World Community Grid: THOR Challenge 2020 Invites Your Team to Support Humanitarian R

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The THOR Challenge is back for a fifth year. Learn how you and your team can participate at a time when humanitarian scientific research is more crucial than ever.

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[Al]

So, do we join this year? I have one more day to hit one of my milestones and had planned to return to WCG anyway. I guess the way I see it is join and if we decide to hit it, we hit it. If we decide not to run it, we've lost nothing.

[Mumps]

Well, I've been camped on WCG for months, but had started sliding away to see if we can't hit first team to 100 Mil on MLC. I still have around 40 days to hit my current goal at WCG, so I could see hanging around, but I'm not going to make as much impact as last year.

[Al]

Well, I've been camped on WCG for months, but had started sliding away to see if we can't hit first team to 100 Mil on MLC. I still have around 40 days to hit my current goal at WCG, so I could see hanging around, but I'm not going to make as much impact as last year.
Well, that's two. Let's see if we can make the first cut. We're in.

[trigggl]

I'm already there, so might as well join the challenge.

[zombie67]

First four weeks are scored on run time. So this is great for Raspberry Pis. I will at least but my 20 Pi threads on this.

[zombie67]

When does it start exactly? It just says Sept 7th. Does that mean 5 PM PDT today?

[Al]

When does it start exactly? It just says Sept 7th. Does that mean 5 PM PDT today?
Z, I believe so...start was about 55 minutes ago, though we won't have confirmation of that until 24 hours from now. I don't know why they don't use a countdown clock.

[zombie67]

I did no bunkering, but I am running full steam for now. I am something like 8 years away from a 20 year badge for covid19. So I am working on that until I hit it. After that, we'll see.

[Al]

Same here, no bunkering. Mostly OpenPandemics and whatever TB I can get.

[Al]

We're in the top 10 on day one. (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10187)

[Al]

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[zombie67]

I thought that teams that are paid (gridcoin) were ineligible?

[Al]

I thought that teams that are paid (gridcoin) were ineligible?

They can run the Thor Challenge for run time. They can not run the Thor Pure Challenge (the last week) for points.

[zombie67]

Ah. Got it.

Are we a lock for the first leg yet?

[Mumps]

I think we're in...

At the end of this first week of challenge, the 50 best teams will be invited to the second week
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,42702_offset,0#636802
The team currently in 50th place only has 97 days of runtime thus far.

[zombie67]

Sweet. I am moving my big guns to do important stuff. Still leaving my Pi and Mini farms on WCG.

[Al]

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[Fire$torm]

Can someone recommend the best WCG project for a pair of Intel Xeon E5520 processors?

[zombie67]

FYI, WCG is down for about 24 hours. Poor planning to do this during a challenge, IMO.

My cache is only .5 days, so I am sure I will be running out.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=642

[Al]

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[Al]

My numbers should go up today. WCG just turned on the validators for BETA work and I have gone from 0 validated to 40 pages of valids on that project over night. I was hoping they would hold the validators until the 21st (second round) but it wasn't meant to be. If you're looking for beta work, they are still sending it out this morning and I have 90 new ones to process.

[Al]

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[cineon_lut]

Any idea when the next week of the challenge starts? I'm going in with the fleet on this one, clearing out cobwebs. A ton of Xeons should mean good run times.

[Al]

Any idea when the next week of the challenge starts? I'm going in with the fleet on this one, clearing out cobwebs. A ton of Xeons should mean good run times.
Hi Vic, good to hear from you. Looks like you've been busy with exciting stuff.

"At the end of this first week of challenge, the 50 best teams will be invited to the second week of challenge that will take place from Monday, September 21, 2020 to Sunday, September 27, 2020."

My suggestion might be to limit work to a small cache during this week to get trusted on OpenPandemics. There is work for African Rainfall Project and a few TB, but they are always a quorum of 2 and take quite a while to validate.

[cineon_lut]

Perfect, thanks.


