Since we have decided as a team to not officially participate in the Formula BOINC sprints any more, some of us have been talking and think it would be fun to have a Team Anandtech 'sprint' the first week of each month.
It's pretty short notice, but we'd like to encourage anyone who is interested to join us for a week of crunching World Community Grid. The "race" will go from 5 AM Sunday April 4th to 5 AM Sunday April 11th (UTC). That's midnight U.S. Central time.
Run whatever projects you want to at WCG, including the new GPU project that is currently being tested and expected to be online this weekend.
If you don't already have an account on WCG you can create one here (or just do it in the BOINC client):
And you can join the TeAm here (click the Join Team button in the middle of the page):
We'll be taking the daily stats from Free-DC.org to make things simple. All members of Team Anandtech will be automatically included.
Visitors are welcome to join in as well. If you want to be included in the stats but don't want to join the team (yet), post your BOINC/WCG ID name here so you can be added to the list.
We are hoping to make this a regular event with a different project each month, and will give better notice next month. This was just a recent idea to promote some team unity and participation after the recent problems at Formula BOINC.
edit: Added as suggested by StephanR5R:
Those who create a fresh WCG account need to enable stats export because it is off by default — When logged in to the WCG site, click on "Settings" at the very top of the screen, click "Data Sharing" on the left side, set "(x) Display my data", and click Save. This is not required to run WCG, but we won't be able to include you in the stats if you don't do it.
You can also choose to make your devices publicly visible or not on the same screen. "Link my devices" will make them visible to other people. This is not required in order to participate, and is just a matter of personal preference.
It's pretty short notice, but we'd like to encourage anyone who is interested to join us for a week of crunching World Community Grid. The "race" will go from 5 AM Sunday April 4th to 5 AM Sunday April 11th (UTC). That's midnight U.S. Central time.
Run whatever projects you want to at WCG, including the new GPU project that is currently being tested and expected to be online this weekend.
If you don't already have an account on WCG you can create one here (or just do it in the BOINC client):
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And you can join the TeAm here (click the Join Team button in the middle of the page):
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Visitors are welcome to join in as well. If you want to be included in the stats but don't want to join the team (yet), post your BOINC/WCG ID name here so you can be added to the list.
We are hoping to make this a regular event with a different project each month, and will give better notice next month. This was just a recent idea to promote some team unity and participation after the recent problems at Formula BOINC.
edit: Added as suggested by StephanR5R:
Those who create a fresh WCG account need to enable stats export because it is off by default — When logged in to the WCG site, click on "Settings" at the very top of the screen, click "Data Sharing" on the left side, set "(x) Display my data", and click Save. This is not required to run WCG, but we won't be able to include you in the stats if you don't do it.
You can also choose to make your devices publicly visible or not on the same screen. "Link my devices" will make them visible to other people. This is not required in order to participate, and is just a matter of personal preference.
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