[ale] [OT] Drool!

[Dustin Strickland]

I was wondering what they were gonna do with all that throughput on PCIe 3.
The RAM might be a bottleneck soon :P

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes I just have to slobber over the next-gen HPC parts list:
>
>  http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SHFI-i1C.cfm
>
> coupled with the switch
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/Networking/SSH-C48Q.cfm
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> BWAHAHAHA!!!
>
> <thunk>
>
> {reality creeps back in around the edges}
>
> must fix the vm host server that died again. can't actually buy these
> toys. distractiondistractiondistraction
>
> <sigh>
>
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
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