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SGI's NUMA systems did support 1024 processors in 2006 running Linux and on IRIX way before that.
Intel is aiming at number crunchers (note that their chip uses doubles, not floats).
So is nVidia's latest chip. Both do double precision, but at significant performance penalty over SP computations.
The important difference is that Larrabee is a x86 chip with new SSE extensions.
Using Mesa Software Rendering and Equalizer!
No - the system referred to is a SGI Crimson, for which there is no Linux port.
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SGI's NUMA systems did support 1024 processors in 2006 running Linux and on IRIX way before that.
Intel is aiming at number crunchers (note that their chip uses doubles, not floats).
So is nVidia's latest chip. Both do double precision, but at significant performance penalty over SP computations.
The important difference is that Larrabee is a x86 chip with new SSE extensions.
Using Mesa Software Rendering and Equalizer!
No - the system referred to is a SGI Crimson, for which there is no Linux port.