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<p class="MsoNormal">I do know we’ve had the debate about ARM processors in HPC before this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not wishing to open up any new hostilities, what do we think the impact of these on HPC will be,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">given the wimpiness of the cores?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/hp-launches-project-moonshot-powered-with-intels-atom-at-first-7000013686/">http://www.zdnet.com/hp-launches-project-moonshot-powered-with-intels-atom-at-first-7000013686/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Google tells me that a brontobyte is 1024 yottabytes)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What sort of switching bandwidth is in this thing?<o:p></o:p></p>
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