A 256 Core System

[Jon855]

Picture isn't mine - http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/images/43194/original.aspx

Pretty amazing and it's on Windows 7, I wonder what does the future holds for us?

 

[xdivenx]

Woah.

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[Xilikon]

Well, do you provide new pants ?

 

[schenks]

This thing may be able to run Crysis on Medium using CPU rendering

 

[OmegaAvenger]

theres anotehr thread about this. its not 256 cores it 256 threads.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1363955

 

[Jon855]

theres anotehr thread about this. its not 256 cores it 256 threads.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1363955

Hard-On Killer... You sob... Yeah, nonetheless, it's still "256" I got to admit, it's mighty sexy...

 

[Zero82z]

Hard-On Killer... You sob... Yeah, nonetheless, it's still "256" I got to admit, it's mighty sexy...

Technically it's 128 cores since it's 64 dual-core chips, so it's still hard-on worthy .

 

[OmegaAvenger]

heh. its a 3mil dollar hard on giver

 

[Jon855]

HOLY BATMAN - THREAD RISES FROM THE DEAD...

Anybody got any idea on the PPD this beast would do?

/facepalm - this was my thread!

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Technically it's 128 cores since it's 64 dual-core chips, so it's still hard-on worthy .

or what about those 128 thread chips from intel.. i remember reading something about that a while back..

 

[jeremyshaw]

hard on... how about a fold on?

 

[APOLLO]

Awesome, as long as this thing isn't deployed to fold for EVGA....

 

[Zero82z]

HOLY BATMAN - THREAD RISES FROM THE DEAD...

Anybody got any idea on the PPD this beast would do?

/facepalm - this was my thread!

~100k PPD I'd estimate.

 

[don_xvi]

This thing may be able to run Crysis on Medium using CPU rendering

It would probably have to use CPU rendering, doesn't look like it's got enough graphics card to run any visual effects in Windows !

 

[osrk]

What's the big deal? I just wanted to play solitaire and minesweeper. You guys don't have similar setups for those games?!

 

[ND40oz]

It would probably have to use CPU rendering, doesn't look like it's got enough graphics card to run any visual effects in Windows !

Looks like the normal desktop for Server 2008 R2...

 

[jeremyshaw]

Looks like the normal desktop for Server 2008 R2...

Is that because its over (whatever?) the number of 'cores' consumer versions of windows will support? Or did they just...because?

 

[ND40oz]

Is that because its over (whatever?) the number of 'cores' consumer versions of windows will support? Or did they just...because?

Probably due to socket support, as far as I know, Win 7 still only supports 2 sockets. 2008 R2 can support 64 sockets with datacenter edition.