Hi, I was notified a few days already at this chip. The price of $435 is interesting new information to me.
It mentions at their own homepage it's 32 bits completely, no mention of 64 bits. the bandwidth looks impressive, 4 memory controllers. More important than all those other chips seems memory consumption of this chip. Very interesting for telecommunication. The power usage there is most important. Looks a tad less impressive considering its huge price, for number crunching. This chip could be a great seller if they would offer it for a dump price. Say $25 a cpu. Who knows, could conquer quite some markets then. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter St. John To: beowulf@beowulf.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:28 PM Subject: [Beowulf] 64-core processor... From Slashdot I picked up on PCMag's http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2173203,00.asp which describes Tilera's 64-core processor. (Tilera is apparently an MIT spinoff.) They say their first customers are network swtiches and "CGI render farms". Each core has it's own tiny router, "iMesh". A price mentined is $435 ($7/core sounds nice, doesnn't it?) for quantity 10K, which makes me wonder if 100 sites could each take 100 chips from a collaboration (still too much for my budget). Booting Linux is mentioned but not specified, the article expresses some doubt that a full kernel is meant. Just a curiousity. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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