56 Cores in ONE SYSTEM! - HOLY $H!T
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,584 words · ~7 min read
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oh we are back at it again with another
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crazy core count system so Intel
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sent over this care package with some bananas
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stuff in it so we've got an entire tray
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i mean technically it is an entire tray even if it's only 60 full of actual
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things of their new xeon w chips for workstations we've got
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oh this one's really good they're top of
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the line 28 core processor that's the xeon 8180 and
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another one they sent two these are unrelated they're cool too
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though so that's 56 cores on a single
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motherboard there are only two words to adequately describe this kind of speed
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holy sh
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now Intel has come under fire over the last number of years for
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their CPU innovation is dead let's call
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it a passive approach to bringing more cores
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to the mainstream consumer but this is not so in the enterprise
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space where super computing and the cloud have driven demand for cpus with
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ever higher core counts and with
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customers who are ready to pay for the engineering involved in creating them so
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in the last five years we've gone from the 2697 v2 that's a 12 core to this
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this is the xeon platinum 8180 28 cores in here that is over
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double the core count in less than five
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years each one of these chips can
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support up to 768 gigabytes of memory the uh m variant
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can actually do 1.5 terabytes each and
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is equipped with 48 pci express lanes a
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whopping six channels of ddr4 2666 memory each so
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this is 12 sticks here we're going to be using all of these and three qpi links
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for high speed communication in multi-chip configurations with up to
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four of them being able to communicate directly to each of the others but all
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of that comes at a cost Intel has been
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forced to use a significantly larger socket like physically larger with many
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more pins and what that means is that there will be zero interoperability
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between these high-end server chips and
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prosumer or workstation be they single
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socket or dual socket motherboards like we've enjoyed for the last few
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generations hold on a second is this going to be a problem always one to defy
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expectations a seuss has created
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something truly special
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for all the folks out there that disagree with Intel's assessment so
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let's then have a look at the ws c
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621e sage it has quite literally
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everything i mean ASUS engineers don't seem to have stressed out too much about
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the question of is it necessary it's got support for four
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u.2 drives who puts four u.2 drives in a
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system so we got two 3647 sockets we've
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got 12 memory slots like look at how much of this board is dedicated to just
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memory and CPU sockets
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it's got a micro sd slot because i don't know maybe you want to run some like
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Linux distro off of microsd seven pci
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express 16x slots with three of them wired up at 8x it's got a vga header
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can't go wrong with that i guess now
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all that's really left is to put it together and maybe run some
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benchmarks i am super duper not a fan of this
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socket the retention mechanism is i should not to put a heatsink on top of
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it and screw it down which is terrifying because in 100 of cases so far i've had
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the suction of the thermal compound lift the CPU out at the same time now the
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conventional wisdom when it comes to thermal compound is generally less is
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more but if we're being realistic you know these coolers weren't going to help
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me break any overclocking records anyway these were the only things i could find
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with compatibility with the square ilm design versus the narrow one that were
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also readily available hello swiftech
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did up a couple of custom blocks for this socket almost no one else is even
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talking about support for this socket yet oh it's heavy
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56 processing cores
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now we got to keep it fed with data i mean that's one of the big design concerns
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every time is how are you going to keep that thing fed so what i'm installing
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right now from kingston top of the line as far as server memory speed goes so
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these are 26 66 megahertz
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and a whopping six channels per CPU it is an effective 6x4
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of the total memory bandwidth per CPU oh
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it's even more beautiful assembled 56 cores
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384 gigabytes of memory and that amount
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was actually chosen for a pretty specific reason so you guys are probably
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familiar with the seven gamers one CPU project where we had seven discrete
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gaming rigs running off of a single motherboard when we did that
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we were using 18 core cpus and i kind of went okay 36 course well now we've got
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so many that if we were to do
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six workstations like 8k
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video editing workstations each one of them
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could have oh that worked out too
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nine cores per video editing system like
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that is enough for a bonafide workstation so i would
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consider an eight core 64 gig workstation we're going to try
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and find some single slot cards so everyone gets a dedicated GPU i would
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consider that a very capable workstation and i want the whole thing powered off
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of a single motherboard okay we're in dare me to enable the
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turbo ratio lock to keep the processor
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operating at the turbo highest frequency for the maximum performance what does
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that even mean you guys means make it go more faster
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let's try it it's funny people would always ask me back when i used a raid
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card running eight ssds and raid 0 for my boot drive people always ask me oh
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how fast are your boot times it was not about boot time ssds were never about
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boot time it was always about speed once you're booted
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so i don't want to deal with the amount of screeching
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that i would have to deal with if i don't immediately fire up cinebench
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speaking of which okay okay people have asked me for examples of this the
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terribleness of the Windows search see okay that'll make sense i
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sure okay
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uh not really sure how we're getting there
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oh cine okay now i can get cinebench but watch this watch this
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b it's gone here we go
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whoa look at that turbo speed
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just shy of 7
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000 in cinebench that is 56 cores
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112 threads let's see it again my friends
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what it's like it's warmed up or something
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i came up with something that will let us hit it hard
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for an extended period when you mine burstcoin
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you have to do something called plotting so i'm gonna run six
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instances of the plotting software to
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see how much we can make it scream
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100 utilization at 2.9 gigahertz so
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somewhere between 150 000 and 200 000
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nonsense per minute which if you're into burst coin
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you will know is pretty freaking impressive for anything that is not a
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GPU obviously though this isn't the only thing we're gonna run on these things
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let us know in the comments below what kind of loads do you want to see run
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