SGI aims at 'personal supercomputing' that's cheap, easy to use

[GTS]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...sonal_supercomputing_that_s_cheap_easy_to_use

Silicon Graphics International Corp. on Monday released its first so-called personal supercomputer. The new Octane III system is priced from $7,995 with one Xeon 5500 processor. The system can be expanded to an 80-core system with a capacity of up to 960GB of memory.
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It can be preconfigured with Windows Server or its HPC Server 2008, as well as Red Hat and SUSE Linux servers

 

[dandxg]

Just curious. You are the computer expert. How does it stack up against the Nvidia Tesla?

 

[GTS]

Quote from dandxg:

How does it stack up against the Nvidia Tesla?

I've got no first-hand knowledge, I'll defer to others that dabble with systems like this.

 

[Random.Capital]

Zzzzzzzzzz....