[zeugma]

When I saw this, my first thought was, "Seems that they finally managed to find a computer to run MS-Vista."

[EagleUSA]

Holy cow, that is alot of processing power — would certainly make the power company happy when you pay your bill -— :-) -— my little quad-core Intel can handle anything I can throw at it -— so far anyway :-)

[ClearCase_guy]

I see it comes with a really tiny Blue Screen Of Death.

I bet that BSOD comes up really, really fast on a supercomputer!

[ezo4]

they will cost 3k in a few years and Ill buy one

[Interesting Times]

Cool toy ping.

[Free Vulcan]

I can see where this would appeal to small and mid-size businesses in certain industries.

[rabscuttle385]

A good rack of these plus a couple of large pipes to multiple networks ought to run FR quite well.

Tech ping!

[ShadowAce]

[Little Pig]

At that price, rounding up a few of these would make for some impressive stats on any one of the grid-computing networks, whether it’s SETI@home, or one of the folding grids.

[TChris]

EXTREMELY overpriced.

Wow! Is it ever overpriced!

Only 16 cores, and it's $25K??? Well, I suppose there's one born every minute.

[roaddog727]

WOWZERS!

Every new home should have one built in as the main controller for all systems as well as internet access. I bet it would Run CITRIX Metafram sessions quite well - at whcih point all you would need is keyboard/moniotor/mouse for each home user - likely through wireless access.

Already have design ideas floating around my cranial unit...

[RinaseaofDs]

My first thought was that any splinter terrorist group now has the ability to model a nuclear weapon, or a biological agent distribution system.

No need to by a dozen X-Boxes and wire them together. Just buy one of these and you can go to town in the confort of your own cave or bunker.

I suppose you can game on it, but I don’t know many games that could take advantage of that kind of power.

Weather modeling, fluid mechanics, virtual wind tunnels, blast modeling, advanced ballastics - these are all things requiring massive computing power.

[Centurion2000]

I can imagine that small insurance companies will love this for actuarial tables, and these would work well for credit processing algorithms.

Still ... 3 years and the price will PLUMMET. Just think how this would run serious games. Stick the ultimate video cards on it and run 9 monitors of gaming screen at once.

[grey_whiskers]

Shit. Microsoft??!! Now I'll have to tear the "my other computer is a Cray" bumper sticker off my car. /sarc>

Yes, I did HPC for > 10 years.

Cheers!

[Ditto]

Quite a difference from the first Cray I ever saw.

I think it ran around $10,000,000 at the time.

[Larry Lucido]

Let’s see if it can answer the question, “What do women want?” Then I’ll be impressed.

[Still Thinking]

Well, if it’s only $25K...better pick up a few next time I’m down at Freddie Meyer’s.

[MarkL]

“Forty T.... BSOD!!!”

Mark

[Fichori]

Does it run Linux?

If not, I’m not interested.