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(Message 78315)
Posted 3163 days ago by  DoES
I never really went anywhere -- Just been hammered with work & family (life in General)
Lets see--
Got married in April 2012
Spent 9 months winding up parents estate
Moved house twice
Built the dual xeon November 2012 (it died- I will explain later)
Started new business & got really busy
Jan 2013 moved house (again)
No time to unpack --back to work
March 2013 -- finally get to really study & asses the xeon
April 2013 Wife pregnant.
Back to work (leave the scene of the crime)
Late 2013 many fights with computer parts suppliers over xeon
Move house 26/1/2014 (yet again)
My daughter born 30/1/2014
Back to work
Last few weeks -- finally got to set up my home office & unpack my computer stuff
Last few days -- finally piece together the improbable chain of events that had left me with a $8000 boat anchor instead of a dual xeon
Yesterday -- Xeon back in action!!!
I am stressing the xeon ATM (very carefully) -- Core temps look ok -64 to 68 deg with all 32 running PPS -- One thing I found -- 2687's really don't like anything looking at them - almost every hardware monitor program gives you a BSOD (and a bloody heart attack as well) the instant you switch it on -- only exception is the AIDA64 which is not free but works really well.
I will let you know how it goes
J
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(Message 78307)
Posted 3163 days ago by DoES
What sort of time does a PPS LLR take these days?? -- I have filled the CPU cores - looks like about 1 hour + --
Jim
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(Message 78302)
Posted 3163 days ago by DoES
Hi All
Still kicking about -- Trying to get back to do a bit crunching sometime soon.
I might have finally solved the problem with the 2 x 2687W's (only taken me 18 months) -- I will give you all the details later of how the fickle finger of fate really F@##D me with the beast -- I will be stress testing it in the next few days
Cheers
DoES
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(Message 71396)
Posted 3385 days ago by DoES
... after life endeavors ...
Jeez! It's retirement - not interment!
hmmmm to lazy to look that term up (or down for that matter)
(or down for that matter) == Boo Hiss!!!
Ummmm how does a Dawgz or pigz hiss?
In degu it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t56yqAODGrA
Geez! -- I am just about to make a come back & your off living the good life --
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(Message 59399)
Posted 3783 days ago by DoES
well the big rig developed a problem after 24hrs which got progressively worse-- then a total crash
lot of swear words later I found the No 1 CPU socket pins damaged -- very hard to see unless you get a magnifying glass (which was my last resort)--
then I remembered that the plastic cover on No 1 CPU was skewed when I unpacked it -- didn't think much of it at the time
then I closely inspected No 2 socket -- yep bit of damage there as well -- so back to the drawing (mother) board -- shit happens I 'spose
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(Message 59292)
Posted 3787 days ago by DoES
well I turned all 32 cores loose last night ---big surprise in the WU time spread -anywhere from 18 to 27 hrs -- not a very fair assessment yet though as there has been countless restarts loading drivers & updating etc etc--
One thing I note is that this build has had the most trouble free start up I have seen in years -- I think ASUS might sway me off GIGABYTE MB's
I will get some pics posted in a day or so
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(Message 59221)
Posted 3788 days ago by DoES
might get a few WU's done with before the challenge end.
http://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=302192
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(Message 59204)
Posted 3788 days ago by DoES
some light reading.
http://oeis.org/A095387
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
you are correct -This is the basis for the number sequence but with a little twist -- The condition I imposed was any number that required more than 100 iterations to reduce to 1 -- you get odd things & strange sequence numbers when you test numbers greater than 9232 -- ie 7,777,777 has 98 iterations yet 777,777 has 154 iterations -- I was curious about finding the point where all higher numbers required more than 100 iteration.( EDIT--- 1.26765060022823E+30)
some time ago (I was bored) I built a spread sheet that you can enter any number and see the actual steps (iterations) of the Collatz sequence- (I was extremely bored)- I remember reading some obscure info that the iteration steps are often palindromes --
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(Message 59176)
Posted 3789 days ago by DoES
that would be it -- 27 gives it away --- lets see who picks up the next in the series.
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(Message 59173)
Posted 3789 days ago by DoES
Rather than hijack a thread thought it might be interesting to try out a few number puzzles --
Whats the next number in this sequence --
27, 31, 41, 47, 54, 55, ??
As a bit of a rough pointer --- I tested all positive integers from 1 to ?? -- the numbers given conform to a special set -- the fact that 27 is the first in the series (which is infinite) should ring bells for some.
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