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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Still 12 days to go for the next generation multicores.
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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11 days to go
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Pay day or have I missed something?
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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How come. You live in another world.
----------------------------------------On the 16th of March Intel will put the 6 cores and 8 cores CPU's on the public market. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1672 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Hypernova,
----------------------------------------I fully understand your enthusiasm ! but ... you should not forget that many WCG-members do not have the possibility to buy and to use such power systems for contributing to WCG projects. I think that it would not be appropriate to give the feeling that only "power contribution" are welcome. EVERY contributions are significant and important for the research. WCG is not the most appropriate place for CPU power discussion, even if I am personally interested in such discussions (because it is part of my background and of my job). You can imagine that newcomers could be frustrated to see all the badges they will not be able to earn because the projects are already completed. I think that it is not a good idea to add frustration because of the available CPU power (do not forget, that not everybody can afford hexa-core, Xeon, or large clusters). Cheers, Yves |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yves, I understand what you mean, and frankly I hope that my enthousiasm doesn't strike a negative feeling here and there. Will be more careful in the future.
----------------------------------------I think that even if some of this was in some of my past posts, it is good to say it again. What I believe regarding WCG is: whatever power one individual member can bring to WCG, it remains very small compared to the aggregate power of a multitude of crunchers. The collective power of tens or hundreds of thousands of crunchers of any power level, will dwarf the largest supercomputer. So we need everybody here, and even if badges and rankings are there for fun and do create some kind of virtual competition, with feelings, the winners are all crunchers together. In that sense each member's contribution has an identical value. Those who contribute 10 points a day or a million points a day have the same intrinsic value to WCG and the humanitarian causes we crunch for. My attitude in general regarding peformance, hardware, systems etc. is that of curiosity. There are many, many, many, systems, technologies, that are and will be outside my financial or practical capability. In those cases I have allways been interested that someone else that could afford them, or have for various reasons access to them, does share his experience and the informations he may have. Hope that the majority of us are in that positive, constructive spirit. |
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Reviews of the six core i7 980X have been released today. With the price tag of 999 $, most of us will be waiting for budget versions of the Gulftown chips... Wonder how many of those we will see here at the WCG immediately at the next week!
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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mikaok, AMD will also release the Magny-Cours Opteron with 12 physical cores. No idea about the price but for what I have read it is impossible to understand if the Magny-Cours is Hyperthreaded or not. If yes then a dual socket would have 48 threads. WoW! Maybe Movieman could give us more info on this wonder chip (at wonderful price I suppose
---------------------------------------- )I looked at the anandtech review you posted and we get for the same TDP and same frequency 50%more processing power. Save the acquisition cost 50%more processing power for the same energy consumption would pay back the CPU over time. The Ideal would be a 2.9-3.00 Ghz version overclocked to 3.6. That one should have an excellent payback. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Mar 12, 2010 10:50:26 AM] |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Right on time, the Core i7 980X 6-12(HT) core at 3.3 Ghz and the Xeon 5680 6-12(HT) core for dual socket at 3.3 Ghz, are now listed on the Intel website.
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi Hypernova
----------------------------------------6 days a day for mere mortals has arrived :-)) http://www.techspot.com/news/38719-Amazon-sta...e-desktop-processors.html Still haven't got the pennies together to power up my 905e but I have set my sights on a 95W TDP Phenom II X6 Just hoping ASUS will produce an updated BIOS for my ASUS M4A79XTD EVO  |
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