AMD Opteron 6100 Series Builds

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Patrick

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Just a quick heads-up on some of the stuff I am working on in the near future

Dual Opteron 6164 HE (2x Twelve Core Opteron for Twenty-Four physical core totals) testbed:


I am running out of RAM likely due to the fact that I have a total of ten 12-core Opteron 6100 series CPUs here now and each require four sticks to provide full memory bandwidth.

For those wondering, that is a Tyan S8236WGM3NR that I purchased at NewEgg with eight 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 DIMMs. The board has three Intel LAN ports and an onboard LSI SAS2008 controller. The layout may look a little bit odd for some as it is a 1U optimized design.

More to come, but I need to get at least 3 hours of sleep tonight.
 

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What are you doing with all the chips? I saw you were trying to sell a few on [H], are you just folding on the rest?
 

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What are you doing with all the chips? I saw you were trying to sell a few on [H], are you just folding on the rest?
Two things. First is I really wanted to see performance and such in dual and quad configurations for STH. Also, it is hard to test a G34 platform without chips. Second, with these I ended up purchasing a few too many so I will end up selling the above motherboard/ chips and heatsink/ fans at some point. I probably need six to eight, and have ten dodeca cores.

nilsga, I will see what I can do in one of the upcoming pieces.
 

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New Quad AMD Opteron 6166 HE Build:


48 Cores @ 1.8GHz with Dynatron A6 cooling
16 of 32 DIMM slots populated
Tyan S8812WGM3NR with onboard LSI SAS2008
430-436w max power consumption

It is well under 10w / core which is pretty awesome! A Xeon E3-1230, for example is just under 1/4th the power consumption.
 

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It is a MEB SSI. It is WAY bigger. ~ 16" x 13" (I think it is slightly bigger.) As a reference point, you can see on the bottom edge the 3 Intel NIC ports, followed by the VGA/ Serial ports, then the 2x USB block, and finally a PS/2 keyboard and mouse block. Everything past there is where the PSU goes in a normal rackmount chassis.