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Friday, July 6, 2007
Need density? How about 18 processors on a blade
Jul 6 2007 10:05AM | Permalink |Comments (5) |
Extreme Engineering Solutions recently upped the ante on high performance computing platforms with their XCalibur1411 featuring eighteen PowerPC processors on a single AdvancedTCA Blade. The board features nine P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682 dual-core processors, each with two PA6T Power Architecture cores operating at up to 2.0 GHz. Each processor includes up to 2 GB each of SDRAM, providing up to 36 GB of total onboard memory. Processing nodes are interconnected through a x2 PCI Express link to the utility processor and two media independent interfaces to a Gigabit Ethernet switch. Extreme Engineering provides operating system support for VxWorks, QNX, and Linux 2.6. The XCalibur1411 targets communication systems where compute density is a requirement like core routers, multiservice switches, and radio network controller blades.
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Reader Comments
at 7/11/2007 8:34:21 AM, bklyn48 said:
wow!
at 7/11/2007 8:34:28 AM, bklyn48 said:
wow!
at 7/12/2007 10:36:26 AM, rbrandt said:
Awesome!!
at 8/6/2007 11:13:15 AM, mike mcgonegal said:
PowerPC.... oh boy (yawn)
at 8/22/2007 1:36:31 AM, rektide said:
exceedingly cool.
@mike: i dont see anything wrong with ppc. particularly when it includes altivec.
i had been hoping PCI-ASI wasnt going to fall off the face of the earth: eight CPU's pcie linked to a management/host CPU is kind of boring, and certainly leaves a lot of unused I/O on 8/9ths of these chips.
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