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Pair of New Serious SoB Crunchers

 
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:32 pm    Post subject: Pair of New Serious SoB Crunchers Reply with quote

Just placed into operation two new SoB shrubbing Workstations. #ni-1

Specs are:-
Dual XEON Dual-Core CPUs @ 3.0 GHz + 4 Mb L2 Cache
4 Gb FBDIMM RAM Memory,
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro PCI-X Video Card + 512 Mb DDR RAM,
2 x Seagate 320 Gb SATA-II Hard Drives in a RAID
Windoze XP Pro.

Each CPU holds 4 virtual CPUs, so each PC has 8 Virtual Processors. Shocked Shocked

Here is a screen shot from 1 of the PCs showing 8 instances of SoB with each being linked to a separate virtual CPU.

Notice that Client # 8 is running about 50% faster than the other 7. question question Intel could not provide any valid explanation, but it is consistent on both computers.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice. One of those rigs is what I plan to add to my farm near the end of the year hehe.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you just keep that monster away from Einstein.....

I have enough trouble trying to stay in the top 15 #ni-1
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ouch, just rub some salt in the wound.... #ni-1
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ni Sir CadCam!!

4 Gb of ram seems a bit low for 4 real cores , let alone 8 virtual ones Shocked

What does Windows mem manager say about utilisation etc ?
Affinities and prioritys ?

Nice box !! #Mad

(Wating for the Quad Core AMD to swap out on a couple of my Dualy boxes - I know , I know , new MoBos and Ram for the old opterons , but 8 real cores Twisted Evil Razz Razz )

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard the quad core AMDs are really power hungry, which results in lots of heat output. That's why I'm waiting for Intel Core4s to be cheap(er) hehe.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grizzly wrote:
Ni Sir CadCam!!

4 Gb of ram seems a bit low for 4 real cores , let alone 8 virtual ones Shocked

What does Windows mem manager say about utilisation etc ?
Affinities and prioritys ?

Nice box !! #Mad

(Wating for the Quad Core AMD to swap out on a couple of my Dualy boxes - I know , I know , new MoBos and Ram for the old opterons , but 8 real cores Twisted Evil Razz Razz )

Regds Grizz


if you're only running a 32bit OS 4gb is the max you can have.... I have a dual xeon dual core system with only 2 gig and it runs fine....
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:30 am    Post subject: Re: Pair of New Serious SoB Crunchers Reply with quote

KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote:
Just placed into operation two new SoB shrubbing Workstations. #ni-1

Specs are:-
Dual XEON Dual-Core CPUs @ 3.0 GHz + 4 Mb L2 Cache
4 Gb FBDIMM RAM Memory,
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro PCI-X Video Card + 512 Mb DDR RAM,
2 x Seagate 320 Gb SATA-II Hard Drives in a RAID
Windoze XP Pro.

Each CPU holds 4 virtual CPUs, so each PC has 8 Virtual Processors. Shocked Shocked

Here is a screen shot from 1 of the PCs showing 8 instances of SoB with each being linked to a separate virtual CPU.

Notice that Client # 8 is running about 50% faster than the other 7. question question Intel could not provide any valid explanation, but it is consistent on both computers.




Sir Cadcam... are these woodcrests or Dempseys..... (5100 or 5000 serires) if there woodcrests I'd love to know how you got the virtual cpus configured... I know the dempseys have HT installed.... also do some benchmarks of HT vs nonHT sometimes the system works slower as a whole with HT enabled.....

I'm getting ready to get a couple of E5320's (thats 8 real cores)......

here's a link to my dual dual....

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=825279

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Which OS are you running on that box?
I thought Windoze XP Pro was limited to 2 physical processors? Confused
(maximum 4 logical processors when using HT)

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sir Furry Mark wrote:
Which OS are you running on that box?
I thought Windoze XP Pro was limited to 2 physical processors? Confused
(maximum 4 logical processors when using HT)

Ni!


the Windows license agreement in controlled by slots/sockets and not by the actual number of cores etc

so XP Pro will work fine with a 2 slot each with a quad core CPU.... (8 cores) .... but don't know about vista though

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