Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Jon Forrest
On 4/6/2011 5:39 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > 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 have a couple 48-core 1U boxes. They can build gcc and ot

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Joshua mora acosta
_3D_ FFT scaling will allow you to see how well balanced is the system. Joshua -- Original Message -- Received: 07:40 PM CDT, 04/06/2011 From: Mark Hahn To: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/05/intel_xeon_e7_launch/ > > > >

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Mark Hahn
> 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,

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread John Hearns
On 6 April 2011 19:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Hearns, John wrote: > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/05/intel_xeon_e7_launch/ > What do you intend to use the machines for? Maybe something like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Z3h_Hx310&NR=1

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread C. Bergström
Hearns, John wrote: >> What do you intend to use the machines for? >> For a chessprogram they would be great, but none of those guys has >> the cash to pay for these >> machines. >> > > > > The Supermicro board which Bruce Goglin refers to is said to support > 16gbytes DIMMS. > > Quick Google

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Hearns, John
> What do you intend to use the machines for? > For a chessprogram they would be great, but none of those guys has > the cash to pay for these > machines. The Supermicro board which Bruce Goglin refers to is said to support 16gbytes DIMMS. Quick Google says $944 dollars per DIMM, so $60 000 mem

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:58 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 Quickpat

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellström
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 enou

Re: [Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 06/04/2011 12:58, Hearns, John a écrit : > 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 link

[Beowulf] Westmere EX

2011-04-06 Thread Hearns, John
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 Hard