Htop Explained Visually

Re:Htop Explained Visually by sand500 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:29PM (#13532867)

If you don't mind me asking what kind of machine has 768 cores?

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Re:Htop Explained Visually by btown on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:48PM (#13534519)

Likely a machine with a group of Xeon Phi coprocessors, each a PCI card containing 64 fully-capable x86 cores: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/...

The idea is that you can run embarrassingly parallel workflows without needing to recode for a GPU; just launch processes with appropriate affinities. NERSC has compute clusters with thousands of these beasts. They make astronomers very happy.

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Re:Htop Explained Visually by torrent-of-ions on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:22AM (#13541982)

Actually a NUMA system, an SGI UV: https://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/

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Re:Htop Explained Visually by torrent-of-ions on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:22AM (#13541991)

It's a NUMA system, an SGI UV: https://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/ It actually has 2048 cores and ~7TB of memory.

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