almost ultimate smpboxen

fR33z3 · 19th September 2003, 3:46 PM

I found a new toy in my work building, tucked away in a seemingly innocent harmless storage room.
1 silicon graphics altix, with a couple...well..make that eight (8), itanium cpus.
apparently running 64bit linux.
/wonders if possible to recompile counterstrike dedicated server/

Reason i saw it? Apparently the itaniums had a bug in them, so sgi had to replace all 8 cpus. It was pretty cool to watch.
Thought about doing a runner with the old ones, but settled on one of the guy's business cards

D_Web · 19th September 2003, 4:42 PM

I think a Battlefield 1942 server might give them more of a work out

Not a bad box, know how much ram it had or what its primary purpose is?

rattman · 19th September 2003, 5:03 PM

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1 silicon graphics altix, with a couple...well..make that eight (8), itanium cpus

A friend works in a HPC (high preformance computing centre) of a university and uses a dual itanium as a foot rest under his desk because of the trouble these CPU's have

Rattman

stmok · 20th September 2003, 12:52 AM

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Originally posted by rattman
A friend works in a HPC (high preformance computing centre) of a university and uses a dual itanium as a foot rest under his desk because of the trouble these CPU's have

Rattman

World's most expensive foot rest!

What kind of problems did the CPUs have? (I'm curious)

rattman · 20th September 2003, 8:23 AM

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Originally posted by stmok
World's most expensive foot rest!

What kind of problems did the CPUs have? (I'm curious)

Not sure they were given to them free by intel, might have been some of the original itainiums. He made a comment that they were getting incorrect results and that they didn't have the time or inclination to resolve this.

So they just continued to use the SGI cluster and blade's instead.

Rattman

chestRcopRpot · 21st September 2003, 12:18 PM

id be happy to take away any unwanted foot rests

wonder what the doormats are

Tebinium · 8th October 2003, 9:48 PM

OMG!! Haven't they replaced the bent abacus yet?

Hehe - Intel can't count :-)

NV28_OF_NV28GL · 12th October 2003, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fR33z3
I found a new toy in my work building, tucked away in a seemingly innocent harmless storage room.
1 silicon graphics altix, with a couple...well..make that eight (8), itanium cpus.
apparently running 64bit linux.
/wonders if possible to recompile counterstrike dedicated server/

Reason i saw it? Apparently the itaniums had a bug in them, so sgi had to replace all 8 cpus. It was pretty cool to watch.
Thought about doing a runner with the old ones, but settled on one of the guy's business cards

Itanium 1 or 2? Itanium 1's SUCK! Look in Sandra. Hell, not too faster than my 2 x PII 350@400. (Soon to be 2xPIII 533).

I think Intel is developing a software x86 emulator for IA64 which will perform like a simularly clocked Xeon.

yujen · 13th October 2003, 9:22 AM

at x86 instructions yes itaniums suck.. if you need 64-bit flat addressing on x86 you have only one choice: x86-64

itaniums would do alot better to drop the legacy and ugly x86 ISA, just forge forward with IA64... it'll save some chip realestate and lower manufacturing costs if nothing else

software emulators is a "stop gap" effort, the best software emulator i've ever seen/used is digital's FX32 which ran x86 code "faster" than the then current top of the line intel x86 chip...

besides who would buy an itanium just to run legacy x86 code on them? its to make migration to IA64 easier, nothing more.

cvidler · 22nd October 2003, 4:36 PM

Ultimate SMP on a chip (well until something better comes out)!

2 CPUs per die
2 multithreading per CPU
4 dies per 'chip' (package)
8-way SMP per package!
16-way multithreading per package!
144MB L3 cache per package!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12217 (specs)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12145 (careful this one is pr0n for SMP geeks)

Gnuthad · 22nd October 2003, 5:28 PM

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Originally posted by cvidler
[Bhttp://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12217 (specs)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12145 (careful this one is pr0n for SMP geeks) [/B]

/me creams his pants

GarethB · 23rd October 2003, 11:14 PM

One of the new boxes where I work isn't too bad, from HP. 16 Itanium CPU's (no idea what clock speed) 64 Gigs (YES, SIXTY FOUR GIGS) of RAM. People at work refer to it as "Top Dome" but I don't know if that's an HP product name or just an internal name at my work for it. As for storage, it's hooked up to three EMC disk array cabinets (don't ask me about actual storage space, science hasn't invented a number big enough yet

) via fibre optics, and a big-arse HP tape silo (500 and something cartidges, 200 gigs per cartridge. You to the maths. 1000 Gigs is called a Terrabyte, just in case people didn't know).

