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Subject: Re: Quad Xeon questions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:11:57 12/14/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 19:31:09, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 14, 1998 at 16:16:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 1998 at 08:42:05, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 1998 at 23:53:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 13, 1998 at 22:59:08, Larry Applebaum wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 13, 1998 at 22:16:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>snip...
>>>>>
>>>>>>quad xeon is in...  and running on ICC... typical speed is 600-800K nodes
>>>>>>per sec, max (so far) is 940K...
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the specs on that system? Motherboard, processor specs, memory, etc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It is based on the 450NX chipset, the chassis is made by Intel, and is called
>>>>the SC450NX...  has three 400 watt power supplies (hot swappable), slots for
>>>>16 72 bit buffered EDO RAM with 4-way interleaving (interleaving makes SDRAM
>>>>worthless).  Comes with three on-board SCSI adapters, two ultra-2 wide
>>>>(low voltage differential signaling) channels and one narrow scsi channel.
>>>>Has 3 external drive bays for CDrom/tape/hard drives, plus 6 hot-swap SCA-2
>>>>connecters in a SCSI Cage...
>>>>
>>>>My machine has 4 pentium II/xeon 400mhz processors with 512kb of L2 cache,
>>>>plus 512mb of RAM.  It has two 4.3 gig 7200 rpm disks for system and so forth,
>>>>and (hopefully tomorrow) will have three 9.1 gig Ultra2 wide SCSI 10,000 RPM
>>>>disks with 4 megs of cache per drive (for the complete set of 3-4-5 piece
>>>>Nalimov tablebases).
>>>>
>>>>machine has 8 redundant fans, four for the cpus, 2 for the rest of the MB
>>>>logic, two for the SCSI cage, plus one internal fan in each power supply for
>>>>a total of 11 fans (machine stays cool internally, naturally).  Everything is
>>>>monitored, from power supplies, to temps of the procssors, to each fan's
>>>>rotating speed (tachometer on each fan) and so forth.
>>>>
>>>>machine weighs about 100 lbs...
>>>>
>>>>Has a nice cirrus logic video controller (CL5480 I think) plus the usual
>>>>2 serial ports, parallel port, and USB port...
>>>>
>>>>let me know if you want more details...
>>>>
>>>>Bob
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>Hello Bob,
>>>One more detail....  what does an animal like that cost?????
>>>Jim Walker
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>>
>>chassis with power supplies/fans installed:  $4,200
>>xeon 400mhz/512k cache (4)                    4,000
>>memory (128mb buffered edo DIMM)  (4)         1,200
>>disks (10K rpm LVDS ultra-2 scsi, 9.1gb) (3)  2,100
>>
>>total roughly 11,300 give or take a hundred bucks...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>WOW !!!   Did Santa give that to you ??? :-) (-:
>I watched it beat Junior on ICC last nite (I saw the tail end of the game)
>Jim Walker


I assume you are talking about the "GM" player with the handle "junior" on
ICC???

It did shred him.  :)



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