Looking at this and the above link:
http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=1501
It seems that the OCP Yosemite is a motherboard that allows four compute
cards to be plugged into it. The compute cards can even have different CPUs
(x86, ARM, Power). The Yosemite board has the NIC and co
Talking about 10Gbps networking... and above:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/11/mellanox_adds_networking_specs_to_ocp/
"In the configuration Mellanox demonstrated, a 648-node cluster would only
need 162 each of NICs, ports and cables."
So looks like one switch port can fan out to four host
Seems like an interesting chip. 256GF in 45 watts seems nice, but i'm
a little leery on the 10G onboard. I'm not sure 10G is cost effective
on the large scale yet. Is it even port-for-port to infiniband yet?
I've not looked in a while.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:52 AM, John Hearns wrote:
> Very
Very good article on The Platform:
http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/09/intel-crafts-broadwell-xeon-d-for-hyperscale/
On 10 March 2015 at 19:42, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Intel recently introduced an interesting product:
> Xeon D is a Broadwell (Haswell shrink) SoC.
>
> It only has 8 cores, not high-
