Hardware Burnin Test for Large Memory System

[RMSe17]

Hello!

I am trying to run a burn-in test on a new computer with 60 cores (4x E7-4890 v2) and 1.5TB of RAM to make sure the system is stable. What do you guys recommend to test this?

I tried booting into WinPE 5.1 and ran prime95 x86_64, but if I select 60 threads torture test, the application instantly crashes with some memory error. I am not sure if this implies DOA for some of the RAM sticks, or if the program can't properly handle a test of this size. If I select 40 threads, torture test seems to run fine. If I select 45 threads, it seems to run, but app crashes if I try to exit it. At 50+ threads, instant crash.

I am not sure if this belongs in another section, but I figure since my actual goal is hardware testing, might as well put it here.

Thanks!

 

[Ken g6]

Hm, PrimeGrid (see my sig) would run a similar test to Prime95, but with many small processes instead of one process with lots of threads. Your system would also be very good at, say, Folding@Home, which would provide a test with more IPC.

As for Prime95, maybe you should ask the author if there's a problem. I can't recall any specific instance of a user with more than 24 cores.

 

[RMSe17]

Thanks Ken, I will try those options!

 

[mfenn]

As system like that should have some sort of BMC with an event log. Pull that up and see if you see any memory errors corresponding to the crashes.

 

[Micrornd]

I can vouch for Intel Burn test v2 fully loading 48 cores and 64gb memory without problems, if that helps.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

 

[Burpo]