Xeon chip stuffs up to 18 cores

[glorybound]

Intel's next Xeon chip stuffs up to 18 cores into very powerful PCs

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/15/i...n-e5-due-soon/

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Dual 18 cores 36c 72t OMG *_*

[AndresAhumada]

OMFG!!!! i want!!

[glorybound]

I also read that DDR4 RAM is coming, too.

[AndresAhumada]

ddr4 standard 16g or 32g per stik... Yehaa!

[glorybound]

With one of these:

http://www.wahpinas.com/amd-releases...r-gpu-for-hpc/

[AndresAhumada]

When vga cards with more than 32 g on board they Will be atractive for rendering on RT

[vlado]

That's very nice, however keep in mind that Windows has a hard limit of 64 logical cores per application. If a single application wants to run on more than 64 logical cores, some special programming is required.

So 18 physical cores is 36 logical (with HT); if you put two processors, that becomes 72 and is above the 64-core Windows limit.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

That's very nice, however keep in mind that Windows has a hard limit of 64 logical cores per application. If a single application wants to run on more than 64 logical cores, some special programming is required.

So 18 physical cores is 36 logical (with HT); if you put two processors, that becomes 72 and is above the 64-core Windows limit.

Best regards,
Vlado

So we are going to start using linux vray? o.O

[alexyork]

That's very nice, however keep in mind that Windows has a hard limit of 64 logical cores per application. If a single application wants to run on more than 64 logical cores, some special programming is required.

So 18 physical cores is 36 logical (with HT); if you put two processors, that becomes 72 and is above the 64-core Windows limit.

Best regards,
Vlado

So a dual CPU 16-core Xeon system = 64 logical = ideal. Interesting.

[AndresAhumada]

Vray for Linux?

[dlparisi]

That's very nice, however keep in mind that Windows has a hard limit of 64 logical cores per application. If a single application wants to run on more than 64 logical cores, some special programming is required.

So 18 physical cores is 36 logical (with HT); if you put two processors, that becomes 72 and is above the 64-core Windows limit.

You are such a spoil sport! Let us fantasize for a moment.

[YoyoBoy]

Actually, that core limit isn't a bad thing. It just means you'll be able to do other stuff with other programs while most of your computer is busy rendering.

[eyepiz]

Actually, that core limit isn't a bad thing. It just means you'll be able to do other stuff with other programs while most of your computer is busy rendering.

I'm not to sure about that...those 8 cores still wont fire up when Max is rendering with 64-cores, so I think...

[Morbid Angel]

just write to microsoft and tell them to get their shit together. In fact I think they will soon enough once these chips become widely available. Windows 9 ?