Folding@Home Strikes Back: Tom's Vs Anand Part 2 (March 12th)

[jsimenhoff]

Hey folders! Are you ready to go head to head against teams Tom's Hardware in another exciting folding competition?

I've already coordinated with Ryan, and our Tom's Hardware team and they are ready to face off to see who are the true distributed computing champs. Can you wipe the floor with them again?

The Folding@Home competition is set to start March 12th. Would you all mind helping with recruiting and promotion efforts? I understand that we reached out to other forums last year. We'll be doing some promotion via the AnandTech and Tom's Hardware sites/social channels, but any organic outreach by you would be awesome!

I am working on securing a Child's Play donation, from Purch but have not confirmed it.

 

[IEC]

Q: What is the duration of the competition?

I will likely participate for the duration, whatever it is. Though I will probably split my efforts for the upcoming PrimeGrid race.

 

[jsimenhoff]

The 12th through the 16th, so Monday through Friday.

 

[petrusbroder]

I will be in ... and I suppose the whole team too.
We just need to get the Christmas Season Folders back!

 

[Markfw]

You know I am in, but at only 12 million ppd, I sold 6 cards since Xmas.

 

[Ken g6]

Just when I thought it was safe to stop folding.

I'll have to re-set-up my graph site. If it goes anything like the holiday season race did, it won't be a fair fight!

 

[ao_ika_red]

Better to put it on AT's front page ASAP. We'll need as many helping hands as possible because I believe this announcement caught some of TeAm seasoned folders off-guard.

 

[UsandThem]

When Standford's servers aren't down, I have a GTX 1080 and 1070 crunching 24/7, so I should be good for 1 - 1.2 million PPD until it starts to get hot down here in NC.

 

[Ken g6]

When Standford's servers aren't down, I have a GTX 1080 and 1070 crunching 24/7, so I should be good for 1 - 1.2 million PPD until it starts to get hot down here in NC.

I read this on foldingforum.org:

From FAHControl, select "Configure", navigate to the last tab "Expert" and under "Extra client options",
looks like setting

client-type
advanced

is a way to get WUs within one or two attempts.

It's mostly working for me. I sure hope the servers aren't down next week.

 

[Markfw]

I read this on foldingforum.org:

It's mostly working for me. I sure hope the servers aren't down next week.

Well, they went down sometime yesterday, and came back up late this morning. I lost about 10 million points.

 

[Pokey]

I assume we don't have to "sign up", just show up?? TA vs TH for five days.

Bring it.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Oh heck yeah, we're ready for that challenge!

Surely we can get a front page sidebar out of this?

@CommManagerJ , could you sticky this event calendar for us, while you're here? Smoke is MIA, taking a break I hear.

 

[Ken g6]

Stats are up! http://tastats.atspace.cc/ta-th-18/ I'll reset them when the race starts. What time is that, by the way?

 

[crashtech]

I'm in.

 

[jsimenhoff]

Oh heck yeah, we're ready for that challenge!

Surely we can get a front page sidebar out of this?

@CommManagerJ , could you sticky this event calendar for us, while you're here? Smoke is MIA, taking a break I hear.

Done. I'll ask Ryan for an article to go up later this week.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats are up! http://tastats.atspace.cc/ta-th-18/ I'll reset them when the race starts. What time is that, by the way?

Thanks for doing the stats, Ken_g6. I'll be out of town, county and country for two weeks just after the races starts ...
But my computers will be in!
Now let us recruit some more folders. 50M/day would be good!

 

[UsandThem]

Also, I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else yet, but our team is getting ready to move up a spot to #16 in the standings.

 

[jsimenhoff]

Stats are up! http://tastats.atspace.cc/ta-th-18/ I'll reset them when the race starts. What time is that, by the way?

Thanks for setting those up Ken g6! We haven't set a start time yet. Do you remember what time it started for the last competition?

On a separate note, would anyone want to update or repost a welcome guide, similar to this one:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/guide-for-the-newcomers-to-the-folding-home-race.2490732/

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I'm in, with a i5-7400 and GTX1060 3GB, at least. That's maybe all I can afford to donate this month, I had already budgeted including my mining income, kind of down to the wire.

 

[Pokey]

Thanks for setting those up Ken g6! We haven't set a start time yet. Do you remember what time it started for the last competition?

On a separate note, would anyone want to update or repost a welcome guide, similar to this one:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/guide-for-the-newcomers-to-the-folding-home-race.2490732/

Hey, don't look at me..............

Is this going to be the race thread or will we start a new one?

 

[jsimenhoff]

Let's start a new one with your post at the top

 

[Pokey]

Ok, will post it tomorrow. Need time for some trash talking.

 

[biodoc]

Count me in too.

 

[Ken g6]

Thanks for setting those up Ken g6! We haven't set a start time yet. Do you remember what time it started for the last competition?

@petrusbroder likes to start at 18:00 UTC.

Well, I'm in, with a i5-7400 and GTX1060 3GB, at least. That's maybe all I can afford to donate this month, I had already budgeted including my mining income, kind of down to the wire.

Hey, I have a 1060 3GB. It gets up to 400kppd if you set it up right. Don't forget you can mine FoldingCoin by setting up a new user name with foldingcoin.net. I'm just not sure if you can turn it into real money - the fees appear to be terrible.

 

[indydude345]

I will do what I can. I was having problems during with my card during the Holiday race. Hopefully that doesn't happen again, but either way, I'm in!