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The Beast Has Arrived!! New Mac Pro with 2x24" Apple Displays [pics and geekbench]

gibbz

gibbz

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May 31, 2007
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Hi everyone. The machine I will use for my Ph.D. has arrived!! Here are the specs:
2x2.93GHz Quad Nehalem
16GB DDR3 RAM
4x1TB HDs (RAID card on way)
2xNVIDIA GeForce GT 120
2x24" Apple Displays

I have included some preliminary pictures. including geekbench scores. Enjoy!

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Cynicalone said:
So where did you place the Pro? I'm curious because the LED ACD cable is so short?
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I think you only have two options with two 24" screens. Straddle your Mac Pro under your desk or have it on top of your desk with a screen either side. These 24" screens really were designed for laptops first and foremost.
 
jealous...

wow...nice display, you officially have one nice, but expensive setup.

Those LEDs are not worth the money to me, but "if ya go it...spend it."

what's the configuration of your MacPro?

CrackBookPro:cool:

p.s. Please don't respond if your MacPro beats my 'dream machine' - http://store.apple.com/us/cart :D...just kidding :p ...what's your config?
 
crackbookpro said:
wow...nice display, you officially have one nice, but expensive setup.

Those LEDs are not worth the money to me, but "if ya go it...spend it."

what's the configuration of your MacPro?

CrackBookPro:cool:

p.s. Please don't respond if your MacPro beats my 'dream machine' - http://store.apple.com/us/cart :D...just kidding :p ...what's your config?
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crackbookpro said:
I hope you got more than one graphics card for your mulit-display...

CrackBookPro:cool:
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Not to sound like an ass, but did you even read the post? He posted his configuration above all the pictures. :p
 
Congrats! Man what a setup! :)

I know exactly how great the 24" LED ACD is and now you have side by side connected to such a beast!
 
kellen said:
Wow, nice. Whats it going to be used for?
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I use it for numerical weather prediction. I run both regional atmospheric models and large eddy simulation (LES) code.

Cynicalone said:
So where did you place the Pro? I'm curious because the LED ACD cable is so short?
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It is under the desk there pushed all the way to the back. It is hard to see, but if you look under the left monitor, you can see the MacPro there. I did have to do that because of the short cable.

crackbookpro said:
wow...nice display, you officially have one nice, but expensive setup.

Those LEDs are not worth the money to me, but "if ya go it...spend it."
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Well, since our grant is paying for the setup, I had no reservations at all.

robindahlia789 said:
i belt it was like heaven when the shipment came in, right? haha
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I just kept staring at the boxes. It was much like Christmas morning.

crackbookpro said:
I hope you got more than one graphics card for your mulit-display...
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Well as it states where I posted my configuration, I have 2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120s

jjahshik32 said:
Congrats! Man what a setup! :)

I know exactly how great the 24" LED ACD is and now you have side by side connected to such a beast!
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I might have passed on them, but after seeing my girlfriend's Apple display, I had to get them. I agree, they are rather awesome.
 
DeusInvictus7 said:
Not to sound like an ass, but did you even read the post? He posted his configuration above all the pictures. :p
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he did...my bad...

My PC at work didn't upload all the pics quick enough before I made the post. That's what happens when you are working on a PC:p

...I'm still jealous, but not as much - I would only buy the 8-Core if I were throwing up that much dough for a MacPro.

CrackBookPro:cool:
 
gibbz said:
It is under the desk there pushed all the way to the back. It is hard to see, but if you look under the left monitor, you can see the MacPro there. I did have to do that because of the short cable.
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That makes it nice and easy to access the DVD tray then :)
 
At first I was wondering what you would need this much power for. Hoping it was not something like Philosophy.

gibbz said:
I use it for numerical weather prediction. I run both regional atmospheric models and large eddy simulation (LES) code.
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When I saw this, I wonder if it is powerful enough. If you consider some of the weather model supercomputers:D. I am sure you will be able to easily max out the Mac Pro. Congrats
 
gibbz said:
Well, since our grant is paying for the setup, I had no reservations at all.
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Lucky b*****d! All I got with my grant was a Dell linux desktop and 15" screen. Although its a glorified email client for me, I prefer to use my MBP or 2006 MP (both my own purchases) to do all of my work.
 
Do the mDP cables reach alright? I have heard multiple reports they don't reach in a 2x24/Mac Pro setup

EDIT: sorry, just found the answer after re-reading the thread
 
Wicked1 said:
Not a Bad way to Spend $12,000.00 Grand but is that much power really necessary? :eek: but I still like it :rolleyes:
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If he's using an efficient multithreaded codebase then yes. 8 cores and 16GB RAM doesn't go very far in terms of atmospheric modelling. A few years ago I worked with some code that modelled turbulence. My 'test' runs (testing modifications to the software, not actual science runs) used 8 processors and 64GB of RAM.
 
Wicked1 said:
Not a Bad way to Spend $12,000.00 Grand but is that much power really necessary? :eek: but I still like it :rolleyes:
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Well we actually got a steal at just over $9000.

The power is definitely needed. The two model codes I use are effective with multithreading. Some domains I use are 512x512x80 = 20,971,520 grid points for solving upwards of 50 variables over a simulation period of 24 hours calculated every 4 seconds of simulation time ... so around 21600 calculation times in total. Depending on the grid spacing I am interested in, the time step might even drop to 1 second.

RAM is really crucial in post-processing since the files are huge.
 
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