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Supermicro Shows Off 80-Core Xeon Server

by - source: Heise

The more cores the better!

The server board has four modules, each of which can carry two upcoming 10-core Xeon E7 CPUs. Intel's new 32nm Westmere EX will debut as E7-2800 series (two sockets), E7-4800 series (four sockets) as well as E7-8800 series (eight sockets) with six, eight and ten cores as well as clock speeds ranging from 1.73 to 2.4 GHz.   

The 5086B-TRF has also room for up to four Nvidia Tesla GPGPU cards as well as 16 DDR3 memory slots for each memory slot for a maximum of 1 TB, the manufacturer said. Supermicro uses a PSU with 2800 watts capacity, but wants to offer the option of a 3200 watt unit in future.

Prices have not been announced.

Picture courtesy: www.heise.de

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lp231 03/01/2011 11:35 PM
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How about a single CPU with 80 cores?

malmental 03/01/2011 11:40 PM
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ridiculous..

mavroxur 03/01/2011 11:44 PM
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*drool*

mavroxur 03/01/2011 11:45 PM
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*drool*

masterasia 03/01/2011 11:45 PM
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I have this exact model in my living room for my HTPC

masterasia 03/01/2011 11:48 PM
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Hey.......Where's my comment?

campb292 03/01/2011 11:49 PM
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Holy cow. Technology moves so fast. I just upgraded my Commodore 64 to a 486DX2. I think I only have 1 core.

compton 03/01/2011 11:52 PM
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I'm guessing price is somewhere in the neighborhood of $not cheap.

kilo_17 03/01/2011 11:52 PM
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1TB of RAM? That's insane!

jn77 03/01/2011 11:53 PM
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I wonder what this would do for Batch raw photo and uncompressed 1080p/60FPS video editing..... could it be done at 2-4 times real time on windows 7 64bit?

djsting 03/01/2011 11:53 PM
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It's funny, not that long ago, I can remember windows 3 running on a 386 with something like 4mb of RAM. Then windows 95 cam out. It was recommended that you run a 486 with 8mb. I remember friends and family being up in arms. "8MB!?!?!?! What in the world would you need with a system that has 8MB or RAM!?!?!?!? I mean come on, thats absurd." Here we are 16 years later talking about 80 cores at 2ghz a piece and a 1tb of RAM and not really thinking twice about it. My how times change :)

compton 03/01/2011 11:54 PM
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Who cores?

someguynamedmatt 03/02/2011 12:08 PM
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...whoa. Do want.

dimamu15 03/02/2011 12:14 PM
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can I get that to game X)

utengineer 03/02/2011 12:19 PM
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That's going to be cheap. Ordered two of them ;)

utengineer 03/02/2011 12:20 PM
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Thanks's going to be cheap. Ordered two of them ;)

burnley14 03/02/2011 12:23 PM
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Wow, that's gonna cost a pretty penny.

JsPcKiP 03/02/2011 12:33 PM
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I'd sure love folding with that...

saymi 03/02/2011 12:35 PM
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I wonder how much terflops capacity it will have. How close can this server be to a supercomputer with 4 tesla cards? It is not only the capacity you need to find a Opencl or Cuda programer to able to use it full capacity.

But I want to host 40 operating systems on this server. Divide 40 to the cost of the infrastructre and we can see how economical it can be.

kimyeang88 03/02/2011 12:36 PM
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2800 Watt...........

accolite 03/02/2011 1:01 AM
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Talk about a rendering dream.
But I bet It will cost more than my car.

squallypie 03/02/2011 2:26 AM
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2800 Watt Power Supply.... man those servers are amazing!

applegetsmelaid 03/02/2011 2:29 AM
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For 2800 watts the PSU looks kinda puny.

K2N hater 03/02/2011 2:48 AM
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Wonder if it comes with some sort of discount or rebate for the processors...

impulsefire911 03/02/2011 2:48 AM
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can it run minesweeper?

Anonymous 03/02/2011 2:54 AM
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That's pretty hardCore.

Anonymous 03/02/2011 3:37 AM
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Me want servuh!

digitalexplosives 03/02/2011 3:59 AM
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JESUS!

digitalrazoe 03/02/2011 4:08 AM
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That would be one hell of a workstation ~might have to ask for a raise to handle the newly large electric bill.

thillntn 03/02/2011 5:01 AM
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Maybe better than a ps3 cluster? can i has a credit app?

elcentral 03/02/2011 5:52 AM
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it got 4 way sli im pritty damn sure it will eat crysis 1 up and spit it up on a side walk.


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