CRAY - Jaguar online and started testing

[AMDave]

The CRAY - Jaguar is now online and they have started the first testing phase.

I heard about the specs for this a while ago, so it caught my attention when it
came up in the Yahoo! News RSS feed.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../supercomputer

That's the equivalent of just over 416 high end PCs per box !

Droool.

I'll have 1 to go, please :!:

What ? Insufficient credit ?
muttermuttermuttermuttermuttermuttermuttermutter.. ...

[vaughan]

Impressive huh! I want one too. emachissit?

[AMDave]

...like touring the Boat Show...
If you have to ask then you probably can't afford it.

Here's the data sheet for the X1E cabinets:
http://cray.com/downloads/X1E_datasheet.pdf

[vaughan]

Yeah you're right. I wonder what the power bill is like for the LC model? 65KW/hr

[Beerknurd]

:shock:

You could be first in all the DC projects in a week with that thing...... =P~

[Beerknurd]

Would you rather have that machine or 50,000 high end personal computers... There's a this or that question....

[AMDave]

I suppose there's an Network Management aspect.
For your job I expect the 50,000 PCs would mean a long term future.
Although I'd like to hear from DMMc about his point of view...I tip him as probably going the 120 identical cabinets. ;)

From my point of view:
I'd go the 416 in a cabinet
I recon I could fit 1 cabinet in my house (allowing for the air-con - don't even want to calculate the power bill).
There's no way I could fit 416 PCs in my house and still be able to open the beer-fridge.

[Beerknurd]

And the beer fridge is what really matters....

[AMDave]

Yup.
Darn right.
Only got married so someone would keep it filled up for me.

j/k

It was our 8th anniversary this week.
and we are still taking the mickey out of each other.

[Empty_5oul]

nice find dave,
that would rival ironbits quad processor in SOB, would be sweet revenge especially just to post "my jaguar - CRAY machine arrived today and i am just testing it with SOB"