Intel Developes 6-8W Atom Server CPUs

Intel Atom S1260 (8.5Watts) 2.0GHz $64
Intel Atom S1240 (6.1Watts) 1.6GHz $n/a
Intel Atom S1220 (8.1 Watts) 1.6GHz $n/a

Sockets Supported: FCBGA1283

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/...lass-processor
http://download.intel.com/newsroom/k...1200_Brief.pdf

Filling a rack with them would be very interesting.

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Originally Posted by zombie67

Filling a rack with them would be very interesting.

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BeoWolf Cluster maybe?

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Originally Posted by Fire$torm

BeoWolf Cluster maybe?

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BOINC tasks run more efficiently when it is one task per thread. MT threads are okay when deadline is more important, because over-all performance suffers. Clusters have the same kind of performance loss as MT tasks.

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Originally Posted by zombie67

BOINC tasks run more efficiently when it is one task per thread. MT threads are okay when deadline is more important, because over-all performance suffers. Clusters have the same kind of performance loss as MT tasks.

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Agreed. I created both OpenMP and OpenCL for CPU apps for Collatz and both ran slower than running one task per core. About 3% overall, but that's still 3%.