[illumos-Discuss] [Off topic?] SPARC Rules

[Philip J. Robar]

Fujitsu's K Computer crowned supercomputer champ as petaflop age emerges. The K Computer has 68,544 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs with eight cores = 548,352 cores. It’s also notable that the K Computer doesn’t use graphics processors or accelerators.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/japans-k-computer-takes-supercomputer-crown/51004

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/06/20/japan-takes-top500-supercomputer-crown-from-china-40093151/

Phil
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We have reached the age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it. — Vannevar Bush, "As we may think"