Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:52:42 08/31/02
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On August 31, 2002 at 20:59:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 31, 2002 at 06:17:24, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>On August 30, 2002 at 23:41:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 30, 2002 at 22:52:24, Brandon wrote: >>> >>>>There are no official quad 2.2 Ghz + machines out there. People advertise >>>>Dual/Quad Xeon 2.2 Ghz because of the hyperthreading.. but no machine with 4 >>>>actual cpus at 2.2 Ghz.... yet... >>>> >>>> - Brandon >>> >>>There is definitely _one_ out there. I personally saw the boot output from >>>linux and it reported 8 cpus at 2.2ghz each, which is what a 4-cpu machine >>>with hyper-threading looks like under linux. >>> >>>It might well be a prototype, because as you mention, I couldn't find any >>>official ads anywhere for such a box... >> >>after searching with altavista >>http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?pg=aq&avkw=tgz&aqmode=s&aqa=chipset+%22Quad+Xeon%22+pentium+4&aqp=&aqn=&aqb=&aqs=&kl=XX&dt=tmperiod&d2=3&d0=&d1=&rc=rgn&sgr=all&swd=&lh=&sc=on&nbq=10&stq=10 >> >>and searching on, the intel site , i can conclude that configuration is strange >>and unsupported officially by intel processor : >> >>http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon/index.htm?iid=search+XeonDP >>http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon_mp/index.htm?iid=search+XeonMP >> >>The faster pentium 4 how support 4 way (MP) run at 1.60 Ghz and "with 1 MB of >>Level 3 cache is priced at $3,692 in 1,000-unit quantities" > >this is very old and outdated propaganda. The quad 2.2 is not "propaganda"... Check this out: > *** All four CPUs show up identically; didn't want to use too much bandwidth. *** > [root@delta root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 2 > model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz > stepping : 4 > cpu MHz : 2199.985 > cache size : 512 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 2 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm > bogomips : 4390.91 He sent me the raw boot output and it shows up as "eight" cpus because of the enabled hyper-threading. And it _definitely_ has 4 xeon cpus. I just can't find out where he got the thing. It might be at Intel for all I know, in a back room. > i can show you the >AMD press releases of a year or 5 ago announcing a 8 processor K7. >I am pretty sure they have tried to build a machine with 8 cpu k7s >in order to find out it didn't work and was hard to get to work too, >just like they have actually built quad and probably also 8 cpu P4s which >simply never ran stable. > >In short there is always a dude who tries it in order to find out it >doesn't work. > >Best regards, >Vincent
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