Comments on: SGI 10,000 core concept

By: mike

mike — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:56:21 +0000

they should max out the cores with the max allowed ghz (3.6 ghz range). that way it would be 10,000×3.6 instead of 1.8. double the speed.

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:33:24 +0000

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those…

By: nick

nick — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:04:16 +0000

@mike

yeah unfortunately, the atom is like a mouse. it clocks in at the fastest at 1.8GHZ. the whole concept is like having 10,000 mice pull a semi truck, yeah it could work…. but there is probably a better way to do it. but really it would take 3 atom processors to match my one athlonx2. even the old Pentium 4 beats the atom. but the atom did achieve one goal of the project, its cheap, real cheap.. $45 per processor. but at a guessed cost of 45,000 that defeats the purpose of cheap.

By: Hatecrime69

Hatecrime69 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:19:53 +0000

Nice in concept, but the atom??? Enough of them together and you might have enough power to almost match an i7…maybe

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:17:44 +0000

@nick

Is that how many atom processors it takes to run vista decently? :)

By: nick

nick — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:05:45 +0000

wow, i myself would have settled for, i don’t know 10 cores for my computer. imagine the electric bill for running this thing, and the cost for refrigeration of the room it is housed in, and just the cost of the damn thing. it is beautiful in its raw processing power. maybe they built it for vista, lol , just kidding. i think only custom Linux could manage that behemoth.

By: Alcoholic

Alcoholic — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:00:39 +0000

Too bad the linked article says it doesn’t actually exist, probably owing heavily to the heating problems. Then again, look, I just drew up a 20,000 core system using Q6600s and heavily drawing on 5th dimension! It’s about as relevant as this

By: Brtus

Brtus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:58:05 +0000

Put a griddle on top of it.

McDondald’s could sell the proc time and cook their burgers for free.

By: KaD

KaD — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:36:46 +0000

its impossible….its…..OVER 9000!!!

By: Hirudinea

Hirudinea — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:57:35 +0000

Just put a sheet of metal on the top, toss on some burgers and you can open “Joe’s Render Farm and Grill”!

By: infaredBurrito

infaredBurrito — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:11 +0000

i think a waterproof bag and 800lbs of ln2 would be enough to cool it

By: Prophetnoise

Prophetnoise — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:48:01 +0000

What would be great is converting as much of that heat back into some sort of useable energy, instead of dispersing it into the air and wasted… or using even more energy trying to cool the unit.

By: arthur92710

arthur92710 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:47 +0000

or they can use the Uber Bong posted a few weeks ago! Btw my bong’s almost finished!

By: Edward Nardella

Edward Nardella — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:40 +0000

Just put it in a river of oil cooled by 4-5 auto rads with an industrial fan on each, that should do it.

By: Solenoidclock

Solenoidclock — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:20:12 +0000

I can macgyver a 100% efficiency heater with nothing but a clothespin a cup of warm piss, nemo, but the molecule would be slightly less than 100% efficient because of losses in the electromagnetic spectrum. I think SG is counting on the number-crunching power to make it worth the investment.

Also, that’s clever name they’re using, I hope they stick with that processor.