AMD sent us 2 barcelonas to pop into one of our 2970s.

they arrived today and are sitting on my desk. about to go down to the datacenter and put them in.

holy shit those things are fast.

discuss.

9/11/2007 10:15:04 AM

hows about we discuss you running Folding@Home on that (or any) machine

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9/11/2007 12:56:48 PM

i wish. they're part of my vmware ESX cluster, and i can't really spare any cycles :\

we've got around 2500 servers in the datacenter, though.. i'm sure i could find a couple that barely get used.

9/11/2007 1:00:56 PM

thats the spirit. help the NCSU team, FOLD!
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oh check out our article in the Technician today:
http://tinyurl.com/yqx4al

k i'm done plugging. so you're thinking these are faster than the Intel equivalents?

9/11/2007 1:11:20 PM

i wonder what it would take to be #1 in the folding at home game.

9/11/2007 1:20:05 PM

oh gawd, server farms, computer labs, etc some people take it pretty seriously with racks and racks of machines.

9/11/2007 1:27:08 PM

yeah, some people really go all out...i folded for the Anandtech team for years...i don't think we ever gained a position...they were in the high teens last i checked. there are a few guys over there with u1 racks in their houses just for folding. craziness.

and gratz on the barcelona's. work those things out!

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9/11/2007 3:17:52 PM

Clovertown > Barecelona

imho, but no matter what Intel and AMD says, the "full" reviews aren't out yet and there aren't real sufficient benchmarks to be that accurate with... but I don't think AMD made up enough ground.

9/11/2007 3:24:05 PM