[Gllug] Beagle Board

[John Hearns]

2009/1/12 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>

> On 12 Jan 2009, at 11:37, Chris Bell wrote:
> [...]
> >   The ARM chips are very efficient, and are designed to not need huge
> > amounts of RAM to get things done. I am still using my 300MHz
> > StrongARM
> > powered RiscPC every day, despite having "much faster" Intel machines
> > running.
>
> ARM chips are very *power* efficient, which makes it a very good
> choice for portable and power-constrained applications, but has little
> to offer outside of that niche.
>
I think 10 000 cores per rack is a pretty nice niche:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/sgi_molecule_concept/
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