*A:M User* Roger Posted June 26, 2014 *A:M User* Share Posted June 26, 2014 Found this on another tech site today, so I had to start playing with their configurator: http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/peak/quad_...r/customize.php The base is about $7500, if you max everything out, it ends up being $45,000. I didn't do a Xeon system, I'm afraid to. It would probably be double. For those of you wondering, that gets you: Quad 16 core Opterons for a total of 64 cores 1 terabyte of RAM 1 terabyte SSD 8TB of hard disks Quadro 6000 with 12GB of RAM 2 Bluray burners 4k monitor mouse and keybard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted June 26, 2014 Author *A:M User* Share Posted June 26, 2014 So curiosity got the better of me and I configured an "ultimate xeon" system: Basically the same as the above, but with the following difference 4 Tesla K40 cards Quadro 6000 4 12 core xeons Other than that, more or less the same. For a whopping total of $78000. I cannot even imagine spending that kind of money, or what you would use it for. Anything that used GPU computing would probably run instantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 26, 2014 Hash Fellow Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't know if there are any applications that could truly use that many cores. Maybe some sort of scientific thing? I don't understand this... 1 terabyte of RAM 1 terabyte SSD 8GB of hard disks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted June 26, 2014 Author *A:M User* Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't know if there are any applications that could truly use that many cores. Maybe some sort of scientific thing? I don't understand this... 1 terabyte of RAM 1 terabyte SSD 8GB of hard disks Herp-derp. Chalk that up to a typo due to me being exhausted. I meant to type 8TB I'm assuming if you wanted to you could probably throw as many SSDs in there as you wanted, but the configurator program only allows for 1, everything else has to be a regular HD. Still, pretty nuts. The RAM alone is about $23000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted June 26, 2014 Author *A:M User* Share Posted June 26, 2014 And yes, would probably have to be some scientific app. I can't imagine anything outside of oil&gas exploration or panning around inside an MRI of your brain in realtime or editing multiple 4k video streams that would even begin to stress this thing. And if I was buying something like this, unless I had some burning need where it would pay for itself in a month, the whole time I would be thinking "in ten years the average phone will have these specs" Even though I still thing the new Macs look goofy, they're actually not a bad value considering you get the workstation-level ATI graphics cards for practically nothing. Although the base model of this machine will exceed it in number of cpu cores at the same price, when you start adding in a workstation class graphics card you can't match the price. However, you're locked into whatever config you go with with the Mac, unless they offer an upgrade service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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