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SGI shows off Molecule concept machine

Ze

SGI answer to bluegene? 

SGI answer to blue gene?

With the rise of low power chips again , it seems to me like IBM might have to look at commodity chips for bluegene. IBM isn't afraid to use another manufactuers chips though.

I wonder how CELL based supercomputers are doing though.

Anton Ivanov

Ahem, finally 

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Better later then never.

I have been expecting to see something along these lines using Atom or the latest Geode for a while now (even Via for some apps).

What is quite strange here is why they did not go for an evaporative cooling solution. When looking at this Atom lattice my first thoughts are "freon... evaporates...". This will give a much better bang-for-the-buck at this density.

Francis Boyle

Looks uncannily like HAL 

Just needs some orange mood lightning.

Brian

Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. 

Pirate

@ Francis Boyle

"Looks uncannily like HAL"

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if the design was deliberate, to that end...

Anonymous Coward

Architected 

Can we please stop using architect as a verb it's doing my f* head in. And no, language does not evolve through ignorance of its use. If you want to advance the state of the language, write a novel.

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