On Thursday, April 07, 2011 02:39:19 am Mark Hahn wrote: ... > I bet there will be 100x more 4s servers build with these chips than 8s. > and 1000x more 2s than 4s...
Sounds about right :-) Not your average compute node by a long shot. > a friend noticed something weird on intel's spec sheets: > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53580&processor=E7-8870&spec-codes=SLC > 3E > > notice it says 32GB max memory size. even if that means 32GB/socket, > it's not all that much. Certainly looks odd on that page but does likely refer to max DIMM size. With 64 DIMMs (4 socket example) that would then give you 2T. > 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... It's the size of the beast... (caused by the number of cores and size of last level cache). /Peter
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