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. :)

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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

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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. ;)

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... 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',
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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.)

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.)

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.

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.

Oh no! Don't talk about Sandy Bridge!

When I build my Nehalem, I want to think its cutting edge for as long as possible!!!

The future is hexa-core and octo-core!

Luke.

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