The HEX cores are coming.

[DX]

http://eclipse.sys-con.com/read/505602.htm

Now put those in a dual socket board for a full dozen

[stev]

Some are already here. Check out this clip from the other thread ...

http://forums.legitreviews.com/post1009 ... t=#p100943

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/21 ... ummer_ship

" ... Some of you will remember that SiCortex took our TopFLOP 2006 award for crafting the most compelling supercomputer of the year. The company has taken six-core MIPS chips, put 27 of those chips on each server board and then slapped 36 of the server boards in a DeLorean-inspired case. This beast gives a customer 5832 GFlops of horsepower while chewing through just 20 kilowatts (10W per chip) of power."

"...The big daddy 5832 starts around $1.5m, while its little brother the SC648 starts at around $200k. Since these systems hold huge amounts of memory - 7776GB for the SC5832 – the prices vary quite a bit."

My company has been considering the SC648. http://www.sicortex.com/products/sc648

Yes, only 10W per six cores on a chip providing well over a half-teraflop of peak performance! ... and plugs into a standard 110v outlet.

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