In a strong move, Silicon Graphics has made a decision to see exactly how much crap lots of cores they can shove in one box. The Molecule is 10,000 core rackmount maker created to leverage low expense consumer CPUs like the Intel Atom. It emphasizes high memory bandwidth as well as throughput between CPUs. While this kind of area effectiveness is fascinating it’s definitely going to take some severe cooling to get styles such as this off the ground.
[via Hacked Gadgets]
