SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers"

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @01:37AM from the hope-they-aren't-flops dept.

CWmike writes "They aren't selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet. But that day probably isn't too far off, as the costs continue to fall and supercomputers become easier to use. Silicon Graphics International on Monday released its first so-called personal supercomputer. The new Octane III system is priced from $7,995 with one Xeon 5500 processor. The system can be expanded to an 80-core system with a capacity of up to 960GB of memory. This new supercomputer's peak performance of about 726 GFLOPS won't put it on the Top 500 supercomputer list, but that's not the point of the machine, SGI says. A key feature instead is the system's ease of use."

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Re:PS3 by Jonas+Buyl · 2009-09-23 01:49 · Score: -1, Troll

What a typical short-sighted "hail DIY" comment. First of all, I doubt you're going to be able to fit the cores of your choice in that PS3 or slam 960GB of memory in there. It can hardly be called easy to use and I'm guessing Sony's support for your cluster is going to be disappointing as well because you're basically bankrupting them.