E7-8890 v3, can't seem to find a 8 way system

[SarahKerrigan]

The Fujitsu Primequest 2800B2/2800E2 servers might also be of interest to you, although I don't expect they'd be much cheaper than the Xeontegrity above.

 

[ranakor]

Are you a quant? Apparently those guys are using CUDA on Titans.

I have no clue what a "quant" is. So most likely no.

 

[ranakor]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any recent E7 systems outside of T1 vendors that support 8S. Supermicro did do an 8S system for the first gen E7s but don't appear to have a solution for current gen E7s (probably too far outside of their target markets).

Also Oracle makes one as well: https://www.oracle.com/servers/x86/x5-8/features.html

Aye i saw the 8S from supermicro but that gen would push the total power way way down and could be matched by 4S systems from this gen

I guess it is to be expected there's no off the shelf motherboard to buy but i could always dream, i expected making my own would've brought me close to half budget on this.

 

[ranakor]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any recent E7 systems outside of T1 vendors that support 8S. Supermicro did do an 8S system for the first gen E7s but don't appear to have a solution for current gen E7s (probably too far outside of their target markets).

Also Oracle makes one as well: https://www.oracle.com/servers/x86/x5-8/features.html

I assume (mayhaps wrongly) it is going to be extremely expensive as it's targeted at people buying big licenses for oracles product at the same time, however i see it uses E7-8895 instead of 8890 which is funny because i can find it on intel ark but it wasn't listed in the E7 V3 family (found it through Google).

 

[jhu]

I have no clue what a "quant" is. So most likely no.

Quants are the math majors who went into high frequency trading firms and who can afford all this high priced gear.

 

[ranakor]

Quants are the math majors who went into high frequency trading firms and who can afford all this high priced gear.

I'm not native English but is quant an abbreviation for something? Never heard the term.

Anyway here the use case is 3D reconstruction from 2D pictures (to keep it both simple and within what i can state).

 

[ehume]

I always thought quant was an abbreviation of quantitative, and referenced a quantitatively oriented person -- a numbers person rather then a people person.

 

[myocardia]

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[ranakor]

It's an abbreviation of quantitative analyst.

Well that clears it up, so to answer the original question, no it aint what i'm doing ><

 

[imported_ats]

Aye i saw the 8S from supermicro but that gen would push the total power way way down and could be matched by 4S systems from this gen

I guess it is to be expected there's no off the shelf motherboard to buy but i could always dream, i expected making my own would've brought me close to half budget on this.

Yeah its a combination thing, the market for >4s servers is fairly small overall, kind of expensive to get into (just getting all the hardware required to test stuff is insanely expensive), and the general customer base interested in >4s servers generally want significant support contracts.

The original E7 8S server that everyone sold were basically Intel OEM systems that Intel tested and designed and then gave out all the data for which is why all the low cost vendors picked them up to see if there was a market.