You may say I'm a dreamer, but I may be not the only one ;-)

With the advent of the SPARC M6-32 I pound why not provide better support for HPC, entering the competition with a bunch (say 244) of typical 2-socket Intel Xeon 5690 300GB RAID-1 96GB RAM 10/40Gb Infiniband inter-connected + external simple-file storage?

Why not motivate HPC ISVs to better support it as well?

As a preliminary side-by-side comparison:

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                      Conventional Wisdom                 x              New Wisdom
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RACKS                                         5                                                             1                              -->     5x smaller
HOSTS                                      244                                                             1                              --> 244x simpler
"CPU"s                                    2920                                                        3072
RAM (TB)                                   7.7                                                            32                              -->   4x more (a single process can overcome 8 TB)
INTERCONNECT (Gbps)               40                                                          128 (1 TB/s)                 -->   3x more
RAM BANDWIDTH (GB/s)            32                                                        1433  (1.4 TB/s)              --> 44x more