raymosrunerx Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) Hello all, So, I want to build a desktop with the tremendous amounts of computational performance for my lab.Do you know where I can find motherboards that will support more than 2 processors with LGA2011 sockets? (namely this processor: Xeon E5-2687W)Thanks! Edited March 16, 2012 by raymosrunerx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymosrunerx Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 They dont exist, realized why, sorry for the waste of space lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
widezu69 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Mate they do exist. The EVGA SR-X and Asus Z9PE-D8 WS are both dual LGA2011 socket motherboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted March 17, 2012 Founder Share Posted March 17, 2012 He wants something that has >2 sockets. Don't think that exists outside of research labs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted March 17, 2012 Founder Share Posted March 17, 2012 offtopic but I wonder why they don't develop software that can take advantage of CUDA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymosrunerx Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 widezu69: I need 2+ hahaBrian: They don't exist period. The processor that uses the LGA2011 socket can only work with one other processor, it cannot work with more than one other of the same type.StamatisX: They do, but this stuff isn't the high profile stuff (Tesla Bio Workbench)Basically, going to buy a Dell PowerEdge R910, probably buy it with 2Tb of RAM and use all the processor sockets, haven't decided what processor to outfit it with yet... We have a rack already with the older PowerEdge R900, but it's a piece of shit. What also surprises me is that all these softwares are moving away from cluster-computing development to just a single server. I'm really hoping we can get some of the tools we used to operate on CUDA cores. Then I can tell my research professor to get tons of graphics cards (and I can stay late nights and game :3) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted March 17, 2012 Founder Share Posted March 17, 2012 LOL don't forget about the benching... so many cards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
widezu69 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Oh oops! My mistake I didn't read the "+" bit. Shame they don't have any CUDA based software for your purposes. Imagine getting and SR-X with two 8-core 16 threaded Xeons and Fold 4 TESLA GPUs together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 You can run a quad socket AMD opteron board with 16 core CPUs if your application multithreads that much (64 threads!!!!). ~$5k in a lowish power envelope (500-600w), could be worth thinking about. It won't have the same low thread performance as the intels and maybe there are reasons you're not thinking of this route, just thought I'd mention it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Wow the power lol. Thats going to be one hot setup. We have to see the final outcome 64threads is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymosrunerx Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 widezu: I can only dream, I really don't have the time to tamper with existing software even though the source codes are public. I figured at one point, someone's gonna take it and integrate it with OpenCLJimbo: That's another route that one of the PowerEdges offered, I'm still weighing out the benefits of eachmw86: I mostly operate on two machines, although I have access to 7... One of the machines is a cluster from a supercomputer with 120 threads and ~450gb of RAM. The second one belongs to the medical center I work at which has 160 threads and ~256gb of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 thats sweet bet with that much ram you can install any program on ram and run all data right from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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