Comments on: Modern CPU Architecture: A Crash Course

By: Geo Miller

Geo Miller — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:32:19 +0000

A good point. Intel is talking about their “80-core” processor — so clearly computing clusters are going to have fewer nodes in the future.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:43:19 +0000

So, just out of curiosity, when can we expect to see motherboards that take four of the quad-core chipsets by either AMD or Intel? I’ve built a few computational clusters and you get tremendous bang for the buck with them compared to big iron from SGI, CRAY or SUN, but you eventually run up against a wall of diminishing returns because with 128+ nodes in a rack, the industry’s 2-5% accepted failure rate comes after you in the form of LOTS of hardware failurs. Now I’m thinking fewer nodes with as many cores per node as possible……

By: Jim Conklin

Jim Conklin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:33 +0000

Very informative technical piece.