"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...
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 …
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Monday 21st November 2011 20:14 GMT 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.
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