It's only 17W per chip, man. Intel/AMD 64-biters are nearly (if not over) 100W, IBM's Power4 is 115W @ 1GHz (IIRC). MIPS/SGI is actually showing the way in lower power number crunchers!
How are the 16 MIPS CPUs arranged in the "superbrick"? Added in increments of four? How much cache? What kind of CPU-to-CPU and CPU-to-RAM buses? Are the CPUs on special modules or PCBs? Something like IBM's Power4 quad-chip octuple-core MCMs with the 32MB cache chips? (And could IBM squeeze those together as densely as in the 3900?)
I couldn't find any details at the SGI site. (Understandable as this was just the announcement of the official launch.)
Thanks for any insight! Educated guesses do fine.
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I would love to see these cases sold empty at furniture shops. I would have one at home, maybe put a refrigerator in it or something...
It's only 17W per chip, man. Intel/AMD 64-biters are nearly (if not over) 100W, IBM's Power4 is 115W @ 1GHz (IIRC). MIPS/SGI is actually showing the way in lower power number crunchers!
How are the 16 MIPS CPUs arranged in the "superbrick"? Added in increments of four? How much cache? What kind of CPU-to-CPU and CPU-to-RAM buses? Are the CPUs on special modules or PCBs? Something like IBM's Power4 quad-chip octuple-core MCMs with the 32MB cache chips? (And could IBM squeeze those together as densely as in the 3900?) I couldn't find any details at the SGI site. (Understandable as this was just the announcement of the official launch.) Thanks for any insight! Educated guesses do fine.
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