Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
I agree totally.. Can't wait..
Just some observations;
The only 45nm chips I have are in the dual socket SuperMicro board here.
E5450 quadcores at 3404mhz(3000/12mb/1333 stock)(Harpertown's)
I do DC work with the systems here.
2-8 core clovertown's at 3000, the 8 core Harpertown and a Q6600 at 3600
In WCG the 4 core Q6600 does app 15,000 points a day
The 8 core clovers do app 25-26,000 a day
The Harpertown is averaging app 34,000 points a day
Lets assume there's a 5-10% improvement with Nehalem in single threaded apps and a 30% in apps that can take advantage of this new HT.
Lets also assume that Nehalem will be able to reach at least 3400 on air.
An 8 core Nehalem(Gainstown) system will be able to work 16 work units at a time vs the Clover and Harper's 8 at a time and in doing so will bring into use this new HT with it's presumed 30% increase clock for clock.
Now you see why I am so excited about this.
indeed, for myself i also do some boinc crunching (seti, rosetta), but only when my computer is on (~8h a day). Its not much but it still helps, plus doing 8 WU at once compared to 4, will also help my RAC.