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Re:Intel unveils Knights Corner 50 core server chip by xtacy on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @03:34PM (#1395918)
Even if servers are I/O bound, this setup is almost like crunching 50 machines into one; applications will have lower latency access to data stored on larger memory.
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Re:Intel unveils Knights Corner 50 core server chip by rbanffy on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @05:35PM (#1396225)
It's like crunching 50 CPUs on top one memory bus. Even if there are, say, 5 buses (and a thousand pins for them), that's still 10 cores per bus.

Did they say how many threads per core?

I suspect it will be like having 50 286s in the same box...

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