New supercomputer

Nightglow · 15 Dec 2011 at 08:57

Not sure if this has already been covered, but they just announced 'Gordon' a new super computer.
It has a mere 4 petabytes of disk storage.

http://www.sdsc.edu/News Items/PR120711_gordon.html

Incapable · 15 Dec 2011 at 09:03

Do you know if it has a gpu?

Greboth · 15 Dec 2011 at 09:05

But can it play crysis?

Nightglow · 15 Dec 2011 at 09:05

There are also 1,024 dual-socket nodes, each with Intels new 22nm Sandy Bridge Xeon E5 CPUs, and also 64GB of DDR3 memory for each of these nodes.

A bit more here.

http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz...-ssds-result-in-world-record-36-million-iops/

But, he still only ranks 48 on the Top 500 list of supercomputers.

IvanDobskey · 15 Dec 2011 at 10:21

Got to love the name

It's 'flash' based so called 'Gordon'

markweatherill · 15 Dec 2011 at 10:24

That gives Microsoft a benchmark for minimum spec to run Windows 9, I guess.

sunny007 · 15 Dec 2011 at 10:26

Can it run minecraft ?

Davefran · 15 Dec 2011 at 10:28

I bet BF3 still stutters on that

Stelly · 15 Dec 2011 at 10:30

Does it have solitaire installed?

Stelly

Hagar · 15 Dec 2011 at 11:00

Is it brown and can it save the world.