I stopped by their booth last tonight.
Their machine is 5.8 TF with 5,800-ish cores, six cores per
"node" -- what I
would refer to as a socket or processor. The whole thing
will consume 18 KW,
which is unbelievable, and will sell for $2 M.
They only have an engineering prototype board right now so
they don't have
anything near a functional system, and won't for some time,
so I doubt the
claims that this thing is running Gentoo.
They may run Gentoo in development and they do have a full
simulator that
they use and it's possible either those systems or the
simulated system is
running Gentoo.
I'll stop back there today after my talk and press them
about the Gentoo issue.
Donnie Berkholz said the following on 11/13/2006 11:13 PM:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Those of you attending SuperComputing '06 might like to
check out
> SiCortex -- they're making 5,800-node and 650-node
custom MIPS clusters
> that run Gentoo. I'd like to hear more about them, if
any of you can
> stop by their booth: #629.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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