<div dir="ltr">I was wondering what they were gonna do with all that throughput on PCIe 3. The RAM might be a bottleneck soon :P</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Sometimes I just have to slobber over the next-gen HPC parts list:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SHFI-i1C.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SHFI-i1C.cfm</a></div><div><br></div><div>coupled with the switch</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/Networking/SSH-C48Q.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/Networking/SSH-C48Q.cfm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Yes. Those are 100Gbps network devices. Fantasies of a rack full of high-core count CPUs with honkin' GPU monsters and massive coprocessor cards and multiple TB of RAM in each node.</div><div><br></div><div>Why limit my fantasy to a single rack?! It's my daydream! I can have a whole ROOMFUL and still don't have to pay the power bill.</div><div><br></div><div>BWAHAHAHA!!!</div><div><br></div><div><thunk></div><div><br></div><div>{reality creeps back in around the edges}</div><div><br></div><div>must fix the vm host server that died again. can't actually buy these toys. distractiondistractiondistraction</div><div><br></div><div><sigh></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span><pre>--
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