Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will

Dunnington, a Bangalore-designed successor to Harpertown, is still supposed to be relatively hush-hush but Intel has reportedly put three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on a die the size of a postage stamp and sharing a 16MB L3 cache. Like other Penryns, Dunnington still uses a front-side bus.

Dunnington slips into Intel’s Caneland platform and so uses the Clarksboro chipset.

The dingus, which Intel has previously described as pin-compatible with the dual-core/four-socket Tigerton quad, will be two- and four-socket, meaning mainframe-like machines with 24 cores.

Intel is reportedly seeing how quickly it can get the little beast out. It was due before the first of the Nehalem chips and could appear in Q3, maybe even Q2.

HP readies eight CPU Opteron

SOURCES SAID HP is readying a re-launch of the Proliant 700 series.

This will be an eight CPU server using quad core Opterons.

It’s scheduled for March or April. It all depends on when AMD can deliver the microprocessors for the tin.

wow, hexcore, octocore, 16 threads...

to 9450 now, or not to 9450 now, that is the question...



Intel CSI Nehalem and Dunnington details leak

Nehalem is projected as arriving late, supporting two, four and eight cores, representing four, eight and 16 threads.

Very cool!

I so wish most computer makers (Dell, HP, etc) installed distributed computing programs by default on their computers and on first boot a pop up explained quickly what the program did and gave the option of turning it on, off, or to give it a share of x% of CPU.

Right now there's probably 99.99% of potential computing power that is sitting idle in the world... What a waste.

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Interesting...

Other companies pay computer mfgr's to install bloatware, I wonder how much it would actaully cost (per computer) to install Boinc / Rosetta...

Even if pennies, I'm certain it would add up really fast, lol !

Well, bloatware usually has a commercial purpose (either making money, or taking market share from competitors so that the company can later monetize it).

DC is mostly non-profit and scientific. Maybe no money would be required if only the right people could be convinced.

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Absolutely. Maybe some day!

Very cool!

I so wish most computer makers (Dell, HP, etc) installed distributed computing programs by default on their computers and on first boot a pop up explained quickly what the program did and gave the option of turning it on, off, or to give it a share of x% of CPU.

Right now there's probably 99.99% of potential computing power that is sitting idle in the world... What a waste.

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