Supermicro Shows Off 80-Core Xeon Server

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 , March 2, 2011 4:35 AM

How about a single CPU with 80 cores?
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verbalizer , March 2, 2011 4:40 AM

ridiculous..
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mavroxur , March 2, 2011 4:44 AM

*drool*
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mavroxur , March 2, 2011 4:45 AM

*drool*
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masterasia , March 2, 2011 4:45 AM

I have this exact model in my living room for my HTPC
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masterasia , March 2, 2011 4:48 AM

Hey.......Where's my comment?
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campb292 , March 2, 2011 4:49 AM

Holy cow. Technology moves so fast. I just upgraded my Commodore 64 to a 486DX2. I think I only have 1 core.
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compton , March 2, 2011 4:52 AM

I'm guessing price is somewhere in the neighborhood of $not cheap.
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kilo_17 , March 2, 2011 4:52 AM

1TB of RAM? That's insane!
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jn77 , March 2, 2011 4:53 AM

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?
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djsting , March 2, 2011 4:53 AM

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
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compton , March 2, 2011 4:54 AM

Who cores?
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someguynamedmatt , March 2, 2011 5:08 AM

...whoa. Do want.
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dimamu15 , March 2, 2011 5:14 AM

can I get that to game X)
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utengineer , March 2, 2011 5:19 AM

That's going to be cheap. Ordered two of them
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utengineer , March 2, 2011 5:20 AM

Thanks's going to be cheap. Ordered two of them
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burnley14 , March 2, 2011 5:23 AM

Wow, that's gonna cost a pretty penny.
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JsPcKiP , March 2, 2011 5:33 AM

I'd sure love folding with that...
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saymi , March 2, 2011 5:35 AM

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.
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kimyeang88 , March 2, 2011 5:36 AM

2800 Watt...........

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