<div>Bernard,</div>
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<div>I'm looking forward to hearing from our resident experts, but meanwhile: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner</a> exlains the architecture some. The buzzword is "triblade", which is 3 blades (with an extension) employing two types of processors (AMD Opteron and IBM Cell) in a hybrid subsystem. I have no idea what a single Triblade looks like. The overallmachine is then composed of zillions of triblades. </div>
<div>Wow,imagine a Beowulf of those (jk :-)</div>
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<div>Peter (designing a Beowulf of abaci to fit his current budget)<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Bernard Li <<a href="mailto:bernard@vanhpc.org">bernard@vanhpc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all:<br><br>I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner<br>circulating the Net:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch</a><br><br>However, they don't look likes blades to me, more like 2U IBM x series<br>
servers. Perhaps those are the I/O nodes?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Bernard<br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" target="_blank">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br>
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