21–30 of 35 posts
Or if you want really low power usage, there is this http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/productbriefs/Tile... with 36 cores on one chip (of course that's not especially cheap).
This doesn't seem like a very useful example.
For comparison, you can now get http://ark.intel.com/products/65703/Intel-Core-i5-3470T-Proc... http://ark.intel.com/products/65735 http://ark.intel.com/products/65714/Intel-Core-i7-3517U-Proc...
the wattage measured here is not just the processor, its also the entire boards. Ive done some benchmarks testing Intel Atom processors Atom330's and D525's against Tegra3 processors. On average the Terga3 processors outperformed the Atoms 4x-8x in Flop/s per Watt. Admittedly that is not the only important metric, but gives an initial performance comparison between ARM and x86 performance
Snoozeworthy mobos
But wooden dish drying rack?
Stroke of pure genius!Ah, I like the general idea, but why bother with a cluster of ARM for 12 cores? You can get a 12 core AMD in one machine. Or if you want really low power usage, there is this http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/productbriefs/Tile... with 36 cores on one chip (of course that's not especially cheap). This doesn't seem like a very useful example.
Ah, I like the general idea, but why bother with a cluster of ARM for 12 cores? You can get a 12 core AMD in one machine. Or if you want really low power usage, there is this http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/productbriefs/Tile... with 36 cores on one chip (of course that's not especially cheap). This doesn't seem like a very useful example.
Ah, I like the general idea, but why bother with a cluster of ARM for 12 cores? You can get a 12 core AMD in one machine. Or if you want really low power usage, there is this http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/productbriefs/Tile... with 36 cores on one chip (of course that's not especially cheap). This doesn't seem like a very useful example.
yeah this 12 core cluster costs about $2,000 for 12 Panda boards.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
the wattage measured here is not just the processor, its also the entire boards. Ive done some benchmarks testing Intel Atom processors Atom330's and D525's against Tegra3 processors. On average the Terga3 processors outperformed the Atoms 4x-8x in Flop/s per Watt. Admittedly that is not the only important metric, but gives an initial performance comparison between ARM and x86 performance
That being said, the Atoms themselves are nor a good benchmark in performance / Watt. I'd rather be interested in a comparison vs. current gen. xeon or interlagos systems. Sounds silly, but ARM has been making progress and I could see them being used in the future as companions to GPUs in computing clusters. With current GPGPU computing models like OpenACC it does not really make sense to put 16 race horses (Interlag…
There's also Nvidia's Project Denver, which will probably come out in 2014. It's based on the 64 bit ARMv8 architecture, it's a custom CPU made in collaboration with ARM, and I think they want to pair it with their next-gen GPU architecture Maxwell. It's intended for servers and supercomputers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Six dual-core PandaBoard ES boards stuck in a wooden dish-drying rack :) One of these draws a max of 5-6 watts under heavy load, so the whole "rack" should stay around 30 watts during cluster benchmarking etc. It's not completely assembled yet so there are no real numbers. Total cost about $1500.
I was seriously considering trying something like this with either the Raspberry Pi or the APC " rel="nofollow">http://apc.io/> . It looks like one PandaBoard can roughly match the CPU horsepower of four APC boards at a slightly lower price, so that's good to know. The Raspberry Pi might still beat out the PandaBoard in terms of purchase cost-to-Megahertz ratio. We'll see. :-)