http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/ Engadget Comments for Intel plans to stuff more than 8 cores, extra speed into 2011 server chips http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
Boy I think you lost that loving feeling, oh that loving feeling.]]>May 7th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/I'd actually argue it's *the only* good film starring himself. all opinion, of course.]]>May 7th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/and the first thing i though of was one of those comedy jokes at a plane hitting a bird or something and the joke referenced to "Top Gun"
a plane went down and "goose died" lol ]]>May 9th 2010 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/Does anyone belive that he'll be able to see any improvement in his rig by switching from an 8 core to a 12 core CPU? ]]>May 7th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/Yes, I believe so. Try to render a complex scene with Vray/Mentalray/Finalrender/Brazil etc. You'll render 1.5 faster. These are professional grade CPU's not made for the average user.]]>May 7th 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
Same here - heavy load web services, movie rendering, 3D rendering farms, batch processing of financial records, physics simulations for car and avio manufacturing, ... There is a ton of industries with billions of dollars to spend on whatever Intel can manufacture.

And that all drives the price down on the 'low-end' 4-core and 8-core processors for my home computer, to filter and recode thousands of photos I take and filter, render and compress hours of video footage I take.]]>May 7th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
Actually yes. Any 3D, Compositing, encoding, or other image processing application will immediately take advantage of the extra cores. This is a server processor however aimed at a slightly different market. It means it can handle more requests simultaneously, more concurrent apps, more virtual machines simultaneously.

The new chips are 12 core and feature improved QPI. Their access to memory is already fast and getting faster. You are not memory bound on any of the current intel implementations at least for the processing I mentioned so ram will not be the bottleneck.
]]>May 7th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/@aigairius
@Bolo

Ok, but companies with these kind of needs probably already make use of special rigs with multiple CPUs which for the time being are probably even (relatively) cheaper.
I am aware that this is the path Intel has decided that the evolution of CPUs has to follow, but instead of cramming more and more cores on the same boring bits of silica why is nobody investing any serious amount of RD founds in promising new techs such as photon, quantum and/or molecular processors and the likes?
It's at least a decade we hear about these techs and how promising they are but without the R&D investment of some big industry player they will forever remain the theorethical masturbations of some underfounded college researchers.
The next stage in computing will not be ushered by the millionth core crammed on a CPU, the next quantum leap and the next multibillion dollars silicon valley fortune will be made by someone capable of retimagining the very structure of data/information processing.
]]>May 7th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/Ok, let's just stop upgrading CPUs then, right? The idea is higher density plus newer technology - the details of that much are self explanatory.

Secondly, what's all this talk about software not taking advantage of multiple cores? Not only does most software these days support it, but servers don't run one app at a time anyway. Our small business server easily bounces it's 24 cores up and down even though it's running many not-optimized for mutli core apps.

Multi core is an inevitble advantage and future of computers.]]>May 7th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
Not to say that everyone will be jumping on the newest CPU as soon as it comes out (they're expensive), just that these things aren't running games or desktop apps that are sometimes hard to parallelize - server apps are ready and waiting for extra threads.]]>May 7th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
There is a big demand for them in datacenter virtualization. I've built VMware ESX clusters that have 40 or more Windows based virtual machines per server. And that is with Quad core processors.

Give me 8 cores and my consolidation rates are going to skyrocket.

This does pose one problem for me though. My disk I/O rates are going to skyrocket as well. I'm not sure 10Gbit SAN is going to be enough to handle it. ]]>May 7th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
I was wondering the same thing, but I'm sure that servers may have a different situation than our desktops. It must be easier to program for several cores than a single powerful core that can turn multi-threaded.

Again, I don't know, and I hope someone a little more knowledgeable can chime in, but it just seems to me that hyperthreading limited to splitting cores in two at most and just adding additional cores beyond that is easier, possibly because you would have to be running several programs to get that kind of draw out of a CPU.]]>May 7th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
What? No Top Gun reference by Archer reference?

anybody?

you people need to be watching some FX]]>May 7th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
How about more than two for the rest of us...]]>May 7th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/Physics says no. That law is dead.]]>May 7th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/
no, it just means that silicon is reaching its limit, and we'll see a jump to different architectures and different materials. ]]>May 7th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://anandtech.com/show/2978/amd-s-12-core-magny-cours-opteron-6174-vs-intel-s-6-core-xeon]]>May 7th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/May 7th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/intel-plans-to-stuff-more-than-8-cores-extra-speed-into-2011-se/I guess our personal desktops are not as efficient in handling this much cores yet.
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