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Untitledone

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http://s1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa336/Untitledone_Hardocp/8P1207SocketF/

There you go! The beast in all its red neck engineered glory. This is the poor mans 48 core machine.

Performance Data:

8P socket 1207 F
48 cores 48 threads @ 2.4Ghz, 8 x Opteron 8431, 6 x 2GB DDR2 ECC Parity 800 Cas 6, 10 x 1GB DDR2 ECC Parity 667 Cas 5, Ubuntu 11.04, Kraken, DLB

00:42 TPF P7148 SMP 196K PPD
06:13 TPF P6901 Bigadv 315K PPD
13:51 TPF P6903 Bigbeta 514K PPD
18:37 TPF P6904 Bigbeta 540K PPD
 
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I miss that board, way to much for me when I started tho
 
what's the power draw?

It is about 825W (estimated) I dont have two power meters but in 4P it was 425W and now I have the power meter on the expansion board's power supply, and its reading 400W so 825W when added together. It is hooked up to two 700W vanilla 80+ PSU's that get pretty warm which means a lot of power is being wasted in it so gold could shave quite a bit off it.

What are you up to?

Pocatello, you do not go in IRC often haha. It is an 8P socket F beast. 8 opteron 8431 2.4Ghz 6 core CPU's are in it, 48 cores @ 2.4Ghz. It has DDR2 667 ECC Parity memory occupying most of the slots.
 
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No, I am more afeared of IRC than Gen May!

I only see 4P. Is there two 4P?

It's a 4p board with a funny card that connects a whole other board with an additional 4p (but this board is square, has no expansion slots, or nb/sb)

bottom board
http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa336/Untitledone_Hardocp/8P1207SocketF/8PSocketF024.jpg
(notice the two long black slots for connecting the card between the processors)

the cards
http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa336/Untitledone_Hardocp/8P1207SocketF/8PSocketF030.jpg

the top board
http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa336/Untitledone_Hardocp/8P1207SocketF/8PSocketF037.jpg
 
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That's a pretty awesome board design there. What model is it?
 
I forgot to label the pictures haha. Colinstu pointed it out. It is a TYAN S4985 with an M4985 CPU expansion board installed directly above it. It is connected with two HT 4881 PCI-E x16 style interconnects.
 
Where did you find the M4985?

When I had my s4985 two years ago we couldn't find a M4985 if our lives depended on it. The egg had M4985-SI's but they where incompatible with the s4985.
 
It is an M4985-E, I got it from my venerable benefactor Tear.
 
Still amazed that at 2.4Ghz the 8P does 6:13 TPF on 6901, and Musky's overclocked 6172's @ 2.36Ghz do 6:10 TPF (before his SPD flash). That means the scaling is excellent, however the power draw is more, and the physical aspects of it are hard to deal with.
 
There you go! The beast in all its red neck engineered glory. This is the poor mans 48 core machine.
Two comments on this quote: 1) 'poor mans 48 core' is an oxymoron, 2) I assume after the purchase of these components for this beast the budget will not allow the wife new polyester curtains and a redwood deck.


very nice, very nice :)
 
Two comments on this quote: 1) 'poor mans 48 core' is an oxymoron, 2) I assume after the purchase of these components for this beast the budget will not allow the wife new polyester curtains and a redwood deck.


very nice, very nice :)

1.) not if it is owned by a poor man :)
2.) No wifey to speak of.

Thanks for looking!
 
Moved the 8P last night.

Old temps:

Code:
Temperature table:
Node 0    C0:38    C1:38    C2:38    C3:38    C4:38    C5:38    
Node 1    C0:36    C1:36    C2:36    C3:36    C4:36    C5:36    
Node 2    C0:38    C1:38    C2:38    C3:38    C4:38    C5:38    
Node 3    C0:39    C1:39    C2:39    C3:39    C4:39    C5:39    
Node 4    C0:44    C1:44    C2:44    C3:44    C4:44    C5:44    
Node 5    C0:44    C1:44    C2:44    C3:44    C4:44    C5:44    
Node 6    C0:45    C1:45    C2:45    C3:45    C4:45    C5:45    
Node 7    C0:44    C1:44    C2:44    C3:44    C4:44    C5:44

