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    SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM

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

    Silicon Graphics Refrigerator

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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM

    So who came first?
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    Image of Jory Jory
    09/22/09


    @G.O.B.: Come on!: SGI's new logo breaks my heart.

    [www.underconsideration.com]
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Finally. Something that can handle the intense demands of Gateway to Apshai.
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    Image of iansilv iansilv
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    But doe sit run doom at MAX?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    09/22/09

    @iansilv: Any computer built since about 1995 can run Doom at max. Now get your tired antics out of here.
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    Image of kingbob337 kingbob337
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    But can it run crysis at max?
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    Image of Earv Earv
    09/22/09

    @kingbob337: What type of stupid question it that, hell no?!
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    09/22/09

    @Earv: Whooooooooosh!

    There goes the joke!
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    Image of Yeraze Yeraze
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    VizWorld & InsideHPC covered this yesterday ( [www.vizworld.com] ). I just don't get it.

    The 80-core build looks neat yea, but it's 10 separate computers in 1 box.. So you have to have MPI applications, and a MAXIMUM of 96G visible by 1 process.

    And with Atoms?? huh?

    And add a GPU and it suddenly plummets to 2 processor/8 core MAX?

    Sorry.I'll buy the same thing from BOXX, cheaper.
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    Image of gimpbully gimpbully
    09/22/09

    @Yeraze: Ok, I get it, Blog spam. Nice, Randall Hand, contributor to vizworld and insidehpc
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    Image of dingus dingus
    09/22/09

    @gimpbully: Bozo indeed. Who does 80-way SMP in HPC and why?
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    Image of ovid ovid
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM

    beats the hell out of my old sgi onyx 3200 i have sitting in my living room
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    Xeno promoted this comment ovid was starred ovid was unstarred
    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/22/09

    @ovid: That's a chick magnet if I've ever seen one.
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    09/22/09

    @Xeno: lol
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    For the computing physicist, this is awesome. MATLAB's multithreading doesn't suck, and I'd been thinking about something like this.

    There's also nVidia's CUDA support to offload processing to the gfx card, but this requires some code alteration and particular optimization. Huge (and cheap) rewards for the effort. Good white paper here: [developer.download.nvidia.com]

    This seems pricier, but nicely more robust and easy to apply for any math software with in-built multithreading.
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    danger the pirate promoted this comment Edited by Fractal the Meek at 09/22/09 11:51 AM Fractal the Meek was starred Fractal the Meek was unstarred
    Image of Covertghost Covertghost
    09/22/09

    @Fractal the Meek: I'd embrace OpenCL as the platform, not CUDA.

    Though NVIDIA is planning on going the GPGPU route instead of gaming GPUs.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @Covertghost: "Though NVIDIA is planning on going the GPGPU route instead of gaming GPUs."

    What's the diff? They all do the same calculations.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    09/22/09

    @ripfire: "What's the diff?" Ease of programming.
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    ripfire promoted this comment Fractal the Meek was starred Fractal the Meek was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Ease of programming? What? GPGPU are just shaders that ports back to the main memory. Turn that port back into the rendering pipeline, back to gaming graphics.

    Nothing special.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    09/22/09

    @ripfire: Yeah, GPUs are GPUs, but I've personally only recently seen a push toward GPUs with GPGPU libraries that make general computation on GPUs a hell of a lot easier for idiots like me who otherwise wouldn't know how to address the card.
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    Image of junyo junyo
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Does it make me a nerd if seeing this gave me a little wood?
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    ripfire promoted this comment junyo was starred junyo was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @junyo: Oh come on. Waking up in the morning gives you wood.
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    Image of trstn trstn
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Can it play Crysis?
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    09/22/09

    @trstn: No, but it will render all the graphics in real time.
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    Image of trstn trstn
    09/22/09

    @reddingofish: hehe
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    Image of dingus dingus
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Didn't Cray do this a year ago?
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    I hear that if you set this thing up in a Public Storage in Texas, you'll travel back in time.
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    danger the pirate promoted this comment Daveinva was starred Daveinva was unstarred
    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    09/22/09

    @Daveinva: and for less than the cost of this computer, you can make an aewsome movie about it.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/22/09

    @Daveinva: Actually just going to Texas is like going back in time.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    I am drooling over this, but have no reason other than just LUST for wanting it. I am limping along on a spare box at home with only 128MB. It hardly even opens Giz. I am (im)patiently awaiting Win7.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/22/09

    @Curves: My gosh, woman. You have generated mad amounts of sympathy. If I but had a way to share any of the spare parts I've got laying around at home (and if they would work for your machine), I'd gladly share them.

    I've got tons of SDRAM.......err.....
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    Image of Earv Earv
    09/22/09

    @Curves: 128MB of ram? I gotta be readin that wrong but if not what OS are you running? 98 because anything else would a waiting game.
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    Curves promoted this comment Earv was starred Earv was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    09/22/09

    @Earv: WinXp and yes, I wait a lot between crashes. Its just a temp solution, so I can tough it out.
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    09/22/09

    @OCEntertainment: lol@wanting to share your spare parts. If I had a nickel for everytime I heard that one.....
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    Image of Peregrinvs Peregrinvs
    09/22/09

    @Curves: Use your wiles to steal away other commenters' components. I assure you, we're not that steadfast.

    Which is why I've now put my computer under lock and key and eaten the key.

    Hopefully nothing goes wrong with it ever again.
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    Curves approved this comment Peregrinvs was starred Peregrinvs was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    09/22/09

    @Peregrinvs: There is no more room to add memory or I woudl have, and its just a temporary situation. I do find it amusing that I could get lots of free "parts" from my fellow commentards. No wonder I love you guys so much.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/22/09

    @Curves: I see what you did there. ;-) Come on, no need to make this into something it's not. All this is, is some dudes, freaking out because there's a girl on the internet, flirting with her in the only way they know how.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/22/09

    @OCEntertainment: They arent really freaking out because there is a woman on the internet. They are freaking out over the fact that there is a women on the internet who is talking to THEM.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/22/09

    @Curves: Point taken. Both the obvious one, and the less obvious one about how, yes, you are a woman. Not a *girl*. My bad.

    I need to stop reading bash.org in my spare time. ;-)
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Looks pretty bad ass but if you are looking for a supercomputer on the cheap you can build a 64 core system out of 8 PS3's. 8 PS3 @ $300= $2400.00,

    or hell double the PS3's and get 128 cores for $4800!

    [www.ps3cluster.umassd.edu]
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    Image of stryder100 stryder100
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    So Silicone Graphics is still around. What OS does it run? IRIX? It's based on Intel so I assume it can run Linux also. I'd get one of these just to play with if I was rich and it ran Linux.
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    Xeno promoted this comment stryder100 was starred stryder100 was unstarred
    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/22/09

    @stryder100: If it doesn't already you can alter your build to run on it.
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    Image of TheAlmeida TheAlmeida
    09/22/09

    In reply to SGI's 'Personal Supercomputer' Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM
    Attention everybody,

    I've got ten kilos of C4 strapped in my chest. If ANYONE, mentions that C word, this shit blows up. Do you hear me?
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    dingus promoted this comment TheAlmeida was starred TheAlmeida was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/22/09

    @TheAlmeida: Ohh, cra-
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    09/22/09

    @TheAlmeida: wow, can you imagine what 10 kilos would do?! Anyone recall if Mythbusters has done something that big?
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