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A new computer from SGI? Almost made me look at my calendar to see if it's April's Fools time, heh. This looks ... I don't know, pretty heavy-weight with up to
by unwind 17y ago
A new computer from SGI? Almost made me look at my calendar to see if it's April's Fools time, heh. This looks ... I don't know, pretty heavy-weight with up to 80 cores on the desktop. Not sure why you'd want an 80-core server machine on your desk, though.
- joubert 17y agoVideo processing; simulation; monitoring all your social networking feeds & graphing them :-)
- rbanffy 17y agoLike I said on Twitter. It's boxy, gray, and x86-based but, at least, it runs Linux and is an SGI. I want one. They could have used some plastic to make it prettier...
- pmorici 17y ago"It's boxy, gray, and x86-based" So is the Apple's Mac Pro but no one thinks it needs any plastic decorations.
- gcb 17y agoapples does. http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1588/store.apple.com/Catalog/regional/amr/macpro/img/overview-hero-nehalem.jpg http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1588/store.apple.com/Cat... we're talking desktop here, remember?
- anigbrowl 17y ago3d rendering, video compositing, all kinds of science. I'd like one, though I'm not an advanced enough user to make the most of that power. It's very interesting that there's an Atom configuration - I would never have thought anyone would seriously stack up Intel's cheapie processor for cluster work. But with multi-core friendly software these days, it makes a lot of sense from a price-performance point of view. $8k is not bad pricing either, although looking at the configurations I suspect that's the dual Xeon with a Tesla card (or two) from NVidia. In the meantime, you can pick up decommissioned Altix servers on eBay at surprisngly affordable prices.