[Beowulf] IBM Sequoia

Igor Kozin i.n.kozin at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 8 14:03:25 PST 2009


2009/2/4 Eloi Gaudry <eg at fft.be>

> Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 18:25:04 John Hearns wrote:
>>
>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/03/llnl_buys_ibm_supers/
>>>
>>> I make this 400 cores per 1U rack unit. How is the counting being done
>>> here?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Even for the intermediate "development" system, Dawn, the article quotes
>> 150,000 cores in 36 racks. Which makes about 100 cores in a 1U space. That's
>> a hell of a density..
>>
> The Cell architecture could be a hit, couldn't it ?
>

the future of the cell seems very problematic after that and especially this
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/851/1050851/intel-design-playstation-gpu


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