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Cray SX-6 Installed in Alaska

Posted by timothy on from the good-air-conditioning dept.

Dhrakar writes: "Now, I know that normally press releases are imediately round-filed, however, as this is the first NEC^H^H^HCray SX-6 to be installed in the U.S. it is newsworthy. The 8cpu, 64Gb system has been installed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center for benchmarking and other testing. See either ARSC or the NY Times (sub. required. Yada, yada) article."

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  1. Open the door by SirKron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And I suppose they are just opening the outside door to cool the thing.

  2. no need for airconditioned rooms! by lingqi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    just leave the system outside; it probabbly works better than liquid to air cooling anyway -- in fact, you can probabbly overclock the sucker in one of those (real) never-ending-winter/nights. ;)

    and the obligatory comment:
    there are people using computers in alaska, let alone a cray?

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  3. Do you know how much it costs? by copycats · · Score: 0, Redundant
    For all the people who wanna figure out what it would cost to run one of theese babies.

    This link states in it that:

    The "SX-6 Series" will be shipped from the end of December 2001 with the monthly rental price starting from 2,800,000 Yen.

    By my calculations thats actually only about 22 thousand a month in dollars. Not like I can afford one, but frankly I would've thought they charge more.

  4. Why Alaska? by Talinom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think they put it up there in the sub-zero temperatures to enhance it's overclocking potential.

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