Japan's Newest Linux Supercluster: 13TB RAM 163
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!"
That'll suffice (Score:5, Funny)
640kb (Score:1, Funny)
got us beat (Score:5, Funny)
2048 processors, 13 terabytes of ram, AND it comes with a smaller, more ergonomic controller.
Re:That'll suffice (Score:3, Funny)
But OS X on Pear PC will still be a laggy.
(Posted from my beloved Powerbook, so Apple fanbois shouldn't mod me down. I'm in a two-Mac household).
Re:Wow! (Score:1, Funny)
Is this the BIGGEST sale for Itanium2, so far ? (Score:5, Funny)
A whooping sale of 2048 Itanium2 processors in one shot - is this the BIGGEST sale for the Itanium2 chip, so far ?
Aye, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Japanese Nuclear Program? (Score:2, Funny)
You don't suppose they ever do any weapons research, do you? Hmmm, what to do...
13 TB * 2 (Score:3, Funny)
Bush is back in The Seat (Score:3, Funny)
I call for a US export ban on Memory to protect the Homeland's national security.
Ow! Dr. Condoleezza just informed me they make Memory all by themself, lets pre-emptively nuke 'em!
Remember the licenses? (Score:3, Funny)
Well I wouldn't have put it like that... (Score:1, Funny)