[geeks] Octane III

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> SGI just announced the Octane III "personal supercomputer", with up to
>> 80 cores and 1TB RAM.
>>
>> http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/september/octaneIII.html
>> http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/octaneIII/
> 
> Bleh.  It's just a PC cluster in a smallish box.

looks about the size of it, yeah.  I trust there's actually a center
backplane between all those node boards so they don't have to be cabled
together individually...


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