Without wanting to sound South Park-like, this is totally awesome: A supercomputer which delivers Top500 performance that you can just roll into your data center, plugs into a regular power supply, consumes a fraction of the normal power requirements, and requires no special air conditioning. This beast is the SiCortex SC5832 which has 5,832 1GFlops 64-bit processors. According to the company: All interprocessor communications logic plus two DDR-2 memory controllers and PCI express I/O logic are on the same node with the multiple processor cores. Complete with its 8 Terabytes of system memory, the SC5832 fits in a single cabinet and requires less than 20 kilowatts of wall power.
The SiCortex SC5832.
Check out the system tour — a great presentation. Wow. If you don’t have the $1.5 million for the SC5832 there’s also the SC648 with a measly 648 processors for only $200,000.
The SiCortex SC648.
I have no idea what I’d do with one but it would look so cool in my office …
