On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:58:12 pm Hearns, John wrote: > 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. > Anyone know if machines like this will be built? > Do the sockets have enough Quickpath links to create an 8-way topology? > > > John Hearns | CFD Hardware Specialist | McLaren Racing Limited > McLaren Technology Centre, Chertsey Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 4YH, UK
The HP DL980 is an 8 socket EX box but it's not glue-less (it uses HPs own numa interconnect). If you stuff 'em full of dimms then they're probably competitive with the 4 socket 580 (assuming the 980 uses 8G dimms instead of 16G for the 580...). /Peter _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
