[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Phil Stracchino]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:23:06AM -0400, John Francini wrote:
>> that's exactly what the device is -- at least if you compare it to the  
>> info on the SiCortex web site.  This is the "developer version" with  
>> "only" 72 processors.  Their products scaled to as many as 5,832  
>> processors, according to the site.
> 
> It runs Linux. While Linux is well know to work with multiple cores, has anyone
> actually measured (or even properly modeled) that many cores? 

And actually, if it has 72 cores and 48GB of RAM but only draws 300
watts, what kind of cores are they?  ARM?  The site says the 72-core
deskside machine contains 12 nodes each containing a single 6-core
processor, but I can't find anything that actually says what kind of
processor cores it runs.  All I can find put about the processor cores
is that they're a 64-bit architecture, run at a claimed 1.4GFLOPS/core,
and draw 900mW per core, which is tiny compared to any current AMD or
Intel processor core.


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