IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip

pacopico writes "The first details on IBM's upcoming Power7 chip have emerged. The Register is reporting that IBM will ship an eight-core chip running at 4.0 GHz. The chip will support four threads per core and fit into some huge systems. For example, University of Illinois is going to house a 300,000-core machine that can hit 10 petaflops. It'll have 620 TB of memory and support 5 PB/s of memory bandwidth. Optical interconnects anyone?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, temperatures on the University of Illinois campus have mysteriously risen ten degrees. Scientists are still examining possible causes..

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[Anonymous Coward]

"For example, University of Illinois is going to house a 300,000-core machine that can hit 10 petaflops. It'll have 620 TB of memory and support 5 PB/s of memory bandwidth."

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[clang_jangle]

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[giorgist]

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[mcpkaaos]

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Re:Finally

[QuantumRiff]

Yeah, right, it has optical connections. they will have to be disabled to play videos, otherwise you might copy them!

Re:Sorry Mac fans . . .

[imamac]

So still no G5 laptop???? AHHHHHH!!!!!!

Re:Toasty.

[Yvan256]

Good thing they have a brand-new supercomputer, analyzing this temperature anomaly will be much faster!

Re:Toasty.

[jmorris42]

> Scientists are still examining possible causes..

Nah. If something gets warmer it is caused by Global Warming and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

If something gets colder it is Global Climate Change and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

If we have more hurricanes it is Global Warming. Fewer and it is Climate Change. More tornadoes? Global Warming. Floods caused by increased snowfall? Somehow that was also Global Warming, I'd have thought they would have went with Global Climate Change, but every rule seems to need an exception.

620 TB of memory?

[xbytor]

Surely no one would ever need more...

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[Anonymous Coward]

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UofI machine is a bit low on memory

[yorkshiredale]

That University of Illinois machine sounds like it needs more memory.

Only 620TB? Why not bump it up to 640? That should be enough for anybody.

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Is that a new Apple product?

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Sure there is...

[Nick Driver]

Is there any way to force a process to run over 2 cores at 100%?

Sure there is. Just install Oracle Database Server on it and hit it with some poorly-written queries over an ODBC connection.

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[tietokone-olmi]

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[hostyle]

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