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Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

superhyperduck — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:04:58 EDT

How many fps in quake 3 does it get?

superhyperduck

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

madderhatter — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:07:11 EDT

Got to stick up for my own screenshots ! Yeah, it's me - I won't mention any names, but Brian got my screen name wrong. Oops. You're right though Infinity, it seems that it's all about oneupmanship.

madderhatter

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

chapel — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:47:25 EDT

This is not Paxville or Core 2 or similar technology, It is Tulsa that was just released 8/29/06 by intel. It is one of the few last vestiges of the Netburst lineage. RIP

A 4 way woodcrest system with similar ram and other specs IMO would outperform this system.

chapel

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

InfinityFlexible — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:01:46 EDT

madderhatter, thx for contributing something useful to the comments instead of talking trash or trying to one-up the article.

InfinityFlexible

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Ordinant — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:32:25 EDT

Doesn't Microsoft recommend disabling hyperthreading when used with Windows 2003 server and especially with SQL Server?

This article is all I could find in a quick search, but I'm pretty sure it reflects Microsoft's official stance on the subject.

http://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/11/12/492119.asp...

Ordinant

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

ThenamesTJ — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:22:07 EDT

@madderhatter

Werd.

ThenamesTJ

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Kahn — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:33:59 EDT

BDF. This is not a Core 2 Dou, they are Xeons, 7000 series Xeons, but still not Core 2 Dou's.

I have four of the 6850's in a VMware cluster with 64G of RAM each. They are nice machines. I also have a pair in an MSSQL cluster.

Also, Microsoft does not license by the CPU, they license by the socket. A socket with 4 cores, is still one socket. You could put your self together a quad core, dual socket machine and it will still run XP.

-Kahn

Kahn

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

winterspan — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:57:42 EDT

Armin / Madderhatter:

It is true that the Paxville-class utilize hyper-threading technology, HOWEVER, Paxville IS NOT A CORE 2 DUO cpu; ie; 'Woodcrest'. Paxville is actually Two steps from Woodcrest (65nm core-architecture) with 'Dempsey' (65nm netburst) coming immedialy before Woodcrest in the geneology.
Come on guys, verify the facts before making claims like a "16" virtual cpu "Quad Core 2 Duo Server ".....

winterspan

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Dotpage — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:42:59 EDT

I'd like to see this machine running Tiger...

Dotpage

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

ender78 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:34:56 EDT

I thought that the Core 2 Duo did not support MP configs? Is it even possible to get four processors into the machine?

ender78

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

madderhatter — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:12:51 EDT

@ Armin: Both 64-bit Paxville and Paxville DP processors (et al) utilize hyper-threading Technology, allowing a single dual-core processor to run four threads simultaneously.

@ rainfever: Windows Server 2003-R2 Enterprise (x64) supports up to 1TB of RAM.

madderhatter

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

airheebz — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:24:31 EDT

awsosme i so want that at my house

airheebz

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Hanzo — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:47:31 EDT

Well, it's about time they decide to put this back on the site...

15 hours later :)

Hanzo

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

YellowDucati — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:25:33 EDT

Yep. I checked and the pic I sent in is a server with dual core 64bit Intel Xeon Processors.

Its an IBM System x3950
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/scalable/x3950/index.html<...

YellowDucati

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

rainfever — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:56:46 EDT

I'm pretty sure i read somewhere that they would have hyperthreading on a/some high end CPU's.

I always thought Windows couldn't support that much RAM. Perhaps the advent of 64bit windows changed that...

rainfever

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

YellowDucati — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:53:19 EDT

I just e-mailed gizmodo one that has 32 processors and 32GB of ram. lets see if they update the pic.

YellowDucati

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Mistoffeles — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:25:44 EDT

I'd say the evidence is staring you right in the face that Core 2 Duo does support HyperThreading, assuming it's not faked. Personally, I'd rather be running Linux + Maya on the thing, but whichever way you slice it this child of evil will get a lot of work done, HT or not >;}

Mistoffeles

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Armin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:06:14 EDT

Wrong: Core 2 Duo does not support HyperThreading. Only old P4/Xeons support HT.

Armin

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renderfarmer — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:04:26 EDT

That's *not* Core 2 Duo guys. Woodcrest Xeons don't have Hyperthredaing.

It's most likley the Netburts based Tulsa Xeon MPs released a few days ago.

renderfarmer

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

RMD — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:04:25 EDT

"Windows" does not charge per-CPU. Different version of Windows support different numbers of CPUs. But if you're gonna be running SQL Server it will probably be in a cluster anyway so you'll be using Enterprise Edition and it won't matter.

SQL Server is licensed per cpu, but it's per physical CPU. So in this case they need a license for 4 CPUs, not 16.

RMD

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Tensor — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:46:47 EDT

Windows does NOT charge by CPU. SQL does (eg: if using it for an internet website) and so does Oracle.

Windows lics are by seat (each client computer needs a lic) or by server.

Tensor

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

junyo — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:44:38 EDT

ya do know Windows charges per CPU, don't you?

And hookers charge by the hour. What's your point?

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Come big or stay home." My definition of 'coming big' just got adjusted.

junyo

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

The Brain — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:32:20 EDT

ya do know Windows charges per CPU, don't you?

The Brain

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

cchance — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:27:58 EDT

DAYMN

cchance

Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

wcspxyx — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:16:55 EDT

It's been shown that SQL server and things that are highly threaded with high memory usage don't fare so well with hyper-threaded CPUs. It can actually hurt performance quite a lot if the cores get into a cache-thrashing state. You'd be better off with 4 dual-core Opterons like what Sun has been selling for quite some time now, and for about the same price.

In short: Slower than a Sun. No Wifi. Lame.

wcspxyx