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The most unexciting CPU introdution ever

hehehe, i misread your title. i thought it read "the most exciting cpu introduction ever" and i eagerly clicked the link. much to my disappointment.

oh well.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
hehehe, i misread your title. i thought it read "the most exciting cpu introduction ever" and i eagerly clicked the link. much to my disappointment.

oh well.
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I wish they had introduced something more exciting.
 
Originally posted by: RanDum72
700mhz......yawn....
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Yes, because clock speed is the most important specification...
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Originally posted by: Ben50
Even for a risc chip that just looks slow.
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64-bit MIPS processors are designed to dissipate as little heat as possible. They make more sense in large-scale servers than workstations.
 
I dunno, guys, SGI workstations will generally kick ass and take names when running their designed apps...

They're really very specialized machines, and as we've seen with P4's, clock speed isn't everything.

Somehow, there's a lot more to it than we understand, bet on it...
 
this thing dissapates about 15w of heat. most sgi's are huge boxen with tens or hundreds of cpus. as far as density, sgi kicks ass. 512 CPU rack anyone? try fitting 16 p4's into a rackmount case, you wouldn't even be able to power it, and if you could, you'd need a whole plumbing system to watercool it all.

yeah it's not coming to your desktop anytime soon, but please people, show some intelligence and quit barking about mhz.
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
this thing dissapates about 15w of heat. most sgi's are huge boxen with tens or hundreds of cpus. as far as density, sgi kicks ass. 512 CPU rack anyone? try fitting 16 p4's into a rackmount case, you wouldn't even be able to power it, and if you could, you'd need a whole plumbing system to watercool it all.

yeah it's not coming to your desktop anytime soon, but please people, show some intelligence and quit barking about mhz.
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I suppose you forgot about nvidia's engine room. What was that? 4000 Xeons at 2Ghz each?
 
The thing about the MIPS architecture is that like the hammer, it's NUMA. And it's even more advanced than the hammer's NUMA implmentation. Thus, they scale almost linearly. You'd never see a XEON system scale linearly. Nor will you ever see a XEON with 4MB of L2 cache. What's the big deal with ragging on the CPU release? It'll be a huge upgrade to the MIPS systems still stuck on the 500MHZ models..
 
Question is, is that 4MB cache at the clock speed, or something a lot slower? What would be better, 1MB full speed cache, or 4MB quite slow cache? (I don't know about that sorta thing, it's a serious question)
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
this thing dissapates about 15w of heat. most sgi's are huge boxen with tens or hundreds of cpus. as far as density, sgi kicks ass. 512 CPU rack anyone? try fitting 16 p4's into a rackmount case, you wouldn't even be able to power it, and if you could, you'd need a whole plumbing system to watercool it all.

yeah it's not coming to your desktop anytime soon, but please people, show some intelligence and quit barking about mhz.
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intelligence? isnt that asking for too much 😛
 
700mhz......yawn....

Yes, because clock speed is the most important specification...

No its not but if you want to create a big media splash, you have to come up with the GHZ😉
 
I cant wait to see soem of the clustering possibilities with this processor. That is one area SGI is practically unmatched.
 
It is really funny to hear a lot of you talk about this workstation proc like it is a desktop AMD or Intel proc. They are simply designed for two different applications and you cannot compare them. They are each very good at what they do and what applications they are designed for.
 
BTW, anyone who buys from SGI is smart enough to know that an SGI processor could kick the props out from under a P4. A 1.3GHZ Power4 annihilates a 3.06GHZ P4 when it comes down to hard server oriented workloads. I dont' see why this SGI processor shouldn't perform admirably in such situations.

Dexvx:I believe the engine room was not a 4000 Xeon system, rather a bunch of Dual Xeon based systems in a huge Beowulf cluster.
 
Originally posted by: FishTankX
BTW, anyone who buys from SGI is smart enough to know that an SGI processor could kick the props out from under a P4. A 1.3GHZ Power4 annihilates a 3.06GHZ P4 when it comes down to hard server oriented workloads. I dont' see why this SGI processor shouldn't perform admirably in such situations.

Dexvx:I believe the engine room was not a 4000 Xeon system, rather a bunch of Dual Xeon based systems in a huge Beowulf cluster.
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SPEC floating-point scores (in no particular order):

SGI Origin 3200 1X 600MHz R14k - 499
IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2 (1450 MHz, 1 CPU) - 1221
IBM eServer pSeries 690 Turbo (1300 MHz) - 1202
Precision WorkStation 350 (3.06 GHz P4) - 1092
ASUS A7N8X (REV 1.02) Motherboard, AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ - 782
hp AlphaServer ES45 68/1250 - 1019
hp server rx5670 (1000 MHz, Itanium 2) - 1431 (tested after the release of a new compiler)
hp workstation zx6000 (1000 MHz, Itanium 2) - 1422 (tested after the release of a new compiler)
Sun Blade 2000 (2x1.05GHz) - 711
 
Originally posted by: Vespasian
Originally posted by: FishTankX

SPEC floating-point scores (in no particular order):

SGI Origin 3200 1X 600MHz R14k - 499


X 512=





Seriously, I was not aware of the efficientcy of SGI's processors.

I must admit I learned a lot from this thread.


15w is a very admirable....actually amazing.
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