[geeks] the biggest, baddest workstation...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

nate at portents.com wrote:
>> In short, the only interesting thing about the box is the cray name and
>> the active noise cancelling system (which is only an option anyway).
> 
> Agreed.  I'd think someone in the market for that would be better off with
> something like one of these VX50 systems (32 cores connected by
> HyperTransport, 128GB of RAM, $18k):
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280344202115
> 
> And it looks like you'll probably be able to upgrade that with AMD's
> Istanbul CPUs later this year.

That's a Tyan board.  I'd be much more interested in a machine based on 
one of Tyan 32-core workstation boards.  They're capable of driving two 
separate SLI setups, each with two graphics cards.  They also except a 
completely ridiculous amount of memory.

Peace...  Sridhar