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Going Greene

Today marks the last day of an almost three year journey with a great company, SOS Staffing. My hat is off to the men and women at SOS as they have truly made the last three years something I will remember for a lifetime. In my three years with SOS I have come in contact with a lot of people that have really enriched my life, and furthered my career.

Unofficial Code Greene Logo

Starting Monday I will be taking a new position at Code Greene. I will still be doing PHP development and handling some fun clients. I look forward to working with the team at Code Greene as they are also some of the best and brightest that I have come in contact with in my personal/professional journeys.

Thanks again SOS, you guys are awesome!

2010
08/06
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Geeks find 5 trillionth digit of Pi with commodity hardware

Commodity Hardware Crunching Pi

Commodity Hardware Crunching Pi

Commodity hardware has just shown up the big guys in Pi crunching.

Two fellas from Japan have reached the 5 trillionth digit of Pi using on commodity hardware and a custom Pi crunching software. Here are the specs of the box:

  • Processor 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz – (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded)
  • Memory 96GB DDR3 @ 1066MHz – (12 x 8 GB – 6 Channel) – Samsung (M393B1K70BH1)
  • Motherboard Asus Z8PE-D12
  • Hard Drives
    • 1 TB SATA II (Boot drive) – Hitachi (HDS721010CLA332)
    • 3 x 2 TB SATA II (Store Pi Output) – Seagate (ST32000542AS)
    • 16 x 2 TB SATA II (Computation) – Seagate (ST32000641AS)
  • Raid Controller 2 x LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i
  • Operating System Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64

It took the guys 90 days to tackle the 5 trillionth digit, which is a 2. I have to wonder what kind of increase we’d see if we simply changed the OS to Linux or BSD based instead of a clunky Windows Server install?

You can find more pictures and details of the event at http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html

2010
08/06
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Computers
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