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Is it easy to get an x86 that fast? I thought x86 was limited to only 4 sockets, way less than the biggest POWER machines.
by Symmetry 12y ago
Is it easy to get an x86 that fast? I thought x86 was limited to only 4 sockets, way less than the biggest POWER machines.
- iolothebard 12y agoThe 8 in the 8800 means it can do 8 sockets. http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8890-v3-45M-Cache-2_50-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-... >Package Specifications >Max CPU Configuration 8 So 18 cores * 8 = 144 cores / 288 threads per board. Not too shabby.
- CrLf 12y agoWhen I last checked, IBM sold these x86 servers (I can't recall what the model line was called) that you could stack and made to behave as a single NUMA box. These compared very favorably to POWER servers in the same price range (32 cores on x86 vs. 6 cores on POWER7). I don't remember the maximum scalability of these, but I doubt they would reach the biggest POWER machines. Problem is: if you need the biggest POWER machines, you're probably running something that isn't even portable to x86, so the comparison becomes academic.