[TriLUG] Questions about Threading

[Mike McLean]

John F Davis wrote:
> Read below for 256.
...
>  Sun recently demonstrated 100.4 gigaflop/s for
>  the Linpack Highly Parallel Computing version of the benchmark with a 256  
>  CPU, four-node cluster, proving the ability of the Sun? HPC servers to     

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So 256 cpus in a four node cluster would be 64 cpus per box, right?

If we allow clusters then the ASCI-Red has 9298 PII Xeons.
http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red/RedFacts.htm
(Not that one could go out and purchase such a system) :-)