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That's effectively 114200 cores devoted continuously for a year.

Or 256 x Quadro 6000's @ 99.6% up time. Granted, Google can hand out the real CPU time not just a bank of GPU's. Still, I don't think it will be that long before someone pulls that "switch".



Quadros don't have 448 cores each. nVidia's "core" numbers count each portion of a vector processor (a "thread warp") as a core; by this definition, a single Core i7 core has 48 "cores".


Given the programming constraints associated with GPGPUs, I'm betting it's real CPUs.




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