EXTREMEHW First Annual 96 Hour Folding Challenge, March 17th-20th 00:00 UTC

[elblat]

8 hours ago, Avacado said:

I keep coming back to the below image. It's EXTREMELY exciting (Pun intended) and I know it won't last, but it's cool to see. 

 

Team turned out almost a trillion yesterday, and very close to gaining another place today!

[Avacado]

Well done everyone. The top three points leaders are being contacted. 

[damric]

My goodness that was a real battle for top 3 places. Well done EVERYONE 

[1freedude]

Thanks for kicking me in the ass to get going again.  This was just the right amount of bloodshed to have fun and then go home to tell about it.

[Avacado]

@CoolGTXCheck your PM.

[Avacado]

@NBrockCheck your PM

 

[neurotix]

Great job, everyone! I'm glad my graphics helped promote the contest. I came in 7th, and only folding on a single card, so I'm pretty happy with the results.

[Torell]

my 3070 got a workout.  thanks everyone!  

[Hequaqua]

Will have to say, I'm confused on how these point totals are figured. The total that is showing is what I had at like 4:15 today.....at 7:05 I was over 9mil. I mean, not a deal breaker by any means....just confusing.

 

I stay that way.....for the most part. Like a few minutes ago...thought I was ordering 5 of something in 6 colors....placed the order then looked at the item description again....and it was for a total of 30!

 

I need a few, but not that many....

[Hequaqua]

1 minute ago, Torell said:

my 3070 got a workout.  thanks everyone!  

Mine too....not really bad though. I ran mine at 2115mhz@1v. I got started late, and didn't fold Saturday overnight. Last night I did though. 

[damric]

1 minute ago, Hequaqua said:

Will have to say, I'm confused on how these point totals are figured. The total that is showing is what I had at like 4:15 today.....at 7:05 I was over 9mil. I mean, not a deal breaker by any means....just confusing.

 

I stay that way.....for the most part. Like a few minutes ago...thought I was ordering 5 of something in 6 colors....placed the order then looked at the item description again....and it was for a total of 30!

 

I need a few, but not that many....

It just hasn't caught up yet. @axipher can give us the final score when the last work unit was posted at 00:00 UTC. I don't think it will affect the prize draw in any way though.

 

We're in the middle of contacting the top 3 winners.

 

Then as soon as we have them out of the way we're drawing the 30 random prizes. Stay tuned.

[Torell]

1 minute ago, Hequaqua said:

Mine too....not really bad though. I ran mine at 2115mhz@1v. I got started late, and didn't fold Saturday overnight. Last night I did though. 

mine is a 3070 LHR, ran it on stock using the beta client! 

[axipher]

11 minutes ago, Hequaqua said:

Will have to say, I'm confused on how these point totals are figured. The total that is showing is what I had at like 4:15 today.....at 7:05 I was over 9mil. I mean, not a deal breaker by any means....just confusing.

 

I stay that way.....for the most part. Like a few minutes ago...thought I was ordering 5 of something in 6 colors....placed the order then looked at the item description again....and it was for a total of 30!

 

I need a few, but not that many....

 

8 minutes ago, damric said:

It just hasn't caught up yet. @axipher can give us the final score when the last work unit was posted at 00:00 UTC. I don't think it will affect the prize draw in any way though.

 

We're in the middle of contacting the top 3 winners.

 

Then as soon as we have them out of the way we're drawing the 30 random prizes. Stay tuned.

 

Yeah, I grab the Flat Files from Stanford.  They only drop every 3 hours now at 20 minutes past the hour.  So my stats site runs updates at 25 minutes past the hour every hour just to be sure Stanford has completed their update and then in case they issue a fix or my stats site hiccups and didn't grab the stats the last hour.

 

I thought the points were lined up with UTC and tri-hourly, but looking at https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ and it is saying updates are based on CDT (-5:00) now matching up with every third hour.  I am pretty sure that during the winter, they were CST (-6:00) which would have also lined up with UTC which is when we decided to line up our competitions with midnight UTC so that the tri-hourly points drops would line up with our start and end times.  Always creates a nail-biting last 3 hours now.

 

 

 

I honestly am not sure though now because Stanford isn't forthcoming with that information on their stats pages and I just volunteer my time and money for the stats site so I haven't gone digging through their forum for an answer since they like to just change things and let people just deal with the changes later.

 

[CoolGTX]

Thanks for letting me play, I had a great time.

This was the only folding contest I've done in the last year.

 

Everyone in this contest, you all ROCK in my Book

 

So Fold what you can, for the Greater Good

 

Thank you ExtremeHW for the space, invite & hosting a great event

[Avacado]

Great job everyone, here are the competition prize winners. Video of the drawing is being uploaded and should be available in about an hour.  Please start to PM Name and address as per the guidance in the OP. 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Avacado

[damric]

Congrats Winners!!!

 

Next Monthly 48-hour Foldathon is April 29-30th 0000 UTC. I'll be making the official thread in the coming week.

 

I hope to see many of you returning.

[Broseph]

IN dahoff

(USA)

Edit:  Oh PHEW!  Glad I won lol.  I saw the reminder to opt in a 2nd time but glad I'm still in lol.  Thanks

Edited March 21, 2023 by Broseph

[Avacado]

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Avacado

[xxAMFxx]

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[xxAMFxx]

IN xxAMFxx

[Nicnac]

Had lots of fun, looking forward to the next competition!

[Monsterkater]

Thanks everyone for your contribution to important science and thanks to the team for hosting this event!

I had a great time and am looking forward to the next competition.

 

7 hours ago, Avacado said:

Great job everyone, here are the competition prize winners. Video of the drawing is being uploaded and should be available in about an hour.  Please start to PM Name and address as per the guidance in the OP. 

 

@damric Seeing I won an EVGA keyboard, I just have to ask: Is it at all possible to get that with a German layout? That would make it an 811-W1-20DE-K2 instead of the 811-W1-20US-KR linked in the OP.

If that shouldn't be possible I'd like to forfeit my prize to someone who didn't win. 

 

 

  

9 hours ago, elblat said:

Team turned out almost a trillion yesterday, and very close to gaining another place today!

Just had a look - only 138M points shy of Arizona Research! 

Guess I'll just keep on folding then, we should be able to overtake them within a day or two 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Monsterkater
mentioned damric b/c EVGA prize

[Andrew]

Damn, that's a lot of point at the end of this. @firedflyalone got over 3/4 of a billion points in just 4 days. It really shows how far things have come in the last 10 years. Back in 2013, you'd basically need a super computer to get that many in such a short amount of time. Now you can do that with a few off the shelf GPUs.

 

Also congrats to all of the prize winners!

Edited March 21, 2023 by Andrew

[Alex]

9 hours ago, Avacado said:

Great job everyone, here are the competition prize winners. Video of the drawing is being uploaded and should be available in about an hour.  Please start to PM Name and address as per the guidance in the OP. 

 

Nice! Didn't realise how much more powerful hardware has gotten for folding, was surprised how my 'ancient' 1080 TI felt buried haha.

 

Thank you everyone for organizing this event, hopefully when I get a newer GPU, and sort out my cooling for my secondary rig I'll be in a better position for at least top 10.

[amsga]

Great job everyone.

I was so close yet so far from the 10 WU. 

I think I may need to upgrade my system if there's another event again.