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Sun Releases Starcat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the latest-and-greatest dept.

SilentChris writes: "Sun has released the Starcat server, a beast with up to 106 processors running Unix. Anyone have an extra couple [million] bucks lying around?" They're not cheap.

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  1. Re:106? by BLAG-blast · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe the performance with 107 CPUs is lower than 106 CPUs. Adding more CPU does not equal more power.

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  2. Cool by Buzzwang · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm glad to see that some companies are at least trying to accomplish new things and come out with new products given the state of our economy and markets and such. Even if people think it is overpriced or under-powered and what not that still doesn't degrade the fact that it is a relatively new product in a squishy market. Personally, I own a few hundred shares of SGI stock, but I'm still happy to see any tech comapny suck in their gut, tighten their belt and release a new product in this market. Makes me want to believe the tech markets will turn around sooner than people believe. Kudos to Sun for still working on new products and trying to generally improve things. Now, if Cray would follow suit, I'd be a happy man...

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  3. Re:I can't build one... by Derkec · · Score: 3, Insightful


    We may want to forgive Sun for being a bit slow in getting their DB server back up and pretty. A huge chuck of their support staff is helping bale out clients whose data centers got blown up out east. On the other hand, it's your brand new product, you gotta make sure it's available to be bought up. But then again, who in their right mind would just go online and buy one of these? I'd bet ALL of these are sold through meetings between sales reps and IT purchasers.

  4. Re:For those beowolf comments by Omnifarious · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd be worried about liquid hydrogen being a conductor. I'd rather use liquid helium. Almost as cold, and definitely non-conductive. Of course, you may end up inducing superconductivity in some of the copper in the chip and on the board, and that might be bad.

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  5. Re:I need one of these for home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ummm they probably won't see the money for the R&D from selling these servers. But the technology used for these will trickle down to the lower end equipment and they will make their money there.