On 04/03/2013 08:27 AM, Bret Stouder wrote:
> Prentice:
> 
> For the money you could buy a lot more real computational cycles that last a 
> lot longer than anything proprietary from IBM.  The reason the Origins have 
> been out of production for a long time is the result of research moving to a 
> commodity server platform.  Taken a look at what Cray offers lately?  Looks a 
> lot like commodity.  If you are going to take the time to port code, it seems 
> that a reasonable argument could be made to stay away from Blue Gene and port 
> to Cuda or Phi.  
> 
> Bret


The interconnect is completely proprietary. I doubt it's even using
something like HTX for the board connect.
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