Geeks pray $100,000 box will solve software crisis
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| For about $3m, an organization can build a test cluster using x86 servers
| and Linux, but such systems are often hard to manage and eat up space and
| power. Meanwhile, desktop simulators are cheap but not really capable of
| returning accurate results when you're talking about mimicking a
| 1,000-core machine.
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| By next month, the RAMP group hopes to settle on its first processor
| architecture of attack and looks to be leaning toward Power and Linux.
| Then, over the next year, the team wants to get some basics such as
| accurate clock cycle accounting down and then more complex functions
| such as transactional memory all running on up to 256 processors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/22/ramp_mit_fix/
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