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alpha754293 · 17-November-05, 03:05 PM

godfoot · 17-November-05, 03:31 PM

If only you could dual boot with a *nix variant AND Winblows. 32 effective processors would make a nice F@H farm for sure.

alpha754293 · 17-November-05, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by godfoot


	If only you could dual boot with a nix variant AND Winblows. 32 effective processors would make a nice F@H farm for sure.*

better yet, just PORT the damn software. Distributed.net has - I can't see why F@H can't. AND dnet is SMP capable too. (Not 100% sure about F@H although I haven't heard or read anything saying that it isn't.)

How hard is it to just take it, recompile the code, and then distribute it? Probably a heck of a lot easier to recompile F@H than it is to port Winblows to POWER5.

Note: It already does run on a *nix variant: IBM AIX. It also can run Linux as well (based on what it says - it can run in dual-boot configuration.) Details of Linux implementation here.

Nerdz · 17-November-05, 03:58 PM

Could you imigine how big the heatsink would have to be for that thing to run?

144MB Cache, just enough for dam small linux to run on.

Jobistober · 17-November-05, 03:59 PM

Lol, your HSF would be the size of a small child! That or your waterblock would have 1" or bigger fittings. That thing is a monster!

alpha754293 · 17-November-05, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Nerdz


	Could you imigine how big the heatsink would have to be for that thing to run? 144MB Cache, just enough for dam small linux to run on.

Can you imagine running LINPACK on that? (i.e. with the Linux installed on the cache???) OMG.....*drools* ha ha ha ha ha LOL..LMAO...ROTFLMAO.....

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Originally Posted by Jobistober


	Lol, your HSF would be the size of a small child! That or your waterblock would have 1" or bigger fittings. That thing is a monster!

Does that mean that if the kid farts, the whole thing would blow up?

Bionic · 17-November-05, 04:12 PM

You'd probably need that monster zalman that was posted on here a while back... let me look really quickly.

::whistles the Jeopardy tune:: while doing a forum search...

Dammit I can't seem to find it... anyway, it was a mock-up of the CNPS9500

godfoot · 18-November-05, 12:55 AM

I realize it can run a *nix variant, just not with Windows as a second OS. That is not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation. Also, WUs go faster on Linux anyway.

corruptjoker · 18-November-05, 02:16 AM

Hey does it come in a socket 939 package???j/k LOL Thats pretty neat.

THRASHER2 · 18-November-05, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerdz


	Could you imigine how big the heatsink would have to be for that thing to run? .

Lol......would A 300mm Zalman running at 10,000rpm......be close.........w00ts!!!!

alpha754293 · 18-November-05, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by THRASHER2


	Lol......would A 300mm Zalman running at 10,000rpm......be close.........w00ts!!!!

Why Zalman? If you're going to be running a Zalman, you might as well have a turbine/turboshaft driven fan. Consumes about the same amount of power for the same performance envelope.

*sidenote*
I know that when Sun Microsystems designed the UltraSPARC III, they had at least two R&D farms, with about 9000 systems. (or something ridiculous like that).

End result: about 900 GB of engineering data for that processor.

Which begs the question - how many people were working on THIS one, and how many TB's of engineering data did that generate?

Fire Hawk · 24-November-05, 08:09 PM

Have you guys heard about the Sun Ultra Sparc T1? It has eight (that's right, 8) cores and Sun claims that it uses around 70 watts of power.

Linky Here

alpha754293 · 24-November-05, 10:24 PM

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	Have you guys heard about the Sun Ultra Sparc T1? It has eight (that's right, 8) cores and Sun claims that it uses around 70 watts of power. Linky Here

Yea - we already posted about that.

http://forums.pcapex.com/showpost.ph...09&postcount=7

also went as far as to give a brief explanation as to why I didn't start a thread about it there.

(Cuz if I did, that would have been too predictable right?)

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17-November-05, 03:31 PM		#2 (permalink)
godfoot A George Orwell fan...sorta	If only you could dual boot with a *nix variant AND Winblows. 32 effective processors would make a nice F@H farm for sure.

17-November-05, 03:58 PM		#4 (permalink)
Nerdz Sir Knight of Spamalot	Could you imigine how big the heatsink would have to be for that thing to run? 144MB Cache, just enough for dam small linux to run on.

17-November-05, 03:59 PM		#5 (permalink)
Jobistober P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic	Lol, your HSF would be the size of a small child! That or your waterblock would have 1" or bigger fittings. That thing is a monster!

17-November-05, 04:12 PM		#7 (permalink)
Bionic Apex Tech Maniac	You'd probably need that monster zalman that was posted on here a while back... let me look really quickly. ::whistles the Jeopardy tune:: while doing a forum search... Dammit I can't seem to find it... anyway, it was a mock-up of the CNPS9500

18-November-05, 12:55 AM		#8 (permalink)
godfoot A George Orwell fan...sorta	I realize it can run a *nix variant, just not with Windows as a second OS. That is not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation. Also, WUs go faster on Linux anyway.

18-November-05, 02:16 AM		#9 (permalink)
corruptjoker Decept-Hoe-Con	Hey does it come in a socket 939 package???j/k LOL Thats pretty neat.

24-November-05, 08:09 PM		#12 (permalink)
Fire Hawk Apex Tech Maniac	Have you guys heard about the Sun Ultra Sparc T1? It has eight (that's right, 8) cores and Sun claims that it uses around 70 watts of power. Linky Here