SGI Makes Molecule Supercomputer From Intel Atoms

[Marcus Yam]

Silicon Graphics (SGI) is showing off a concept supercomputer that could pack as many as 10,000 Intel Atom processors into a single rack. The name SGI gave the concept computer was fittingly cute as well, calling it the Molecule.

SGI Makes Molecule Supercomputer From Intel Atoms : Read more

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Cute name

 

[kschoche]

Isnt the atom a 32bit processor?
Whats the point if you can do the same thing with slower(clockspeed) ppc chips that are 64bit and probably have better FP units, unless you want to run windows on this... You did say supercomputer.

 

[Guest]

pretty neat... can't wait until massively parallel computers are the way of the future... then when one needs more performance... just add a couple hundred processors

 

[Guest]

intel atom n330 is 64bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors

 

[ceteras]

SO, there's 90 modules totaling 10.000 cores. About 1110 cores/module or 555 processors per module. That is impressing.

If you read the Wired source, thy say "While the computer sounds like a powerhouse, it isn't real." No mention about it in the article, why?

This is not a supercomputer, it's just a supercomputer concept.
Get real, please!