My friends, it seems I drew the short straw.

[Movieman]

As some of you know I've been pretty sick the past 2 months,
The Dr's were all thinking the heart as I had 3 heart attacks on July 17, 2013
At first the symptoms made me agree with them but very quickly I started thinking this is something else.
After 6 weeks of testing on the heart every which way you can and nothing I sort of lost my temper last week on Monday am and
went on a rant at my primary care physician and told her in words of one syllable that before they found out what was wrong I'd be dead.
That motivated her to order like 40 different blood tests and we found out what the problem is.
It looks like advanced prostrate cancer that has moved into the bones.
My PSA was at 400 ( 2-3 is normal) and also factors in the blood that only come from bone or liver cancer.
This explains many things as this is something that's probably been going on in me for years.
I'd just thought at first that the lack of energy was a normal part of aging as lets face it, at 62 I don't expect to feel as I did at 35.
Now the good part is the specialist who seems like a true professional.
I was in to see him today for a biopsy and meet with the oncology people Wednesday.
It is what it is and my head is ok. Life is a journey with no guarantees on it's length..

Now the two things that have helped me deal with this are my friends and family and last, a project to work on in my spare time.
I have the first and I believe only SuperMicro X10DAX dual socket 2011 V3 motherboard with the top pair of 18 core E5-2699 V3 chips in it.
This board is able to be overclocked with BCLK and also memory timings, vcore and vdimm voltage adjustments,
It took me a solid week to get it running as I was just too weak to stand and set it up but for the last week plus it's been running.
Normally I would have been tweaking and testing but again, no energy to do that so I set it at a simple 104BCLK and let it run on WCG
Dear Lord is it a monster. Stable with load temps in the 58-61C range and the computational power is just plain scary.
My dual 10 core IB system(3047MHz) does app 160,000 PPD in WCG.
This at 140MHz less speed(2905Mhz) does app 350,000PPD
After a full week on WCG it is the top daily producer and is even beating a 8 socket 64 core/128 thread X7550 Enterprise class machine
that has to be well over $30,000.00 just in parts alone.
The Dr tells me the first thing he wants to do is boost my energy levels and then I plan to see exactly what is in this beast as I know I haven't come near the limits yet.

The last thing I'd like to say here is that the people I have met here have been the best group that I've ever met.
So many close friends from all over the world that it is humbling at times.
Thanks for reading.