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Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

Check this dually out... *drool*

Dual quad
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jbyram2 · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

Me want....

40 GHZ???? (eight 5GHz cores?!?!)
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Al Dente · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:12 am Post subject:

Impressive. but at that price, I'm not too interested in buying one (or several)

BUT.... as I'm very short of space now, the Intel "Skulltrail" D5400XS motherboard looks very promising. Forget about the vastly over-priced extreme chips, super-fast memory and quad-SLI it's designed to handle and slap in a couple of Q6600/6700's with 4GB PC2-6400 RAM and a cheap video card and you've effectively got two decent shrubbing machines in one box.

That means I could start replacing my 3800x2's (~750 RAC) with ~3500 RAC boxes..... and I've got 8 of them = 6000 up to 28,000.

Hmmmm. Veerrrry interestink, but expensive.

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Cow_tipping · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:41 am Post subject:

Ironbits had another approach:

Awesome crunching power for those projects that support the PS3.
The things cost roughly €400,= each and also crunch as fast as 10 of my normal pc cores.
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject:

if you'r worried abount space Sir Al. take a look at these

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6015/SYS-6015TW-TB.cfm

thats 4 Quad cores per 1U so a 42u rack full of these equates to....

....eeerrr...

42 * 4 * 4 = 672 cores.... Shocked

Blimey.... where's that lottery ticket...
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Al Dente · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

I did, very briefly, look at them a little while back, but a 42U rack takes ~60kW!!!! Just 4 would fully load my flat's wiring.

Now where's that air-con catalogue.

[add] I've just done a quick costing - ~£2300 each x 42 + rack, etc ~£100,000. As you rightly say, lottery time. Crying or Very sad

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Old woman(mann, sorry) · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject:

Ok, I'm curious.
We've all heard of a Cray but what is it really, in processing terms?
I'd also like to know how much they are to buy and run, and what it involves to possess one.

Al Dente · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:01 am Post subject:

The current Cray XT5 system packs ~40TFlops* into 6 cabinets taking up ~7 sq.m of floor space and running Linux.

Compare that with a simple Intel Quad-core @ ~ 10GFlops, taking up ~¼ sq.m and costing ~£400 to build.

So you'd need ~4000 Intel quads for the same (nominal) computing power.

As for affording it, find a good-sounding scientific application and see if the Government will buy it for you; Cray won't talk to you unless you want to spend at least $1m.

source ... Cray

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* 40,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second
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KWSN Sir CADCAM · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

Now THIS is a real Dually !!

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rotciv KOTHRT · Prince Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1482 Location: USA

I'm happy with my new dually

AMD 6400+ Black Box Edition, zalman 9700 HS (can be upgraded to quad core)
ASUS Crosshair MB
4 Gig's ( 2 gig each) xms2 dhx matched pair 800 Corsair mem
( will take 8 gigs)
2 seagate sata's 320 & 500 Gig
HP 20x dvd burner
nv BFG8800gts512oc ddr3 vid
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card
antec 650 watt ps
antec 900 case, 4 fans (can add 2 more)
vista ulta 64
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Al Dente · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

On the subject of Cray, I've just come across this.
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Old woman(mann, sorry) · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

Nice one Al.
At least someone still goes Cray fishing.