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Re:Power9 to the People by phkahler on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:05AM (#15860473)
>> Not to an average HPC shop like ours...

And there lies the problem. HPC used to be a tiny market with huge budgets where expensive hardware was the norm. It's just not that big a deal any more. It's commodity hardware now with lots of cores and GPUs running OSS. They won't make it trying to charge a premium just because it's Power9.

Re:Power9 to the People by pjmlp on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:14AM (#15861144)
I wouldn't call Cray computers with x86 Xeon Phis commodity hardware though.
Re:Power9 to the People by gaius on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:52AM (#15861396)
Cray CPUs are commodity tho'. The secret sauce is Aries, the interconnect. I ported code to the XC30 in a previous job.