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hackedgadgets.com - 11/19/2008

10,000 Core Computer

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  Is your desktop quad core computer a bit slow for your liking? If SGI develops this concept into an actual product you may be able to add some horsepower to your computing needs. "Engineers at Silicon Graphics research labs developed the system to show how consumer ...

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blog.wired.com - 11/18/2008

SGI Creates 10,000-Core Concept Computer

— blog.wired.com — High performance computing specialist Silicon Graphics has created a concept computer called Molecule using mostly off-the-shelf consumer... electronics components that packs in 10,000 cores into a single rack. While the computer sounds like ... (more) SGI Creates 10,000-Core Concept Computer

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blogs.zdnet.com - 11/14/2008

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs

— blogs.zdnet.com — Sun said Friday that it will lay off 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce–or 5,000... to 6,000 people–as it restructures amid weak demand, a series of poor quarters and a business model that rallies around open source software. Add it up ... (more) Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs

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blog.wired.com - 11/14/2008

Dual-Core Atom Not Much Faster Than Single-Core

— blog.wired.com — PC Pro has been testing Intel's new dual-core Atom 330 processor, and while it's faster than the... netbook-favorite Atom N270, it isn't by much. The chip tested was a desktop version, sitting atop a big, netbook-unfriendly motherboard. The clock ... (more) Dual-Core Atom Not Much Faster Than Single-Core

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SGI 10,000 core concept
Hack a Day — ... has decided to see how much crap many cores they can shove in one box. The Molecule is 10,000 core rackmount machine designed to leverage low cost consumer CPUs like the Intel Atom. It emphasizes high memory bandwidth and throughput between CPUs. While this sort of space efficiency is interesting it’s certainly going to take some serious cooling to get designs like this off the ground. [via Hacked Gadgets]        ...