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#1 THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

Week 2 https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team ... geId=10238

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/foru ... t,0#636802

THOR Challenge Format

- From Monday, September 07, 2020 to Sunday, September 13, 2020.
First week of challenge open to ALL the WCG teams around the World.

- 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.
Invitations will be sent to the Captains of the 50 best teams on Monday, September 14, 2020.

- 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 Monday, September 28, 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 Monday, October 12, 2020.

THOR Challenge Pure Format

At the end of the third week of the THOR Challenge, 20 teams will be selected to participate in a fifth week of challenge called THOR Challenge Pure.

Three conditions must be fulfilled in order to be eligible for the THOR Challenge Pure:
1- Not to be a team affiliated (directly or indirectly) with a company, association, foundation, government agency, administration, university, college or school.
2- Not to be a team rewarding the distributed computing of its volunteers financially.
3- Have at least participated in the first week of the THOR Challenge (September 07 to September 13, 2020).

Among the eligible teams, the 20 teams that have accumulated the most Total Run Time during the first 3 weeks of challenge will be selected for the 5th week, the THOR Challenge Pure.

- This fifth week will take place from Monday, November 02, 2020 to Sunday, November 08, 2020.
Invitations will be sent to the Captains of the 20 best teams on Monday, October 12, 2020.
The team that wins the THOR Challenge Pure will be the one that have accumulated the most WCG Points in this fifth week.

The teams will be informed of their eligibility to the THOR Challenge Pure at the time of their registration to the THOR Challenge (in this thread and once their registration is official).

Feel free to subscribe to this thread where the organizational details, the monitoring and the results of this FIFTH EDITION (2020) of the THOR Challenge will be published.

Will you have the courage to face this competition?

All the teams around the World are welcome!
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#2 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Anyone interested in running this?

Megacruncher is the WCG Team Captain. Can you enter TSBT in this for those who wish to participate? Needs to be some real soon as it begins on the 7th at 00:00 UTC, tomorrow
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#3 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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What does it involve to "run it?" I am new, but am willing to do it.
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#4 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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By "run it", I meant participate. Run it like run a race
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#5 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I think we ended up helping SUSA in the final phase last year
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#6 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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scole of TSBT wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:57 pm Anyone interested in running this?

Megacruncher is the WCG Team Captain. Can you enter TSBT in this for those who wish to participate? Needs to be some real soon as it begins on the 7th at 00:00 UTC, tomorrow
I'll get it done.
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#7 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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That was easy.
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#8 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I just checked the WCG site and we are not registered, yet, but that posting was 15 hours ago.

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#9 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I see it under Upcoming challenges here...https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/t ... wMyTeam.do
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#10 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I will be at the starting line as the midnight hour strikes. Thank you for entering our team.

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PS: How are the standings going in the FB? I checked and a few of my work units are heading that way.
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#11 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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We're in 2nd with our good friends XtremeSystems in 1st
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#12 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Thank you .
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#13 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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There's an error on the FB website but I'm pretty sure we finished second in the sprint. And are still second overall.
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#14 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Congratulations Team!
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#15 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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As of this morning the Thor Challenge had been running for nearly 10 hours. No results had been posted so far.
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#16 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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WCG stats only update twice per day - I forget the precise times.

Some of their sub-projects will also require a wingman to validate results
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#17 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Thank you david. It is 9 am and pm.
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#18 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I'm not sure the challenge stats are quite as realtime as that. They zeroed at midnight but haven't been updated since then. We might have to wait to midnight UTC.
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#19 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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If I recall correctly, on WCG challenges the first update doesn't occur until 24 hrs after the start of the challenge. After that it's every 12 hrs, I think.

Also worth reminder everyone that Thor is scored on hours crunched not credit. So pick your favorite WCG sub-project and forget about credit
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#20 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Just running the projects. However, assuming we do get to the "Pure" stage, the last week. I think they count points and not time. Any suggestions which are the most advantageous projects to run? Africa has lot of points, but also runs for many hours.
Ha, I like to plan ahead.
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#21 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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We have good news, team, we are in 35th place after less than a day. With a push we can get up into the top 25 quickly.
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#22 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Miklos M wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:55 am We have good news, team, we are in 35th place after less than a day. With a push we can get up into the top 25 quickly.
I'm sure we can. Although for this stage top 50 will be enough to get us thru to the second round. But we might as well do it in style.
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#23 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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greetings ... towards wcg I am counting only ... Africa rainfall project ... hopefully it is going to be a little help ...

