Feast your eyes upon a 4P-8160 and what it does to Cinebench R15.

fastgeek

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One perk to my job is having some pretty powerful systems that come into my possession. This just came in for a certain project and figured I'd have some fun putting it through some tests and such before converting it into its real role next week.

We'll start off with what most people would love their Windows System screen to show.
4P-8160-SystemProp.jpg


For a little showing off... let's say this is the rough video equivalent of revving your engine for computers. :p

Three quick runs of CB-R15 with 192 threads.

Task manager showing all logical cores getting pegged x 3

And, since people like seeing bits and pieces, here are a few shots of the silicon and metal guts of this box.

4P-8160-1.jpg



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And one more shot of that pegged task manager... just for giggles. :)

4P-8160-Pegged.jpg


Hope you enjoyed! :)
 
It connects the upper mezzanine tray with processors 3 & 4 to the main board; however I'm not sure what its actual purpose is and haven't looked into it yet. I'm guessing that it's related to some sort of side band or BMC interface. Nothing like this is present on the Dell R820 & R830, which uses the same processor tray design... so will be interesting to see if it's present on their forthcoming R840.
 
ight im bored, give me a few min and ill fire up windows on a rig that will put that 4p system to shame
 
Ok, that's silly picture made me laugh a lot more than it should have. :p

BTW, I posted some numbers in cdabc123's thread per his request. ;) (Which I don't consider to be a lame ass thing to do at all; give people more things to check out!)
 
Any chance of some x264/265 encoding? I'd like to see how fast this thing encodes a bluray or 4K.
 
Oh lol. A Gen10 DL560. I built up a whole rack of those fully loaded a couple weeks back. The VM's are still being configured...
 
One perk to my job is having some pretty powerful systems that come into my possession. This just came in for a certain project and figured I'd have some fun putting it through some tests and such before converting it into its real role next week.

We'll start off with what most people would love their Windows System screen to show.
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For a little showing off... let's say this is the rough video equivalent of revving your engine for computers. :p

Three quick runs of CB-R15 with 192 threads.

Task manager showing all logical cores getting pegged x 3

And, since people like seeing bits and pieces, here are a few shots of the silicon and metal guts of this box.

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And one more shot of that pegged task manager... just for giggles. :)

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Hope you enjoyed! :)


I didnt know we were allowed to post porn on the forums ?

Shit be leet.
 
Any chance of some x264/265 encoding? I'd like to see how fast this thing encodes a bluray or 4K.

My guess is that it isn't as impressive as it should be. The x265 and x264 encoders have some serious bottlenecks for threading. What I've read says that certain portions of the encoding process depend upon prior results and have to wait for them to finish. This means you can't spin off the work into multiple threads, which means that you are actually better off with lower core counts and higher clock rates. This actually seems to be what is happening on my Threadripper, so I think the above people are correct. I get 50% or less utilization on my Threadripper when running x265 or x264. Worse, I get little to no benefit from running multiple instances. I think that memory latency and/or bandwidth is the constraint there.

Running multiple instances of x264/x265 might do better on fastgeek's hardware, though, because I think it has some outrageously awesome memory interface.
 
Thats great but it can't play Crysis

I did like your post because I read it the wrongly, but, now that I have seen the mistake I have to deduct some points.

U get -560 points for saying “it cant play crysis”.

It “cant play crisis” can only be determined by asking.

“Can it play Crysis ?”

That Crucial Question was neither asked nor confirmed.

Wtf has happened to this forum that allows “Crysis playing determination questions” to NOT be asked, but be answered ???

I am as confused as everyone else is.
 
... confused ...

Of course it can play Crysis. Not at the moment, obviously; but slap in a video card (or three) and it'll be just fine.

Oh lol. A Gen10 DL560. I built up a whole rack of those fully loaded a couple weeks back. The VM's are still being configured...

Guess you should've beat me to sharing the goods then, eh? :p
 
... confused ...

Of course it can play Crysis. Not at the moment, obviously; but slap in a video card (or three) and it'll be just fine.



Guess you should've beat me to sharing the goods then, eh? :p

Nothing can play crysis :)

Also.

Your pics.

Somehow they remind me of the pictures we see of cpu dies, but just massively scaled up :)

Kinda like this
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But scaled up.
 
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Some thoughts here. That is a very nice machine. 192 thread is impressive and seeing it hit 2.5ghz during the load was nice as well. I have some 64 thread systems that do what I need and some 72 thread VM hosts. All good for the task.

I did want to note that someone mentioned the cost of the hardware. In planning a system out that hardware cost IS important. BUT you would be FUGGING STAGGARED at the cost of OS and SQL licensing.

As an example the company I work for has a contract with MS. We do SQL enterprise licesnes at 4 cores for 25k. (4 CORES) so lets take that 192 core machine. That's 4 24 core CPU's... so if you wanted that to be one big SQL host... (something that COULD use that amount of CPU and Ram.. (And oh my god the staggering performance please tell me it has it's own dedicated AFA supporting it!) But you would take that 25k licensing cost.. and MULTIPLY it by 24. 600,000. NOT INCLUDING THE LICENSING COST OF THE OS.

Some other STUPID shit that MS does in licensing. Lets say you wanted 3 of those systems as VM hosts. (Because you can run a F ton of stuff on them.) If memory serves it's say 7k a socket so that price isn't bad. BUT.. WAIT THAT'S NOT ALL. If you have VM's that are running MS os's they want to charge you (in our case) 220 per core...

Not bad right? Because the VM is only going to be 4 core... so it's cheap... OH WAIT... NOT SO FAST, says MS. That's xxx per core that the VM COULD run on. WHAT? Ok it isn't THAT insane since it's a x core VM. You only multiply the assigned cores by the number of hosts to get your licensing cost. (Affinity to specific hosts helps reduce cost here.) (Whatever that negotiated rate is.)

The other option is a datacenter license where you pre license all cores across all hosts at a.... discounted rate that is still going the be WHAT high.

Of course Linux varients have their own money grab in this licensing scheme as well... I just hope it's cheaper than MS's. ;)

Of course all that being said... my point is. In most enterprise deployments the big cost isn't the metal. It's the Intellectual property/licensing.
 
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