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Just gone and cracked another beeeellllion. Go me. that one was a lot slower.

Nice work! That’s a whole lot of credits!

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:29 pm Nice work! That’s a whole lot of credits!

yep determined to get to that magical 11 digit club. thats a lot of collatz workunits

Well done Neil, very impressive

I recently passed 2 billion, but at my current RAC it'll take about 5 years to add the extra digit.
So a big well done to Neil for getting a bit nearer so quickly.

bigsinky wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:25 pm Just gone and cracked another beeeellllion. Go me. that one was a lot slower.

Excellent post.....very well done.

So, do you fancy sponsoring a sweep-stake on when you will crack the 7 beeeellion mark ??

regards
Tim

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:03 pm

bigsinky wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:25 pm Just gone and cracked another beeeellllion. Go me. that one was a lot slower.

Excellent post.....very well done.

So, do you fancy sponsoring a sweep-stake on when you will crack the 7 beeeellion mark ??

regards
Tim

if you can answer my post in the maths based section about my collatz WUs? either 4 seconds with a computational error or 20 minutes. its messing my collatz RAC up no end and i have people like Mark and Damien to over take

bigsinky wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:02 am

UBT - Timbo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:03 pmSo, do you fancy sponsoring a sweep-stake on when you will crack the 7 beeeellion mark ??

if you can answer my post in the maths based section about my collatz WUs?

Does it count if I do it?

bigsinky wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:02 ameither 4 seconds with a computational error or 20 minutes. its messing my collatz RAC up no end

Surely that'll just make the sweep-stake predictions harder

bigsinky wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:02 am and i have people like Mark and Damien to over take

Yeah, THAT'S going to happen

Mark

bigsinky wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:02 am
if you can answer my post in the maths based section about my collatz WUs? either 4 seconds with a computational error or 20 minutes. its messing my collatz RAC up no end and i have people like Mark and Damien to over take

I wish I could answer - but I don't have an answer.

I could guess and suggest the following:

1) It could just be a work unit error - so nothing you can do about it. At least the 4 second errors aren't wasting a lot of time - just a pain.

2) The 20 minute error could be a hardware issue - on my GTX970s Collatz takes about 20-25 mins to complete so, it could simply be a local memory/hard drive issue, as Collatz gets near the end and starts writing it's output file, before uploading to the project servers.

Or it could be a config issue. Maybe try exiting BM, renaming your Collatz "app_config.xml" (to say "old_file.txt") and then restart BM and see if that stops it. (Certain commands within app_config file might not precisely suit your hardware, so going back to the default settings might be worth trying).

regards
Tim