IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet

The Register ^ | 5 February 2008 | Ashlee Vance

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!

[Uri’el-2012]

University of Michigan developed VM and gave it to IBM; not sure but I believe that UMich still holds the basic patents, and gets some good royalties into its coffers.

Me; I got lost in OS 21.6 digging through the IO blocks. ;^)

VM & CMS came from CP/67 and the cambridge monitor system

DOS/360 w/Power & MFT w/HASP systems programmer

[piytar]

Yup, IBM offloaded their PC stuff because PCs have become commoditized - low profit margins. They focus on higher profit stuff, but still get $$$ on just about every consumer electronic device sold thanks to their IP portfolio. They still also have the mast fab in the world. IBM is an example why rumors of the demise of the US economy are very premature...

[gondramB]

>>A typical configuration would include four 850MHz PowerPC cores arranged in a system-on-a-chip model

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Kind of low power, but I guess with the dense packing of the modules they can’t afford too much heat. I’d like to see this setup using Cell processors, 1024 Cells in a rack.<<

I wondered about that too - since gigahertz cores are so well understood it would seem that you could double the core speed a lot cheaper than adding another 32 million cores.

[djf]

Wow! I’m humbled...

F1, F2, F3.... and the notorious BG!
Anybody remember DOCSLIST?

[djf]

And also deeply impressed!!

A fellow Dalwhinnie lover!

Must be a sysprog thing...

[zeugma]

FINALLY!

A computer that can run Vista.

 

Good to know someone is capable of making a computer that is up to the task. 

[Still Thinking]

Well, they’d still have to employ at least a lawyer.

[Uri’el-2012]

Dalwhinnie is a true gift from YHvH !

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua

[Still Thinking]

My pi is bigger than yours! ;-) I used to know about 20-25 significant digits. Now it’s like “3 and a smidge”.

[Straight Vermonter]

Not to mention that IBM silicon is in just about every router, switch etc. along the net.

[Big Giant Head]

FINALLY!

A computer that can run Vista.

AND Flight Simulator X with the sliders turned up!

[amchugh]

Survivable? Is that like “N + 1 redundant”, or like “you can surf the ‘net without getting so much malware that your machine dies”.

The Internet should optimally be highly redundant, but it is that way mostly because of the profit motive of various entities, and not because every part of it is planned well.