... and Rock gets canceled ...
By joe
- 1 minutes read - 115 wordsFrom the NYT, a blog post on the passing of Rock.
Been there, done that. SGI’s Beast and Alien. Would have been interesting chips. Killed because Itanium was going to conquer all. No, wait, I am not kidding … It will … eventually … someday … It appears little bits of hardware keep falling off the map. And HPC. Its gone. What does this mean to SGE, Lustre, the compiler groups … Rock was an interesting chip. Sparc’s arent generally considered high performance or high power. This was a massively threaded chip. Some workloads would take to this well. But the economics of chip building are the same as the economics of accelerators. Target ubiquity.