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on Aug 6, 2013
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IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Ch...
Reading between the lines, it sounds like a Tyan whitebox with Power8 processors, Nvidia GPUs, and Mellanox NICs running Linux. Might be good for HPC.
xradionut
on Aug 6, 2013
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Probably will cost $50,000 and run as fast a new smartphone...
Spooky23
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Don't worry, you can pay $1,000/day to unlock a new core when you need the power of two smartphones.
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Don't forget the $30000 every year thereafter for the maintenance contract.
raverbashing
on Aug 7, 2013
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Don't forget the million dollar annual license for their "top notch"
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