Vic (mobile)

[cineon_lut]

I know this is time-based, but would a bunker help? I seem to remember bunkering this last year or the year before which ever it was LOL. But I could be off my rocker


Vic (mobile)

[Al]

I know this is time-based, but would a bunker help? I seem to remember bunkering this last year or the year before which ever it was LOL. But I could be off my rocker
Yep, bunkering does help and can be done on the off weeks. In all honesty, I don't think we will need it for this round. If you feel you're bunkering skills are rusty and want to polish them up....go for it.

[Al]

Invitation accepted for week 2, which starts on the 21st. Thanks to everyone participating.

[Al]

2nd week of the challenge has started. If you're bunkering you can feel free to drop.

[zombie67]

I just have my RP4s running now. That is 20 threads x 24 hours, so 480 hours per day. If we start to run short of making the cut this leg, let me know.

[DrPop]

I just jumped on board WCG for this tonight. Sorry I don't have a bunker. ;)

[zombie67]

Reminder: Until the "Thor" part of the challenge after the main challenge, this part of the challenge is all about hours. So be sure to turn on your hyper-threading/SMT. And if you really want to turn up the production, tell your cc_config that you have double the threads. Doing this also doubles your memory usage, so make sure you have enough. Sure, the crunching times will be half the speed, but it makes no difference so long as they report before the deadline.

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So tune it all down as you approach the finish. Note: This may impact the run times of your GPUs for other project tasks.

[cineon_lut]

Dropped a small bunker. Let's do this!

[cineon_lut]

No stats posted yet, but here's the link to the stats page

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10238

[Al]

We need a top 25 finish for this week of the challenge to advance to the 3rd week.

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[Al]

Here is the full top 25. We need to be in this group to be invited to week 3 of Thor.

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[Al]

For some reason I can attach a graphic, so here's the current standings. (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10238)

[Mumps]

So, it looks like we did fine for this week, but we'll need to kick it up a notch for the next one, right? The week of 10 is it?


- At the end of this second week of challenge, the 25 best teams will be invited to the third week of challenge that will take place from Monday, October 05, 2020 to Sunday, October 11, 2020.
Invitations will be sent to the Captains of the 25 best teams on Tuesday, September 29, 2020.

- At the end of this third week of challenge, the 10 best teams will be invited to the fourth and final week of the THOR Challenge that will take place from Monday, October 19, 2020 to Sunday, October 25, 2020.
Invitations will be sent to the Captains of the 10 best teams on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.

[Al]

So, it looks like we did fine for this week, but we'll need to kick it up a notch for the next one, right? The week of 10 is it?

Yep, correct. A week off, then the 3rd week. Our 11th spot this week won't advance us to the final week of Thor, but should get us into Pure during the 5th week. Anyone that has a few threads to spare would be very welcome to direct them to WCG. Anyone that can bunker can load up and lock it down as soon as you can get wus that start showing October 5th as a deadline.

[zombie67]

Nice. I hope to have my 321 Sieve goals met by then, so I can focus more on this challenge next leg.

[Mumps]

Yeah, hopefully the team will be at 100 Mil on MLC so I can pause on that one for the next week too.

[Ron Shurtz]

I have been running 38 threads of 40 (2 reserved for GPUs) on WCG.
I'll jump off of MLC next week and add 39 threads of the remaining 40 (1 reserved for GPU) to WCG.
That should about double my output.

[cineon_lut]

Yep, correct. A week off, then the 3rd week. Our 11th spot this week won't advance us to the final week of Thor, but should get us into Pure during the 5th week. Anyone that has a few threads to spare would be very welcome to direct them to WCG. Anyone that can bunker can load up and lock it down as soon as you can get wus that start showing October 5th as a deadline.

Do bunkers help this round?


Vic (mobile)

[Al]

Do bunkers help this round?


Vic (mobile)Absolutely! I've had mine locked and building for the last 24 hours.

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[Al]

Received our invite and we are entered for week 3

THOR Challenge 2020 Y5-W3 Run Time All Projects 10/05/2020 10/11/2020

[zombie67]

I will be participating again. More threads this time. :)