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Intel's Superchilled Test Rig
Barence writes "Last week, PC Pro issued a challenge to see whose PC could render a 3D graphics benchmark in the shortest time. The competition was won by an entrant with a rather unfair advantage: Intel. The processor giant's superchilled rig is overclocked to nearly 5GHz. As PC Pro explains: 'The rig itself uses phase-change cooling: in other words it's attached to a chuffing great freezer, which I believe is the big box on the right of the photo. That yellow meter with the readout is showing the temperature of its output: yes, that's minus 40 degrees Celcius.'"
Judging from that photo, we are still in the infancy of computing. The Millenium Falcon looks like that everywhere!
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
...but can it run Crysis?
Great way to whip out the high enterprise penis Intel.
No problem. I've got an environmental test chamber which I can use to bring the entire system to -40C. Had it at -75C last week; but, I don't think it could reach that temp with the heat load of a PC. Wonder what numbers I'd get.
That yellow meter with the readout is showing the temperature of its output: yes, that's minus 40 degrees celcius.
Correction, it's minus 40 degrees fahrenheit.
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Any AMD stats for comparison?
I'm sick of all this Intel and AMD nonsence.
SO many better computing architectures, that
are more power-efficient, and no anti-trust
is being pursued.
I would rather have a fab'-shrunk recent Alpha
processor at around 1.4GHz from the 21364b branch
than tolerate another frying-pan processor from
Intel or AMD.
I'm typing this on a Sun UltraSPARC iii processor-
based system, BTW. Both Sun's SPARC and HP's DEC/Alpha
are recently using RAMBUS technology for superior bandwidth
and latency that is licensed by both JEDEC and Rambus.
IBM's Power architecture is just too expensive, yet here I
have this 3-year old technology that I'm using and it's
quality-made to last another 10 years like how all the old
386 and 486 computers do, and it fits in a 1U and 2U Rackmount
unlike even Intel's hardware.
environment cools Intel.
user@system:~/src/smallpt$ time ./smallpt 100
Rendering (100 spp) 100.00%
real 0m49.354s
user 6m5.160s
sys 0m0.250s
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz (quad-core)
12GiB ram
and of course, Linux powered. but, just because, i've also got a concurrent VMWare XP workstation running in the background.
And firefix, and thunderbird, and pidgin....
i'm currently building the 5000 point scene, so i'll followup with those numbers in about 75% more time.
40c
The c stands for COMMUNIST!
40f
The f stands for Fuck Yeah!
Phase change cooling is not really that extreme of a cooling system for benchmarking... go to Quakecon you will see quite a few people with it.
LN2 (or even better liquid He) on the other hand could be considered an unfair advantage.
On my non-overclocked 1055T (stock HSF) it took 44 seconds.
it will be the happening place for gamers.
Table-ized A.I.
It measures it's clock speed in horse power and "FP" units refers to Foot Pounds of torque. If you floor it the Veyron Renderer can render the movie "Up" in under an hour but it'll drain it's fuel tank in 17 minutes flat out. Bugatti is working on a new Veyron hybrid renderer that can render your project on your way home from work. The difficult part will be explaining to the cop that you had to do 240 mph in a 25 mph zone because you had a deadline and needed the shots rendered.
on a 2x6core server at work ;)
[xxxx@xxxx smallpt]$ time ./smallpt 100
Rendering (100 spp) 100.00%
real 0m29.127s
user 5m41.044s
sys 0m0.093s
P.S. and compiling didn't take me hours, either, since I'm on Linux
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"?
Insane voltage... the 980 is rated up to 1.375V. I'm happy with a i7-860 @ 3.6 GHz running on 1.2V.
Intel's made upgrading much more fun considering you can get a 30-40% CPU speed increase in about 10 minutes of research and bios tweaking. Next fall there will be 8-core/16-threads on the desktop. I am loving Intel these days.
minus 40 degrees celcius
There are two mistakes in there...
For extra effect, they should put Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" there; also recently frozen.
