Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:14:05 09/01/02
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On August 31, 2002 at 23:52:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: As i said that's just a few prototype machines where they tried to run 4 P4s and of course it's not stable. >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this is very old and outdated propaganda.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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