Fujitsu parades 16-core Sparc64 super stunner

Ahead of the SC11 supercomputer conference in Seattle last week, recently awakened supercomputing giant Fujitsu rolled out the kicker: a commercialized version of the K supercomputer that is at the top of the flops charts in the world right now. A whole lot of details on the Sparc64-IXfx processor and the PrimeHPC FX10 systems …

[Field Commander A9]

"The PrimeHPC blade server with Tofu interconnect chips on the left"

They're now building servers with tofu? Good to hear that us server-admins won't be starving anymore...

[Rusty 1]

You'll still be hungry, unless...

Real server admin don't eat tofu. Users do.

[Anonymous Coward]

"as a development machine"

Wait, what? Developing for the k machine carries an entry price of 64 cabinets for the base loadout times 50MJPY makes 3.2GJPY or about 27 million quid? Just to get started?

I didn't know their educational institutions were that flush with monies to shake around, especially not after that bit of shaking and flushing they had to deal with lately.

[Babai]

Is it TeraFLOPS or PetaFLOPS ??

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