| | IBM readies super-dense 16-way p5 rack server - Computer Business Review (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In February, IBM was shipping the p5 575 with eight cores running at 1.9 GHz in 16-node clusters with a total of 128 processor cores, and at the end of April the clustering support was extended to 128-node clusters for a total of 1,024 cores. |
 | | While the p5 575 comes in a 2U form factor, which should mean that up to 24 servers should be able to be housed in a single rack, heating issues and the need to attach peripherals restrict the density to 12 nodes per rack. |
 | | As previously reported, IBM just sold a 5 teraflops cluster of the p5 575 servers to the Max Planck Society, a consortium of German research institutions, which will double the computing power that the institutions have at their disposal to run simulations to around 10.2 teraflops. |
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