The electrical cost savings is a sound argument. On the side, that might also be a good reason for your marketing team to target customers in areas with high energy prices. Just a thought.
I'm still waiting for Adapteva to combine their work with SGI- or NUMAscale-style tech to have a UV-style system full of CPU's, your accelerators for general use, and optionally FPGA's for special purpose stuff. The CC memory + bandwith + ton of Adapteva IC's per node would = incredible performance per dollar and watt. Maybe. ;) Any plans for integrating with ccNUMA architectures?
I'm still waiting for Adapteva to combine their work with SGI- or NUMAscale-style tech to have a UV-style system full of CPU's, your accelerators for general use, and optionally FPGA's for special purpose stuff. The CC memory + bandwith + ton of Adapteva IC's per node would = incredible performance per dollar and watt. Maybe. ;) Any plans for integrating with ccNUMA architectures?