Cray launches Gemini super interconnect

The final piece of Cray's "Baker" XE6 massively parallel supercomputers, on which the company's financial 2010 hinges, make its debut today. The unveiling comes a week ahead of the International Super Computing conference in Hamburg, Germany, and at Cray's user group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cray has not said much …

[Anonymous Coward]

Edinburgh, Scotland

How many other Edinburghs do you know?

[/dev/null]

Well, there's Edinburgh, Indiana...

...population 4500, area 2.8 sq miles. Or Edinburgh, the suburb of Adelaide, population 168 plus an air force base. Both entirely plausible locations for a Cray User Group conference :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Edinburgh near Adelaide

Sorry, couldn't resist...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh,_South_Australia

[KjetilS]

But..

Can it run Crysis?

[Chris Holt]

Compilation will be fun

Not often you get to type make -j 1000000 legitimately

Thats if make was made with more than an integer argument - "32768 jobs, think we'll be OK guys..."

Paris, because she has no jobs(*)

[* for those who argue, when did 'being Paris' become a job?]

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, that is really cool...

and it'll be able to run through what was a crushing amount of data pretty quickly. I wonder how long it would take to break different encryption algorithms with a million cores or sort terabytes of data.

Conspiracy....no. Governments will use these systems for both.