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

    13Tb of RAM, but how much swap?

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  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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).