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Japan's Newest Linux Supercluster: 13TB RAM

Posted by timothy on from the hey-is-that-DDR-you've-got-there dept.

green pizza writes "Following its sale of a 10240 processor cluster to NASA, Silicon Graphics Inc has announced that it's supplying a 2048 processor Altix 3700 Bx2 to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. Aside from running Linux on Itanium2 processors, the beast also features 13 TB of RAM!"

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  1. That'll suffice by tgv · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess that'll be enough to run Longhorn then.

    1. Re:That'll suffice by waynelorentz · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess that'll be enough to run Longhorn then.

      But OS X on Pear PC will still be a laggy.

      (Posted from my beloved Powerbook, so Apple fanbois shouldn't mod me down. I'm in a two-Mac household).

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  2. 640kb by digitaltraveller · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hear this is the reccomended base configuration for Windows Longhorn...

  3. got us beat by theMerovingian · · Score: 5, Funny



    2048 processors, 13 terabytes of ram, AND it comes with a smaller, more ergonomic controller.

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  4. Re:Wow! by KillaKen187 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think the line should be: now that's one impressive Beowulf cluster... In Japan

  5. Is this the BIGGEST sale for Itanium2, so far ? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny



    A whooping sale of 2048 Itanium2 processors in one shot - is this the BIGGEST sale for the Itanium2 chip, so far ?

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  6. Aye, but... by Lardmonster · · Score: 3, Funny

    13Tb of RAM, but how much swap?

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  7. Japanese Nuclear Program? by RealProgrammer · · Score: 1, Funny

    You don't suppose they ever do any weapons research, do you? Hmmm, what to do...

    1. Make sure GWB is really, really truly reelected
    2. Hint to Japanese you'll tell White House that Japan has WMD program - "Okinawa has such pretty beaches - it'd be a shame if they got all shot up now, wouldn't it?"
    3. ...
    4. Profit!
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  8. 13 TB * 2 by BlurredWeasel · · Score: 3, Funny

    isn't it recommended you have 2x ram as your swap? so that'd be *does difficult calculations in head* 26TB of swap. You really don't want the kernel killing off processes because you run out of ram....that'd be bad.

  9. Bush is back in The Seat by Teun · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yep, Colin tells me that's nucjular reesatch just off the coast of North Korea, a bad omen for the Free World
    I call for a US export ban on Memory to protect the Homeland's national security.

    Ow! Dr. Condoleezza just informed me they make Memory all by themself, lets pre-emptively nuke 'em!

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  10. Remember the licenses? by obsid1an · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hope they didn't forget the $6.4 million startup cost and $2.2 million annual fee for linux licenses (assuming 8 CPU systems).

  11. Well I wouldn't have put it like that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But yeah, it should be enough to display all my porn at once provided they can find a big enough monitor....