On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> Who would anyone be interested in buying this at this huge price with >> as far as i can see 0 advantages. > > it's for memcached. it's not for chess. > > I'm not sure how HPC-friendly the current rev is, in that it has > fairly > limited-seeming memory bandwidth. The most interesting aspect > is the onchip networking (5-degree 10Gb).
It's eating too much power and too expensive for telecom networking i'd guess. They always speak about power in telecom, but all examples i have there is that price dominates everything there. Power constraints soon get dropped when eating more power is cheaper. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
