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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. Re:Toasty. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Real credible blog.

    I guess I should believe that over the vast majority of intellectuals.