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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."
+1 funny. Seriously.
That's funny? It's not even the first beowulf cluster comment on this story. jeez.
Damn. I checked before I posted, but someone submited after I checked and before I posted. Wouldn't have done it if I knew it wouldn't be the first.
Yeah, it's dumb anyway. But I posted it from work so I got paid for it.
It got quickly modded down after +1 Funny. Later got a +1 Underrated but the moderators drug it back down quickly. I'm in no danger of getting above- or below-average karma anytime soon.
Ooh, just got another +1 Funny on it. But I bet it will be modded down again in another minute.
Just to put something sort of on-topic, software OpenGL *could* be fast enough with this kind of memory bandwidtch if the video bandwidth was also high and the processor were fast enough. "Hardware" OpenGL is just a specialized CPU with specialized firmware and high-speed pathways from video memory to the CRT. But I doubt this machine was designed for Quake III or Doom III.