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24,000 QUAD CORE OPTERON SYSTEM FROM CRAY SLATED

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9-inch   03-30-2006 at 11:17:32 PM

Read here:
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40250-1.html

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Cray Inc. of Seattle will supply the system, named Baker. It will run approximately 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron processors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The nodes will be housed in 187 liquid-cooled cabinets. The system, which is still in early stages of design, will have either 187 or 400 terabytes of working memory (depending on the cost of memory modules) and from one to 11 petabytes of storage.

Such a computer, if operational today, would be considered the world's fastest; it may even be the first to break the 1 petaflop limit. A PFLOP is 1 quadrllion floating-point operations per second.





And here's the Inquirer version:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=30646

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In any case, this would be enough to house your average teen's MP3 collection, and more importantly have the horsepower to run the next gen DRM infection without dropping frames. Sooner or later, every house will have one of these, they just make sense


:lol: :lol:

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Luminaris   03-30-2006 at 11:18:42 PM
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I wonder if they're going to fill those cabinets with cooking oil ...

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dhlucke   03-31-2006 at 04:50:15 AM
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Hey Corky! Turn off your caps lock! :evil:

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7H4_D00D3   03-31-2006 at 05:59:10 AM
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"The system, which is still in early stages of design, will have either 187 or 400 terabytes of working memory (depending on the cost of memory modules) and from one to 11 petabytes of storage."

"it may even be the first to break the 1 petaflop limit. A PFLOP is 1 quadrllion floating-point operations per second. "

What??? that's the best they could do??? Im dissapointed......


Now, seriously, that'd be pretty awesome!

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Caboose-1   03-31-2006 at 06:12:07 AM
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You seriously need to stop with the caps lock. It doesn't make it anymore noticeable, and it is detering viewers because of it's unnecessary repetition. Complaints aside, good job Cray. I wonder what someone would use that for? Movie rendering? Who knows.

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Ycon   03-31-2006 at 08:37:27 PM
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Im not sure if water could cool all that down...

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TechnologyCoordinator   03-31-2006 at 10:10:37 PM
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Imagine folding on 96,000 cores. . .

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kyleawesome   04-01-2006 at 10:53:01 AM
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You seriously need to stop with the caps lock. It doesn't make it anymore noticeable, and it is detering viewers because of it's unnecessary repetition. Complaints aside, good job Cray. I wonder what someone would use that for? Movie rendering? Who knows.



I'll tell you right now, simulating a nuclear blast. The weapons lab up in the pacific NW is already do such.

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endyen   04-01-2006 at 11:12:27 AM
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In the old movies, you would often see newspaper venders yelling out the headline of the day. I thought that was kinda cool.
Using caps to yell out the day's headline is the same thing.
Keep it up.
(besides, it pi$$es Inteliots off)

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quantumsheep   04-01-2006 at 12:23:06 PM
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Just imagine the power bill for that baby....

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