Hi Just wondering if running the QX6700 or the Q6600 could you get 100% cpu usage running seti?

Would boinc recognize the QX6700 as a dual or quad core processor?

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A look at top computers will satisfy your question.

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A look at top computers will satisfy your question.

Hi WinterKnight, I noticed some of the Listed Computers show 8 CPU's? Are these 8 cpu's running on one machine?

I experimented with seti when I built this X2 rig and I remember when setting up Preferences,

Your Account / Preferences / General Preferences / Processor Usage / On Multi Processors, use at most ___ ?

I had option to choose How many Cores.
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From that list of Top Computers it looks like Boinc CAN run 8 cores if your system has (2) "Quad Core" CPU's on a Dual CPU Mobo?
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Yes, I've been running an 8 core host 2901600 since November. It's dropped off the SETI top list now, because I've spread it across multiple projects, but BOINC handles it just fine.

You've found the important change which you need to make in your preferences: you can make that number as high as you want. Look at the Silicon Graphics machine currently at #3: it's got 128 cores!

There are some limitations: you can't use the QX6700 or the Q6600 in dual-socket (8 core) configurations: you have to use the Xeon 5000 series processors, and a server-class or workstation-class motherboard. And those motherboards use special RAM too: I found you have to be very careful to get the RAM specified right, and it's not cheap.

And in the Windows world, you have to use Windows XP Professional, not XP Home, if you want to use multiple CPUs - that's physical CPUs in separate sockets, a single QX6700 or Q6600 is fine with XP Home.

But it can be done.

Isn't AMD supposed to release quad-core CPUs sometime in the very near future?
Hopefully it'll be those are supported because I want to build my monster from AMD chips :)

Isn't AMD supposed to release quad-core CPUs sometime in the very near future?
Hopefully it'll be those are supported because I want to build my monster from AMD chips :)

Mid 2007, for the 2000 series (up to 2 chips), and 8000 (up to 8 chips). The 1000 series (up to 1 chip) is still TBD.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

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Team: SETI.USA

Isn't AMD supposed to release quad-core CPUs sometime in the very near future?
Hopefully it'll be those are supported because I want to build my monster from AMD chips :)

Mid 2007, for the 2000 series (up to 2 chips), and 8000 (up to 8 chips). The 1000 series (up to 1 chip) is still TBD.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

By 8 chips you don't mean the motherboard , right? :)
I remember seeing a tyan board that held 8 CPUs.... man.... not only would that be an amazing machine to own... it'd also cost you like $20,000 , haha..

If I recall correctly, during S@H beta, there was one computer with 22 cores. Yes, I mean 22, I thought it was an odd enough number that it stuck with me.

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Isn't AMD supposed to release quad-core CPUs sometime in the very near future?
Hopefully it'll be those are supported because I want to build my monster from AMD chips :)

Mid 2007, for the 2000 series (up to 2 chips), and 8000 (up to 8 chips). The 1000 series (up to 1 chip) is still TBD.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

By 8 chips you don't mean the motherboard , right? :)

Not sure I understand your question. The 8000 series chips support up to 8 per mobo. This would mean 32 cores total, when they come out. Many mobo implementations with 8 chips put the chips on daughter cards to get them to fit.

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

Isn't AMD supposed to release quad-core CPUs sometime in the very near future?
Hopefully it'll be those are supported because I want to build my monster from AMD chips :)

Mid 2007, for the 2000 series (up to 2 chips), and 8000 (up to 8 chips). The 1000 series (up to 1 chip) is still TBD.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

By 8 chips you don't mean the motherboard , right? :)
I remember seeing a tyan board that held 8 CPUs.... man.... not only would that be an amazing machine to own... it'd also cost you like $20,000 , haha..

And be a real pain to cool!

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22 cores is easy...though random! there are quite a few people out there that run clusters. By creating a cluster you can almost guarantee that there is a 22 core system out ther.


still a random number!

-citroja

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22 cores is easy...though random! there are quite a few people out there that run clusters. By creating a cluster you can almost guarantee that there is a 22 core system out ther.


still a random number!

-citroja

I have heard that BOINC is very difficult to get running on a cluster. I believe, but am not quite certain, that this was a single machine.

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