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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?"

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Toasty. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, temperatures on the University of Illinois campus have mysteriously risen ten degrees. Scientists are still examining possible causes..

    1. Re:Toasty. by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good thing they have a brand-new supercomputer, analyzing this temperature anomaly will be much faster!

    2. Re:Toasty. by jmorris42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Scientists are still examining possible causes..

      Nah. If something gets warmer it is caused by Global Warming and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

      If something gets colder it is Global Climate Change and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

      If we have more hurricanes it is Global Warming. Fewer and it is Climate Change. More tornadoes? Global Warming. Floods caused by increased snowfall? Somehow that was also Global Warming, I'd have thought they would have went with Global Climate Change, but every rule seems to need an exception.

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    3. Re:Toasty. by hostyle · · Score: 5, Funny

      An African or European Heisenberg?

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  3. Core pron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

    I came.

    1. Re:Core pron by mcpkaaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      I came.

      I saw.

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      It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
    2. Re:Core pron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I kicked its ass

    3. Re:Core pron by LittleBigScript · · Score: 5, Funny

      I came.

      I saw.

      I compiled.

    4. Re:Core pron by rhyno46 · · Score: 3, Funny

      iCame

      Is that a new Apple product?

    5. Re:Core pron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I, Caesar, when I learned of the fame
      Of Cleopatra, I straightway laid claim.
      Ahead of my legions,
      I invaded her regions,
      I saw, I conquered, I came.

    6. Re:Core pron by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 2, Funny

      I came.

      I saw.

      And I had to clean it up. Damn your bones.

  4. Re:Vista capable? by clang_jangle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but I think you'll still have to disable the aero if you want to get DNF to work right.

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  5. iPhone by giorgist · · Score: 2, Funny

    When can I get an iphone with it ?

    G

  6. Re:Finally by QuantumRiff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, right, it has optical connections. they will have to be disabled to play videos, otherwise you might copy them!

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  7. Re:Sorry Mac fans . . . by imamac · · Score: 2, Funny

    So still no G5 laptop???? AHHHHHH!!!!!!

  8. 620 TB of memory? by xbytor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely no one would ever need more...

  9. UofI machine is a bit low on memory by yorkshiredale · · Score: 5, Funny

    That University of Illinois machine sounds like it needs more memory.

    Only 620TB? Why not bump it up to 640? That should be enough for anybody.

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  10. Sure there is... by Nick+Driver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there any way to force a process to run over 2 cores at 100%?

    Sure there is. Just install Oracle Database Server on it and hit it with some poorly-written queries over an ODBC connection.

  11. Re:Finally by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    If shaved windows is anything like shaved pussy, it'll be a good thing.

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