Submission + - Are Slower Processors Better?
deadline writes: "Last month at the annual supercomputing show, there was a
different kind of system that seems to buck the current trends. Instead of handful of faster
and hotter processors, a
new company called SiCortex
is using a bucket of
slower cooler MIPS processors (5832 cores to be exact). The
whole cluster computer takes up
5 square feet of floor space (1.4 square meters) and is expected to
deliver 6 TFLOPS with a power signature of only 16 KWatts. Each
MIPS core sips only 10 Watts. Linux, the HPC workhorse, was the OS
of choice for this new machine. Interesting pictures and discussion
on ClusterMonkey
as well."
