For context: my company is running a small photogrammetry data processing cluster. Photogrammetry (like most data processing) doesn't scale super well horizontally, so high clock speed CPU's dominate. In addition to a fast CPU, photogrammetry also makes use of the GPU at certain steps of the process. We started out on consumer level hardware last year (3900X + 2080 Ti) and just recently discovered we can make more efficient use of the hardware by splitting the data in chunks and running multiple GPU's in each machine.
So we bought an experimental machine. It's a 3970X in a rack with 4 2080 supers. I bolted a Noctua TR4 to it, with 2 Delta 11kRPM 92mm fans, keeping it at 84 degrees whilst maintaining 100% load on 32 cores at 3700mhz.
32 cores at 3700mhz! That is absolutely insane. You have to go dual socket to come close with the 7F52. And then you're looking at a significantly more expensive system, that takes more power to boot (2x 240W cpu's? just looking at the spec sheet, haven't actually tested this).
I know basically all software performs best at high clock speeds. Why isn't running threadrippers more popular? There's only a couple boards out there, as far as I know Tyan is the only one that's decently specced and has IPMI. We went with ASRock just because it has 2x 10gbit, and we don't have PCI-e to spare for a network card, so we just don't have IPMI.
Am I missing something? Why isn't everyone running these CPU's?
So we bought an experimental machine. It's a 3970X in a rack with 4 2080 supers. I bolted a Noctua TR4 to it, with 2 Delta 11kRPM 92mm fans, keeping it at 84 degrees whilst maintaining 100% load on 32 cores at 3700mhz.
32 cores at 3700mhz! That is absolutely insane. You have to go dual socket to come close with the 7F52. And then you're looking at a significantly more expensive system, that takes more power to boot (2x 240W cpu's? just looking at the spec sheet, haven't actually tested this).
I know basically all software performs best at high clock speeds. Why isn't running threadrippers more popular? There's only a couple boards out there, as far as I know Tyan is the only one that's decently specced and has IPMI. We went with ASRock just because it has 2x 10gbit, and we don't have PCI-e to spare for a network card, so we just don't have IPMI.
Am I missing something? Why isn't everyone running these CPU's?