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IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip

Posted by kdawson on from the 100-racks-of-goodness dept.

pacopico writes "The first details on IBM's upcoming Power7 chip have emerged. The Register is reporting that IBM will ship an eight-core chip running at 4.0 GHz. The chip will support four threads per core and fit into some huge systems. For example, University of Illinois is going to house a 300,000-core machine that can hit 10 petaflops. It'll have 620 TB of memory and support 5 PB/s of memory bandwidth. Optical interconnects anyone?"

3 of 425 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Toasty. by DilutedImage · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet another Anonymous Coward talking crap

  2. University of Illinois Funds? by tyrione · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So that's where some of that fraud money has gone to, eh? I found this envelope and all it had was a return address to Barack.

    I couldn't resist.

  3. There IS a Human Cause to Global Warming!!! by dreamchaser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Global Warming IS real and IS caused by humans. Well, by one human. All of Al Gore's bloviating on the subject has created such a huge amount of hot air that it has upset the balance.

    Save the planet! Stop Al Gore!