SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster 202
green pizza writes "NASA has announced plans to cluster twenty 512-processor Silicon Graphics Inc Altix supercomputers connected to a 500-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage SAN. The Altix uses Itanium2 CPUs running Linux atop an Origin 3000-derrived architecture. NASA and SGI scaled Linux to 512 CPUs late last year. There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future. Lots of neat big iron project on the horizon!"
Good News for intel (Score:5, Funny)
Doom (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:5, Funny)
With the heat given off by all those itanics, I'm sure they could do some pretty good real-word research into heat shield materials and rocket engine nozzles.
Re:Good News for intel (Score:4, Funny)
That's impressive, but .. (Score:2, Funny)
Doom 3 and 10240 Itanium2 processors (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:2, Funny)
Big plans at NASA (Score:3, Funny)
This should be enough power... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:5, Funny)
So when we do 'land' on Mars, if the astonauts burst into a song and dance extravaganza during the planting the flag ceremony then the job was probably outsourced to India. If the ceremony involves a 10 hour trek up a mountain and is interrupted by hordes of attacking Martians that must be defeated by the 6 astronauts then they probably got Peter Jackson to do it. If the whole mission is really lame and not quite what you were hoping for, look no futher than George Lucas.
After it's built.. (Score:2, Funny)
Finally, the following cryptic message mysteriously appears on it's console:
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This could mean the end of civilization... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:3, Funny)
It can do realtime hologram movies, and pop the popcorn while you're watching it.
Someone at NASA... (Score:2, Funny)
I knew nothing good could come of all those beowulf cluster ideas!
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:3, Funny)
There should be an IQ test before one is allowed to post to
Re:What would this be used for? (Score:1, Funny)
You must be new here...
(Besides, how do we know you didn't just swipe that user account from someone or get it on ebay?)