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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

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?
> Beowoulf or other similar clusters (MOSIX, etc) don't count as they are 
> seperate machines, not all the cores in one.
> 
> Note that they went out of business, did they ever ship any machines? If
> so what?

Didn't SGI have big single-image Linux machines?

Peace...  Sridhar