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Hawking Is First User of "Big Brain" Supercomputer

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-machines dept.

miller60 writes "Calling your product the 'Big Brain Computer' is a heady claim. It helps if you have Dr. Stephen Hawking say that the product can help unlock the secrets of the universe. SGI says its UV2 can scale to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory, with a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second and runs off-the-shelf Linux software. Hawking says the UV2 'will ensure that UK researchers remain at the forefront of fundamental and observational cosmology.'"

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  1. But more importantly... by klingers48 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Later this year it'll be able to run Steam.

  2. Finally... by catmistake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SGI says its UV2 can scale to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory, with a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second and runs off-the-shelf Linux software.

    Finally, something that can run Java/Flash/WoW/Firefox/WMP/etc. at full speed!

    (sorry... until someone posts with an interesting comment, I have nothing helpful to add... I should really just wait... sorry again)

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