http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10612

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"The system is based on IBM's Blue Gene/P architecture, which takes millions of cores and arranges them in a hierarchal architecture. At the lowest level four 850 MHz Power PC cores run on a single chip, with built in memory controllers and interconnects. The next level up is the card, which contains 32 of these quad core chips known as "nodes." Up a level, 16 cards compose a midplane. A server rack has two midplanes, yielding a total of 1024 nodes, or 4096 processors. Each server rack has 2TB of memory to play with. A maximum of 16,384 racks can be networked to yield the finally staggering metrics. As each rack has an I/O bandwidth of 640Gb/s, a "full" 67.1m core system would sport 10.4Pb/s of bandwidth."

They should install FAH on it. What would that be, 0.005 seconds per frame?

2/8/2008 4:22:47 PM

i, for one, welcome our new internet serving overlords

2/8/2008 4:28:28 PM

10.4Pb/s of bandwidth




that just blew my mind.

2/8/2008 4:43:36 PM

HAL

2/8/2008 4:46:31 PM

wat

2/8/2008 4:52:07 PM

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"10.4Pb/s of bandwidth that just blew my mind."

2/8/2008 4:58:24 PM

ONE SERVER TO RULE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!








sry couldn't resist

2/8/2008 5:05:39 PM

one token ring to bind them?

2/9/2008 10:54:04 AM

u forgot about one search engine to find them

2/9/2008 1:31:05 PM

this reminds me of that old toothpaste thread

2/9/2008 1:52:31 PM

they better have a backup

don't want ol' scruffy the janitor unplugging it to use the vacuum and knock out the entirety of the internet world

2/9/2008 1:55:41 PM

and when one rack goes bad..

2/9/2008 4:55:29 PM

This would never happen. Think of the global security issues. This thing would be the first think to be attacked in a major war, even if the host country wasn't directly involved. Besides, what idiot conutries are going to agree to allow the nerve center of global commerce to be located in a single location outside of their direct influence. The only reason the internet exists is because the hardware infastructure in distributed globally.

btw, the LotR jokes are awesome.

2/9/2008 5:04:17 PM

this would be a good folding @ home machine

2/9/2008 5:30:30 PM

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"the carl face"

2/9/2008 5:59:02 PM

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"10.4Pb/s of bandwidth that just blew my mind."

[Edited on February 10, 2008 at 1:43 PM. Reason : .]

2/10/2008 1:43:38 PM

will make it much easier for the government to wire tap everything

2/10/2008 1:54:13 PM

[Edited on February 10, 2008 at 7:44 PM. Reason : throw it in the fires of Mount Doom!]

2/10/2008 7:43:59 PM