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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. 13 TB of ram... by krunchyfrog · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That thing should play Doom 2 pretty well, no?

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  2. Obligatory... by Moby+Cock · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What about Doom3 benchmarks?

  3. Wow! by plover · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I can't even imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies!

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    John
  4. Re:That'll suffice by di0s · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And *maybe* Half-Life 2.

  5. I wonder by Ironsides · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How fast can this thing do SETI@HOME and Distributed.net computations? Thats a lot of processors and what do they need 6.5Gigabytes of Rame perprocessor for anyway?

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  6. SWEET by megarich · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That's pretty darn cool 13 TB of Ram. But too bad that won't be enough to run longhorn........

  7. Default Joke by Ricardo+Lima · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

    Oops!

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    Ricardo da Silva Lima
  8. 13 TB RAM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And KDE is still slow.

  9. This comes as a shock by fr0dicus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux is a good choice for a supercomputing cluster? No shit sherlocks. This isn't front page news, it's barely news at all. No wonder readership figures are declining.

  10. Dibs on Doom 4! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I figure this might meet the minimum requirements.