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wat]]>Sep 22nd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/
* Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Intel® Atom™ processor-based nodes]]>Sep 22nd 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Considering the crap being sold nowadays, the specs arent that bad for $7000

Finally a pc that can effectively.... run..... Photoshop]]>Sep 22nd 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/You were so close SGI- Just give us the 80 core with a quadro card and we'll be all set, thanks!]]>Sep 22nd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/put me down for one plz]]>Sep 22nd 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/
http://www.gamesncs.com/rd_p?p=192108&t=9528&a=13190-splaystation&gift=13190]]>Sep 25th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.vizworld.com/2009/09/sgi-unveils-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/ ) and frankly I agree with this.. The one configuration with the 80 cores is pretty interesting, but I don't get why they're offering it with Atoms? And if you add a GPU it drops to 2 CPU's total?

I can get the same thing, better even, from BOXX.]]>Sep 22nd 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/The short of it: this rig certainly fills a specific need. Entry-level MPI coders commonly have no access to machine rooms with proper cooling and power. If a PI can pick up a handful of these, give one to each of their project members, that'd be a huge win. As for the Atom configuration (one of many, including Xeon 5500's), that's actually a very well balanced config. Look at a bluegene. Low clock'd processors tied very closely to the speed of memory and network. Why waste power and heat on cycles you simply can't use?

I'm not sure what to make of your comment about memory... That is the nature of a commodity cluster. If you're looking for an SMP machine, you're looking to spend a hell of a lot more than $8k and wouldn't be looking at anything like this anyway. Infiniband gives RDMA, that's enough for most any MPI coder.]]>Sep 22nd 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/
From a company like SGI, I kinda expect it to be SMP. That was their trademark in the early days, NUMALink massive shared memory.. I don't see why they didn't add that here. Yes it would drive the price up, but it would distinguish them from the rest of the marketplace. They already had the "CloudRack" system, so I don't see what this really adds.

And the oddness of adding a single GPU drops it down to 2-processors seems ridiculous to me. They had the technology to pack GPU's into half-blades years ago, they did it with Altix. Why not do the same here?]]>Sep 22nd 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/
Yes, everyone would love to have a cute little SMP machine w/ 80 cores sitting deskside but the realities of physics and pricing interfere.]]>Sep 22nd 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/
It just seems to me that the market for people who want a 10-node cluster, but won't fork out the money for a full rack, but have the money for something like this is pretty small.

Especially given that the full 10-node cluster could have 10 video cards, making it useful for distributed rendering like ParaView, Visit, or anything Chromium.. Something I would think that's important in the "Graphics Workstation" Version of the build but SGI has ignored.

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THAT would be something.]]>Sep 22nd 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/sgi-announces-octane-iii-personal-supercomputer/Sep 22nd 2009 9:00PM