New temps in the new spot:

Code:
Temperature table:
Node 0    C0:29    C1:29    C2:29    C3:29    C4:29    C5:29    
Node 1    C0:27    C1:27    C2:27    C3:27    C4:27    C5:27    
Node 2    C0:28    C1:28    C2:28    C3:28    C4:28    C5:28    
Node 3    C0:26    C1:26    C2:26    C3:26    C4:26    C5:26    
Node 4    C0:39    C1:39    C2:39    C3:39    C4:39    C5:39    
Node 5    C0:37    C1:37    C2:37    C3:37    C4:37    C5:37    
Node 6    C0:34    C1:34    C2:34    C3:34    C4:34    C5:34    
Node 7    C0:37    C1:37    C2:37    C3:37    C4:37    C5:37

Not bad for stock coolers :D Dropped 7-10*C on most CPU's... hot damn!

I will upload some pictures sometime of the *cough* enclosure *cough*. Lets just say it is pretty "rough".
 
Very nice find UTO! Unfortunately...
When I had my s4985 two years ago we couldn't find a M4985 if our lives depended on it.
...this has always been the case for me as well. Ones I did find cost more than the entirety of the rest of the box combined.
 
It is an M4985-E, I got it from my venerable benefactor Tear.
Wow. That's nice of Tear.
Still amazed that at 2.4Ghz the 8P does 6:13 TPF on 6901, and Musky's overclocked 6172's @ 2.36Ghz do 6:10 TPF (before his SPD flash). That means the scaling is excellent, however the power draw is more, and the physical aspects of it are hard to deal with.

That is amazing...with slower memory and additional latency/bandwidth issues introduced by the 8p setup, FAH still scales very well. That implies the 4p G34 platform is very much overkill for FAH. All FAH really needs is CPU cores + clock speed.
 
6903/6904 are a bit slower, but still looks like its lands in the range on 6174 to 6176 at stock. So it only has a 100-200Mhz clock speed disadvantage. When you take into account that the HE model 8425HE (lowest clocked F hex) starts at 2.1Ghz, F is still fairly competitive. There are 2.1Ghz, 2.4Ghz (ones I have), 2.6Ghz, and finally an SE 2.8Ghz model. Now that Bwang has given me some direction, it may be possible to overclock it (I saw 275Mhz bus as the max that 2P socket F board could reach or 37.5% lol). Only time will tell what happens lol. Power consumption is high, but around what some GPU rigs would pull. It should be around 600 PPD/W or more.
 
G34 is essentially two Socket F chips mashed together into one double-wide package with a little magic mixed in, so the good scaling of FAH doesn't really surprise me. The "quad-channel" Magny Cours has isn't quite quad-channel; rather, it's two channels of DDR3 per die.
Untitledone, how much did this setup cost?
 
G34 is essentially two Socket F chips mashed together into one double-wide package with a little magic mixed in, so the good scaling of FAH doesn't really surprise me. The "quad-channel" Magny Cours has isn't quite quad-channel; rather, it's two channels of DDR3 per die.
Untitledone, how much did this setup cost?

Tear is loaning me most of the hardware. I spent $240 to get 4 chips.
 
G34 is essentially two Socket F chips mashed together into one double-wide package with a little magic mixed in, so the good scaling of FAH doesn't really surprise me. The "quad-channel" Magny Cours has isn't quite quad-channel; rather, it's two channels of DDR3 per die.
Untitledone, how much did this setup cost?

Oh I see. Interesting.
 
G34 is essentially two Socket F chips mashed together into one double-wide package with a little magic mixed in, so the good scaling of FAH doesn't really surprise me. The "quad-channel" Magny Cours has isn't quite quad-channel; rather, it's two channels of DDR3 per die.
Untitledone, how much did this setup cost?

Yeah they are not terribly different. I was aware of that before I got this going. It is a whole different story to see it actually perform lol.

G34 has DDR3 and HT3 (and a bit less power consumption).

The 8P is staying up there with a gimpy 1Ghz HT1 connection, and miss matched DDR2! (cas 5 667, cas 6 800).

So many thought I was insane... only for them to find out I truly was! (but in a different way!)
 
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