> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/05/intel_xeon_e7_launch/ > > 10 core Westmere EX on an eight socket box = 80 cores > These would be a very nice machine.
shrug. does anyone have serious experience with real apps on manycore machines? (I'm familiar with SGI boxes, where 80 is fairly ho-hum, but they're substantially more exotic/rare/expensive.) I bet there will be 100x more 4s servers build with these chips than 8s. and 1000x more 2s than 4s... a friend noticed something weird on intel's spec sheets: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53580&processor=E7-8870&spec-codes=SLC3E notice it says 32GB max memory size. even if that means 32GB/socket, it's not all that much. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm already bored with core counts ;) these also seem fairly warm (130W), considering that they're the fancy new 32nm process and run at modest clock rates... _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
