On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:57:04AM +0100, Alan Louis Scheinine wrote: > Cell (CBE) shows that a similar approach can run Linux, one > conventional processor and lots of specialized cores on the same chip.
Yes, but it lacks the on-die switch to scalably mesh cores, so you only get a few cores for each fat (=many pins) connection to memory. This is no way to run a kNode in one physical box. Apropos of Cell, I presume most of you have seen http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/ Anyone knows how badly the GBit virtualization layer (hypervisor) on the PS3 hits latency on Cell Linux? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
