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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Evi on November 15, 2004, 11:32:21 AM
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"San Francisco (InfoWorld) - At the SC2004 conference last week, IBM unveiled plans to build a commercial version of its Blue Gene supercomputer intended for businesses and for a number of scientific and research markets.
The IBM eServer Blue Gene is a Power-based system that uses a mix of cooling and clustering technologies to achieve a performance level of 5.7 teraflops. With a footprint of less than one square meter, system pricing starts at $1.5 million. Company officials also announced last week that for the first-time users can rent the system from one of IBM’s Deep Computing On Demand centers in the United States or Europe.
“We think this system will allow us to introduce a new class of high-performance computing capability to industry-specific businesses,” said Colin Parris, vice president of eServer product management at IBM.
IBM also gave show attendees a peek at a “prerelease” of its Power5-based p5 575, a system that is similar to a thin blade server, which essentially replaces IBM’s eServer p655 model and features a new design. In concert, IBM unveiled its eServer BladeCenter, which the company claims is the first blade with an open design specification, providing high-speed interconnect capabilities aimed at on-demand environments."
The Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1208&e=7&u=/infoworld/20041115/tc_infoworld/50677&sid=96742471)
5.7 Teraflops? Wowie!! :eek: That\'s a lot of computing power.
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i guess nobody cared...:D
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Yea but what brand of ram and PSU are they going with? I\'d like to see them try and overclock that if they go with no-name ram.
btw here\'s my system specs: (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=61) Athlon 800 oced to 1523 with 1028 megs of Mushkin SSDR-DDR-QRAM on an Abit VHS-1100 mobo dual booting Linux Blackhead and a beta of Whistler. I used the v23.182736 alpha drivers for my nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra Maximum Pro and even disabled DNVCD caching and boosted the latency rating to 4.19
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Originally posted by THX
Yea but what brand of ram and PSU are they going with? I\'d like to see them try and overclock that if they go with no-name ram.
btw here\'s my system specs: (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=61) Athlon 800 oced to 1523 with 1028 megs of Mushkin SSDR-DDR-QRAM on an Abit VHS-1100 mobo dual booting Linux Blackhead and a beta of Whistler. I used the v23.182736 alpha drivers for my nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra Maximum Pro and even disabled DNVCD caching and boosted the latency rating to 4.19
Yeah...:headbang:
I think IBM knows what they\'re doing...I don\'t think they\'ll have RAM issues (why the hell does name brand matter you crackwhore?)
EDIT: What the hell is up with that site??? And that post you quoted was very lame...:p