New AMD board with four PEG x16 slots

This board TYAN S8225 (S8225AGM4NRF) have four PEG x16 slots(ALL with 16 lanes) and room for four double wide cards. Right now probably the best board for GPU crunching.......if I had the money.......*sigh*
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Christoph

When AMD's Bulldozer line comes out, we'll likely see a few of those in the top computers list. They're really increasing the performance when it comes to floating point operations. They have something similar to AVX too, although it's a bit different, because they didn't want to get sued by intel, so it's not 100% compatible with AVX. That sucks, because in a month or so, we're gonna have to burden the developers with ANOTHER new, optimized version for a new CPU instruction set. It's a shame that AMD couldn't make it compatible with AVX.

But that board would be epic with 2 12-core CPUs and 4 GTX 580s. That would be a rocketship to the top of the top computers list. I'd love to have one too, but I'd have to win the lottery to buy one. I mean you figure $1200 for the CPUs, probably $800 or the ECC/Buffered RAM, then $2000 for 4 gtx 580s, you'd probably need 2 power supplies to feed that, so that's another $750 or so and ofc $400 for the motherboard. Maaaaan that would be sweet. ;)
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This board TYAN S8225 (S8225AGM4NRF) have four PEG x16 slots(ALL with 16 lanes) and room for four double wide cards. Right now probably the best board for GPU crunching.......if I had the money.......*sigh*

Huuhh.. I made a quick Google search.. ~ 430,- € .. wow.. too expensive..

Except it must be a server board.
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Looks like AMD omitted the Socket 1366 platform and its hex-core processor. This is still geared toward the performance desktop segment - not servers. Although it is also used on the server platform.

This particular board is focused at a GPU compute server - easy to tell by its dual sockets. It has been a long time since either the Pentium III or the AMD Athlon MX line that dual cpu's were targeted at the general user. Or at least cheap enough that a average user could afford to populate dual sockets.

Intel does also offer a true octo-core cpu in its X75xx version. Granted this is a server cpu and does have a huge price associated with it. It is not aimed at the desktop in anyway - but let me tell you the performance is fantasic!

Todd
PS - Yes I am an Intel fan boy - and this was not an attempt to hijack a thread. The motherboard is great and would be very nice to have in ones stable of machines.
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AMD droppped their own implementation (SSE5), a long time ago, and went the AVX way.

Because of the settlement made last year (the case about Intel strongarming computerbuilders into not selling AMD), where Intel payed AMD more than one billion dollars, agreed on a new longer cross-lincensing agreement and other things, AMD can use AVX without fear of lawsuits. The CPU will also support all current SSE levels all the way up to SSE4.2.

AMD have added a little extra (Fused Multiply Add, FMA), but the benefits from this will be dependent upon programs being written to use it. It will probably make its way into OS's and such, but the majority of programs wont use it at first, if ever. The potential for performance increases are great though, so we should hope that it does get used.

Besides all of this, performance of the new chips are still largely unknown, except that they will be much better than current Phenom's.
Its a pretty different design from most of whats out there today, some have even called it revolutionary and bold, but it still has to perform.

At this time only AMD knows what it can do, and they are pretty tight lipped. Bulldozer will be presented at Cebit in less than a month, and then we will probably know a great deal more.
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I was going to get a 6 core AMD but I think I'll waiot a few months for the bulldozer

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOP_instruction_set#Compatibility_issues According to this, there are some incompatibilities between AVX and Bulldozer. They're using a different instruction set to attempt to get as close as possible to the same features, ...

My AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE with 4x GTX260 OC are on a MSI K9A2 Platinum mobo.
4x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots.
If two used @ PCIe 2.0 x16 speed, if all four used (like I) all @ PCIe 2.0 x8 speed.

Only if the GPU or add-in card can truely make use of them. Thus far the only devices that I have seen that can max out a x16 PCI-E 2.0 slot is a RAID card with a ton of Cache on it and also a 10GB ethernet card with multi-ports.
Todd
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Ok, I thought GPUs are the things which realy use and need all these lanes. In this case of course this board offers no advantage in terms of GPU crunching.
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Christoph

This might be true in the near future with newer cards needing more bandwidth. Also, Tesla cards do have much more memory onboard - up to 6GB! And this might be useful in the arena - but not many of us are using Tesla cards on this project based on their significant cost. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0044O7FXS/ref=asc_df_B0044O7FXS1419586?ie=UTF8&condition=new&tag=dealtmp95-20&creative=395165&creativeASIN=B0044O7FXS&linkCode=asm

These are suited for a much more professional purpose - to say the least!
Todd
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Well, these are far out of range.......with my old job I could have build up a machine using that MoBo equiped with GPUs within one year, but even than that type of card would have been out of range.......no sence to spend so much money compared with consumer GPGPU products.
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Christoph