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HTH Send message Joined: 8 Jul 00 Posts: 691 Credit: 909,237 RAC: 0 |
I/We have to wait two years, before I/we can buy Sandy Bridge CPUs. That is an awfully long time to wait. I barely can wait those 32-core processors with Hyper-Threading, SSE4, AES-NI, and AVX. If I buy two of them, then I can run 2 * 32 * 2 = 128 SETI@home WUs at once. :) Henri. Manned mission to Mars in 2019 Petition <-- Sign this, please. |
John Clark Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 |
Such a rig, with dual Sandy Bridge Xeons, and 16Gb or RAM, can be used on several projects, allocating 8 cores per project to give a large combined BOINC RAC It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65777 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Nah, All You need is a time machine, Go to when their making them, then get some and give them to Yourself sometime around now, Or wait until their made like everybody else will, If their plans don't change by then that is. ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20372 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... I barely can wait those 32-core processors... You can have that now if you wish... Just put multiple systems together built up 4 cores at a time. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for when we can make good use of the parallel GPUs to load up a system with multiple boards for fast hot crunchin'! Happy crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
PhonAcq Send message Joined: 14 Apr 01 Posts: 1656 Credit: 30,658,217 RAC: 1 |
For fun consider the Atom experiment that Evilsizer is trying to do. He is getting as much as 150 RAC for each 'cpu'; the Atom is an HT version of a dual core. So on each $70 motherboard, which includes the cpu, he is getting as much as 300 RAC. So, being simplistic here, one could build a 32 cpu rig from 16 motherboards and about $1100. Plus a 'bit' more for memory, you could get the 32-core seti-engine TODAY for about $1500 and some fit-up time. And the beast only runs a few Watts per MB. So don't wait two years; do it today! (Ok, ok, I know that's a lot of money to dedicate to SETI but its the thought that counts.) |
Evilsizer Send message Joined: 23 Oct 06 Posts: 34 Credit: 398,838 RAC: 0 |
For fun consider the Atom experiment that Evilsizer is trying to do. He is getting as much as 150 RAC for each 'cpu'; the Atom is an HT version of a dual core. So on each $70 motherboard, which includes the cpu, he is getting as much as 300 RAC. So, being simplistic here, one could build a 32 cpu rig from 16 motherboards and about $1100. Plus a 'bit' more for memory, you could get the 32-core seti-engine TODAY for about $1500 and some fit-up time. And the beast only runs a few Watts per MB. well right now RAC for AtomAnt is up to 280. on OCF Care est that it should do 400-500 avg rac. will find out, now if you go to ewiz they list the atom cpu/board for $60, then $39 for 2gigs of ram. im looking to get 2 gigabyte versions since they offer ocing. toms got the 1.6ghz atom to 1.8ghz, so that would place it about close to a banis cpu at 1.6ghz. I think intel's plans for atom are alot bigger then they want to let on. if you look at the die size of atom. roughly on a LGAP775 package you could fix about 12-14cores on there, all with HT. thats would be something cool to play with. |
john deneer Send message Joined: 16 Nov 06 Posts: 331 Credit: 20,996,606 RAC: 0 |
For fun consider the Atom experiment ..... you could get the 32-core seti-engine TODAY for about $1500 and some fit-up time. And the beast only runs a few Watts per MB. That's a lot of money for a 32-core machine producing a rac of 5000. Even a single q6600 may do better than that and at lower purchase and power costs too. Regards, John. |
Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 |
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