UPDATE: we crunched the numbers and have our winners! Based on the scores earned between November 11th at 11am PST and December 16th at 11am PST, the top three winners rank as follows:
1st Place: @MacConcierge (aka Joe_Peng) with 265,784,466 credits earned
2nd Place: @JanVincent (aka only1jva) with 234,754,337 credits earned
3rd Place: @Andrei_Cain (aka andrei.cain) with 182,541,729 credits earned
In addition, we randomly selected three winners from the entrants to receive a pair of Meraki Community socks: @PPP, @LeaveNoTrace, and @Alex67.
Congratulations to all of our winners and a huge thanks to everyone who participated in helping to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease! Our closing rank as a team was 233 out of 255,607 (topping our 331 ranking from last round!).
UPDATE: this challenge has ended! Stand by for the announcement of the prize winners 🏅
The Community Folding@home Challenge is BACK! Last time we ran this challenge, the Cisco Meraki team worked together to rank at around 300 out of 250K teams worldwide, donating all of this processing power to COVID-19 research.
ICYMI: Folding@home crowd-sources disease research. Participants share unused computer power to run calculations for finding potential cures to diseases. The software allows you to donate CPU/GPU cycles on your own computers/servers to run portions of these simulations for researchers and speed up results. By crowdsourcing processing power, researchers can complete simulations that would take days to weeks in just a couple hours.
This round, in honor of November being Alzheimer’s awareness month, we want to focus our team’s processing power on Alzheimer’s research.
Over the next 30 days, the three community members who achieve the highest ranks among fellow members by donating their processing power towards Cisco Meraki team 243108 will be awarded fabulous Meraki prizes.
Check out our first, second, and third place prizes:
In addition, everyone who joins the Cisco Meraki team and earns at least 200 "Credits" towards fighting Alzheimer's disease will be entered into a random drawing for one of three stylish pairs of Meraki Community socks:
How to enter
If you have access to gaming computers, servers and/or even just a home PC, get started by following THIS link. Once you’ve set up your account and selected "Alzheimer's" as your cause, share your username in a comment on this blog post before 11 a.m. PST on Monday, December 16th. Only points credited to Cisco Meraki team 243108 will be counted. To join the team, simply enter “243108” into the client setup when you install the client.
On December 16th, we will announce the top three ranking community members, as determined by Folding@Home’s scoring. We'll also announce the 3 randomly selected winners from the rest of the Folding@home Cisco Meraki team. That means, even if you aren't able to contribute at a high enough level to compete for the top ranks, you'll still have a chance to win sweet swag!
You must post your username here to be eligible. Note that your comment on this blog post containing your username will be public and visible throughout the contest. If you already have credits to your username on the Cisco Meraki team, we will only be counting the credits you earn between now and December 16th.
The fine print:
- The winners will be announced on Monday, December 16th at 11am PST
- One entry per community member
- Full terms, conditions, and eligibility information
For more information regarding Folding@home, please see useful links below:
