Super Hot New Edit Platform

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pixelated

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News article from wserver news . . .

Remember SGI of supercomputer graphics fame? They reorganized and this week they released their first personal supercomputer. It's essentially a one-by-two foot high-performance cluster sitting next to your desk and this monster supports distributed technical computing applications on both Microsoft HPC Server 2008 and some Unix flavors. They say it's whisper-quiet, easy-to-use, low maintenance and yes... takes standard power outlets. Wow.

The entry level workstation has just eight cores and a 'moderate' amount of RAM. But you can stuff a whopping 80 cores and nearly 1TB of memory into the Octane Model III, and remember this sits next to your desk. OK, I admit I'm drooling.

Obviously they mean to sell this puppy for things like CAD, fluid dynamics, seismic processing, data analytics, and the like. Octane III can be configured with the latest Intel single- and dual-socket nodes. For example you could equip this baby with 10 dual-socket quad-Xeon 5500 nodes; one dual-socket quad-Xeon 5500 with advanced Nvidia graphics and/or GP-GPU card support. Or, if you felt like it, 19 single-socket quad- Xeon 3400 nodes; or just for the heck of it, 19 single-socket dual-core Atom-based nodes. Darn. It's immediately available in Xeon 5500 and Atom configurations.

Pricing starts at $7,995. Mom! Can I get one???
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For those who can play - here's the link

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/octaneIII/
 
Insane, I wish I had the money. After 5 years and a dead PC later I just upgraded to Intel i5/4GB RAM so I had something faster for rendering... now you make me see this and I want to toss out my new PC :(
 
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