3 ms·
Apparently these CPUs support ECC RAM (and plenty of it), which hopefully will get them the customers that were turned off the Atom based clusters with 4GB per
by paranoidgeek 15y ago
Apparently these CPUs support ECC RAM (and plenty of it), which hopefully will get them the customers that were turned off the Atom based clusters with 4GB per dual core of non ECC RAM.
- justincormack 15y agoWith 100 cores you probabky need a very large amount of ram for most applications.
- rbanffy 15y agoIt depends mostly on the size of the data you'll be using. Pages containing code are usually few in comparison with pages containing data. The biggest hurdle is to prevent 100 little processors from starving - the memory bus will either be insanely wide or insanely busy. I'll have to do some math to find out how many cores could fit into a single chip provided each core had, say, 2 GB of RAM to itself, behaving not as a processor in a single-image but as a node in a distributed computer. We could even provide it with a more interesting memory architecture, with the lower 2GB being non-shared and the rest of the memory space being drawn from a shared pool of memory, with chunks allocated exclusively to any given core.