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SGI Octane III Is a Personal Supercomputer with 80 Cores

Five months after being acquired by Rackable Systems and assign its name to baptize the union, the company formerly known Silicon Graphics announced Intel Developer Conference in its new employee Octane III ", the first personal supercomputer"; Company . This monster, I deign successor beasts with which SGI has reached what is Estrella during the 90s, has a maximum of 80 processing cores and "; almost 1 TV RAM";, set to work with Microsoft HPC Server 2008 SUSE Enterprise Server and / or Red Hat Enterprise. The list of options considered for the Hearts Atom processors, Xeon 3400 or Xeon 5500, assortissables in the latter case with "; developed Nvidia graphics and / or GP-GPU support";. The price of this colossus is 7995 dollars, an amount that could already have worked a more interesting turn. And it is that nobody is able to match even the point of his former jobs.

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