> I contemplated doing this on our Barcelona cluster, but > sacrificing 1 core in 8 was a bit too much of a high price > to pay. But people with higher core counts per node might > find it attractive. > > My prediction for the New Year - someone will produce a dedicated HPC node with multicore Nehalems, plus a cheap, single core processor for OS 'housekeeping' tasks. Maybe such a board will also have slots for GPU accelerators too.
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