8-Core Dual Xeon "V8" Test Rig Performance

MojoKid writes "Back in January at this year's CES show, Intel was giving the press glimpses of a rig in their booth dubbed the V8. It was essentially a dual-socket workstation platform outfitted with a pair of quad-core Xeon processors for a total of eight cores — hence the "V8". The enterprise platform that this box was built around is based on Intel's 5000X chipset, aka Blackford, and it supports up to 32GB of FBDIMM serial memory. HotHardware has a component build-up of a more current Intel V8 machine here, with preliminary benchmarks, pictures and more details on this 8-core dual Xeon powerhouse."

Comments

So what're they gonna price 'em at?

[Penguinisto]

I realize that it ain't exactly enterprise-grade server type stuff (no dual power supplies, dedicated SCSI/SAS hot-swap backplane, etc etc), but an 8-core Mac with lots o' RAM and a ton of HDD space RAIDed out a bit is likely to be way cheaper than what the likes of HP and Dell are gonna charge for this sucker once they spec a rackmount box to wrap around it (I wonder how this critter and the 8-core Mac stack up against each other, anyway?)

But then, who knows? Maybe the SME market might put some pressure on Dell and HP, pointing at the Mac while doing it. (I know, I know... but seriously - rEFIt for booting, a solid Linux distro like CentOS, and a couple of PCI-X cards, and you've got a full on server for most small/medium biz needs. Chuck in AppleCare for (most) warranty stuff, and a small business can do the same computing horsepower for a whole hell of a lot less than they otherwise could afford, IIRC).

/P

Re:FB-DIMMS suck for gameing

[gormanly]

Except the shared bus the Xeons sit on is a seriously limiting factor, no-one in HPC is using Xeons because of it.

A better bet would be a Sun Fire X4600 type of machine, 8 dual-core Opterons and 128GB of memory in a 4U server chassis.

This is well known, and having played with one, it's a very nice machine. Unlike its 24TB cousin ...