[geeks] Octane III

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> SGI just announced the Octane III "personal supercomputer", with up to
>>> 80 cores and 1TB RAM.
>>>
>>> http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/september/octaneIII.html
>>> http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/octaneIII/
>> Bleh.  It's just a PC cluster in a smallish box.
> 
> looks about the size of it, yeah.  I trust there's actually a center
> backplane between all those node boards so they don't have to be cabled
> together individually...

There are a bunch of (mutually incompatible) blade server chassis set up 
that way, if memory serves.

Peace...  Sridhar