Intel Xeon 5600 Secures, Speeds Cloud Computing

[Chris_redfield]

The things I would do for a pair of X5680's.

I'm certainly tempted to max out the credit card on a pair of L5640's though. Hopefully the W555 wont be to expensive otherwise I wont be able to stretch to it.

[JF-AMD]

I wouldn't take out your credit card just yet

As for the memory and QPI support I was wondering the same things. It is different on different places of their site.

[acicula]

I wouldn't take out your credit card just yet

source ?

[JF-AMD]

I don't want to rain on their parade, let them have their day in the sun. You'll all know soon enough. I am smiling big time today.

[skeyo]

John i hope you guys come with some relay good stuff.

[-Sweeper_]

I don't want to rain on their parade, let them have their day in the sun. You'll all know soon enough. I am smiling big time today.

they are having lots of sunny days since 2006

[acicula]

I typically enjoy reading your (technical) posts, but :

I wouldn't take out your credit card just yet

and your next post are unambiguous: their stuff is nice, ours is better but we are not going to tell you how or what except to wait. Theres another company doing that and its not getting them much praise from the community i think?

giev more tech less marketing talk

(edit: my bad grammar)

[Sgt.McRuff]

So did Intel make a 32nm quad core die or is it a disabled hex?

[hennyo]

So did Intel make a 32nm quad core die or is it a disabled hex?

I wouldn't say I am 100 percent certain, but the fact that it is a quad core with 12 MB of L3 cache, I would have to say a disabled hexa-core CPU.

[JF-AMD]

I typically enjoy reading your (technical) posts, but :



and your next post are unambiguous: their stuff is nice, ours is better but we are not going to tell you how or what except to wait. Theres another company doing that and its not getting them much praise from the community i think?

giev more tech less marketing talk

(edit: my bad grammar)

Point taken. I just don't want anyone thinking the game is over, it is actually just getting started.

[JF-AMD]

I wouldn't say I am 100 percent certain, but the fact that it is a quad core with 12 MB of L3 cache, I would have to say a disabled hexa-core CPU.

I would expect that, it's a common practice to improve yields, it makes a lot of financial sense.

[Hornet331]

[I]however if this is the asp of 1000+ units then intel margins against AMD are optimistic. I smell price drops soon

I wouldn't mind that.

[chuchnit]

What we need now that GT is retail is some leaked results of Thuban Intel can't do much now that parts are in retail. Or I should say intel can't react as fast as pre-launch.

[Movieman]

Point taken. I just don't want anyone thinking the game is over, it is actually just getting started.

and can we both agree that it looks like a good year for both the blue and the green?
Some amazing technology coming from both companies and we can all celebrate that.

[savantu]

I don't want to rain on their parade, let them have their day in the sun. You'll all know soon enough. I am smiling big time today.

SAP 2-tier result
Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX300 S6, 2S/12C/24T, Intel Xeon X5680, 3.33 Ghz, 88 GB, Ws2008 EE, SQL Server 2008 - 4860 Users

HP ProLiant DL585 G6, 4S/24C/24T, AMD Opteron 8439 SE, 2.8 Ghz, 64 GB Ws2008 EE, SQL Server 2008 - 4665 Users
HP ProLiant BL465c G6, 2S/12C/12T, AMD Opteron 2435, 2.6 Ghz, 32 GB , Ws2008 EE, SQL Server 2008 - 2355 Users

I sure hope you'll be able to keep that smile when your customers will confront you with the above numbers.

Even MC can't stand a chance at 2S given that it will clock well bellow the 8439SE Opterons.

[chuchnit]

and can we both agree that it looks like a good year for both the blue and the green?
Some amazing technology coming from both companies and we can all celebrate that.

Your glass is always full Shouldn't you be busy right now putting up your results with the SR-2

[Movieman]

Your glass is always full Shouldn't you be busy right now putting up your results with the SR-2

Yes it is and I wish others could take that perspective.
There is a place for business and a place for learning and Xs is for learning.
As to the SR2 what are you talking about?
Results? what results?

[anubis]

MM...the time..itsa makin tick-tock..

edit: hoping for lots of competition, will take the prices down to level one can start to dream

[Serra]

Saaya why are you bringing me down with that price chart? No hex-core CPU's for under a grand (well +/- $50)??! As much as I do really want to put a pair of those beauties to work in an SR-2, that is just too much. At least it was a nice dream, and who knows maybe they'll release something more affordable around Q4/Q1 2011.

[zalbard]

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18618

Ah well, waiting for Q3...

they are having lots of sunny days since 2006

Haha, true that! Let's see if something is going to change soon!

[Chris_redfield]

I wouldn't take out your credit card just yet

As for the memory and QPI support I was wondering the same things. It is different on different places of their site.

If you can promise me Magnycours will be cheaper, have higher performance AND an overclockable motherboard then you will make me an AMD fan for life.

[flippin_waffles]

I wouldn't say I am 100 percent certain, but the fact that it is a quad core with 12 MB of L3 cache, I would have to say a disabled hexa-core CPU.

Naw I seriously doubt that. Intel prefers to make chips with all their cores functioning, so this simply has to be monolithic quad core.

[JF-AMD]

I can't promise overclockable.

These are server parts. When you overclock processors, sometimes 2+2=5. Not a problem if you are playing a game, but can be a problem if you are relying on it for real work.

Makes we wonder about people overclocking their folding machines. You are getting more work done, but is there some type of error checking that compares results so there is redundancy of data?

[highoctane]

Naw I seriously doubt that. Intel prefers to make chips with all their cores functioning, so this simply has to be monolithic quad core.

Yeah and AMD pushed the holy monolithic angle to multicore cpus, the irony.

[Chris_redfield]

I can't promise overclockable.

But cheaper and higher perf is possible

I haven't overclocked my Istanbul rig though I know a slight increase is possible. I just don't need higher frequency as I don't use it for gaming however that will be a concern when building my next system so a higher frequency would be nice.

Still though if magnycours is cheaper and higher perf then I would definately be interested in updating my Istanbull rig in the future, even though it would require a brand new motherboard.