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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. Vista capable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So will it be fast enough to run Vista then.

  2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster... by ducomputergeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    errr....wait a minute, that sounds exactly what U of I is building!

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  3. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    But it still can't play Crisis.

  4. In other news... by billybob_jcv · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...IBM also announced a performance upgrade kit for the Power7 to enable it to meet the minimum HW requirements for Vista.

  5. Re:UofI machine is a bit low on memory by matty619 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No Body will EVER need more than 640 TB of memory.