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

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:08:18PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>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.

For some reason MIPS sticks in my mind, which made me think of a bunch of
PSP's strung together. :-)

Geoff.

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