Official CPC & Bit-Tech Chimps Challenge 2010 Thread

I suggest switching over early enough that at least one WU completes before the official starting time. Then checkout the names and team numbers so that any typos are caught early.

At the magic hour of starting, Stanford takes a 'snapshot' of the stats, and measurement of the teams' progress is calculated from the snapshot. So it doesn't matter if you complete WUs before the official start.

Also, change your Windows Update settings to prevent your machine rebooting at 3 a.m. and then doing nothing whilst it waits for a login with password.

 

You can avoid this by amending the password control to auto logon following a reboot and with a short cut in Startup Folder point to the relevant exe's = no points lost!

 

Is there anyway to get the SMP client folding without adding a password? It really drives me mad.

 

You need a password, however you can set the PC to log in automatically with the password for you

 

Try following this

 

Exactly the same procedure for those using Win 7 also....

 

Yes I will be switching over a few of my SMP clients to get the required 10 work units in during next week so that the bigadv & A3 bonus's work

 

The winning user name for this year then is CUSTOMBITCHIMPS

Will get it registerd today, thanks for everyones input so far, the PPD is looking great and I've got another i7 on the way for some more bigadv's woooooop

 

Just a quickie - Can you change username mid-WU?

 

Yes, and that unit will then be credited to the new name. A small risk of failure for most clients, but as usual -bigadv and A3 are not so robust.

 

I always thought the new username only started getting credited from the following work unit Was planning on switching over the bigadv rigs days early but it's good news if this isn't necessary.

On another note I found this debrief/planning thread from last year whilst it was all still fresh in our minds. Some good thoughts including the need for an early start to hit the ground running. Also a great ready made pic courtesy of Votick Until we have something official, I've temporarily updated my dull avatar to get me in the right spirit and potentially spread the word.

 

Hello from MaximumPC

I didn't see a response to my latest thread
and things are moving along

Overclock.net started a forum for captains to work out the rules and discussion has started
I only found out about it this morning

I didn't read your threads in detail, if your have a captain selected and he doesn't already know how to access the rules discussion forum PM me and I'll get him on board with a link.

I did read one post where someone asked if your team has a chance to win?

It would appear that EVGA will win based on team ppd and their enthusiasm

The real race will be between teams within a reasonably distance of each other.

A team can make up for a million ppd +/- difference with more enthusiasm

If you can say I had fun, my team had the biggest month in their year and we got some new folders, your team won.

I'll place this here and my post and hope your captain sees it soon

 

You have Email as there was no PM option!

 

Right back at you with the link

If you have any problems email me again

See you over there

Gordon

 

Good to see you found your way to the CC Forum coolamasta!!! I look forward to the race. Looks like you all are already stacking up quite the army.

Best Regards,
-H (Team 32)

 

Er, so are we CustomBitChimps or CUSTOMBITCHIMPS ~ in other words, are team names case sensitive?

 

OK, same problem as last year - how can we get folders who don't visit the forums to join up? Or, all the thousands of viewers who look at the messages?

 

It's a shame we couldn't get the info in the Mag in time for the challenge, Next year maybe!!!

 

coolamasta ~ 180-200,000 PPD
Ph4ZeD ~ 10-20,000 PPD
Confusis ~5-10000 PPD
saspro ~ 50,000-80,000 PPD
lizard - 200,000 - 260,000ppd
Taffy ~30.000ppd
Norfolk'N'Good ~ 10,000ppd
Christopher_N._Lewis >100,000 PPD (if this isn't tempting fate)
Keith_Whi ~ 50,000PPD
Synay - 10000-15000PPD (if my SMP will start getting WUs - 10K if don't)
DocJonz - ~ 65k PPD
Paddy4929 - ~ 11k PPD
Votick ~ 10,000 PPD
phoenicis ~ 200,000 PPD
1Razor ~ 45,000PPD
sonic_vortex ~ 27000 PPD
chin913 ~ 10,000 (but more if I turn my other rigs on )
ZombieKiller1 ~ 45,000 PPD
Dark_AvEnGer ~ 15-20,000 PPD
Pixelatedaddiction ~ 23,000 PPD
ArthurBuse ~ 20,000 PPD
AlchemyFire ~ 25-30,000 PPD
jimbo90210us ~ 10-25,000 PPD (depending on what I can get away with after our last leccy bill)

 

The user name is now officially "CustomBitChimps" exactly how I have put in there.

Links are below to check the progress now I've registered it, I've got a key and im running a few A3 WU's etc as you need 10 WU's completed using a key before you can get the bonus on the Bigadv etc...

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=custombitchimps
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=510009

I am discussing the final rules etc with the other captains and will come back and let you all know exactly what's going on in the near future

Cheers,
Rob.