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Wow, that would be fun to play with..

Ali

Hi,



A single Broadwell-EX is (up to) 24 cores now, and there's rumours Intel will release a 28-core version.

Your "200 cores" is from computers with 8 sockets (and 8 Broadwell-EX chips) - e.g. 8 * 24 = 192 (or 8 * 28 = 224).

Based on previous pricing (Intel's 22-core Xeon E5-2699 v4 at around ~$4100 a chip) you can expect a price of around $35000 for a system by the time you add on a (very expensive) 8-socket motherboard, a few (very expensive) 1500W+ power supplies, some RAM, some hard drives, etc.

In comparison; Xeon Phi will be ~72-cores for around $5000. In other words, for the same $35000 you could get 7 Xeon Phi machines with a total of 500 cores (and as a bonus you get ~8 GiB of high bandwidth "MCDRAM on chip" and AVX-512).


Cheers,

Brendan

Hi,



I wouldn't suggest... The problem is that I don't actually know what "cloud" is supposed to mean.

Do you need a huge amount of permanent storage without much processing (cloud storage)? Do you need a large number of small/weak virtual machines? Do you need "high FLOPS" number crunching? Do you need low latency/high bandwidth networking between individual computers? Do you need fast Internet connections from "cloud" to the remote customer? The answers to these questions all depend on what "cloud" means to you, and what your cloud is intended to be used for.



You'll find that there's a "sweet spot" where everything is cheaper because it's what most people end up buying. Your specs seem to be right in the middle of that sweet spot.



So you're testing how hard it is to saturate a gigibit ethernet switch (and not testing anything to do with the OS)?


Cheers,

Brendan

No one does. It is a vague marketing term meaning roughly, 'something to do with something living on some massive server farm somewhere'. It has no technical meaning at all. I won't say the term has no meaning of any kind, quite, but it is mostly just a catchphrase for a large number of things that used to be considered unrelated, such as automated offsite backup; client-server programs (which is also what 'web services' really means, just with the specific organizing principle of using HTTP for transfer and either XML or JSON for serialization, and usually being limited to tickling a database somewhere); web front ends for things like mail servers; and whatever else the corpse-rat marketing teams think will sell better with a fresh coat of paint.

Well, unless it's a company like SalesFarce, in which case as far as I can tell it means 'holding your development tools and code for ransom on our servers and brainwashing you into thinking that it's a good idea to hand total control of your company's software system and customer data over to us'. But then, my hatred of that loathsome beast, their horrid products, and their evil consultants is well known, so you should probably consider that a biased opinion.

I agree. I am hoping to make things better and easier, although it depends on who uses and/or markets their solutions on this platform.

Hi Brendan. I am testing how user-space software scales, allocating resources (Cores, servers, etc..), the message speed between servers, etc..., and adjusting the kernel code as I go.

Ali

Close, 200 is from 4 socket with 24 with hyperthreading enabled. 4 * 2 * 24.
It does support 8 sockets but through 3rd party implementations

Hi,



Logical CPUs are not equivalent to cores and should never be called "cores". With hyper-threading disabled, four 24-core chips is a total of 96-cores (and has 96 logical CPUs). With hyper-threading enabled four 24-core chips is still a total of 96-cores (and has 192 logical CPUs).

Note that if you do want to compare logical CPUs; then Xeon Phi will be the first 80x86 CPU that has 4 logical CPUs per core, so a 72-core Xeon Phi has a total of 288 logical CPUs.


Cheers,

Brendan

yeah i needed to brush up in those terms. I just liked to see under linux "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep v4 | wc -l" shows 192 "entities".

p.s. too bad the forum does not allow more than 3 nested quotes