Today is a good workday

[Yanagi]

Sitting here at work with 2 new servers. I cant talk about them in specific as they are unreleased as of now but I can tell as much as this.

1 Intel server, 4 sockets, 4 quadcore Tigerton CPUs at 2.93GHz, 32GB RAM
1 AMD Server with 2 Barcelona quad cores, I havent checked the Speed on the cores yet, but this baby is stuffed to the neck with some sweet 64GB. I wonder what kind of benchmarks I could try on these..

In a few weeks / 1-2 monhts I'll get to play with the big brother AMD system with 4 sockets. Need to know what benchmarks would be best performed with 16 Barcelona cores under the hood. Feedback please!

Cliffs:
2 new servers to play with
Good times!

 

[Wapp]

Nerd.

 

[Fritzo]

To me, that would be a bad day. "Aw crap...I gotta configure two servers :|"

All new servers are fast...new hardware isn't exciting anymore.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: Wapp
Nerd.

What he said x2

 

[intogamer]

Everybody getting new hardware

 

[MichaelD]

I, for one, welcome our new Beefy Server Overlords and wish to pledge my loyalty to them. I'd also like to subscribe to the weekly newsletter, please.

I'm with the OP on this one; I'd be just as revved up.

ps
I have a Q6600 coming next week and I'm all atwitter with excitement.

 

[mundane]

Today is a good day - we're nearing our first integration milestone, and are more-or-less on target.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Wapp
Nerd.

represent...^_0101_^

 

[trmiv]

There's no such thing as a good workday. Tolerable? Maybe. Good? Nope.

 

[Yanagi]

Originally posted by: trmiv
There's no such thing as a good workday. Tolerable? Maybe. Good? Nope.

I see. You've lived so long it's in your right to have such a cynical point of view.

Me? I'm young and naive, and I'm enjoying it as hell!

 

[Nik]

With 32GB RAM, what OS do you use?

 

[moshquerade]

today's not a good workday for me when you realize you have to be the patient.

 

[Yanagi]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
With 32GB RAM, what OS do you use?

Unfortunately it came pre configured with windows Server 2003 X64 Standard edition. But it does recognize and uses the 32GB fully.

 

[Goosemaster]

nerd talk:

try to encode some 1080p/60 h.264 on the puppy and let us know the avgfps


edit: two-pass:evil:

 

[Yanagi]

On which one? the 2CPU (8 core total) barcelona system or the intel tigerton system with total of 16 cores?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Yanagi
On which one? the 2CPU (8 core total) barcelona system or the intel tigerton system with total of 16 cores?

Oh C'MON...WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE IS THAT...SERIOUSLY?!?

Whatever you do...I better feel the lights dim on my end of the grid:evil:

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

:beer: Today was a good work day for me too. I found out my tuition bill for 7 hours next semester is going to be $350 + books. Not bad considering I get $550 per month from the GI Bill.

 

[MyThirdEye]

Originally posted by: trmiv
There's no such thing as a good workday. Tolerable? Maybe. Good? Nope.

 

[Akhen]

Originally posted by: S Freud

Originally posted by: Wapp
Nerd.

What he said x2

Are you guys surprised?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
With 32GB RAM, what OS do you use?

Microsoft Bob on Win95.