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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. Tick...tick...tick... by HaeMaker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...tick...tick...tick...

  2. Re:Core pron by vbraga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I won.

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  3. Nah, they are just building a new kind of bomb by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They only -say- they are using all this computer power for weather forecasting. In reality, they are devising a new kind of anti-matter bomb, and they'll just use that sucker to take over the world. PRetty soon, the capital of Earth will be the University of Illinois, so, if you stole any books from the campus library, you'd better pony up, or you'll be on your way to the Gulag they plan on constructing in North Dakota.

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  4. Numa Numa by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where's that NUMA NUMA kid when you need him?

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    1. Re:Numa Numa by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Where's that NUMA NUMA kid when you need him?

      New Jersey.

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    2. Re:Numa Numa by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Must've been cut by razor blades.

  5. Re:Core pron by Alpha830RulZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Need a washcloth?

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