SGI’s ‘Personal Supercomputer’ Handles 80 Cores, 1TB RAM
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]
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cool. 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.
But can it play Crysis..?
Probably. It will treat crysis the same way current PC’s treat quake 1 hahaha.
5 times over!