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  • #11
    1. Pretend you don't know about Meltdown/Spectre
    2. Buy one of these CPUs
    3. Get compromised
    4. Sue Intel
    5. Enjoy infinite money

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    • #12
      Originally posted by GraysonPeddie View Post
      If I am going to have fans in my server, I would like it to be inaudible, although I'd rather prefer if a server with a 16W TDP could be fanless.

      I'd like to have 3 servers in a 1.5U chassis with a very short depth, but sadly, it's out of stock in Newegg.
      https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16811128067
      There is no way in hell that you can have 16W fanless system, especially with hard drives and a 1.5U chassis (WD reds and similar "nas optimized" drives heat much less though).

      You're better off with a cube-like mini-itx NAS-like case with a back fan, something similar to HP microservers https://www.jpaul.me/2013/06/hp-gen8...date-your-lab/ and use a fan adapter to mount an external 120mm or even 200mm fan on whatever is the mount of that thing, and the fan would be ninja-quiet while still pushing more air through. You can also add a PWM controller to throttle the thing down to reduce noise.

      In my builds the main source of noise are the hard drives themselves.
      Last edited by starshipeleven; 07 February 2018, 12:30 PM.

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      • #13
        Originally posted by eydee View Post
        1. Pretend you don't know about Meltdown/Spectre
        2. Buy one of these CPUs
        3. Get compromised
        4. Sue Intel
        5. get laughed out of court
        fixed.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
          I assume that those cpus are affected by spectre and meltdown bugs
          You can safely assume any new CPU for the next 2-3 years will still be affected.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
            I assume that those cpus are affected by spectre and meltdown bugs
            Will not touch Intel until at least Meltdown is fixed on silicon. AMD is currently your safer bet.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
              I have a question. Why are "enthusiast" consumer processors (like the 7980XE) clocked higher than high-core-count server/workstation processors?
              Along with the other reasons others have mentioned, keep in mind a lot of servers tend to run many simple tasks simultaneously, whereas a lot of consumer applications demand a lot of constant and heavy attention. This is why many-core ARM servers got popular - depending on your workload, it's much cheaper and more efficient to run as many independent processes as possible, rather than run them as quickly as possible in a queue.

              On a slight side note, with the way things are going, many-core CPUs are much better at multitasking, whereas GPUs are better for parallelization.
              Last edited by schmidtbag; 07 February 2018, 12:52 PM.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
                Along with the other reasons others have mentioned, keep in mind a lot of servers tend to run many simple tasks simultaneously, whereas a lot of consumer applications demand a lot of constant and heavy attention.
                webservers are one obvious example of this. Each time there is a new connection from a client it generates a thread for its request.

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                • #18
                  Silly question: What does "SoC" mean in this context? In the normal embedded world when I see a SoC (system on chip) it generally includes both volatile (i.e. RAM) and non-volatile (e.g. flash) storage as well as a bunch of peripherals needed to do something useful. What does this chip include that makes it a SoC instead of just a CPU?

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
                    I have a question. Why are "enthusiast" consumer processors (like the 7980XE) clocked higher than high-core-count server/workstation processors?
                    Reliability is the primary issue, a consumer machine that fails or has a short lifespan isnt nearly the problem one would have in a room full of servers. Beyond that you need to consider processor density and thermal conditions that will impact max operating speeds. Also consummer machines seldom run at 100% for very long, in fact processor manufactures count on this.

                    In simple terms reliability is the key concern.

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by InsideJob View Post
                      It means the chipset - what used to be north and south bridges to mem and vid - are integrated. Plus GPU it would seem. I guess that constitutes a “system” in this context.

                      My Rasperry Pi SoC has a separate memory chip and no flash tho.
                      Then every Intel on the market would be SoC (due to PCI-E, memory controller, GPU).
                      Or if we consider SoC as that Minix-powered MME...

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