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Thinking about buying a Dual 3.2 Xeon server for Folding

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ChrisDTC
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Thinking about buying a Dual 3.2 Xeon server for Folding

Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:39 pm

Found this on another forum

Supermicro X5DA8 + 2x 3.2GHz/512K/1MB Xeons ('Gallatin')
6GB PC2100 Reg. ECC (Board Takes 12GB)
Leadtek GF6800 Ultra OC Dual DVI (This particular variety mods perfectly to QuadroFX 4000, which is why I've kept it in here)
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Its obviously a last gen system, but its the procs that got me excited. Im thinking it would be quite the SMP monster, but Im not sure, what kind of PPD do you think I could get out of something like that?
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Re: Thinking about buying a Dual 3.2 Xeon server for Folding

Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:03 pm

ChrisDTC wrote:
Im not sure, what kind of PPD do you think I could get out of something like that?


http://fahinfo.org

You should be able to get something from there.
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Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:25 pm

oh, so gallatin xeons arent even dual core, nevermind then

SMP or nothing
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Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:20 pm

Gallatin is a P4 Xeon. :o You definitely don't want it.
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:14 am

ChrisDTC wrote:
oh, so gallatin xeons arent even dual core, nevermind then

SMP or nothing


Can't SMP utilize the other physical processor?
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:19 am

Nitrodist wrote:
ChrisDTC wrote:
oh, so gallatin xeons arent even dual core, nevermind then

SMP or nothing


Can't SMP utilize the other physical processor?

Yeah, it works over multi-processors just like multi-core. Obviously you lose the benefits of shared cache, but I bet it's not that different.

(For example, look at this review. The 248's are a pair of single-core opterons @ 2.2ghz while the 175 is a single dual-core opteron @ 2.2ghz.)
http://techreport.com/articles.x/8236/10
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