Wonder no more.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/01/05/what-does-256-cores-look-like/

Whatever he's running has them at 91%.

2/11/2009 1:40:37 PM

The NCSU Folding team needs a few of those.

2/11/2009 1:44:14 PM

itanium? it's gotta be...

2/11/2009 2:06:36 PM

Quote :

"I believe the machines architecture is based upon Xeon processors and not Itanium."

2/11/2009 2:15:52 PM

2/11/2009 2:47:51 PM

2/11/2009 5:29:31 PM

its probably generating 10000000000000 reasons why evan is gay.


haha...jk, just had to

2/11/2009 5:38:41 PM

so what's using up 91% of all that?

2/11/2009 5:40:27 PM

Quote :

"In actual fact there are very few applications at the moment that can utilize that level of parallelism and would therefore justify the cost of such hardware. Microsoft has updated the Windows kernel to enable it to operate with up to 256 logical processors. Within the above screen shot you can see a machine running SQL Server with a simulated load that utilizes all 256 logical processors. Enabling applications to effectively utilize that number of logical processors is not easy. On machines with a high number of logical processors there is an increased chance of running into the various problems associated with multi-threaded code. Given that it is appropriate that Microsoft is placing considerable energy into ensuring that Windows and applications such as SQL Server can scale to high numbers of logical processors. In future versions of Windows and other operating systems when we have high numbers of logical processors, even on desktop and mobile platforms, logical processors can be utilized by assigning them to specific tasks. One group of logical processors would be reserved for the operating system, another logical processor or two could be dedicated for virus scanning or malware detection. Of course the majority of logical processors would remain available for running applications."

2/11/2009 5:43:30 PM

It is definitely its probably 10000000000000 reasons why evan is gay.

2/11/2009 6:49:34 PM

Quote :

"Given that it is appropriate that Microsoft is placing considerable energy into ensuring that Windows and applications such as SQL Server can scale to high numbers of logical processors."

No matter how many processors SQL Server can burn through, no self-respecting DBA will consider a database without sequences to be scalable.

2/11/2009 7:27:07 PM

Quote :

"What does 256 cores look like in Windows? "

Like a waste of time and money.

2/11/2009 8:08:11 PM

Quote :

"Within the above screen shot you can see a machine running SQL Server with a simulated load that utilizes all 256 logical processors."

Must have been trying to run Sharepoint

2/12/2009 1:07:20 AM

Quote :

"No matter how many processors SQL Server can burn through, no self-respecting DBA will consider a database without sequences to be scalable."

I walk by giant demo datacenters every day that would beg to differ. And http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/ to see our internal dogfooding stats running on SQL

It's honestly pretty not bad.

^SharePoint on the other hand.... ugh

[Edited on February 12, 2009 at 6:18 AM. Reason : .]

2/12/2009 6:17:39 AM

Surprisingly Windows has been leading the massive SMP/NUMA market for a while, at least on paper. Back when I was doing HW cert at IBM the only OS that supported the 32 socket configuration of one system with hyperthreading enabled (64 logical CPUs) was Windows 2k3 Datacenter. The Linuxes were limited to 32 or fewer processors -- a couple wouldn't even run on the full configuration with hyperthreading disabled. It's not that anyone would have seriously considered running an application that large on a Windows host, but you could at least boot it and watch the pretty graphs under a synthetic load

[Edited on February 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM. Reason : .]

2/12/2009 9:14:52 AM

Photoshop



Or



Else its probably 10000000000000 reasons why evan is gay.

2/12/2009 8:20:20 PM

Judging from the screenshot, it would appear as though the CPU is attempting to perform a square root of some sort.

2/13/2009 8:34:39 AM

Quote :

"Surprisingly Windows has been leading the massive SMP/NUMA market for a while, at least on paper."

Well, how else would they be able to set the minimum requirements for Windows 8 Home Basic Edition to be 64-cores and 1TB of RAM?

[Edited on February 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM. Reason : ehe]

2/13/2009 10:04:21 AM

Quote :

"I walk by giant demo datacenters every day that would beg to differ. And http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/ to see our internal dogfooding stats running on SQL "

2/14/2009 7:21:06 AM

I can only imagine how bad the backend on sharepoint is.


The master pages and the CSS are two of the worst things I've seen in my entire life.

2/14/2009 10:50:12 AM

^^

aahahahahah fucking gold

2/28/2009 1:37:39 AM