[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:46:53PM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> It runs Linux. While Linux is well know to work with multiple cores,
> has anyone actually measured (or even properly modeled) that many cores? 

I don't think that the SC machines are single system image.  I think
they run an image for every 6 processors.  I don't know that for
certain, but for their biggest system, they have more processors than
the kernel trunk supports.  Also, they repeatedly refer to the machines
as a cluster.

> Note that they went out of business, did they ever ship any machines? If
> so what?

Last I heard they had passed 75 machines shipped.  75 of the little ones
is not at all impressive.  75 of the medium and big ones seems like a
reasonable volume, but obviously it wasn't good enough.