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  1. June 26th, 2007, 12:28 PM #1
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    If you were going to spend $30 milllion on a computer...

    You'd expect to get more than four 400GB hard drives, surely

    Even my main rig has nearly as much storage. It does have 62,974 less CPU cores though

    http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._supercomputer
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  2. June 26th, 2007, 12:49 PM #2
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    Is that it?

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40589

    The firm claims to have built a one-petaflop system with 294,912-processors in a 72-rack system, harnessed to a high-speed, optical network. It says the Blue Gene/P system design can be scaled up to an 884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster to deliver three petaflops.

    One petaflop is one-quadrillion operations per second. IBM says the system is 100,000 times more powerful than a home PC and can process more operations in one second than the combined power of a stack of laptop computers nearly 1.5 miles high.
    Not bad i suppose....

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    Bet it doesn't have a DVD-RW or a decent graphics card

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    They're all probably Pentium IIs.
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    http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepco.../bluegene.html

    Think they are a tad newer than P IIs

    A bit power hungry though.

    Power - 40 kW power consumption per rack

    http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepco...pspecsheet.pdf
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    It sounds like something too good to be true. Is this being sold by the infamous Michael's Computers? More procs than gigabytes! Hmmmm.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lgbpop

    They're all probably Pentium IIs.
    http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._supercomputer
    Under the hood, Ranger's brain will be built from 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. The machine's production timeline is dependent on how fast AMD can crank out the as-yet-unreleased chips, Bechtolsheim said.
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  9. June 27th, 2007, 11:16 AM #8
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    give it 20 years and we will all have pc's like that! lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by liam858
    Is that it?

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40589



    Not bad i suppose....

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