PC Peripherals Largest Shared-Memory System in the World

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Ordered by who else but nasa

NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World

The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux(R) -- creating the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.

Driven by 1,024 Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the new system will generate 13.1 TFLOPs of compute power. The system's dual-core processors allow more computing power per square foot, enabling NASA to pack more computing power into its supercomputing center. NASA also acquired an ultra-dense 240TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 10000 system to efficiently handle the massive data storage requirements.

 

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I wonder what they do with such system. They look good in NASA and news paper .. on TE ..