paul wrote Damn. The Nehalem's are out? or are they engineering samples? Inquiring minds want to know! I'd be interested in math benchies, especially compared to Penryn or Kentsfeild. You do know that hyperthreading makes a comeback with the Nehalem cpu's? So 16 simultaneous threads on those boxes....

Yes, engineering samples.  We have a partnership with Intel, they send us all kinds of hardware to run our benchmarks on.  One of our products uses monte carlo simulations to forecast interest rate risk which they *love* using in their press releases.

The servers are still in the boxes on the floor.  (sigh)  I would happily do the legwork to rack and OS em if it meant I could warm em up.  Alas, my network admin knows what boinc is and doesn't take to it too well...

Occasionally, they send us new chips so we drop out the existing CPU and pop in new ones.  Several of the old CPU's (Woodcrest and Kentsfield) are lying around in boxes collecting dust - but the tray they mount the CPU on  is well designed not to fit in your ordinary 771 or 775 socket motherboards...  Smart!   They will probably get dropped in the trash eventually.