I don't know what you should run on it - but you should definitely buy better locks and cameras. Some of us know where you live
(kidding - of course - but this does trigger a level of jealousy that previously only involved other things).
That what skimming gets for you!
With current DDR4 prices, the sweet spot is on the 16GB dimms....price wise 16<8<32, who knows how it will be when this is shipping let alone what kind of special deal you can get but dual 1520's sounds nice.
I'm wondering whether it would be possible to achieve much the same as this already using conventional CPU's on a dual socket motherboard and having the two sockets communicate using some sort of inter-socket bus instead of 10gigabit ethernet?
Physically the hardware is capable of it, the issue is getting a UEFI that will expose the correct functionality and the correct coherence/address maps to make it work. It would involve a fairly none standard Source Address Decoder and address map to make it work. It would also require writing a new software networking driver that worked in RAM. OTOH, the CPU interconnect would be roughly equivalent to ~200 Gbit/s ethernet per connected QPI port. But it would be a LOT of work. If you are going to use a dual socket, it would probably be easier to soft partition via a hyper-visor.
Uhh yeah, do tell abt those SFP+ options and if it's SM based. Was bummed there was not word on SM SFP+ MB option yet :-( In any case me = broke right now so unless I unload my 3 node E3-1230v2 cluster that's not happening anytime soon. Pretty impressed with the high level bench's. Blows my mind that a 1.9 Ghz SoC is kicking a high end E3's butt. Depressing...but I digress. Poppa needs 3 new toys now and apparently to unload 3 Intel X520-DA2's if these boards are gonna come with 10G SFP+ nics. Would drool over a SAS3 LSI onboard + 10G. Maybe there is already news of this...I have been digesting soo much about Xeon D recently it's starting to all become mush.I don't know what you should run on it - but you should definitely buy better locks and cameras. Some of us know where you live
BTW - what system is it that includes SFP+? Is that just a PHY on the built-in 10Gbe? Did they expose the other one on RJ45? Inquiring minds...
Thanks for the rapid insight.
It clarified an interesting Xeon-D configuration trade-off. In that case, I guess to avoid extra work it's either smccloud's original idea, which entails some waiting for the 1520 hardware to become available for purchase, or else it's the 10Gigabit SFP links already discussed in the other thread.
What performance level can freebsd currently support? i.e. how far off is it currently from the 10gb mark?
Working on it. Napp-it did not want to work for some reason. I did storage testing on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials yesterday - and in a very fun way.
I currently see around high 400MiB/s with an E3-1220 & Mellanox Connectx-2 SFP+ gear for Freebsd 10 & Samba 4.
You're right. Well then lets just say I'd appreciate if you even tried booting a PC-BSD live cd to see if it worksFreeBSD? That is asking something in terms of compatibility.
In theory it should work. Since from you system scan print out it is all presenting as OTS widely used hardware. The integrated PCH is basically a C2xx series. The 10g networking is basically an X520 series. So it should just work.FreeBSD? That is asking something in terms of compatibility.