2 Apr
2013
2 Apr
'13
11:15 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
I'm having a little difficulty visualizing "The World's Top
Supercomputer"
as being a single chip CPU on a motherboard.
When did "supercomputers" become single board devices?
"Put the CPU on a daughterboard"?
Do you really think I'm that stupid? I've poked my head into plenty of
supercomputers, in fact I have the very rack of a top500 list entry in
my garage.
I'm not even going to reply to that...
I'm kinda stuck thinking in terms of adding
another rack that
supplants PART of the CPU functions with faster, and relegating
the rack(s) that it replaced to anciliary functions.
What anciliary functions? http servers? storage? The performance per
watt is way of for that kind of application.
Hopefully, the machines won't hit the recyclers but end up in hands of
students, less fortunate and hobbyists.
I never realized that inside one of those racks there
was a
CPU chip plugged into a socket.
Again? This is close to insulting.
Regards,
Pontus.