BEE3: Putting the Buzz Back into Computer Architecture

My last post was about RAMP. The hardware platform they'll be using for their computer architecture research is called BEE3 -- and the link above is to an article on Microsoft's role in developing (with a focus on Chuck Thacker).

There are some neat details on the BEE3 here. Each one has four Xilinx Virtex-5's (Virtex-5 LX110T, LX155T, or SX95T). Each BEE3 has a lot of expansion. And up to 64 BEE3's can be interconnected together.

There should be some very interesting computer architecture research driven from this.