32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case (opens in new tab)

But Tilera uses its own architecture, ARM on the other hand is nearly everywhere.

There were other companies like Tilera: Transputer, Connection Machine.......SiCortex was founded in 2003 with a similar idea and was shutting down by 2009

The problems with these architectures is cost: mass market tech like x86 and ARM offers more bang for your buck

Interesting that these can run a single OS as a huge multi-core machine.

It might be worth pointing out that TileGX isn't ARM.

It is an interesting system though.

Boston Limited should be shipping Viridis units now [1][2].

[1]: http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx

[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/09/boston_viridis_arm_s...

The site itself is a little misleading. It says "The Baserock Slab is a multi-processor server". To me, calling something a multi-processor server implies that a single OS instance has access to all the hardware. Instead, this is eight independent systems in a single chassis. Which is still awesome for that suggested use cases, such as an ARM build system.

I didn't say it was factually incorrect, I said (implied, I guess) it was misleading. You're seriously saying you read that and understood it meant 8 (!) distinct machines on one board?

Yeah, it's eight individual systems with two very fast Ethernet links to an on-board managed switch.

Been a while since I was heavily involved in high-density data centers... How does that work with traditional hot aisle/cold aisle layouts? Seems like you'd need to adjust the cooling to have an air channel up the middle of the rack?

Well I'm not referring to reading/writing from a data store, but actually processing the data in registers and such. Arithmetic operations and that sort of thing.

I meant it as a joke, while also recognising that it would be ideal for being turned into a cluster. It's made me nostalgic about the days when I built Beowulfs at university!