Need density? How about 18 processors on a blade

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.