EXTREMEHW Invites ANANDTECH to Second Annual 96-hour Folding@Home Challenge February 23rd 00:00 UTC

[damric]

Hi. Thanks @Skillz for directing me to post this here:

We're having our second annual Folding@Home Challenge at EXTREMEHW and TAAT is invited.

We have some sponsored prizes from vendors, as well as some in-house goodies. Similar to last year, the top 3 folders will get first choice prize picks and the rest of the prizes will be random draw.

Remember, register at EHW and post in the contest thread. Also during the challenge you need to be running 239902 as your team ID (afterwards change back to TAAT).

Hope to see you all again for some crunching fun.

EXTREMEHW Second Annual 96-Hour Folding Challenge, February 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th 2024 00:00 UTC

Welcome to the EXTREMEHW Second Annual 96-Hour Folding Challenge February 23-26, 2024 *UTC* Start Time: February 23 00:00 UTC End Time: February 27 00:00 UTC Countdown to Event Start Countdown to Event Stop ^^CLICK THOSE IF YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE NOT UTC TIME ZONE^^ How to participate: 1) During the ...

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[Oneto]

Sounds fun. I'm in.

 

[Markfw]

I'm in. Username Mark_F_Williams

 

[damric]

I'm in. Username Mark_F_Williams

I know there was a misunderstanding of the rules, that during the 4 days you got to fold with team 239902, as well as register at EHW and post in our thread. Luckily you don't actually have to change all your clients over if you don't want to do that. The minimum is just one piece of hardware and to be eligible for the random draw prizes the minimum WUs to be completed is 10, which is very easy for most people. You can set flags to temporarily fold on separate teams in the advanced client.

user (name)

passkey (key)

team (number)

These are useful if you have a machine running several folding slots and want to split them up between different user IDs and even different teams. If anyone needs screenshots or a quick video I can do that, but I think you'll see setting flags is pretty easy.

So yeah we'd still love to have you join us, even if you can only spare one piece of hardware. The purpose of our annual competitions is to promote our site and build some inter-forum relations for future events, as well as promote folding@home in general. We worked hard getting vendors to donate prizes, and we also put up in-house prizes at our own expense, so that's why require to use our team number during the contest.

 

[Markfw]

You can set flags to temporarily fold on separate teams in the advanced client.

user (name)

passkey (key)

team (number)

Can you be more specific ? One client I just change the team to 239902 ?

 

[damric]

Can you be more specific ? One client I just change the team to 239902 ?

yes let me make a screenshot to show you

Be sure to SAVE, then give it a few seconds while it says SAVING, then open it back up and verify that it took your flag.

 

[Markfw]

OK, I have this 3070TI set to team 239902 in the slot options, even though the main shows 198. Lets see what happens in 3 hours. I don't think 5 out of 165 mil will make any difference to Team Anandtech

 

[damric]

OK, I have this 3070TI set to team 239902 in the slot options, even though the main shows 198. Lets see what happens in 3 hours. I don't think 5 out of 165 mil will make any difference to Team Anandtech

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Yes that's how you do it. Now remember the contest starts on February 23rd at 00:00 UTC, but in North America that's the evening of the 22nd. Hope to see some of you all.

 

[Markfw]

Yes that's how you do it. Now remember the contest starts on February 23rd at 00:00 UTC, but in North America that's the evening of the 22nd. Hope to see some of you all.

already set, already got one unit. Will leave running until its over.

 

[damric]

Alright guys this starts in just a couple hours. See you there

If you haven't signed up for this over at EHW, get your butt over there.

 

[Oneto]

I won a Corsair M75 Air. Got it today.

 

[Markfw]

I won a mousepad (I think thats what it is)