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...
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#24 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Just a wee bit of a nudge by lil'Ole me
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#25 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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You are right plus computing time matters until the last week.
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#26 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Thank you for nudge, all nudges and pushes count. You only need to use your cpu's and they run any way, might as well for our flag. :)
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#27 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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It counts a lot Gregg. You can still seek the mega number with your gpu's. :)
I am running all my cpu's now, 66 of them. I am crunching all the Africa's I get.
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#28 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Miklos M wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:50 am It counts a lot Gregg. You can still seek the mega number with your gpu's. :)
I am running all my cpu's now, 66 of them. I am crunching all the Africa's I get.
at the moment I am counting GPUGRID with all the GPU's ... there is a big sort of WU's ... until the end of the month ... then I will switch towards DYFL ...

I must admit that Dear Miklos ... You are a very active User on forum ... I have ... 250 posts in a year ... :lol:

keep up the great work and sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...
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#29 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I hope not posting too much. I am learning on the "job" sort of.
Gregg may challenge your computers cpu's with mine? It would be fun and we also boost our team up.
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#30 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Is anyone interested in having a contest within the Thor Challenge? We can see who gets the most run time while we are in the Thor Challenge.
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#31 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I am up for that
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#32 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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davidBAM wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:19 am I am up for that
Be careful Miklos. davidBAM makes his living playing Three-card Monte with tourists.
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#33 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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We moved up into 28th place. Great going team!
How do we do the team challenge? Do we need a format or just look it up on the WCG team results Boinc page?
Like Warren Buffett said if after a few hands of poker you do not know who is the sucker, it is you.
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#34 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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You are on david.
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#35 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Excellent - here is my starting count. 208:052:21:31:36

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scole of TSBT wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:32 am Be careful Miklos. davidBAM makes his living playing Three-card Monte with tourists.
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I'll run with one hand tied behind my back :P :P
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#36 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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i think it might be tricky to establish exactly who did what towards the Thor Challenge especially now that it is well under way.
But at anytime Boincstats tells us how much work each of us has done in the last week. At present for instance Miklos is just leading the pack, marginally ahead of andynicholl with me a poor third & davidBAM 17th.
https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/use ... 10/0/10148
This page next Monday morning should be a fairly reliable indicator of who has contributed most to the first week of the challenge.
Is anyone offering a prize?
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#37 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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FWIW my current baseline is
288:153:04:47:30 (#499)
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#38 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I had been using the Boinc updates of the TSBT results per day.
FYI: I did 42 days' work yesterday, but I was afraid I almost lost a couple of gpu cards, so I throttled back a little to 90% of cpu's and 90-99% of the time, pending which computer. Some can handle running all the cpu's 99% of the time and also run two 1080ti and 2080ti gpu cards.
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#39 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Looking at the Boinc stats for yesterday, I see Pecos 1 and then yourself, followed by scole and david and then I.
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#40 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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might need more than the Raspberry Pi fleet for this one ;)
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#41 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Humm should I fire up the other 15 systems?

Naa that'd be too easy
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#42 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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We only need to make the top 50 for the 1st round. Currently 25th
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#43 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Yeppers and I'm getting ready to lock down for the next "Sprint"
We might get lucky 2 in a row..come over and look.
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#44 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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We moved up to #25, let's see if the top 20 is reachable before the week is over.
In our own contest Megacruncher is leading Pecos.
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#45 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Lol, I should have read the new posts before posting this morning. Sorry about the duplication.
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#46 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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You are racking up the time in wcg, thank you. However, time computed matters as I am sure most of you know better than I do, until we get to Thor Pure for the finals.
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#47 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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I think it is great that 19 of us are contributing to the Thor Challenge.Keep it up Team! Maybe in the top 10 in a week or two?
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#48 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Miklos M wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:40 pm I think it is great that 19 of us are contributing to the Thor Challenge.Keep it up Team! Maybe in the top 10 in a week or two?
hopefully ! a place in TOP 10 ... would have been a great achievement ... ... in wcg I had some beta wu's ... and I am counting continously ... Africa raifall project !

sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski

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#49 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Gregg I will join you in that endeavor soon if you save me a few to find.
In wcg my computer with the most cpus has only two tasks left to crunch, at least they are both Africas. More points:)
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#50 Re: THOR Challenge Y5 (2020)

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Actually I think we are in the top 20 at wcg if we count the eligible teams only for Thor Pure.
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