It's replaced a reasonably well specced HP V-class (12 HP PA-RISC CPU's, no idea on RAM config) and kicks the V-class's arse well and truely into next week.

cvidler · 24th October 2003, 9:51 AM

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Originally posted by GarethB
One of the new boxes where I work isn't too bad, from HP. 16 Itanium CPU's (no idea what clock speed) 64 Gigs (YES, SIXTY FOUR GIGS) of RAM. People at work refer to it as "Top Dome" but I don't know if that's an HP product name or just an internal name at my work for it. As for storage, it's hooked up to three EMC disk array cabinets (don't ask me about actual storage space, science hasn't invented a number big enough yet ) via fibre optics, and a big-arse HP tape silo (500 and something cartidges, 200 gigs per cartridge. You to the maths. 1000 Gigs is called a Terrabyte, just in case people didn't know).

It's replaced a reasonably well specced HP V-class (12 HP PA-RISC CPU's, no idea on RAM config) and kicks the V-class's arse well and truely into next week.

You talking about one of these:

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/...end/index.html (includes small pic and lots of specs)

Aamdaron · 3rd November 2003, 6:26 PM

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Originally posted by cvidler

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12145 (careful this one is pr0n for SMP geeks)

dunno much about SMP but that thing sure looks like a beast

whats the pricetag on one of those thigns and a mobo that can use it?

carbine · 7th November 2003, 12:45 AM

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12145

I hope that it's passively cooled or thats gunna have one mumma of a hsf.

19th September 2003, 3:46 PM	#1
fR33z3 Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Perth Posts: 1,963	almost ultimate smpboxen I found a new toy in my work building, tucked away in a seemingly innocent harmless storage room. 1 silicon graphics altix, with a couple...well..make that eight (8), itanium cpus. apparently running 64bit linux. /wonders if possible to recompile counterstrike dedicated server/ Reason i saw it? Apparently the itaniums had a bug in them, so sgi had to replace all 8 cpus. It was pretty cool to watch. Thought about doing a runner with the old ones, but settled on one of the guy's business cards __________________ I need a Wiimote. Broken is ok!

19th September 2003, 4:42 PM	#2
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21st September 2003, 12:18 PM	#6
chestRcopRpot Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Townsville, QLD Posts: 2,696	id be happy to take away any unwanted foot rests wonder what the doormats are __________________ folding

8th October 2003, 9:48 PM	#7
Tebinium Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 85	Incorrect Calculations OMG!! Haven't they replaced the bent abacus yet? Hehe - Intel can't count :-)

22nd October 2003, 4:36 PM	#10
cvidler Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Canberra Posts: 4,886	Ultimate SMP on a chip (well until something better comes out)! 2 CPUs per die 2 multithreading per CPU 4 dies per 'chip' (package) 8-way SMP per package! 16-way multithreading per package! 144MB L3 cache per package! http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12217 (specs) http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12145 (careful this one is pr0n for SMP geeks) __________________ ASUS P5E Q9550 2.83 @ 3.4 Air - ASUS NCCH-DL Dual Xeon 2.4 @ 3.2 Water - ASUS PC-DL Dual Xeon 3.06 @ 3.7 Air Mitch01: This thread has more bad information than me in the Motoring forum. [#]

13th October 2003, 9:22 AM	#9
yujen Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 579	at x86 instructions yes itaniums suck.. if you need 64-bit flat addressing on x86 you have only one choice: x86-64 itaniums would do alot better to drop the legacy and ugly x86 ISA, just forge forward with IA64... it'll save some chip realestate and lower manufacturing costs if nothing else software emulators is a "stop gap" effort, the best software emulator i've ever seen/used is digital's FX32 which ran x86 code "faster" than the then current top of the line intel x86 chip... besides who would buy an itanium just to run legacy x86 code on them? its to make migration to IA64 easier, nothing more.

23rd October 2003, 11:14 PM	#12
GarethB Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,260	One of the new boxes where I work isn't too bad, from HP. 16 Itanium CPU's (no idea what clock speed) 64 Gigs (YES, SIXTY FOUR GIGS) of RAM. People at work refer to it as "Top Dome" but I don't know if that's an HP product name or just an internal name at my work for it. As for storage, it's hooked up to three EMC disk array cabinets (don't ask me about actual storage space, science hasn't invented a number big enough yet ) via fibre optics, and a big-arse HP tape silo (500 and something cartidges, 200 gigs per cartridge. You to the maths. 1000 Gigs is called a Terrabyte, just in case people didn't know). It's replaced a reasonably well specced HP V-class (12 HP PA-RISC CPU's, no idea on RAM config) and kicks the V-class's arse well and truely into next week.