<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/12 Peter Corlett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abuse@cabal.org.uk">abuse@cabal.org.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 12 Jan 2009, at 11:37, Chris Bell wrote:<br>[...]<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> The ARM chips are very efficient, and are designed to not need huge<br>> amounts of RAM to get things done. I am still using my 300MHz<br>> StrongARM<br>> powered RiscPC every day, despite having "much faster" Intel machines<br>
> running.<br><br></div>ARM chips are very *power* efficient, which makes it a very good<br>choice for portable and power-constrained applications, but has little<br>to offer outside of that niche.<br></blockquote>
<div>I think 10 000 cores per rack is a pretty nice niche:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/sgi_molecule_concept/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/sgi_molecule_concept/</a></div>
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