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How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge)

How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 27, 2005 9:02 UTC (Tue) by joib (guest, #8541)
In reply to: How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge) by drag
Parent article: How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge)

Actually, the dual core AMD64:s don't share cache. Each core has a separate 1 MB (or 512 on some of the lower end desktop models) L2 cache. Although AFAIK they are able to copy stuff directly between caches without having to go via main memory.


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