardOCP Stats Page
There are several great projects currently running on the grid. Universities are researching cures for diseases, ways to better filter water, renewable energy and even protein folding.
This year there is a slight new wrinkle to the grid. Until a month or so ago the WCG only used CPU applications. Recently the Help Cure Cancer project released an OpenCL GPU application. I have been running this application for the past month or so and its has been very stable on my Nvidia card and I've been told it performs even better on AMD cards. Now it seems the project is probably out of GPU work until after Thanksgiving (so dont worry if you dont get any GPU work right away). So with both CPU and a GPU application running on the Grid the [H]orde should be all set for a great showing! Anyone who wants to join in the fun (even if its only temporarily) would be more than welcome!
BOINC Client software Install Instructions
1. Go to this webpage to Register for an account and Select your projects: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do
Dont forget to join the HardOCP team #1411 (be careful as there are some old inactive [H] teams with similar names)
2. You can download the software from the WCG page but I would recommend getting it from the BOINC Download page listed above.
3. Once you have downloaded the software, go ahead and install the software. I would select all the defaults in the installer except I would select Advanced options and unselect the "BOINC Screensaver" option. You guys know the drill here regarding screensavers and performance. This is the [H]ardforum after all.
4. Then it will probably ask you to reboot and then the software will launch upon the reboot. Go to the Advanced View of the software, click on Tools and Add a Project. Select the WCG project and then enter your username and password when asked.
5. Thats it. The client should then go ahead and runs checks and performance benchmarks, download the client apps and WUs and start crunching.
A big thanks in advance to everyone who participates! If you have any questions let me know. Im sure there with be several BOINC guys monitoring this post and can help with install and config questions. I'll try and update this top post with any additional links/info that may be helpful. Crunch on!
Edit: The race runs from Dec1st to Dec 24th.
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