Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: [Tue Nov 14 2006, 07:51:21AM EST] > 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.
972 x 6-core little endian MIPS64 nodes (5832 processors total), up to 8 GB of memory per node, less than $2 M, super-fast fabric interconnect that basically inter-connects L2 cache/DMA engines between nodes. > 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. Yes, but months, not years and it definitely will run Gentoo on the compute nodes. Donnie Berkholz said the following on 11/13/2006 11:13 PM: > > I'd like to hear more about them, if any of you can stop by their > > booth: #629. Well, there are reasonably informative white-papers about the system here: http://sicortex.com/prod_white.shtml Or you can just ask me. I work there and we are just now out of stealth mode. ;-) -- Joel Martin (kanaka) Open Source no BILL . no GATES Costs nothing . Open to all
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