SGI Demos 64-Proc Linux Box

foobar104 writes "Details are scarce, but SGI announced this morning that their prototype Itanium 2 system has demonstrated more than 120 GB/s to and from main memory on the STREAM TRIAD benchmark, which is the fourth best result in the world. For comparison, the Cray C90 sustains 105 GB/s, while an even larger Sun Fire 15K clocks a measly 55 GB/s. The interesting part? The system wasn't running IRIX, SGI's proprietary version of UNIX. It was running Linux. More information on STREAM TRIAD, including results from other systems, is available here. The system, incidentally, was an Origin 3800 straight out of manufacturing equipped with Itanium 2 processor modules. SGI will start selling the systems early next year."

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If only it ran IRIX and was Mips

[telemonster]

It is a shame SGI can get all the press whenever they mention Linux, but when they release innovative products that don't have the word "Linux" attached they largely go unnoticed. I admin a Origin 3800 or two and they are definitly nice boxes. SGI should have more of Sun's customers, their boxes are superior. If only they knew how to market... (And they need to ditch the duck, and ditch Linux. Linux people are poor and run crappy hardware. They get all excited and joyful over their peiced together miserable OS. FreeBSD is nice. IRIX is nice. Linux is for the 14 year olds!) And no, you don't run Doom III on an Origin. It isn't a joke, it isn't funny. You run applications that require large amounts of I/O. Weather modeling and non-clustered porn sites. THE DUCK WILL DIE!