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Hammer, Banias photos.

http://www.realworldtech.com/index.cfm

Realworldtech has some photos from MPF of the demos there. I can verify that I saw the very same ones last week.

http://www.realworldtech.com/includes/images/articles/mpf2002-opteron-fig1.jpg

Notice the massive heatsinks on the Hammer CPUs. They may look like 4 heatsinks, but they are only two. I can't say I go for the layout of the design, but they did manage to get it in a 1U extended form factor (note that about 30% of the system is missing from the north end of the photo).

http://www.realworldtech.com/includes/images/articles/mpf2002-Banias-fig1.jpg

This is a picture of the Banias system *as it is running*. The fan looks like it is off, and that's because it was! The fan was heat controlled, and with the low power dissipation, it wasn't needed.

http://www.realworldtech.com/includes/images/articles/mpf2002-Banias-fig2.jpg
http://www.realworldtech.com/includes/images/articles/mpf2002-Banias-fig3.jpg

In these images, you see Banias running Photoshop, and a probe is attached to measure power dissipation. Clearly, Banias is going to be a cool chip, with power at 0.25-1.30W. Wow.

Thought that some people might be interested.

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