Cray Unveils Its Smallest Super PC Ever

[xyster]

Cray releases its smallest supercomputer ever and it comes loaded with Windows

Cray Unveils Its Smallest Super PC Ever : Read more

 

[david714]

Can it play Crysis on high settings?

 

[goonting]

amazing

 

[Guest]

Intel Xeons, how uninspiring...

 

[chaohsiangchen]

[citation][nom]David714[/nom]Can it play Crysis on high settings?[/citation]

No, it can't.

 

[mtyermom]

[citation][nom]spessu[/nom]Intel Xeons, how uninspiring...[/citation]

You would have preferred phenoms?

 

[megamanx00]

Meh

 

[magicandy]

[citation][nom]mtyermom[/nom]You would have preferred phenoms? [/citation]

I think he was referring to the fact that this is just a glorified workstation rather than an actual supercomputer with highly customized CPUs. And just two of them for $9000? Hell, even a Skulltrail could probably destroy this at thousands less.

 

[bydesign]

umm, most modern super compters use off the shelf CPU's or GPU's

 

[Shadow703793]

^Correct.

When Nehalem comes out that should shake things up in the HPC market. Also for any high intense calculations (only some kinds of calculations) one can also use a GPU based solution if possible, which is much cheaper than any CPU solution.

 

[doomturkey]

Uh guys... Read the article.
"Considering that the enclosure alone costs about $9,000..."
The enclosure is $9k. Not the computer. That's expensive as fuck.

 

[xyster]

It's easy to customize the machine on Cray's site to cost over $100K. Each node costs roughly between about $5K and $10K, and there is room for up to 8 nodes, depending on the type of node. There is almost no point in buying a configuration that costs less than a $25k, considering the base expenses.

 

[kiku]

How about using this IKEA Helmer pc against this ?...

http://helmer.sfe.se/

 

[kiku]

How about using this IKEA Helmer pc against this ?...

http://helmer.sfe.se/

 

[nukemaster]

cool

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