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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:oh my... by Big+Nothing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I remember back in my electronics course when we had to design the flip-flop grid for memory."

    You mean the Kerry grid?

    *cough*

    Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

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