[geeks] New Cray?

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 13:32 , Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> Back to poke that supercomputer debate...
>>
>> I could deal with one of these...
>> http://is.gd/2I8G
>>
>> Given PC depreciation I figure in 6 years we may be able to afford  
>> one  of the house :D
>
> 64 cores is 16 processors. How long before you will be able to buy a
> 16 processor Tiwanese motherboard?
> I can see it now, a big case with 8 standard power supplies, each  
> running
> two processors, and you can put 1, 2 or 4 core processors in each  
> socket.

...and the latest version of Vista will still have choppy performance...


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