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by lotharbot 14y ago
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As someone who never has need to touch a mainframe, it's quite strange to look through this. It's not the 120 processor cores and 3 TB of RAM that surprise me; it's things like the cooling system and the I/O system that are so different from what I'm used to from working on a desktop system.
- datapolitical 14y agoOne of the things I always appreciated about Silicon Graphics was just how different their design was from anything else on the market. It's not exactly the computer that the world will only need five of, but focusing on machines like this is certainly closer to IBM's roots.
- lallysingh 14y agoThere's also the fact that the 120 cores are all in one cache-coherent domain...