[geeks] SGI had an Atom system "on the drawing table"

[Lionel Peterson]

I'm not so sure, I think there are/were many, many Atom CPUs on a  
board, implying a non-Ethernet fabric...

Lionel

On May 21, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Jody Stephens <jodys at helluin.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Lionel Peterson's message of Thu May 21 06:04:08 -0600 2009 
> :
>
> [snip]
>
>> "If someday brought to market, a single-rack system based on the
>> Silicon Graphics Molecule concept computer would offer the computing
>> power and memory bandwidth of more than 750 high-end PCs, SGI said,
>> yet it would consume less than half the power and less than 1.4
>> percent of the physical space."
>>
>> That could have been interesting...
>
> I believe this is actually a Rackable design. More a continuation of
> what they have been doing, rather than something new. A dumb cluster
> with ethernet. However, Rackable has always been very power conscious.
> I seem to remember reading a paper somewhere indicating that for a
> given power footprint and problem (likely web serving,) more would be
> gained out of larger number of weaker processors than a smaller number
> of faster, but more power hungry, processors.
>
> I wish that NUMAlink 5 would get productized, but I'm guessing that
> NUMAlink is dead. I also kind of wish the old SGI had made more of an
> effort to push NUMAlink down the price chain.
>
> Jody
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