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

[Phil Stracchino]

velociraptor wrote:
> The dev I know who worked at SiCortex said he and his fellow devs have
> been discussing putting out the release that was about to go out the
> door when the company folded.  No formal decision at this point,
> though.
> 
> It's custom MIPS chips, which is what kept the heat/power draw down.
> Custom silicon is expensive though, so it's probably one of the
> contributors to them folding.
> 
> The cluster runs Gentoo.  The service processor runs RHEL.

Seems kinda odd to run two different flavors of Linux on the same machine.

Still seems a really neat and interesting machine though.


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