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Curious: 8 proccessors?

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mustard010

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Hey, I'm very curious on how one computer has 8 or more proccessors.

Is this multiple motherboards, joint into one case? If so, then can someone show me a picture, or a link showing some of it?

=D thanks
 
Ok now I know what it is, blade servers

It looks so compact, but I want to learn more about them, I tried searching in google, but I found no results on a info check

Anyone have a link?
 
Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Originally posted by: beyoku
also some of the mb's are 2 way 4 way and 8 way in one system itself i think
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I'd like to see one of those.
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I'd like to see a 10,000 way mobo! 😀 You'd probably need a whole city block for it, but think of the crunching possibilties! 😱
 
Well, there are quad Xeon motherboards. SuperMicro and Tyan specialize in that. They're quite large though--most won't fit in just any ATX case. Often you end up needing something like a SuperMicro SC850.

Traditionally for the really large x86 boxen (4-8 way with >16GB DIMM capacity), the motherboard is separated into multiple boards with proprietary mount points and interconnects. Closest I've seen to that is an AMI 14u quad Xeon barebones rackmount (I can't seem to identify the model or anything, sorry). The case itself was solid steel with several hefty hot-swap power supplies, twelve hot-swap half-height SCSI bays, and a three-piece motherboard design. The main part of the motherboard held four Slot2 mounts for P3 Xeons plus 16 PC100 slots and was mounted vertically. (It appeared to have a SCSI controller onboard as well--perhaps an AMI MegaRAID). It had one daughtercard plugging into a proprietary slot and mounted horizontally with 16 more DIMM slots, and the top edge plugged into the backside of an active backplane with some 10-15 PCI slots.

It was a sight to behold. It was also gloriously inefficient in the amount of rackspace it consumed. 14u!!! God damn. Of course, the enormous Slot2 Xeons probably had a lot to do with that, but I think AMI could have arranged to pack a lot more in there.
 
Even most HPC systems only have 4~8 CPUs on a board. It is the interconnect and the software that makes them scale to thousands of processors as a single system image. SGI is currently the king of this in Itanium line.
 
The Unisys ES7000 is a wintel server supporting up to 32 processesors. The processors are on modules that plug into the back of the server.
 
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