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Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] 10 U = 512x Atom Z530 + 2 GByte RAM
From:       Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl ! org>
Date:       2010-06-15 9:41:55
Message-ID: 20100615094155.GU1964 () leitl ! org
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:14:16PM -0400, Douglas J. Trainor wrote:
> in Englisch:
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/SeaMicro-Uses-Intel-Atom-Chip-in-Server-Architecture-745338/
>  
> Quote: "Feldman said the motherboard is shrunk from the size of a pizza box to that \
> of a credit card."

It's an interesting device. It would take >6 racks of those 300 EUR Supermicro Atom \
servers at a >200 kEUR price tag to match their 10 U.

Though of course one could just use the 200 EUR motherboards on custom trays, and \
share the PSUs.

Though one would then just stick with plain GBit Ethernet,
and not their custom fabric.
 
> douglas
> 
> On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Cloud-Server-mit-Intel-Atom-und-spaeter-auch-ARM-Prozessoren-1021400.html \
> >  
> > </kraut>
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