[Simon]

Originally posted by Peter:
Wait. You didnt know this already? :/
Some cluster upgraded to 2.3Ghz, but i thought i read it was a special xserve build - and wouldnt be released to the masses

Of course, that's what this whole discussion is about.

Read the entire thread and check the plot on the top of this page. There it says that VT got a whole bunch of dual 2.3GHz Xserves even though Apple doesn't sell such an Xserve model at the normal AppleStore.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Peter:
Wait. You didnt know this already? :/
Some cluster upgraded to 2.3Ghz, but i thought i read it was a special xserve build - and wouldnt be released to the masses

Check the date on that first post.

Anyways, Apple STILL hasn't announced a speedbump to the Xserves, and thus 2.3 GHz Xserves are still unavailable to the general public.

[Eug Wanker]

Now they're up to 12.05 Tflops/s with 2200 2.3 GHz Xserves.

[Eug Wanker]

IBM is now selling 2.2 GHz G5 blades.

[blackwind]

Here is the buy link:

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/st...-840&langId=-1

According to this page, the PowerPC 970 used in the new 2.2-GHz JS20 server has 1 MB of L2 cache per processor (unless it is just a mistake). If it is accurate, it is likely that the next Power Mac G5 revision will have these 1-MB L2 PPC 970's. I wonder what performance difference there would be.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by blackwind:
Here is the buy link:

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/st...-840&langId=-1

According to this page, the PowerPC 970 used in the new 2.2-GHz JS20 server has 1 MB of L2 cache per processor (unless it is just a mistake). If it is accurate, it is likely that the next Power Mac G5 revision will have these 1-MB L2 PPC 970's. I wonder what performance difference there would be.

The 1 MB L2 part looks like a mistake to me, but one can always hope...

[Eug Wanker]

VT is now up to 12250 Gflops/s, which is 60.5% efficiency. They aren't in fifth place any longer though, as of last week. (A NASA SGI Itanium 2 system made it into the top 5, so VT was pushed to 6th.)

Originally posted by blackwind:
According to this page, the PowerPC 970 used in the new 2.2-GHz JS20 server has 1 MB of L2 cache per processor (unless it is just a mistake). If it is accurate, it is likely that the next Power Mac G5 revision will have these 1-MB L2 PPC 970's. I wonder what performance difference there would be.

There are rumours of a 1 MB L2 970GX... There are also rumours of a dual-core 970MP for next year.

[Eug Wanker]

Only a year later, but the 2.3 GHz Xserve is finally here.
[NO HUGE INLINE IMAGES! --tooki]
Xsan is here too now.

[DrBoar]

But with the 512k L2 instead of the 1024k that IBM sell

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by DrBoar:
But with the 512k L2 instead of the 1024k that IBM sell

IBM doesn't sell 970FX JS20's with 1 MB L2, because those chips don't (officially) exist. The website is a typo. Or perhaps they meant 1 MB L2 for two chips, but you can rest assured that the 970FX JS20 machines that have shipped from IBM have only 512 KB L2 per chip.