One that hath name thou can not otter
So let me understand this. They cool the thing down an average winter temperature in half of Canada, and it's a big deal?
Already I see thousands of gamers running cables out their bedroom windows and leaving their rigs in the snowbank outside.
Three Squirrels
"Nearly 5GHz". The whole point here that everyone seems to be missing is that they made something go more than 1000 times as fast as the original 4.77 MHz IBM PC.
Now if they could give it 640MB of memory and a 110MB floppy drive...
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
RAMBUS is dead. I remember the old days where you could get a Pentium 4 that used RAMBUS. This shit was always overrated and super expansive. I knew people who had 128MB of RAMBUS (and you had to buy this shit in pair too) who wanted to upgrade to something descent for the times, like 1G. They ended up getting a whole new computer for the price they would have paid for their RAMBUS, and their new computer was much faster than their old one.
Also, Intel EPSD does server stuff. Check it out.
I am more interested a a FPU (food processing unit) than a CPU - how long to render Natalie Portman in hot grits?
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Dudes, don't visit the north of Canada in the middle of winter!
There is something seriously wrong with the optimizations in his windows binary...
Ran in 36 seconds on a 4 x 8224 SE AMD opteron IBM x-server running linux (8 total cores at 3.2GHz)
The posts from users running Linux on the forum are showing times that are 4-5x faster than those posting benchmarks from Windows. What's going on there?
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Of who can blow up a rack of PCs into the smallest size pieces.
And having the US military unexpectedly enter into the contest, using a tactical nuke to blow up the rack, for their entry in the contest
You know... for PR... to bolster recruitment rates.
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Same difference... AMD could probably best Intel, if they spent more money on a rig of their own. I think it kind of defeats the point to have large corporations with massive resources the average high-end user could barely dream of seeing in person participate in contests like this
I can hardly think at all at that temperature, let alone faster.
Jesus, tell me you're joking. If not, this blathering nonsense might be the silliest thing I've read here today, and I think you might have some kind of mental health issue.
I tried to compile and run this on OS X (SL, 10.6.4, gcc 4.2.1). I downloaded the .tar.gz from http://kevinbeason.com/smallpt/, and ran make (which runs g++ with compile flags of -O3 -fopenmp...). It compiled fine. Running it gives a Bus Error though.. any ideas?
appleguru.org
Cheating ba***rds!
I had a 30 minute look at the source code. It's clearly optimized for shortness, not for speed.
There are some obvious performance no-gos, see lines 44-45, using a double variable as a loop counter.
Performance depends to a good extent on the erand48 implementation and whether OpenMP knows that erand48 is MT-safe.
Clock speed has reached the ultimate physical limit, light speed.
If you take a measuring tape to a motherboard and do some math, you'll see that once we got past a few GHz there's no way a bit can go from one chip to the other within one clock cycle.
The result of that is that chips need local caches and pipelines, etc, until the complexity starts digging into the performance. And power consumption skyrockets.
And yet, this system still couldn't run StarCraft II without melting the graphics card...
Cheating on a benchmark test given is NOT cool, no matter what the temperature of the machine.
Task Manager, Right-click process, set priority to realtime?
Just a guess.
Maybe there's some way to do it on the command-line too. Either that, or the Express version of the compiler doesn't optimize as well. Maybe they built a debug version.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
very thoughtful of them to choose -40 degrees, so those favoring Celsius AND Fahrenheit will understand.
they made single-stick + terminator blank pairs. I ever only had one RAMBUS RAM stick.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
In the joyful future of Warhammer -40K, there is only peace.
The code relies on linux's erand behavior in the radiance function
" if (++depth>5) if (erand48(Xi)
5) if (erand48(Xi)
5) ireturn obj.e; //R.R." I don't see much difference in image quality, and it's much faster now.
But still, the results are still not comparable. If you want comparable results, paste linux's erand function in the code and compile it under visual studio.
... Swedish motherfucker, do you speak it? It's Celsius(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anders_Celsius), not Celcius.