[Info-vax] HP Users Hope Whitman Can Persuade Oracle to Change Itanium Decision

[MG]

On 2-10-2011 14:44, Michael S wrote:

I forgot to comment on this:

> In fact, 256 blades * 32GB/blade = 8 TB. 128 TB is an address space,
> not the real memory you could plug into it.
>
> 256 sockets, 16 TB  is a limitation for directly addressable memory in
> a single system image.
>
> 256 sockets = 2560 cores, 2.5 times more than 1024 cores in SGI Altix
> 4700. And each core in UV is way faster than that of 4700.
> SpecFp_rate(base):
>
> [...]

All nice and well, but I quoted those figures directly from SGI.  So,
perhaps you should contact them and tell them to 'get' their 'facts
straight'?


> I don't understand that tech sufficiently well to say more.

Maybe you should study it a bit more before saying anything at all?

  - MG