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OT: Pi



Ha!
  At least I restricted myself to deparaging remarks about the 8v engine.
Now, someone has stooped to calling us names....

tsk, tsk, tsk....shame on you.
Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric S 
  To: marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca ; scirocco81@vwmail.net ; Drew MacPherson ; Allyn 
  Cc: scirocco list 
  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:41 PM
  Subject: RE: OT: Pi


  The answer is of course, just like VWs, the one that is most reliable is the most worth while. 8 CPUs, 8 valves, always 10x more reliable that some 16v piece of garbage. :-)

  "my keyway sheared"
  "my valves are bent"

  Bunch of whiney bitches you 16v folk.

  ;-)

  --
  Eric
  www.VintageWatercooleds.com

  79 VW Iltis
  81 Scirocco S (*TDI* swap and complete restoration in holding pattern)
  81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v Motronic
  83 Scirocco Wolfsburg
  91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)



  --- marc_scirocco Qu?bec <marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca> wrote:
  The real question that begs to be asked: which computer is better, the one
  with 8 CPUs, or the one with 16 CPUs?

  Marc
  '83 Scirocco
  '88 Scirocco Slegato

  Answer: the one running linux!

  -----Message d'origine-----
  De : scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
  [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]De la part de Eric S
  Envoy? : vendredi 31 octobre 2003 20:24
  ? : Drew MacPherson; Allyn
  Cc : scirocco list
  Objet : Re: OT: Pi


  4 cpus, thats nothing.

  VintageWatercooleds has 8 behind it.

  :-)


  --
  Eric
  www.VintageWatercooleds.com

  79 VW Iltis
  81 Scirocco S (*TDI* swap and complete restoration in holding pattern)
  81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v Motronic
  83 Scirocco Wolfsburg
  91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)



  --- Drew MacPherson <drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:

  Athalons do run hot.  I was able to offset the amount of wood I needed in
  the furnace last winter by keeping the 1600 running in the bedroom for 14
  hours a day... :)

  Drew

  (What do you DO with 4 cpus?)

  On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Allyn wrote:

  > their client doesnt handle multiple cpus properly :(
  > also, xeon cpus are very efficient. i actually save on the electric bill
  by
  > leaving it idle. my system water temp jumps up by 10-15 degrees when i go
  > from idle to max load (and its tough getting 4 cpus to max load). in
  > retrospect, my SINGLE athlon system i ran in the same water-cooling tower
  > ran HOTTER than both of my xeons at full load. weird, eh.
  > Al
  >
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: "Drew MacPherson" <drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
  > To: "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
  > Cc: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
  > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:49 PM
  > Subject: Re: OT: Pi
  >
  >
  > >
  > > Al, why don't you get on to Seti@home or something? :)
  > >
  > > Drew
  > >
  > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Allyn wrote:
  > >
  > > > ok, so i was bored (excerpt from a 170k file i just produced to
  follow):
  > > >
  > > > Computation of 128000000 digits of Pi
  > > > Method used : Chudnovsky
  > > > Size of FFT : 16384 K
  > > > Physical memory used : ~ 911936 K
  > > > Disk memory used : ~ 0.00 Meg
  > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
  > > > Computation run information :
  > > >
  > > > Start : Fri Oct 31 14:21:21 2003
  > > > End   : Fri Oct 31 14:48:19 2003
  > > > Duration : 1618.05 seconds
  > > > ============================================================
  > > > Total computation time : 1618.05 seconds (~ 0.45 hours)
  > > > ============================================================
  > > > Pi with 128000000 digits :
  > > > Pi = 3.
  > > > 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510  : 50
  > > > 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679  : 100
  > > > 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128  : 150
  > > > 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196  : 200
  > > > 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091  : 250
  > > > 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273  : 300
  > > > 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436  : 350
  > > > 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094  : 400
  > > > 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548  : 450
  > > > 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912  : 500
  > > >
  > > > (half hour later)
  > > >
  > > > 0150483684 8544700651 6484871425 6174456886 7022347593  : 127999550
  > > > 9857197660 9590990687 9204782829 0627402179 5616531525  : 127999600
  > > > 0043005956 2271800533 4471003608 9179387935 7224628446  : 127999650
  > > > 6987334284 6299966127 3003852098 7969923851 2019566898  : 127999700
  > > > 6423650015 1000559481 5940614877 9480856675 1140002400  : 127999750
  > > > 9687902684 3356586367 0060291185 1773533414 9903261606  : 127999800
  > > > 6064128364 2587423514 8780622764 7276177885 9033105629  : 127999850
  > > > 2174395460 8175279504 7280901366 3796604635 5309478620  : 127999900
  > > > 6780744682 7893843146 0559275719 8046854678 2596977328  : 127999950
  > > > 8635376465 3974335454 9193135788 7430230475 0682167196  : 128000000
  > > >
  > > > :)
  > > >
  > > > hope you got a good laugh at my wasted cpu cycles.
  > > >
  > > > oh yea, and BUY MY JETTA:
  > > > http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1081714
  > > >
  > > > Al
  > > >
  > > > Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
  > > > 87 Rieger Scirocco GTO 2.0 16v (daily driver, 190k, rocco #6)
  > > > 86 Kamei Twin 16V Turbo Scirocco GTX (30% complete, rocco #7)
  > > > 86.5 Occo 16v Trailer (rocco #8)
  > > > 90 Passat GL 16V (the wifes new daily, 190k)
  > > > 87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (wifes daily, 290k) **FOR SALE**
  > > >
  > > >
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  > > \=============================================/
  > >
  >
  >

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