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Supermicro Launches 8-Way 80-Core SuperServers
http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors ... 74649.html

From Tom's Hardware:

"The server board has four modules, each of which can carry two upcoming 10-core Xeon E7 CPUs. ..." http://www.tomshardware.com/news/superm ... or=RSS-181

:shock: http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... .cfm?SAS=Y Put four X7560 Xeons in that baby, a few HDD's and 64GB of RAM, and for a mear $25,000 you can have a 64 core BigAdv machine! Personally, I'm waiting for the 5086B-TRF ( http://www.supermicro.com/Xeon_mp/ ) to become available :!: Imagi...

Came across this in an RSS feed I follow: " Clustercorp and its partners have joined to provide free EC2 instances to run Folding@Home in the cloud with Rocks+ during Supercomputing 2010 (SC10)... " http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/Clustercorp-Brings-FoldingHome-to-the-Cloud-for-SC10-1...

" Three years can pass in a flash for most chemical research projects—and often without yielding three years' worth of useful data. Experiments take time: Techniques need to be carefully developed, conditions tweaked, problems overcome, and promising results verified. Patient chemists involved ...

Starting from $38,999... ouch! It must have some serious cooling in it. It would take some serious work (read profitable) to justify such a purchase! If I ever won the lottery, that'd be high on my list! I wonder how many work units/point per day it could turn out with the present client programs. ...

Starting from $38,999... ouch! It must have some serious cooling in it. It would take some serious work (read profitable) to justify such a purchase! If I ever won the lottery, that'd be high on my list! I wonder how many work units/point per day it could turn out with the present client programs. ...

Nathan_P wrote:You could go for the older istanbuls and do each server for $10000 and get the same PPD

I can't believe that the older CPUs, running at the same speed, would run as fast as the new ones -- ie. get same PPD.

Unless I'm terribly mis-understanding the Supermicro pricing, you can build a 4-way 48-core Magny-cours box for maybe $15,000 Actually, I figure you can build a 4 x AMD 6176 SE (48 Core @ 2.3 Ghz) box for $10,000 USD. Assuming a 42U rack, and dedicating 6U to networking and console servers, you cou...

7im wrote:Even with a 64 bit Windows, 4 GB appears to be the limit. Me thinks we're bumping up against some hard limits here.

What "limit" are you referring to?

Look in http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html for vspmf95 ... you'll find all the details you need ... Thanks for the link. I still say that it would would be appropriate for PG to include some basic details when posting about a server being offline. It would save people from having to figure...

In the "Update Thread", Dr. Pande posted: We found a hardware issue with vspmf95, so we are taking the machine off line to work on it. more news as we have it It would be helpful if some details regarding the impact of the outage would be described with the posting. Does this server hand o...

Came across this in my RSS reader:

http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/Su ... 04929.html

See Issue 29: http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/issues/detail?id=29 This functionality (or really a synopsis there of) is going to supersede the current CompletedUnits.csv file. It will likely have a totally different data store (maybe even SQL Server Express), have its own UI (much like Benchmarks)...

Possibly you are being affected by the "early fail" problem that is being experienced, in part, by OSX 10.6.3 users that are running with the v2.17 a3core on smp WUs. This has been recognized by PG as a problem and a correction is in process. It seems that was the problem, I just tried ag...