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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was notified a few days already at this
chip.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The price of $435 is interesting new information to
me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It mentions at their own homepage it's 32 bits
completely, no mention of 64 bits.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the bandwidth looks impressive, 4 memory
controllers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>More important than all those other chips seems
memory consumption of this chip.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Very interesting for telecommunication. The power
usage there is most important.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looks a tad less impressive considering its huge
price, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>for number crunching.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This chip could be a great seller if they would
offer it for a dump price. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Say $25 a cpu.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Who knows, could conquer quite some markets
then.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=peter.st.john@gmail.com href="mailto:peter.st.john@gmail.com">Peter
St. John</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Beowulf@beowulf.org
href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Beowulf] 64-core
processor...</DIV>
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<DIV>From Slashdot I picked up on PCMag's <A
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2173203,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2173203,00.asp</A> which
describes Tilera's 64-core processor. (Tilera is apparently an MIT spinoff.)
They say their first customers are network swtiches and "CGI render farms".
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<DIV>Each core has it's own tiny router, "iMesh". </DIV>
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<DIV>A price mentined is $435 ($7/core sounds nice, doesnn't
it?) for quantity 10K, which makes me wonder if 100 sites could each take
100 chips from a collaboration (still too much for my budget). </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Booting Linux is mentioned but not specified, the article expresses some
doubt that a full kernel is meant.</DIV>
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<DIV>Just a curiousity.</DIV>
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<DIV>Peter</DIV>
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