How Windows 8 Will Deal With Tons of CPU Cores

[Pherule]

I sure hope they offer an option to revert back to the old version in the final release. The old graphs are more useful under certain circumstances.

 

[blibba]

How Windows 8 deals with tons of CPU cores is far more interesting than how its task manager does. However, such a topic isn't really covered here. Shame.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]that's like saying you have a delorian time machine, but you're out of gasoline and it won't be invented any time soon.[/citation]

I thought it ran on depleted Uranium?

 

[mapesdhs]

[citation][nom]gravewax[/nom]Seriously that is a joke right? you have honestly never heard of boards with more than 4 processors? I guess it would blow your mind that I am working with 2 machines with 16 processors and windows running?[/citation]

(+1 for ya!)

Indeed, big systems have been around for ages, and they're available
as single machines, not clusters. See:

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/configs.html
http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/jolt.html

It's nothing new. I have a 36-CPU system in my garage.

Ian.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]warmon6[/nom]From what i could guess, it's probably intels 10 Core HT xeon cpu's and 8 of them on a server board.10 cores*8=80*2(from HT)=160 Nope. That's a windows 7 screen shot for sure unless MS done an update that my computer hasn't revived. Here what i have of windows 8 and there no option that you can switch back to the original task manager look.http://s760.photobucket.com/albums [...] 20preview/[/citation]
Actually, if you change 'RPEnabled' to 0 in the registry, you'll disable the metro UI, the new explorer, and the new task manager. Effectively giving you Windows 7's interface. And that looks like the basic theme in Windows 8 in both screenshots.

 

[Guest]

Win7 allows processor affinity assignment thru the task manager. So that isn't an upgrade. They just changed from graph to numeric w/colors.

 

[eddieroolz]

I almost spat out my coffee when I saw that task manager. To think that I thought 4 graphs were a lot...

 

[Guest]

" For a high end workstation, I am not sure of a board that will take more than four CPU's...... 4 CPS's @ 8 cores each is 32 CPU's. So I want to know where 160 CPU's comes from also? "

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/supermicro-server-intel-westmere-xeon,news-35068.html

Supermicro's 80 core Xeon server ( 8 cpu's x 10 cores each ) , add hyper-threading ( 80 x 2 ) 160.

 

[mapesdhs]

Only 160? Boring. 😀

SGI Altix UV 1000:

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/configs.html

Max of 256 sockets, 2560 cores, 5120 threads, 16TB RAM, and this is a single system, not a cluster.

Even the midrange UV 100 leaves the Supermicro in the dust.

Ian.