Just Ordered my Mac Pro Tower!!!!

SlyPokerDog · Jan 4, 2014

MarAzul said: ↑

Ok, I bite Sly. Eleven what?
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MarAzul · Jan 4, 2014

SlyPokerDog said: ↑

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I only have enough power for nine

magnifier661 · Jan 6, 2014

Denny Crane said: ↑

I looked into the 1000 Cores claim and they built a dedicated CPU for compressing MPEG video. As I said, it wasn't general purpose. There are a number of CPU configurations you can program on these FPGA chips, the most complex is a dual core ARM 9 CPU, which is a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture. The most of those you can fit on an FPGA is 2 cores that I can see, but with some room left over for more functionality. And they run at 200MHz.

They do have much lesser powered Harvard Architecture CPUs you can program onto an FPGA. The most I saw mentioned was 24. A far cry from 1000. And these also run at 200MHz, way slower than most desktop CPUs of the past 15 years or so.

The Maui Supercomputer Center had a machine with 512 (or maybe it was 256) Intel CPUs, built by IBM. It ran Linux. I'd say that they wouldn't build such a beast if it wasn't technically a good idea.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...e-worlds-fastest-supercomputers-in-its-cloud/

Amazon puts 26,496 CPU cores together, builds a Top 100 supercomputer

At nearly 500 teraflop/s, Amazon cloud team makes its fastest supercomputer yet.

(teraflop = trillion floating point operations)

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...ights-landing-cpu-for-exascale-supercomputing

Intel has taken the wraps off Knights Landing, its next-gen, up-to-72-core Xeon Phi supercomputing chip. The main change is that Knights Landing will be a standalone processor, rather than a slot-in coprocessor that must be paired with standard Xeon CPU. Furthermore, Knights Landing will have up to 16GB of DRAM 3D stacked on-package, providing up to 500GB/sec of memory bandwidth (along with up to 384GB of DDR4-2400 mainboard memory). Knights Landing will debut in 2015 on Intel’s 14nm process, and with a promise of 3 teraflops (double precision) per socket it will almost certainly be used to build some monster 100+ petaflop x86 supercomputers, and beyond to exascale.

The current version of Xeon Phi (Knights Corner) is a PCIe expansion board with an up-to-61-core Intel MIC (Many Integrated Core) chip. These cores are based on the original P54C Pentium core — just like its stillborn Larrabee predecessor — but with a lot of modern additions, such as 64-bit support and 512-bit vector registers.
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This is a beast of a machine!!!! WOW!

MarAzul · Jan 6, 2014

magnifier661 said: ↑

This is a beast of a machine!!!! WOW!
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Seems like your eight core toy is beastly enough!

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