I stopped by their booth last tonight. Their machine is 5.8 TF with 5,800-ish cores, six cores per "node" -- what I would refer to as a socket or processor. The whole thing will consume 18 KW, which is unbelievable, and will sell for $2 M.
They only have an engineering prototype board right now so they don't have anything near a functional system, and won't for some time, so I doubt the claims that this thing is running Gentoo. They may run Gentoo in development and they do have a full simulator that they use and it's possible either those systems or the simulated system is running Gentoo. I'll stop back there today after my talk and press them about the Gentoo issue. Donnie Berkholz said the following on 11/13/2006 11:13 PM: > Hi everyone, > > Those of you attending SuperComputing '06 might like to check out > SiCortex -- they're making 5,800-node and 650-node custom MIPS clusters > that run Gentoo. I'd like to hear more about them, if any of you can > stop by their booth: #629. > > Thanks, > Donnie -- Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director .:. High Performance Computing Networking, Infrastructure, & Research - Information Technology Services Frey Computing Services, Rm. 201-I [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louisiana State University +1 225.578.3272 (V) Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1900 USA +1 225.578.6400 (F) http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/ http://www.lsu.edu/ -- [email protected] mailing list
