8 Way SLI Oppy?

[keldysh]

This board looks strong

Comment?

 

[JMWarren]

I see ribbons next upgrade!

Mike

 

[imported_Kensai]

Nice.

 

[Pariah]

Most people here probably don't have enough internal organs to auction off to afford a board like that plus 8 8xx Opterons plus the enterprise level OS required to run something like that. Not to mention it probably wouldn't perform much better than a simple dual setup except for specialized applications since very few situations benefit from that much parallelism.

 

[JackBurton]

Um, wouldn't that be like a 16 Opteron CPU board if you were using 8 dual core Opterons? :Q I don't even know if Windows 2003 Enterprise Server will support 16 CPUs?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Pariah
Most people here probably don't have enough internal organs to auction off to afford a board like that plus 8 8xx Opterons plus the enterprise level OS required to run something like that. Not to mention it probably wouldn't perform much better than a simple dual setup except for specialized applications since very few situations benefit from that much parallelism.

Oh, I think I have a few things I can use that power for, and it ain't gaming.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Um, wouldn't that be like a 16 Opteron CPU board if you were using 8 dual core Opterons? :Q I don't even know if Windows 2003 Enterprise Server will support 16 CPUs?

Licensing is done per socket, not per core.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

:Q

 

[keldysh]

Looks hacky to me with riser board. Not likely to trust this setup to replace itanic systems with equal cpu inside.

SLIable! no faster really than 55fx in real world ok?

That would be Oracle monster if you run that softwares think so?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Um, wouldn't that be like a 16 Opteron CPU board if you were using 8 dual core Opterons? :Q I don't even know if Windows 2003 Enterprise Server will support 16 CPUs?

Licensing is done per socket, not per core.

I'm not talking about licensing. I'm talking about actual limitations of the OS. For instance, Windows XP Pro supports 2 dual core CPUs, whereas Windows XP Home only supports 1 dual core CPU. I think Windows 2003 Standard Server supports up to 4 dual core CPUs.

Ok, I found some information from Microsoft. It seems Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition supports up to 8 CPUs. Now I don't know if that takes into account for dual core or not. If it is a maximum of 8 cores, you may have to run it on Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition which is AN ASS LOAD OF MONEY. But I guess if you could afford an 8 x Opteron system, you should be able to afford the OS.

 

[keldysh]

Datacenter version requires 8cpu lol.

That works.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/sysreqs/default.mspx

Look not workstation hardware do not run workstation system operator ok?

2003 server run fine with games and desk softwares.

 

[Xaekai]

Originally posted by: lkeldysh
Looks hacky to me with riser board. Not likely to trust this setup to replace itanic systems with equal cpu inside.

What form factor supports 8 sockets without a riser?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Xaekai

Originally posted by: lkeldysh
Looks hacky to me with riser board. Not likely to trust this setup to replace itanic systems with equal cpu inside.

What form factor supports 8 sockets without a riser?

That'd be one BIG ASS board!

 

[SomeDude22]

thats sexy

 

[Xaekai]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Xaekai

Originally posted by: lkeldysh
Looks hacky to me with riser board. Not likely to trust this setup to replace itanic systems with equal cpu inside.

What form factor supports 8 sockets without a riser?

That'd be one BIG ASS board!

Given the largest common form factor I'm aware of is SSI MEB and at 13" x 16" those are massive boards already. I don't see how you could possibly get more than 4 cpus on it. Imagine the chassis for something bigger than that.

 

[keldysh]

No I mean Tyan riser look awkward like it could fall out or disconnect from system movement.

 

[n yusef]

Are you guys forgetting about Linux? You could run a sixteen core system on Linux no problem.

 

[keldysh]

Linus not running on enterprise opps though. IRIX does. Oppy is IA64 not IRIX compatible?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: lkeldysh
Linus not running on enterprise opps though. IRIX does. Oppy is IA64 not IRIX compatible?

Better tell that to SGI with their 256 CPU SSI boxes.

 

[keldysh]

So it run cellular IRIX? Out box?

Sound good but those board take small ram only? Crunchers use 32GB-CPU!

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: lkeldysh
So it run cellular IRIX? Out box?

Sound good but those board take small ram only? Crunchers use 32GB-CPU!

I was referring to your Linux comment.