SGI’s Octane II is a “personal supercomputer”, which isn’t to say it’s designed for you to play video games and check your email on. It’s just a supercomputer that garage physicists might be able to save up for.
Octane III is office-ready with a pedestal, one-by-two-foot form factor, whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. While a typical workstation has only eight cores and moderate memory capacity, the superior design of the Octane III permits up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance…
Octane III is easily configurable with single- and dual-socket node choices, and offers a wide selection of performance, storage, graphics, GP-GPU and integrated networking options. Yielding the same leading power efficiencies inherent in all SGI Eco-Logical compute designs, Octane III supports the latest Intel processors to capitalise on greater levels of performance, flexibility and scalability.
For about $US8000, it’s not cheap by normal computer standards, but by supercomputer standards it’s a bargain. [SGI via The Inquirer via Boing Boing]
matt
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 9:29 AMcool. but for anything that can harness the power of gpgpu, a normal computer with a few top of the line gpus in it will kick the shit out of 80 cpu cores.
Douglas Orchard
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 12:02 PMBut can it play Crysis..?
Daniel
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:50 PMProbably. It will treat crysis the same way current PC’s treat quake 1 hahaha.
Adam Roberts
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM5 times over!