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Re: [News] Linux Used to Snatch New World Record for Memory Bandwidth

__/ [ Jim ] on Tuesday 18 July 2006 10:01 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> SGI Altix Sets Memory Bandwidth Record - 4.35 Terabytes Per Second
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The feat was achieved on an SGI Altix 4700 system powered by 1,024
>> | Intel Itanium 2 processors running under a single copy of SUSE Linux
>> | Enterprise Server 10 from Novell with SGI ProPack 5 for Linux.
>> | The configuration, which includes 4TB of system memory, is the largest
>> | single system image (SSI) attainable on a Linux OS system.
>> `----
>> 
>>         http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060717133236468
> 
> hmmm... the important question is, can one play Doom on it?
> Sorry, forgot myself. Thought this was Slashdot.

In Slashdot, the important question is sometimes: yes, but does it run Linux?
Or: how the f*ck am I going to find enough pr0n to fill that up with?

Best wishes,

Roy

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