Posts by Bobzilla

1) Message boards : News : Nbody WU Flush (Message 73348) Posted 6 May 2022 by Bobzilla Post: The Motherboard is a Chinese "no name brand" BUT I have found info out on it... it's a Jingsha MB x99D4 here is the Add from Ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224743230746 (side note) research has shown me to stay away from the https://www.ebay.com/itm/115348982298?hash=item1adb55ca1a:g:kpUAAOSwB9NiXT9s (these are not made as well and are cheaper in price.) it will come with no paperwork, no instructions, no support, (there is a warranty) but I have found out by research that the 4 jumpers in front of each NVME socket MUST be set to pins 1/2 NOT 2/3 as default. As far as my thoughts on this board? it's inexpensive, but not cheap. it seems well made, the only design flaw I would mention are the power sockets. it has 8 pin left.... 8 pin right (too damned far for standard power cables) and 24 pin in center rear. Work around? get POWER 8 pin male/female extension cable Amazon 10.00 for a pack of 2. Next is MB size... this is NOT an ATX this is EATX like women say... size matters. I have this in a 4U server case it doesn't mount with stand-offs. (case is ONLY atx or smaller) Work around? Rubber furniture pads from Lowes they are 3x4" rectangular comes in packs of 2. I bought 2 packs cut them in half and double stacked each pack to make 4 feet. These have strong glue on them and will instantly stick to steel mounting plate in case. Leave rubber side up so it faces bottom of motherboard and will not slip out while gripping MB firmly in place. Simple to remove just lift up and out. I am thinking of over clocking this thing... but as always more research before jumping off into the unknown. All of this built for less than 1K$
2) Message boards : News : Nbody WU Flush (Message 73341) Posted 6 May 2022 by Bobzilla Post: The "N-Body" tasks that I have been given take from 5hrs to 15hrs to complete. This is with 16 processors on each task. Here is the thing though: On some N-Body tasks, they will hang and even say (example 10 hrs Elapsed 4270 DAYS remaining) I have noticed that when I reboot my computer this clears right up and 4270 days remaining drops to 9mins remaining. My workaround on this matter? I have set up TASK SCHEDULAR and have it running 8 hour reboots everyday until hell freezes over. (if you are from that small town in Michigan, then lets say until electricity ends) At this time I don't think this affects anything from getting WU done. This is a new computer to me, I just built it, E5 2699v3 (x2) 36 core 72 thread, 128Gb ram 6TB storage, a cheap assed video card, because this ain't a gaming rig and I don't do GPU tasks.
3) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 71804) Posted 23 Feb 2022 by Bobzilla Post: Time to break out the old Tonia Harding and giver her a good whack.......
4) Message boards : News : Server Outages (Message 71502) Posted 14 Dec 2021 by Bobzilla Post: Thanks for heads up, hope your able to git-er-done. Remember what my doctor says: Beer is not the answer... Me: Thank God, because I never asked beer any questions. (true story) Hope that put a smile on your face.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : N-body sim processing time issues (Message 70076) Posted 29 Aug 2020 by Bobzilla Post: I have Ryzen 3900x with 64 GB ram, I just had n-body use 16 cores for 1 day 18 hrs with 10 hrs remaining. After reading through some posts, I shut down bionic, restarted it. it now says that it has been running 58 mins with 11 mins left to finish but it is waiting to run. if this keeps up I will remove this program as I am the one paying the electric bill, I feel that if you cant keep this corrected, I will not spend my money on your messed up WU's.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Updated GPU Requirements (Currently not supporting GPU tasks) (Message 70059) Posted 28 Aug 2020 by Bobzilla Post: Rx570 works fine here.