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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. Re:Nothing to see here. by tomstdenis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree. These rather wasteful supercomputers are getting less and less impressive.

    You know what would be impressive? Published results!

    I mean they consume gobs of resources [power, material, waste]. That's not impressive. That's an American city block. What would be impressive is having to show for it at the end of the day.

    Tom

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  2. bottleneck by igny · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do all processors share 13TB? Because if they don't the bottleneck is that subprocesses have only 13TB/1024 available ( a mere 13GB each), and still have to communicate a lot.

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    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra