[Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

Douglas J. Trainor trainor at prescience.org
Wed Jan 16 14:55:32 PST 2013


On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.work at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Hearns, John <john.hearns at mclaren.com> wrote:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/amd_roadrunner_open_compute_motherboard/
>> Class, discuss.
> 
> Targeted version for HPC: 4 DIMM per CPU... Yeah sure. It's well known
> HPC workloads don't need memory.
> I'll pass, thanks.

HPC workloads don't need memory?!  Sure, maybe for trivial stuff or clever problem decompositions, but in general, false.

	douglas


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