The Vega chip is custom-designed to run a Java Virtual Machine. Not at all
useful to the rest of
us who prefer other languages. IIRC, the machine has a single memory image. Of
course, 600+
gigabytes of RAM is not cheap, but if we can get an oil sheikh to sponsor a
project, who knows?
The systems appear to be very energy efficient also. They run at slower memory
speeds, depending
more upon the massive parallelism of 48 cores per chip than raw clock speed.
Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Joshua Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:03:46 AM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Java hounds salivate over this:
Interesting machine, but something about it seems odd. First it says
it's tuned for Java. Does that mean you can't use non-java on it? Run
Linux? Or is it a glorified cluster of chips like the old hardware
chips Sun made a decade ago for their defunct Java Station?
What are the specs of the actual cores? Shared memory or does each
core have it's own?
There are more things to take into consideration than just cores. I've
seen several posts like this in the past, and it makes me wonder if
cores is the new mhz craze.
But for people using Java, this might be a killer system, so *shrug*
to each their own :)
-Josh
On 6/15/07, terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Azul Systems has released a "compute appliance" with 768 cores and 768
> gigabytes of RAM,
> happily driving your Java applications faster than ever before:
>
> http://www.azulsystems.com/products/compute_appliance.htm
> Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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