----- "John Hearns" <hear...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
That's, umm, interesting.. :-) Perhaps with a ULP Core 2 from a notebook as the housekeeping one (yeah, it'll have 2 cores, but you can just hotplug one out if you don't want it).. > Maybe such a board will also have slots for GPU > accelerators too. I believe that people are already making external cages with PCIe slots that connect back over a high spec PCIe link. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
