Re: [gentoo-cluster] SC06 -- check out SiCortex

[Joel Martin]

Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:	[Tue Nov 14 2006, 07:51:21AM EST]
> Their machine is 5.8 TF with 5,800-ish cores, six cores per "node" -- what I
> would refer to as a socket or processor. The whole thing will consume 18 KW,
> which is unbelievable, and will sell for $2 M.

972 x 6-core little endian MIPS64 nodes (5832 processors total), up to
8 GB of memory per node, less than $2 M, super-fast fabric
interconnect that basically inter-connects L2 cache/DMA engines
between nodes.
 
> They only have an engineering prototype board right now so they don't have
> anything near a functional system, and won't for some time, so I doubt the
> claims that this thing is running Gentoo.

Yes, but months, not years and it definitely will run Gentoo on the
compute nodes.

Donnie Berkholz said the following on 11/13/2006 11:13 PM:
> > I'd like to hear more about them, if any of you can stop by their
> > booth: #629.

Well, there are reasonably informative white-papers about the system
here:
http://sicortex.com/prod_white.shtml

Or you can just ask me. I work there and we are just now out of
stealth mode. ;-)

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