[ShadowAce]

[rawhide]

Woo-hee!

[kingu]

Man, think about how many folding@home units a day that monster could crunch. :)

[ikka]

Sun Microsystems is already shipping (slower clocked) 64-thread, 8-core processors, that run relatively mainstream OSes like Solaris and Linux and OpenBSD.

What does IBM have? A promise to ship something (quantity and pricing unknown) two years from now...

[2001convSVT]

The scary thing is that in about 10 years your home PC will blow the doors off this machine.

[isthisnickcool]

So, how fast is the disk I/O on the machine? I’ll be impressed when the disk I/O is as fast as the processors.

[KarlInOhio]

Microsoft just found its miniumum requirements for the next version of Windows.

[Nathan Zachary]

I was forced to buy a new desktop for the home, and although there is nothing wrong with a dual core machine with an out of the box 2 ghz, whose mother board can accept a quad core processor,
if you can, wait until the new motherboard architecture is out, because these "old" 775 socket type boards are going to be obsolete. That way you should get a good 8 years (or more with upgrades)of use out of it before the next generation of computer comes along rather than buying one that is already obsolete.

[the invisib1e hand]

for sheer gigaflops, I’d say Obama’s running a close second.

[rdb3]

Cool! I'll take two of 'em.

[antiRepublicrat]

100 racks isn’t actually all that much, just 10x10 racks. If you wanted to, you could squeeze them into an area the size of a small house (about 70x24 feet) and still have room to walk around. I’ve seen bigger datacenters, but of course nothing with even close to this much power.

[Tainan]

Pong...like it never was before!