[Beowulf] Haswell as supercomputer microprocessors

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Tue Aug 4 17:50:19 PDT 2015


On 05/08/15 00:52, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> Seriously? Why does IBM have to make everything so difficult?

As I understand it Power BQC is the SoC (so CPU, networking, etc),
whereas A2 is the CPU core & instruction set.  So it's a fair
distinction (though one that is often glossed over in practice).

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