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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Computers

SGI’s ‘Personal Supercomputer’ Handles 80 Cores, 1TB RAM

1:20AM Adam Frucci | 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. More »
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Computers

SGI Molecule Packs 10,000 Atom Cores, One Ton of Awesomeness

9:34AM Jesus Diaz | It may be just a concept for now, but the new SGI Molecule blows our minds with its potential power: Imagine 5,000 Atom N330 chips in just one 3U rack computer, the size of your average PC desktop. That’s 10,000 cores in one single computer, or 40 more times the processing power of your typical 1U x86 cluster node. Is this possible? How do they expect to do this without actually creating a hole full of molten metal and plastic? More »
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