DoD buys new linux super machines

[posol]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150247/...ense-takes-aims

The system will also have 112 3.46GHz cores (28 nodes) for log-in, storage and administration with 9.4TB of memory and 260TB (raw) of disk. All nodes will communicate via a 4X DDR (20Gbps) Infiniband network with 10GigE uplink capability. The 3.2 GHz mid voltage chips were selected for the compute nodes due to their thermal efficiency.

holy shit. I want 9.4 terra bytes of ram! lol

 

[TurboMirage]

hawwwt. im drooling.

 

[reikoshea]

*PANTS*

Thats a geeks dream machine.

 

[Citizen_Insane]

Mother of god.

 

[Celerity]

My starship will make that look stupid.

 

[posol]

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My starship will make that look stupid.

 

[Drake]

Imagine the Porn surfing on that!!!! Uhhh I mean that will help protect the US a great deal from bad people.....

Sounds pretty much like a Cray only with Linux. Thats pretty badass.

 

[endlesszeal]

whoa. so all of that hardware on 1 system? or multiple systems linked?

 

[EGProject]

My father, who works at EMC has been hearing rumors of a 1-pedabyte machine being worked on and field tested. Granted, its not a server, but still.

 

[TurboMirage]

it just needs a lime green case, like mine.

 

[reikoshea]

im willing to bet thats a linked server, endlesszeal