First 12 core cpu?

[Arcimbaldo]

I have just recieved my copy of custom PC, the special subscribers edition or something , and to my surprise found a comparison of the new amd opteron range compared to the new xeon range.

Model 6176SE
Freq 2.3 GHz
Physical cores 12
ACP 105watt
DDR3 support 1333, 1066, 800
$1,386

However looking at the die of the cpu it seems to be just two 6 core dies crammed together on one chip. I kept on reading to find the xeon 7xxx series range, the fires true 8 core cpu.

Model X7560
Freq 2.26 ghz
Physical cores 8
Logical cores 8
TDP 130 watt
DDR3 Support 1066, 800
List price $3,838

Looking at the die of this it truly is an 8 core cpu rather than just two 6 cores together.
I am just wondering if anyone else knew anything about this and could shed some more light onto it?

PS: Apologies if there is already a thread on this.

Thanks

Arcimbaldo

 

[james.miller]

lots of info here on the x7560: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/04/07/intel-xeon-x7560-nehalem-ex-review/1

 

[Big.Wayne]

Heh that's something you don't see everyday!

 

[IKMS]

Wow

 

[tankskun]

Holy moses, I NEED that CPU!!!

 

[Arcimbaldo]

If only i had $3,000 dollars

 

[smilertoo]

$3000 per chip, 4 needed for that graph.

 

[Ph4lanx]

That's nuts! /drool

 

[rjk]

power/performance ratio i would take the opty probably

they are right for once, their review states that the intel chip is far too expensive and is easily outperformed in both energy consumption and performance by a dual socket 1366 setup

 

[nayenshah]

LOL! that is some serious hardware, but i find it difficult to believe as to how this would be aimed at anything other than server-grade components. bit of an overkill for WoW?

 

[manic_man]

These chips are aimed at the sort of work we do.

We used to spend ages making our problems span well over massive (but shared) distributed resources. More and more though, departments in Universities are just giving Dell £10k or so and buying a standalone workstation with a few tesla's in it, maybe 8 or 12 xeons and 64-128gb of ram.

Writing parallel code is MUCH easier cos its all shared memory and because they aren't a shared resource you just stick them in the corner of the room and can use them for as long as you want, albeit the overall processing power might not be quite as high as what you get through the massive shared HPC resources.

We have a (now old) 8 core (2 x 4 core cpus) xeon 3Ghz thing, 4TB of storage in RAID, 64GB ram, 1 tesla and 1 mid range quadro. Think it cost us about 8k direct from dell (sure you could build one cheaper)

It's all packaged in a quiet full tower case that just sits in the corner, it has Scientific Linux and 7 on it and is probably the most used piece of hardware in our lab!

Definitely reckon this is the way things are going.

 

[NathWraith]

Our new 12 core system is launching tommorow so keep your eyes peeled