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I stopped by their booth last tonight. |
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Their machine is 5.8 TF with 5,800-ish cores, six cores per "node" -- what I |
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would refer to as a socket or processor. The whole thing will consume 18 KW, |
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which is unbelievable, and will sell for $2 M. |
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They only have an engineering prototype board right now so they don't have |
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anything near a functional system, and won't for some time, so I doubt the |
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claims that this thing is running Gentoo. |
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They may run Gentoo in development and they do have a full simulator that |
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they use and it's possible either those systems or the simulated system is |
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running Gentoo. |
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I'll stop back there today after my talk and press them about the Gentoo issue. |
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Donnie Berkholz said the following on 11/13/2006 11:13 PM: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> Those of you attending SuperComputing '06 might like to check out |
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> SiCortex -- they're making 5,800-node and 650-node custom MIPS clusters |
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> that run Gentoo. I'd like to hear more about them, if any of you can |
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> stop by their booth: #629. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director .:. High Performance Computing |
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Networking, Infrastructure, & Research - Information Technology Services |
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Frey Computing Services, Rm. 201-I bropers@×××.edu |
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Louisiana State University +1 225.578.3272 (V) |
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Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1900 USA +1 225.578.6400 (F) |
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http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/ http://www.lsu.edu/ |
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