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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I contemplated doing this on our Barcelona cluster, but<br>sacrificing 1 core in 8 was a bit too much of a high price<br>
to pay. But people with higher core counts per node might<br>find it attractive.<br><br></blockquote>
<div>My prediction for the New Year - someone will produce a dedicated HPC node with multicore Nehalems,</div>
<div>plus a cheap, single core processor for OS 'housekeeping' tasks.</div>
<div>Maybe such a board will also have slots for GPU accelerators too.</div></div>