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

[Lionel Peterson]

The Atom CPU consumes 4-5 Watts, this core uses one-fifth of that?

Are they Transmete Atoms?

Lionel

On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:38 PM, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:08:18PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> And actually, if it has 72 cores and 48GB of RAM but only draws 300
>> watts, what kind of cores are they?  ARM?  The site says the 72-core
>> deskside machine contains 12 nodes each containing a single 6-core
>> processor, but I can't find anything that actually says what kind of
>> processor cores it runs.  All I can find put about the processor  
>> cores
>> is that they're a 64-bit architecture, run at a claimed 1.4GFLOPS/ 
>> core,
>> and draw 900mW per core, which is tiny compared to any current AMD or
>> Intel processor core.
>
> For some reason MIPS sticks in my mind, which made me think of a  
> bunch of
> PSP's strung together. :-)
>
> Geoff.
>
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