-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/12 08:45, Mark Hahn wrote:
> thanks - I've never seen one. I know 16k units are possible, and I > don't doubt you're right about their rackiness. but I thought the > 16k unit was considered sort of non-unit/fractional - does it being > that size mean a dimension of the interconnect mesh is unpopulated > or something? Smallest component you can get is a single midplane, which is half a rack and 8K cores (plus supporting infrastructure like I/O nodes, service node & front end nodes). cheers! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlC9XyoACgkQO2KABBYQAh/NAwCcDLiX4s0+Pci/aHheQfrl8JPR aa0AniwZKfvQPQE6TaWv2vGN20NZqfnH =8lDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
