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mrduck

The Answer...

Nov 09, 2006 23:19

dun dun dun...

So here's a little snippit from the press release concerning the new UT computer:

Sun is building the computer using Sun Fire(TM) x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron(TM) processors. The system will be upgradeable to native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors as they become available in mid-2007. Sun will ( Read more... )

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goodkingnerdnor November 10 2006, 08:36:41 UTC

So I get a cookie, then?

mrduck November 11 2006, 07:41:49 UTC

yup!

You have to come to austin to get it though :P

verdika November 10 2006, 14:48:24 UTC

That's unnecessary. x_x

mrduck November 10 2006, 17:45:27 UTC

Well like I said it wasn't really a fair question :P

60 million dollars buys a lot of computer, tehe :)

waldo84 November 10 2006, 16:07:22 UTC

Man that's a big hard drive.

mrduck November 10 2006, 17:39:28 UTC

yeah the hard drive is pretty massive too :) I still found the amount of RAM to be the most surprising.

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mrduck November 10 2006, 23:58:18 UTC

You do realize that is 100 TB of RAM, and not hard disk right? That's just the stuff for the intermediate calculations :P