[geeks] New Cray?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>Back to poke that supercomputer debate...
>
>I could deal with one of these...
>http://is.gd/2I8G
>
>Given PC depreciation I figure in 6 years we may be able to afford one  
>of the house :D

64 cores is 16 processors. How long before you will be able to buy a
16 processor Tiwanese motherboard? 

I can see it now, a big case with 8 standard power supplies, each running
two processors, and you can put 1, 2 or 4 core processors in each socket.

:-)

Geoff.
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