[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Neil Rieck]

On Oct 25, 4:54 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > 5) Itanium blades will soon appear with 32 and 64 cores
>
> Does this mean 64 cores on one motherboard that slides into a single
> slot in a blade cabinet, or does this mean that a blade cabinet will be
> able to house 32 slots, each with a single dual core IA64 cpu ? (or
> whatever combination of cpu/cores and blade slots).
>

I "think" they were talking about a future version of BL860c running
Tukwila. Since that card currently contains two CPU sockets, and
Tukwila is a quad-core, then we are talking about 8-cores per blade.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/integrity-bl/c-class/860c/index.html

These cards could then be inserted into either c3000 or c7000
enclosures so that the total core count is probably higher than what
most companies could afford to license. I was more interested in the
fact that both XEON and Itanium blades would use a common chip-set.
Not sure if this already exists in the current product or is coming in
the next iteration but anything that will drop the cost is welcome.

NSR