[Beowulf] IBM Sequoia

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 4 05:23:01 PST 2009


2009/2/4 Kilian CAVALOTTI <kilian.cavalotti.work at gmail.com>:
> An even weirdest number around this system is the amount of memory listed.
> 1.6TB of main memory for 1.6 million cores, that's a mere 1 MB per core... I
> hope it's a P, not a T.
>

Yes, the Hpcwire article confirms 1.6Pbyte.
http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Lawrence-Livermore-Prepares-for-20-Petaflop-Blue-GeneQ-38948594.html
It also examines the core count:
"However, since Sequoia will be composed of 98,304 compute nodes and
contain a total of 1.6 million cores, one can surmise that a Blue
Gene/Q node will contain 16 cores. Whether this is implemented as one
16-core chip or two 8-core chips (or even four quad-core chips)
remains to be seen."



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