Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[bowman]

A lot of talk on the X58 chipset for this, but any news on the chipset for the dual-processor version? Really interested if there are any block diagrams of it that were leaked to the web yet. Looking for a good server/workstation board.

Tylersburg is for both single and dual socket.

* Tylersburg-24S – 24 PCIe lanes, 1x QuickPath Link
* Tylersburg-24D – 24 PCIe lanes, 2x QuickPath Links
* Tylersburg-36S – 36 PCIe lanes, 1x QuickPath Link
* Tylersburg-36D – 36 PCIe lanes, 2x QuickPath Links

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Just one more QPI link.

Pretty pictures

The Flextronics board looks very 'fancy' if you will, blue pcb, yellow pci-e slots.. Maybe an ST2 competitor?

So that would imply that for the pci-e slots they would be directly off a particular cpu (say 3 slots for cpu 0 and 3 for cpu 1) and if you had to do data transfers between those you would have to cross over from one cpu to the other. Not that bad in itself actually, but would require to fully populate the board with cpu's to use all the slots (in my case no big deal as I am planning that anyway). Still knowing the number of pci lanes for each cpu dedicated to the pcie slots would be useful, and what the speed is for the ibexpeak which would need to be tied to each cpu as well in addition to the bandwidth between the cpu's to handle process migration in addition to i/o from attached periphs.

All in all, more information would be real nice.

He's on about the dual-core Havendale and quad Lynnfield solutions. The dual socket version will of course have QPI and the chipset Tylersburg.