On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Achilleas Anastasopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I apologize for the slightly off topic. > > I had just received a donation from Intel of > 8 quad-core XEON processors E5440 and I was thinking > of building a super fast gnuradio PC system. > Does anyone have an idea as to what is the best way to utilize these > processors to build a super fast PC system for gnuradio? > Are there any 4-slot motherboards?
Quad socket intel boards are highly specialized parts, not just off the shelf. The S771 cpus are not quad-socket compatible as far as I know. Even for Opteron, where quad-socket is an off the shelf part it is still much more expensive than dual socket boards. You could, however, build 4 dual socket systems, connect them up with some fast network cards (I'm fond of cheap infiniband cards from ebay for this sort of thing :)) and create some GR blocks that dispatched processing to other computers. On this subject: Are the frames output by USRP2 broadcast or multicast? It would be neat to setup a cluster of systems all spying the same 25mhz of spectrum and doing things with it. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
