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Intel is busy refreshing their whole workstation/server Xeon processors these days. A few weeks ago it was 5600 series Westmere-EP for the 2-socket crowd and today they are releasing the new 7500 series Nehalem-EX for the 2-socket and more crowd. Sporting eight Nehalem based cores and 24mb of L3 cache per processor, the 7500 series Xeon should prove to be a computational powerhouse!

Our test system today is a 4-way capable Dell PowerEdge R810 packing a pair of X7560 Xeons (running at 2.26ghz), 128gb of DDR3 and a whole host of other cool new features that will make your head spin.

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terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#779548 Posted on: 03/31/2010 04:54 AM drool. intel has taken the IPC crown from AMD and it looks like AMD is not innovating it's cores but just throwing repacked cores into new sockets ala G32/34 and trying to stay competitive there. WTF. Intel is wiping the floor in most of the segments from desktop to even this 2p xeon market Hooz reviewed. What gives. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

alfaunits File Guru Posts: 1358 Joined: 2006-06-13

#779563 Posted on: 03/31/2010 09:46 AM This link is dead also The other thread's works. Quite interesting - I actually expected better performance I reckon 75xx will go head to head with Magny Cours on 4 sockets. X25-E x4 http://www.alfasp.com

RottenMutt V8 Posts: 2015 Joined: 2001-07-01

#779759 Posted on: 04/03/2010 04:24 AM nice article. would like to know what the penalty is for dells memory QPI bridge chip instead of using the nb controller on the processor. i've read amd has dropped their four socket surcharge. For now: Seti / Einstein / [URL="http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta//show_user.php?userid=139037"]Rosetta[/URL] / [URL="http://stats.kwsn.net/user.php?proj=all&cpid=2327f8b3b063dc9424f0c9ee82166577"]Combined BONIC Stats[/URL] / Good Power Supply Review Sites: [URL="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/"]X-bit labs[/URL] / [URL="http://jonnyguru.com/"]JonnyGURU[/URL]

THE JEW (RaVeN) Rye-Eng Posts: 531 Joined: 2004-03-23

#779828 Posted on: 04/05/2010 02:10 AM Quote: Originally Posted by RottenMutt nice article. would like to know what the penalty is for dells memory QPI bridge chip instead of using the nb controller on the processor. i've read amd has dropped their four socket surcharge. Probably a sign that they're worried about Intel, but what a value for us! 4 socket procs for the price of duals? Gonna hafta change the name to 4cpu what with everyone now being able to afford a quad system

alfaunits File Guru Posts: 1358 Joined: 2006-06-13

#779831 Posted on: 04/05/2010 02:23 AM At 800$/CPU + >500$/Mobo I don't exactly find it affordable.. Though personally, my problem with quad sockets now is the noise, power consumption and heat not the price. X25-E x4 http://www.alfasp.com

uOpt FreeBSD cheering section Posts: 4203 Joined: 2005-05-27

#779865 Posted on: 04/05/2010 08:57 PM Quote: Originally Posted by terminalrecluse it looks like AMD is not innovating it's cores but just throwing repacked cores into new sockets ala G32/34 and trying to stay competitive there. WTF. Intel is wiping the floor in most of the segments from desktop to even this 2p xeon market Hooz reviewed. What gives. You mean just like Intel did until just a couple months ago when AMD didn't? My Unix benchmark results - My RAID benchmark results FreeBSD - where you want to go - today. http://www.freebsd.org/

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#779866 Posted on: 04/05/2010 09:10 PM ? huh? All I meant is that Intel doesn't seem to be innovating, they're using practically old arch just tweaking it...intel has improved by a new core arch the IPC of its cpus incredibly. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

uOpt FreeBSD cheering section Posts: 4203 Joined: 2005-05-27

#779869 Posted on: 04/05/2010 09:56 PM Quote: Originally Posted by terminalrecluse ? huh? All I meant is that Intel doesn't seem to be innovating, they're using practically old arch just tweaking it...intel has improved by a new core arch the IPC of its cpus incredibly. There is no difference between AMD and Intel here if you go to a 6-year view. All that dual-die stuff, lack of performance, lack of memory bandwidth, too much power etc. has been replayed on both sides. It will probably continue for some time as AMD has refused to die and the window of death opportunity has probably passed by now. My Unix benchmark results - My RAID benchmark results FreeBSD - where you want to go - today. http://www.freebsd.org/

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#779886 Posted on: 04/06/2010 02:22 PM I see your point. Here's to hoping AMD improves it's cores in the near future. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

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