HPC servers pack more than 1,800 cores

Nvidia announced a new parallel processor for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its GPU (graphics processing unit) architecture. Initially offered in servers from HP, the Tesla M2090 is a PCI Express x16 card touted as & the world's fastest parallel processor for high-performance computing,& with up to 665 Gigaflops of performance....

I have two servers at hand, both with 16 cores. The first is running Debian, the second running Ubuntu.

I have written a small multithreaded java app that creates 16 threads.

New details have emerged about the 28nm followups to AMD's successful E-Series and C-Series processors. The & Deccan& platform will reportedly include & Wichita& and & Krishna& chips that include quad cores, support for 1666MHz DDR3 memory, and a & secure asset management unit& that offloads DVD and Blu-ray decryption from the x86 cores....

AMD currently announce that the already shipped 8 and 12 cores processor Magny-Cours for OEM and selected manufacturers. Magny-Cours is a server CPU next generation from AMD. This new processor contains 2 cores of Istanbul. Because AMD does not have the original octal-core, the Magny-Cours 8 cores is built based on 2 Istanbul processors.

As anticipated, Nvidia used the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to confirm its next-generation Tegra SoC (system on chip), which will feature quad cores and support 1440p (2560 x 1440 pixel) resolution.

NetLogic Microsystems announced a second-generation, 28-nanometer member of its Linux-ready XLP multicore processor family, claimed to be five to seven times faster.

Semiconductor specialist Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) announced that 11 servers, including two based on the new HP (NYSE: HPQ) ProLiant Gen8 platform, would be integrating previously unannounced versions of the company’s Opteron 6200 Series processor, as well as the low-power AMD Opteron 4200 Series processor. New models include the ProLiant DL385p, a 2U performance-based rack server designe

I have a Dell server with two cpus, each cpu has 6 cores, and each core is hyperthreaded (i.e. should be equivalent to two virtual cores).

NetLogic Microsystems announced a new version of its Linux-ready XLP processor family that doubles the number of MIPS64 cores on board to 16. The XLP864 supports up to 2GHz clock rates and, with the help of more than 80 processing engines, enables 80Gbps throughput and 120 million packets-per-second (Mpps) performance, says the company....