Whats inside a 16 core 64gb server from 2006?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Dunno where this should go, also I just typed this and hit post and it didnt work. So here is a "repost"

 

This machine is not laid out like the servers we see linus farting around with. This machine has eight physical CPU chips, each with two cores. Each CPU has its OWN dedicated memory. 

This thing has no front side bus, instead it works quite different. Plenty of interesting stuff!

[mikat]

holy shit that memory <3

96 stick servers are bae

with the upcoming 128 GB sticks, that would be 12 TB of memory

and this server only has 64 gb of ram.... dang technology moves quick

[ThinkWithPortals]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

 

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[mikat]

6 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Dunno where this should go, also I just typed this and hit post and it didnt work. So here is a "repost"

 

This machine is not laid out like the servers we see linus farting around with. This machine has eight physical CPU chips, each with two cores. Each CPU has its OWN dedicated memory. 

This thing has no front side bus, instead it works quite different. Plenty of interesting stuff!

reminds me of this:

 

[DioOmicida]

When he wouldn't give the name or way he got the 'CD's' from 'an anonymous' person...
It leads me to wonder what kind of sketch stuff is going on in the back ground for obtaining this product. 

[SLAYR]

Damn that thing must be a power hog with 4 875W psus granted two are for redundance, and 4 108W fans.

 

It is interesting how nvidia are southbridge makers for an amd server, rivalry maybe wasn't as strong back then.

[DXMember]

our faculty runs three mainframes each with thousands of processing cores and terabytes or memory

[mikat]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

our faculty runs three mainframes each with thousands of processing cores and terabytes or memory

you mean clusters of servers?

like these?

 

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, mikat said:

you mean clusters of servers?

like these?

Yes, but more like clusters of clusters of these servers clustered.

They are laid down across two floors

[NumLock21]

It's AMD, of course it does not have FSB. It has HT, which is AMD's answer to Intel's FSB and it's much superior compare to Intel's FSB.

[Djole123]

...And even today, 10 years later, these specs are great...

[mikat]

Just now, DXMember said:

Yes, but more like clusters of clusters of these servers clustered.

more like this:

[DXMember]

1 minute ago, mikat said:

more like this:

yes, two floors filled with these shelves

[mikat]

4 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

...And even today, 10 years later, these specs are great...

i can imagine these 16 cores getting their asses kicked by a modern day i7-6700k or something (the westmere-ep E5620 (4c/8t) that i tested performed worse (in a dual socket mobo) than my i7-4790k )

[mikat]

2 minutes ago, DXMember said:

yes, two floors filled with these shelves

where do you work/go to school lol, and why do you guys need so much computing power

[NumLock21]

He yakked too much without showing too much of the hardware.

[Electronics Wizardy]

18 minutes ago, DioOmicida said:

When he wouldn't give the name or way he got the 'CD's' from 'an anonymous' person...
It leads me to wonder what kind of sketch stuff is going on in the back ground for obtaining this product. 

systems like this can be found for under 200 on ebay these days. There useless for most people and datacenters.

[DXMember]

Just now, mikat said:

where do you work/go to school lol, and why do you guys need so much computing power

I study in Technical University faculty of computer science and information technology, they need so much computing power for... SCIENCE !!

 

oh our workplace has one on site mainframe then a separate dedicated building in a different city that's filled with like 50 shipping containers full of server hardware that we use ourselves but mostly rent to other companies and then there's some back up servers that we rent from other data centers.

[NumLock21]

I can see those dual xeon vs octo-operton for gaming build threads in 3...2...1

 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

On 5/12/2016 at 0:35 PM, mikat said:

i can imagine these 16 cores getting their asses kicked by a modern day i7-6700k or something (the westmere-ep E5620 (4c/8t) that i tested performed worse (in a dual socket mobo) than my i7-4790k )

That's interesting you mention the E5620... cause that's one of the CPUs / platforms (LGA1366) I'm maybe considering for a NAS.  I'd like to build a NAS box primarily for backup purposes, and I'll want to run FreeNAS with ZFS on it.  LGA1150 is too expensive for my budget, considering I'd need a $150-200 board, also it supports only 32 GB RAM.  I'll outgrow 32TB storage really soon, and with a limited budget I need to have as much as possible invested in NAS hard drives.

 

I'd really like to build something inexpensive enough so that (not counting the hard drives and RAM) the entire system costs less than a single 4 or 5 TB WD Red or equivalent drive.  The E5620 is one that I've seen on ebay pretty cheap, as well as other LGA1366 Xeons.  I think I've seen a few inexpensive mobos, mostly Intel (maybe a Supermicro as well), some of which support 192 GB of RAM, and some of which are dual CPU.  They seem to be non-standard mobos, though, so I'd need a different type of case.  Also some of them only have 6 SATA ports, and only 1 PCI express slot, which might be a bit limiting for me.

 

Is there something else I should be looking at instead?  I'd like my NAS to...

• be less than the cost of a 4 or 5 TB WD Red (not including the HDDs and RAM)
• support at least 96-128GB ECC RAM
• have at least 8-10 SATA ports, plus enough PCI Express slots to add more SATA cards, so I could eventually have _ TB of HDD space (assuming 6TB drives, where _ TB = how many GB of RAM the board supports)
• Preferably not be a non-standard form factor, but that's not as important.  (Just so long as I don't have to use a rackmount case for it.)
• Case should have at least 10 or 12 hard drive bays.  3 5.25" external bays would be nice too so I could put in the Silverstone hot swap unit later - the one Linus used in his Gaming PC + NAS video.  If I could find a standard mid or full tower ATX case (like the style of a Fractal Core/Arc series), but that has 2 full-height hard drive cages (the one in front and one immediately behind it), that'd be awesome.
• Be relatively quiet - no screaming fans like in one of the videos linked earlier in this thread.  I'd likely be putting a 212 Evo on the CPU, for example.

Or, do I need to consider the idea of building a NAS that does NOT support ECC?  Or should I just buy the hard drives standalone, pop them in my main computer, clone *those* drives, then pull out the backup drives and store them in their cartons on a shelf, for use if I need to restore from a backup?  (I have probably 5 or 6 TB, if not more, of data that I haven't backed up yet, and more accumulating almost every day.)

[SLAYR]

@PianoPlayer88Key Hey there is a new build and planning section for these types of request you will get more help there.

 

 

[mikat]

8 hours ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

-snip-

I'll pm you