X7560?

Hmmmmm, what a coincidence, I'll be staying in Chippewa Falls over the summer... perhaps that means I'll need to stop down and take some of the system's burden off of you :wasntme: :D

Fisr of all :clap::clap: for such a rig :up::up:

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Originally Posted by Movieman

Hi,
The problem I see with the X7560's is first cost, almost $3800.00 each, then electrical cost. Was reading a quad socket 1567 with 4 of them in it was pulling 1300W ast 100% load.. Dear Lord!:rofl:

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Dave, problems have to be split into pieces :p::p:

the $3.8k is out of my bi-annual -global spending BUT the 1.3 kw ain´t an issue ( go and break Francoise´s state of mind and send 4 of those to the jungle.. errr.. to my place :p::p::p::p: j/k)

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Originally Posted by WIN95GUI

Good day guys and gals.
I just got 4 of these processors from Intel directly. Although getting a board to put them into is not going to happen for a bit. Major OEM's have systems available - Dell, HP, Cray etc and can be gotten as we speak - so to speak :)

SuperMicro and Quanta are the only ODM's that Intel has specifically licensed to make these boards to sell to the retail community. You can see the SuperMicro boards here -->http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...8QB6.cfm?SAS=Y

I for one can't wait to get my hands on one as soon as they are available and to use it on BOINC. Although I'm a S@H fan there might be some extra cores to go around :)

Look to S@H shortly under user name Todd Hebert and you will see these in a few weeks as I have already pre-ordered the system. Should go along with two GTX-480's very nicely.
Regards!

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holy crap bat man!
i almost choked on my philly cheesesteak from penn station
and at the same time i went from shriveled and hanging to the left to a fricken volcano!
i should have never clicked on that link

here is a link to intels ark for specs on the X7560
8 cores 16 threads on that quad socket board
you end up with a mind blowing 32 cores and 64 threads
and the volcano erupted again
i would pay the energy bill to have that machine run Boinc for me gladly
thats just orgsmic!!!!!

These 8C/16T CPUs are monsters, specially when you consider the quad-socket capability. Nothing can beat such a beast, but, and that's a big butt :slapass:, they have 3 disadvantages compared to double-socket X56xx, in my opinion.
There is no MB for OCing these.
CPU cost, $3800.00 each
Operation cost, and power usage. These are not 32nm, and eat power.

Should only be one more generation and they'll be 32nm or smaller. Worth the wait IMHO.

yeah but any company that needs 32 cores and 64 threads really doesnt care about power usage
they really arent trying to be 'green'


they just want the power

No doubt about it is that cost is a factor - unless you "need" that kind of speed and memory bandwidth. The main feature to these processors is that you can access 1TB of RAM with 4 Processors or 2TB with 8. These are not made for the desktop by any means and really only have application in the datacenter for a server consolidation running maybe a 100 VM's or huge databases.

I work in a specialized field that allows me to get these items for no cost as evalutations for Intel. It is only because of this fact that I have them. Intel does reward their perferred customers and we are already looking to sell 6 of these servers to clients. It is essential that we have evaluation units to promote to our customers. We beat the heck out of them and try and make them break - if we kill one or two - we get replacements.

Power consumption is really not that bad at 130watts each - 520 watts for four processors with 64 threads is only 8.125 watts per thread at max. That is a very good margin. You do however have to factor in loss in the power supplies, HDD's (Or in our case SSD's) Video Adapters if you are going to crunch (Servers however don't need this ability) and the memory and that is 1.5v or 1.35v lower power type DDR3. Gone are the days of the FB-Dimm's that used 8 watts each!
Todd

it dosent need much power, just a 24 pin, and 4 8 pin :shocked:

but the 256gb of onboard memory is nice though :D