10,000 cores in one single computer!

5,000 Atom N330 chips in just one 3U rack computer!!

20,000 threads of execution!!!

- If you are wondering about my increasing excitements, then let me tell you, none of them are false. SGI molecules have come out with a technology, a concept which, if implied will do all the above stated works and much more.

Engineers at Silicon Graphics research labs developed the system to show how consumer electronics technologies and emerging marketplace trends might someday be applied to overcome the limits of today’s high-throughput clusters. The Silicon Graphics Molecule concept computer balances processor speed, sustained memory bandwidth, and power consumption. The system has been shown to deliver sustained results on scientific and business problems from seismic processing to rendering and distributed searching.

Features

  1. High concurrency with 20,000 threads of execution — 40 times more than a single rack x86 cluster system
  2. High throughput with 15TB/sec of memory bandwidth per rack — over 20 times faster than a single rack x86 cluster system
  3. Greater balance with up to three times the memory bandwidth/OPS compared to current x86 CPUs
  4. High performance with approximately 3.5 times the computational performance per rack
  5. Greener with low-watt consumer CPUs and low-power memory that deliver 7 times better memory bandwidth/watt
  6. Innovative Silicon Graphics Kelvin cooling technology, which enables denser packaging by stabilizing thermal operations in densely configured solutions
  7. Operating environment flexibility, capable of running industry-standard Linux® implementations, with Microsoft® Windows® variants on some configurations

We just hope, unlike most of the concept technologies, it will come into effect. Good luck.