Cray has your box(es)
IT LOOKS LIKE Cray is starting to come back a bit, this time with a box made from 24,000 quad core 2.6GHz Opterons.
If that isn't enough for you, it will all be in a liquid-cooled cabinet, or 187 cabinets as the case may be, and sucks down enough juice to make a Oak Ridge National Labs build a new 170MW power substation nearby. All this to achieve a mere petaflop. The down side? It is calling it Baker, wow, what a killer name.
That said, it is aiming at 187 or 400TB of memory, claimed to be cost related, but I think it gets a volume discount after 100TB. It is also putting 11 petabytes of disk space on the beast. With all of this, it is aiming to be the first to break the one petaflop barrier, but IBM is said to be in the race with Blue Gene. 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. More
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The INQuirer