FreeBSD
- September 17, 2008
Supercomputer inflation
Today i read on slashdot and other places that Microsoft and Cray are releasing a $25000 HPC 2008 server ready “supercomputer”. Why someone would like to run windows on a supercomputer i can’t tell. But since Cray tends to do sexy machines i decided to look the CX1 up. Well maybe you could call it a little bit sexy, but when you look at the specification of that machine you realize that its not a supercomputer at all! It’s a 8 slot blade server with each board supporting dual Xeon processors. So the $25000 i would guess is for the system and one blade with one CPU…
Well some teenagers having a LAN party will bring together more CPU power than that nowdays…
Btw. i couldn’t buy one even if i wanted to. Their website didn’t allow me to configure a model since “This section of the Website is compatible with only Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and higher.”…
Some more articles about this “supercomputer:”
