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On 4/24/09 9:16 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <<a href="prentice@ias.edu">prentice@ias.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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> On 4/24/09 3:03 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <<a href="eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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> im impressed with the different views everyone has. i dont know how<BR>
> many of you would agree with me a multicore processor lets say a<BR>
> quad is 4 nodes in one. could one say it like that?<BR>
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> I would not. To me a node is a physical thing. <BR>
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I would disagree, slightly. I would say that a node is a single system<BR>
image. That is, it's one one image of the operating system. The physical<BR>
boundary is a good rule of thumb, but doesn't always work.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>OK, I agree here. I’ve used a SiCortex 648 where it had 6 cores per node, and a bunch of nodes mounted on blades. Each node had its own OS image running and you could ssh to it, etc.<BR>
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