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The folks at Eurocom have released another monster 'mobile workstation'
This time around the company's released the Sky X9W complete with a quad-core, eight-thread, Intel Core i7 6700K capable of operating at 4.2GHz and nestled amidst an Intel Z170 Express (Skylake) chipset. The NVIDIA Quadro M5000M dwarfs the CPU for core count: it's got 1,536 of its own.
Pack in 64GB of DDR4-2133, 2400 or 2666 RAM, if you please, then throw in up to four NVME SSDs and give them the RAID 10 treatment for data protection.
There's also a 17.3 inch 4K screen at 3840 x 2160.
[... it also has] a single USB-C port, a pair of mini display ports capable of driving four monitors, an HDMI outlet, five USB 3.0 ports, a pair of RJ45s and Wi-Fi.
Configurations start at $2930 (and weigh in at 4.8 kg / 10.6 lbs — ouch!) , but you can configure it to a price well over $4000.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/05/eurcom_sky_x9w/
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday February 07 2016, @04:56PM
Exactly. For the stuff that I need to do locally, the 1TB SSD, quad-core i7 and 16GB of RAM in my laptop are adequate, though 32GB would be nice for a few more (and larger) VMs. For stuff where I really need compute power, we have a rack with a few 24-core boxes with at least 384GB of RAM (512GB or 1TB in the newer ones) and a deduplicated ZFS pool with a big SSD for L2ARC and log device (so the big spinning rust disks are there for persistent storage but never end up on the hot path for disk I/O). If anything, those machines could be faster - I certainly wouldn't want to compromise their performance by requiring that they be portable, or able to run for more than 5 minutes on a battery.
The one thing that I would like in a laptop is the 128MB eDDR for L4 cache that a few of the newer Intel chips have. That makes a huge difference in a few of our workloads (FPGA synthesis times half of the fastest Xeons that we can buy without it).
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