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Behold, the epic win that is Opteron!

32 cores? I can't figure out how you get into that configuration -- are there 8-CPU motherboards available?
My Mac Mini spends its days SSHed into my personal 16-core 8GB machine, which is suddenly feeling very small.

SNM wrote:

32 cores? I can't figure out how you get into that configuration -- are there 8-CPU motherboards available?
My Mac Mini spends its days SSHed into my personal 16-core 8GB machine, which is suddenly feeling very small.

It's an 8 way Opteron 8384 made by Hewlett Packard. Pretty Awesome. I wish I could try some H.264 transcoding on it or something.

SNM wrote:

32 cores? I can't figure out how you get into that configuration -- are there 8-CPU motherboards available?

If you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, get yourself one of these, and put four of these on it. Voila!

Edit: Or get four of these for some 48-way SMP action!

Give it 5 years and that will be in my Desktop!

What type of work are you doing on it exactly? Wish I had that at my workplace, they still have P4 2.4ghz/DDR/FX5200 machines running the most bland version of XP I have ever seen.

just brew it! wrote:

If you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, get yourself one of these, and put four of these on it. Voila!

Edit: Or get four of these for some 48-way SMP action!

Holy crap, I was just looking over the specs of that motherboard... 32 DIMM sockets, with support for up to 512 GB of RAM (assuming you can get your hands on 16 GB DIMMs)!

just brew it! wrote:

Edit: Or get four of these for some 48-way SMP action!

One of our sites did just that, and performance suffered because they chose the slowest version (1.6 Ghz) offered, which hurt single threaded performance (Some of our stuff is highly efficient single threaded code).

StuG wrote:

Give it 5 years and that will be in my Desktop!

What type of work are you doing on it exactly? Wish I had that at my workplace, they still have P4 2.4ghz/DDR/FX5200 machines running the most bland version of XP I have ever seen.

Medical records. That server serves hundreds of thousands of things to about 5 or 6 thousand people simultaneously, and is doing a damn fine job.

You make me a saaaad panda.

Fragnificent wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Edit: Or get four of these for some 48-way SMP action!

One of our sites did just that, and performance suffered because they chose the slowest version (1.6 Ghz) offered, which hurt single threaded performance (Some of our stuff is highly efficient single threaded code).

Yeah, judging from those CPU usage meters it looks like there are a few cores sitting idle even with your 32-core version.

just brew it! wrote:

Fragnificent wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Edit: Or get four of these for some 48-way SMP action!

One of our sites did just that, and performance suffered because they chose the slowest version (1.6 Ghz) offered, which hurt single threaded performance (Some of our stuff is highly efficient single threaded code).

Yeah, judging from those CPU usage meters it looks like there are a few cores sitting idle even with your 32-core version.

Yeah, it's actually somewhat lame...lol.

wow cool stuff, at my work we have 3000+ machines in our datacenters, but the best I get to touch are some 8 core blades..

sigh.

Lenovo T60 at work. ~2ghz dual core with 2GB of RAM. I'm 2nd on the list for a new laptop though. Not nearly powerful enough for some of the analysis I run.

I've got a Lenovo Thinkcenre 8808 at work. Not a beast, but sufficient for what I do.

I use my Acer Aspire 5740 Laptop.
Core 13 330M
4GB of Ram
500GB hard drive
radeon 5470

Good enough for work...more than enough really considering all I do is enter results of hardware tests...and visit techreport while I wait.

lol

My server at work is a slot 1 PIII 733 with 768MB of sdram (actually an old compaq exd)

EDIT
though actually I will say this for those old compaq desktops, they're stable as hell! I've got another server of a similar generation that managed 650 days before I rebooted for a kernel update.

jee I use a dell latitude e6500. I feel weak and girly now

*sigh* back to my $hitty A64 3800. lol.

I have the most god-awful computer in the world at work. More on that monday, if I remember.

Up until last week it was some HP desktop with i5 and 4gb of RAM. Of course manufacturer put XP originally so I had to install the included W7 on it which was the 32-bit version making the system skip almost a gig of RAM. It was lovely. Of course last week the company laid me off along with a whole bunch of other people so I don't have a machine at work any more. But at least I don't have to see it suffer with 32-bit Windows any longer.

I'm using an AXP 2800+ I found in the dumpster outside my apartment a few years back...it's the fastest machine in the building.

All of our workstations are either a POS Dell, or a POS Compaq. I guess being used only for medical data storage they don't need 32 cores of power.

Synchromesh wrote:

Up until last week it was some HP desktop with i5 and 4gb of RAM. Of course manufacturer put XP originally so I had to install the included W7 on it which was the 32-bit version making the system skip almost a gig of RAM. It was lovely. Of course last week the company laid me off along with a whole bunch of other people so I don't have a machine at work any more. But at least I don't have to see it suffer with 32-bit Windows any longer.

Talk about putting a positive spin on your employment situation! Well done, sir.

(At my workplace we have many many 'workstations' which are getting quite long in the tooth - mostly Dell Optiplex P4s running XP. The worst part is the pisspoor slow HDDs which I'd always felt versus my more modern mechanical drives but which are painfully slow now that I've got an SSD at home.)

I'm using a MAC Book Pro purchased in 2008. I use vmware fusion with windows 7 along with it.

Currently suffering with an 8-core 3GHz Mac Pro tower, with 16GB of RAM and a couple 1TB hard drives. It'll do...

I've got you all beat. I use a Wyse thin client.


Bow before my demonstration of supreme power!

Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM running Windows XP and Office 2007. It's so slow I have to practice multitasking off the computer to get more things done.

titan how about this page? http://www.disklessworkstations.com/thi ... html?open=
I use the red one, with the ultimate powerful 1 ghz eden...

So you do you have me beat, I just googled those clients, lol.

Macbook 2,1 with 2.16 GHz C2D, 2GB of RAM, and an aftermarket 320GB 7200RPM hard drive. These days it mainly runs Win7 64-bit, but it can also boot Ubuntu and OSX 10.6.

For 3.5 years old, it's not bad. I could stand some more RAM, but due to chipset limitations it'll only go up to 3GB. Probably another 1.5 years before $BOSS will sanction getting a new one.

MadManOriginal wrote:

Synchromesh wrote:

Up until last week it was some HP desktop with i5 and 4gb of RAM. Of course manufacturer put XP originally so I had to install the included W7 on it which was the 32-bit version making the system skip almost a gig of RAM. It was lovely. Of course last week the company laid me off along with a whole bunch of other people so I don't have a machine at work any more. But at least I don't have to see it suffer with 32-bit Windows any longer.

Talk about putting a positive spin on your employment situation! Well done, sir.

Thank you. Between this and losing almost everything in my house to a robbery about 1 month ago (there is a thread on that here) I now tell my friends not to stand too close to me as a ton of bricks could land on their heads on any given time.

/offtopic

At work, the machine I use most frequently is the coffee maker (I'm somewhat notorious, in fact).

Second to that is a Dell quad-core with dual 19" *VA monitors. That upgrade happened this year, as I was previously using a single 19" monitor and some sort of Prescott CPU in a BTX case.