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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> velociraptor wrote:
>> The dev I know who worked at SiCortex said he and his fellow devs have
>> been discussing putting out the release that was about to go out the
>> door when the company folded.  No formal decision at this point,
>> though.
>>
>> It's custom MIPS chips, which is what kept the heat/power draw down.
>> Custom silicon is expensive though, so it's probably one of the
>> contributors to them folding.
>>
>> The cluster runs Gentoo.  The service processor runs RHEL.
> 
> Seems kinda odd to run two different flavors of Linux on the same machine.
> 
> Still seems a really neat and interesting machine though.

I might guess that the service processor is x86, and that starting with 
gentoo for the compute nodes was simpler than starting with Linux From 
Scratch, really doing it from scratch, or making a special embedded 
kernel or RTOS for the hardware.